Unless otherwise noted, Seminars are at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, in 1220 Microbial Sciences Building (Ebling Symposium Center). The Department of Bacteriology Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology are supported in part by the J.B. Wilson Fund, the Perry Wilson Fund, and the E.B. Fred Memorial Fund.
March 1, 2012
Title: Regulatory Signals Controlling Microbial Cyst Cell Development
Speaker:
Dr. Carl Bauer, Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry Department, Indiana University
Host: Jorge Escalante
March 8, 2012
Title: Towards Understanding and Combating Bacterial Resistance to Aminoglycoside Antibiotics
Speaker:
Dr. Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova, Medicinal Chemistry Department,
University of Michigan
Host: Michael Thomas
March 15, 2012
Title: Combining genetics, electrochemistry, and spectral analysis to understand the
Geobacter conductive biofilm
Speaker:
Dr. Daniel Bond, Microbiology Department,
University of Minnesota
Host: Michael Thomas
March 22, 2012
Title: Understanding Alternative Oxidase Expression and Function in Marine Bacteria:
Vibrio fischeri as a Model System
Speaker:
Dr. Anne Dunn, Department of Botany and Microbiology,
The University of Oklahoma
Host: Michael Thomas
March 29, 2012
Title: Probing Biological Systems with Emerging Chemical Tools
Speaker:
Dr. Shawn Campagna, Department of Chemistry,
University of Tennessee
Host: Joshua Coon
April 12, 2012
Title: Towards understanding the regulation of mitosis, lessons from classical genetics to proteomics
Speaker:
Dr. Stephen Osmani, Department of Molecular Genetics,
The Ohio State University
Host: Jae-Hyuk Yu
April 19, 2012
Title: Use of Small RNAs to Prime Transcription Initiation in Bacteria
Speaker:
Dr. Bryce Nickels, Department of Genetics,
Waksman Institute, Rutgers University
Host: Karen Wassarman
April 26, 2012
Title: Molecular Mechanisms of Compartmentalization and Biomineralization in Magnetotactic Bacteria
Speaker:
Dr. Arash Komeili, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology,
University of California-Berkeley
Host: Michael Thomas
May 3, 2012
Title: Effector Dynamics During Invasion of Living Rice Cells by the Blast Fungus
Magnaporthe oryzae
Speaker:
Dr. Barbara Valent, Plant Pathology Department,
Kansas State University
Host: Nancy Keller