| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 1/11/13 |
Anthony Maurelli, Ph.D., Uniformed Services Univ. of the Health Sciences |
Evolution of Shigella: Gene gain and gene loss (and Gene Gain?) |
1/18/13 |
Erin Zwack (Brodsky Lab)
Cierra Danko (Shin Lab)
|
Innate immune recognition of the Yersinia Type Three Secretion System; Investigating inflammasome activation in response to pathogenic bacteria |
| 1/25/13 |
Victor Torres, Ph.D.,
NYU School of Medicine
|
The Staphylococcus aureus bi-component LukED toxin and the disarmament of the cellular immune response |
| 2/1/13 |
Andrew Stern (Zhu Lab)
|
Effects of nitric oxide on Vibrio cholerae metabolism |
| 2/8/13 |
Christian Hoffman (Bushman Lab) |
Archaea and fungi of the human gut microbiome |
2/15/13 |
George Hajishengallis, D.D.S., Ph.D.,
Univ. of Pennsylvania |
Keystone pathogen-induced dysbiotic changes in theoral microbiota |
| 2/22/13 |
Luciano Marraffini, PhD, Rockefeller University |
CRISPR-Cas Loci: The RNA-mediatedadaptive immune system of bacteria |
| 3/1/13 |
Srujana S. Yadavalli, Ph.D. (Goulian lab) |
Divergent requirements for quality control mechanisms in bacterial translation |
| 3/15/13 |
Howard Goldfine, Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania |
Why are there so many lipid classes in bacteria? |
| 3/22/13 |
Serena Dollive (Bushman lab) |
Reciprocal response of bacteria and fungi to antibiotics in the murine gut microbiome |
| 3/29/13 |
Manuela Tripepi (Thesis Defense), (Pohlschroder lab) |
Structure and function of H. volcanii flagella |
| 4/5/13 |
Sarah Clark (Thesis Defense), (Weiser lab) |
Evasion of host recognition by phase variation in Haemophilus influenzae |
| 4/12/13 |
Min Yue, DVM, Ph.D. (Schifferli lab) |
Bacterial SNPs and infection |
| 4/19/13 |
Gary Wu, M.D.,
Univ. of Pennsylvania |
Diet, metabolism, and the gut microbiome |
| 4/26/13 |
Vincent Lee, Ph.D.,
Univ. of Maryland at College Park |
Toward elucidating the Cyclic-di-GMP protein interactome in bacteria |
