WiPS Schedule - Fall 2020
Ned Work in Progress Seminars (WiPS) for Fall 2020
All WiPS seminars are at 12:00 P.M., MONDAY, via Zoom, unless noted otherwise.
WiPS Coordinator: Rob Abramovitch
Zoom link: https://msu.zoom.us/j/91028055671
Please note: The password will be emailed separately prior to the seminars
WiPS Evaluation Form
Fall 2020
| Date | Speaker | Lab | Title | Faculty Evaluator |
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| Sep. 7 | Labor Day | |||
| Sep. 14 | Reid Longley | Bonito | The Microbiome of Bleached and Unbleached Fijian Coral | C. Adami V. Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan |
| Emily Greeson | Contag | Prokaryote-Eukaryote Interaction Utilizing a Novel Tet-On System for Synthetic Endosymbiont Control | C. Adami V. Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan |
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| Sep. 21 | Zoe Hansen | Manning | Differences in the resistome among patients with acute Campylobacter infections | R. Hausinger D. Koslowsky |
| Brian Hsueh | Waters | Uncovering novel function of Putative Cytidine Deaminase on Vibrio Seventh Pandemic Island | R. Hausinger D. Koslowsky |
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| Sep. 28 | Jonathan Kaletka | Hardy | The Role of Extracellular Vesicles during Listeria monocytogenes Placental Infection | Y. Dufour M. Bachmann |
| Justin Lee | Hardy | Listeria monocytogenes Infection During Pregnancy Alters Gene Expression in the Fetal Mouse Brain | Y. Dufour M. Bachmann |
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| Oct. 5 | Osama Alian | Schrenk | Sulfur and Microbial Activity at the Lost City Hydrothermal Vent System | S. Manning R. Schwartz |
| Oct. 12 | Ritam Sinha (Postdoc) | DiRita | The Role of Lactate Metabolism in C. jejuni Virulence | N. Walker R. Abramovitch |
| Oct. 19 | Lindsay Putman | Schrenk | Community Assembly Processes in a Serpentinization-Influenced Aquifer | G. Garrity J. Tiedje |
| Oct. 26 | Jose Rodrigues | Manning | Phylogenomic analysis of Campylobacter jejuni isolated from gastroenteritis cases in Michigan | B. Schutte R. Abramovitch |
| John Lee | Dufour | The tug-of-war between motility and attachment: phenotypic diversity in Vibrio cholerae | B. Schutte R. Abramovitch |
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| Nov. 2 | Hinako Terauchi | Mansfield |
Gut Microbiome Metabolite Production in a Mouse Model of Asthma |
J. Fyfe J. Hardy |
| Ted Van Alst | DiRita | Aerobic metabolism in Vibrio cholerae is required for population expansion during infection | J. Fyfe J. Hardy |
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| Nov. 9 | Sreejata Bandopadhyay (Postdoc) | Shade | Resuscitation and assembly of the rhizosphere microbiome in response to plant stress | C. Vieille R. Abramovitch |
| Nov. 16 | Shelby Dechow | Abramovitch | Defining the role of PPE51 in M. tuberculosis nutrient acquisition and bacterial growth at acidic pH | S. Conrad S. Crosson |
| Lucas Demey | DiRita | Role of phospholipids in regulated proteolysis of the Vibrio cholerae transmembrane virulence activator TcpP | S. Conrad S. Crosson |
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| Nov. 23 | Russell Fling | Zacharewski | 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin(TCDD) elicited dysbiosis of the gut microbiota and contribution to the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease | L. Mansfield A. Olive |
| Joshua Lensmire | Hammer | Elucidating the mechanisms Staphylococcus aureus employs to acquire nutrient sulfur | L. Mansfield A. Olive |
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| Nov. 30 | Cole McCutcheon | Petroff | Group B Streptococcus Membrane Vesicles: Does composition and production correlate with disease status? | K. Parkin D. Pyeon |
| Dec. 7 | Matt Swiatnicki | Andrechek | PTPRH mutations in Non-small cell Lung Cancer | C. Vieille N. Hammer |
| John Williams | Abramovitch | Concentrated Citrate Kills M. smegmatis | C. Vieille N. Hammer |
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