WiPS Schedule - Spring 2022
Work in Progress Seminars (WiPS) for Spring 2022
All WiPS seminars will take place at 12:00 P.M. on Mondays over Zoom for January 2022.
Beyond this month, WiPS are in 1425 BPS and Zoom, unless noted otherwise.
Seminar Coordinator: Rob Abramovitch
Zoom link: https://msu.zoom.us/j/92348524666
Please note: The password will be emailed separately prior to the seminars
Spring 2022
| Date | Speaker | Lab | Title | Faculty Evaluators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 10 | Justin Lee | Hardy | Effects of Placental Listeriosis on Fetal Neurodevelopment and Consequences on the Behavior of Offspring | R. Abramovitch |
| Rajab Curtis | Hammer | Exploring exogenous fatty acid inhibition of metabolically restricted Staphylococcus aureus | B. Schutte | |
| January 17 | Martin Luther King Day, WiPS Cancelled | |||
| January 24 | Natasha George | Orlando | Structural Insight into Bce Antibiotic Resistance Modules | C. Adami |
| Kaylee Wilburn | Waters | Identifying Counter Defense Mechanisms in Pandemic Vibrio cholerae Lytic Phages | J. Hardy | |
| January 31 | Sam Barnett (Postdoc) |
Shade | Multiyear observations of soil bacterial community resilience to a subterranean coal seam fire in Centralia, PA | T. O'Halloran |
| Troy Burtchett | Hammer | A Crucial Role for Lipoteichoic Acid Assembly in the Metabolic Versatility of Staphylococcus aureus | N. Wale | |
| February 7 | Hinako Terauchi | Mansfield | Inferring the metabolomic relationship within the gut microbiome related to the development of eczema in infancy in Isle of Wight cohort | R. Schwartz |
| Emmanuel Kokarakis | Ducat | Use of quorum sensing modules for stabilization and cross communication of light driven microbial consortia | M. TerAvest | |
| February 14 | Paige Kies | Hammer | A host-pathogen nutritional relationship: Staphylococcus aureus exploitation of the gamma-glutamyl cycle to meet the sulfur requirement | R. Hausinger |
| Veronica Albrecht | Abramovitch | Genetic studies of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis DosRST two-component regulatory system | A. Olive | |
| February 21 | Marco Mechan Llontop (Postdoc) |
Shade | The microbiome of sorghum phyllosphere mucilage and wax: A role for host resilience? | G. Bonito |
| Alex Wessel | Waters | Identifying the post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism by which cyclic di-GMP negatively regulates cell curvature in Vibrio cholerae | J. Tiedje | |
| February 28 | Rochelle Ratnayake | Parent | Determining the Mechanism of How Bacterial Polysaccharide ECA Mitigates Bacteriophage Infection | K. Parkin |
| Kayla Conner | Hardy | Characterizing Internalin P Variants and Homologs in Listeria | C. Waters | |
| March 7 | Spring Break - WiPS Cancelled | |||
| March 14 | Alexandra Gates | Lebeis | Microbial and host factors influencing plant root microbiome assembly | N. Hammer |
| Kevin Santiago-Morales | Lebeis | Elucidating impacts of phosphate-driven root phenotypes during bacterial colonization of plants | A. Fiebig | |
| March 21 | Kathryne Ford | TerAvest | Engineering Carbon Fixation in Shewanella oneidensis | C. Arvidson |
| M. Bachmann | ||||
| March 28 | Hunter Dulay | Reguera | Genus-level separations within the archaeal family Pyrodictiaceae and the cause for Geogemma | J. Tiedje |
| Sreejata Bandopadhyay (Postdoc) |
Shade | Recruitment of the rhizosphere microbiome in response to drought | D. Pyeon | |
| April 4 | Charles Whitehead-Tillery | Mansfield | Characterizing extended spectrum beta lactamases (ESBLs) to understand the spillover of antimicrobial resistance genes to humans from animals | S. Crosson |
| V. Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan | ||||
| April 11 | Shramana Chatterjee (Postdoc) | Hausinger | Characterization of a [4Fe-4S]-dependent LarE for nickel-pincer nucleotide cofactor synthesis in Thermotoga maritima |
T. Zacharewski |
| Rose Kithan | Sundin | Interplay Between Innate Immunity and the Microbiome in Apple Fruit | C. Vieille | |
| April 18 | Omid Madadgar | Tewari-Singh | Investigating the mechanisms involved in urticant Phosgene Oxime induced skin toxicity and apoptotic cell death in C57BL/6 mice | D. Ducat |
| Joel Marty | Kaminski | The effects of delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol on CD8+ T cell activation under pro-inflammatory conditions induced by latent HIV infection | V. DiRita | |