Prokaryotic Seminar Series
Schedule revised
12/18/12


Noon, Fridays - 209 Johnson Pavilion
Sponsored by the Department of Microbiology
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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

 

   
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