WiPS Schedule - Fall 2019

Work in Progress Seminars (WiPS) for Fall 2019

All WiPS seminars are at 12:00 P.M., MONDAY, 1425 Biomedical Physical Sciences, unless noted otherwise. Seminar Coordinator: Donna Koslowsky

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Lab	Title	Faculty Evaluator
September 2	Labor Day
September 9	Christopher Buehl (Postdoc)	Meek	Elucidating the role of RAG1/2 phosphorylation in VDJ Recombination	S. Conrad B. Schutte
September 16	Natalie Vande Pol	Bonito	Differential Arabidopsis thaliana growth effects by soil fungi in the Mortierellaceae	D. Pyeon R. Abramovitch
September 23	Heather Miller	Schrenk	The microbial ecology of actively outgassing arc volcanoes influenced by deeply sourced carbon	R. Schwartz D. Koslowsky
	Jennifer Kirk	Walker/Kashefi	Isolation and characterization of a novel Trichococcus sp. from tree hole sediment	R. Schwartz D. Koslowsky
September 30	Kristin Jacob	Reguera	Adaptive Responses of the Otic Microbiome to the Middle Ear Microenvironment	S. Manning N. Hammer
	Jackson Sorensen	Shade	Dormancy dynamics and dispersal contribute to soil microbiome resilience	S. Manning N. Hammer
October 7	Benjamin Stein (Postdoc)	Crosson	Feedback control of a two-component signaling system by a 4Fe-4S-binding receiver domain	F. Downes K.  Yu
October 14	Nkrumah Grant	Lenski	Living to die: The evolution of cell death within a single population of E. coli from a long-term evolution experiment	G. Reguera C. Adami
	John Chodkowski	Shade	A co-evolution experiment reveals genetic signatures of antibiotic resistance	G. Reguera C. Adami
October 21	Y Hoang	Kroos	Cellular shape change and nucleoid dynamics during Myxococcus xanthus development	Y. Dufour K. Kashefi
	John Keven	Walker	Vector-host interaction and malaria transmission intensity in coastal Papua New Guinea	Y. Dufour K. Kashefi
October 28	Kyle Card	Lenski	The relationship between relaxed selection and the genetic targets of resistance mutations	R. Hausinger L. Kroos
	Nhu Nguyen	Dufour	Bacterial motility in mucus	R. Hausinger L. Kroos
November 4	Phillip Delekta (Postdoc)	Hammer	Exogenous fatty acids impede proliferation of metabolically restricted Staphylococcus aureus	A. Shade P. Venta
November 11	John Lee	Dufour	Control of Phenotypic Diversity by c-di-GMP in Vibrio cholerae	J. Hardy C. Martinez-Gomez
	Ted Van Alst	DiRita	Metabolic processes promoting Vibrio cholerae colonization and proliferation during infection	J. Hardy C. Martinez-Gomez
November 18	Hinako Terauchi	Mansfield	Exploring the relationship between the gut microbiome and airway allergy in mice	A. Olive M. Bachmann
	Lucas Demey	DiRita	Single Molecule Dynamics of TcpP and Regulation of Virulence in Vibrio cholerae	A. Olive M. Bachmann
November 25	Shelby Dechow	Abramovitch	Defining the functional role of PPE51 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis acid growth arrest	S. Crosson L. Mansfield
	Joshua Franklin	Dufour	Measuring the Growth Rate Cost of Multiple Flagella	S. Crosson L. Mansfield
December 2	Cancelled