Distinguished Lectures
in Microbiology Fall 2009
Unless otherwise noted, Seminars are at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, in 1220 Microbial Sciences Building (Ebling Symposium Center)
| Date |
Speaker / Title |
Host |
September 24 |
Dan Kearns, Indiana University
Bistable motility gene expression in Bacillus subtilis
|
Doug Weibel |
| October 1 |
Jade Wang, Baylor College of Medicine
Control of Elongation of DNA Replication and Genome Integrity |
Rick Gourse |
| October 15 |
David Lipman, NIH/NLM/NCBI
Evolution in Computational Biology
|
Jo Handelsman |
| October 22 |
**2009 Adair Lecture**
Alex Horswill, University of Iowa
**2009 Adair Lecture**
Alex Horswill, University of Iowa
Alex Horswill, University of Iowa
Peptide quorum sensing in Staphylococcus aureus |
Jorge Escalante |
| October 29 |
David Dubnau, Public Health Research Institute
Many are called but few are chosen: competence in Bacillus subtilis
|
Rick Gourse |
| November 5 |
Romé Voulhoux, CNRS Marseilles
Pseudomonas aeruginosa: an ideal playground to study Type II secretion |
Katrina Forest |
November 12
|
**09/10 McCoy Lecture**
Rachel Whitaker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Genome dynamics in space and time in Sulfolobus islandicus |
Trina McMahon
|
November 19 |
George Weinstock, Washington University
Adventures in the Human Microbiome
|
Tim Donohue |
| November 26 |
Thanksgiving |
|
| December 3 |
Tanja Woyke, DOE Joint Genome Institute
Microbial Single Cell Genomics |
Bob Landick |
| December 10 |
Beronda Montgomery, Michigan State University
Shedding light of the regulation of cellular morphology in cyanobacteria |
Katrina Forest |
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.
