WiPS Schedule - Spring 2025
Work in Progress Seminars (WiPS) for Spring 2025
All WiPS seminars are at 12:00 P.M., MONDAY, in BPS Room 1425.
Seminar Coordinator: Vilma Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan
Please use this QR code to access the WiPS Evaluation form:
| Date | Speaker | Title | Faculty Evaluators |
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| Jan. 13 | Vilma Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan, Zack Blount | Nancy Hopkins, the “Exceptions,” and MIT: A Parable of the Struggle for Women’s Equality in Science | N/A |
| Jan. 20 | Martin Luther King Day - University Closed | ||
| Jan. 27 | Charles Whitehead-Tillery (Mansfield Lab) |
Cross-species transmission of ESBLs amongst human and dogs | V. Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan |
| Megan Korne (Bonito Lab) |
Characterizing the horizontal transmission of Burkholderia- and Mollicutes-related endobacteria | K. Kashefi | |
| Feb. 3 | Manos Kokarakis (Ducat Lab) |
Implementing quorum sensing systems in cyanobacteria for biotechnological applications | C. Adami |
| Alexandria Oviatt, pdoc (Abramovitch Lab) |
Post-antibiotic Effects of MmpL3-targeted and Nitro-containing Compounds in M. tuberculosis and M. abscessus | A. Olive | |
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Feb. 10 |
Imani Pascoe (Bonito/Lebeis Lab) |
Designing and testing functional synthetic communities for plant resilience | A. Rowe |
| Veronica Albrecht (Abramovitch Lab) |
TrcRS negatively regulates KdpC, a subunit of a high affinity ATP-driven potassium transport system | J. Scott | |
| Feb. 17 | Joel Marty (Kaminski Lab) |
Monocyte mediated enhancement of CD8+ T cell IFNγ production can be suppressed by THC treatment | C. Waters |
| Carissa Hutchison (Shames Lab) |
Understanding the roles of two effector/metaeffector pairs in Legionella pneumophila | E. Heath-Heckman | |
| Feb. 24 | Jisung Park (Abramovitch Lab) |
PhoPR is required for Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth on specific carbon sources | S. Sherrill-Mix |
| Matt Schnizlein, pdoc (Crosson Lab) |
Non-redundant cardiolipin synthases support membrane integrity and stress resilience in Bacteroides fragilis | C. Arvidson | |
| Mar. 3 | Spring break - no WiPS | ||
| Mar. 10 | Daniel Vocelle Assistant Director of the MSU Flow Cytometry Core |
What's New in Flow Cytometry? | |
| Jared Godfrey (Olive Lab) |
Regulation of alveolar macrophage inflammatory networks | W. Wang M. Bachmann |
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| Mar. 17 | Adam Kibiloski (Abramovitch Lab) |
Phosphate restricts growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on lactate at acidic pH | S. Shames |
| Camille Boucaud (Heath-Heckman Lab) |
The role of AMPs in shaping symbiosis specificity and persistence: squid-Vibrio model | Z. Blount | |
| Mar. 24 | Angela Prete (Waters Lab) |
Using randomly barcoded transposon site-sequencing to interrogate c-di-GMP physiology in Vibrio cholerae | R. Quinn |
| Sole Soverina (Olive Lab) |
Host pathways involved in IL-1α production ex vivo during M. abscessus infection | J. Hardy | |
| Mar. 31 | Alex Demetros (Lebeis Lab) |
Community immunity: exploring the relationship between the host microbiome and opportunistic pathogens | S. Crosson |
| Satya Kulkarni (Contag lab) | Visualizing interkingdom communication in mammalian systems using engineered quasiorganelles | V. DiRita | |
| Apr. 7 | Kevin Santiago-Morales (Lebeis Lab) |
Bacterial IAA metabolism impacts the plant phosphorus starvation response | V. Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan |
| Leah Knoor (Lebeis Lab) |
G. Bonito | ||
| Apr. 14 | Hazel McGuffin (Parent Lab) |
Podophage interaction with inner membrane protien YajC | G. Severin |
| Rachel Richardson (Mansfield Lab) |
Contribution of the Human Gut Microbiome to the Development and Severity of Guillain-Barré Syndrome |
N. Walker | |
| Apr. 21 | Emily Perez (Crosson Lab) |
The roles of HRxxN histidine kinases in Brucella ovis stress respsonses | D. Pyeon |
| Bassel Abdalla (Abramovitch Lab) |
Examining the efficacy of combination therapy in vitro in Mycobacterium abscessus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis | N. Hammer | |