MGI Seminars - Fall 2025
MGI Seminars will take place at 12:00 P.M. in 1425 BPS, unless noted otherwise in the table below.
All MGI Seminar questions should be directed to MGI.Seminars@campusad.msu.edu
Seminar Coordinators: Steph Shames, Sean Crosson, & Margaret Petroff
Graduate Student Representatives: Kendall Mara & Fatma Afify
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 26 | An RNA hub facilitates AID recruitment to immunoglobulin switch regions | Kefei Yu | MGI |
| September 16 | Drawn into the Microbial Battlefield: A Chalk Talk on Phage Attack and Host Defense | Chris Waters | MGI |
| September 30 | Host and Symbiont Lipid Dynamics Dictate Coral Resilience to Climate Change | Robert Quinn | MGI |
| October 7 | How a DNA and an RNA virus hijack the bidirectional secretory pathway to cause infection | Billy Tsai | Dohun Pyeon |
| October 17 |
Unrest at home: response to disturbance in the human microbiome and |
David Relman & Karla Satchell | MGI Whittam-Brubaker Symposium |
| October 28 | Eating Rocks! Microbes gaining electrons from minerals, electrodes and other microbes. | Annette Rowe | MGI |
| November 4 | Trans-Kingdom Interactions: Regulation of Anti-Fungal Immunity & Disease | Joshua Obar | Andrew Olive |
| November 11 | Dissecting the Genetic Architecture of Tuberculosis: Host Susceptibility and Pathogen Adaptation | Chris Sassetti | Jared Godfrey |
| November 18 | Odyssey of Strange Fish: ‘Living Fossils’ Illuminate the Genomic Basis of Vertebrate Evolution, Development & Disease | Ingo Braasch | Elizabeth Heath-Heckman |
| December 2 | Pei-Chung Lee | Stephanie Shames | |