WiPS Schedule - Fall 2021

Work in Progress Seminars (WiPS) for Fall 2021

All WiPS seminars are at 12:00 P.M., MONDAY, in BPS Room 1425 and on Zoom, unless noted otherwise.
WiPS Coordinator: Rob Abramovitch

Zoom link: https://msu.zoom.us/j/92348524666
Please note:  The password will be emailed separately prior to the seminars

WiPS Evaluation Form

Fall 2021

Date	Speaker	Lab	Title	Faculty Evaluator
Sept. 6	Labor Day
Sept. 13	Esther Chen	Crosson	A system-level genetic analysis of two-component signal transduction systems in Brucella ovis uncovers overlapping TCS	Y. Dufour V. DiRita
	Osama Alian	Schrenk	Microbial Community Variation Across the Lost City Hydrothermal Vents	Y. Dufour V. DiRita
Sept. 20	Morgan Collins	Petroff	Assessing the adaptive response to Group B Streptococcus long-term vaginal tract colonization	K. Yu C. Adami
	Oishi Bagchi	Shade	Microbial dormancy and resuscitation in response to stress associated phytohormones	K. Yu C. Adami
Sep. 27	Alex Aaring	Dufour	Chemotaxis in complex chemical environments modulated by integration of c-di-GMP	A. Fiebig N. Hammer
	Ife Eke	Abramovitch	Mechanistic study of inhibitors that target the DosRST regulon of Mycobacterium tuberculosis	A. Fiebig N. Hammer
Oct. 4	Cole McCutcheon	Manning & Petroff	Characterizing the innate immune response to group B streptococcal membrane vesicles	K. Parkin A. Shade
	Marcela Tabares-Ruiz	Reguera	Microbial communities driving the nutrient and pesticide remediation capacity of woodchip bioreactors	K. Parkin A. Shade
Oct. 11	Russell Fling	Zacharewski	TCDD-elicited activation of AhR shifts Gut Microbiome consistent with Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease progression of Steatosis to Inflammation to Fibrosis	R. Schwartz V. DiRita
	Jonathan Kaletka	Hardy	The Role of Extracellular Vesicles during Listeria monocytogenes Placental Infection	R. Schwartz V. DiRita
Oct. 18	Ritam Sinha (Postdoc)	DiRita	Role of Host Derived Lactate on C. jejuni pathogenesis	L. Mansfield J. Tiedje
	Reid Longley	Bonito	The role of the microbiome in the soybean response to low-moisture stress	L. Mansfield J. Tiedje
Oct. 25	Fall Break - No Classes
Nov. 1	Zoe Hansen	Manning	Determining microbial culprits in harboring antimicrobial resistance genes during enteric infection	A. Olive J. Tiedje
	Beth Ottosen	DiRita	Complement-dependent serum resistance in carbapenem-resistant Enterobacter species	A. Olive J. Tiedje
Nov. 8	Sergio Hernandez-Ortiz	Crosson	A conserved gene pair with a functional role in iron acquisition in C. crescentus	S. Manning S. Lebeis
	Abby Grieb	Shade	Understanding the effects of nutrient input on microbiome inheritance in common bean	S. Manning S. Lebeis
Nov. 15	Cody Madsen (BME)	Contag	Bacillus subtilis as engineered endosymbionts capable of modulating mammalian cell gene expression	S. Crosson B. Hausinger
	Emily Greeson	Contag	Engineered Bacillus subtilis LLO with temperature-sensitive repressors, TlpA39 and TcI42	S. Crosson B. Hausinger
Nov. 22	Hunter North	Crosson	A genetic link between inorganic nitrogen assimilation and cell cycle control in Caulobacter	V. Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan C. Vieille
	Chris Buehl (Postdoc)	Meek	Assessing the Effects of DNA-PKcs Dimerization Mutants on DNA Double-Strand Break Repair	V. Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan C. Vieille
Nov. 29	Morgen Clark	Reguera	Characterization of outer membrane vesicles in Geobacter bacteria	D. Pyeon M. Bachmann
	Sean Thomas	Olive	Forward genetic screens in an alveolar macrophage-like cell model pave the way for dissection of lung-specific immune responses	D. Pyeon M. Bachmann
Dec. 6	Macy Pell	Manning	Investigating persistent Group B Streptococcus colonization in the presence of antibiotics	G. Bonito B. Schutte
	Karla Vasco	Zhang & Manning	Enhanced spread of beta-lactam resistant bacteria following antibiotic treatment in dairy cattle	G. Bonito B. Schutte
Dec. 13	Final Exam Week