Prokaryotic Seminar Series
Schedule revised
9/18/09


Noon, Fridays - 209 Johnson Pavilion
Sponsored by the Department of Microbiology
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Date Speaker Title
9/18/09 Rick Bushman, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
The Vertebrate Microbiome in Health and Disease
9/25/09 Petros Karakousis, MD
Johns Hopkins University
The Stringent Response and Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Persistence
10/2/09

Michael Bachman, MD, PhD
Weiser Lab

The Battle with Microbes over Iron
10/9/09

Blanca Barquera, PhD
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Bacterial Na+ Metabolism: Enzymes that Use Na+ Instead of H+ as Energy Currency
10/16/09 Eleftherios Terry Papoutsakis, PhD
University of Delaware

Understanding and Engineering the Differentiation Program in Clostridia

10/23/09 Greg Van Duyne, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Recombinases and Type IB Topoisomerases

10/30/09 Jon Goguen, PhD
University Massachuestts

Yersinia Pestis and Innate
Immunity: Keys and Mysteries in Understanding the Molecular Basis of
Extreme Virulence

11/6/09 Seda Ekici
Daldal Lab

New insights on how copper is delivered to the cytoghrome /c/ oxidase

11/13/09 Gary Dunny, PhD
University of Minnesota
Cell-Cell Signaling and
Adaptation in Enterococcus faecalis
11/20/09 Manuela Roggiani, PhD
Goulian Lab

Dead Fish and Cell to Cell
Variability in E. coli

12/4/09
Thesis Defense
Amy Tsou
Zhu Lab
Novel Targets and a Cofactor for the
Vibrio Cholerae Quorum Sensing Transcriptional Regulator, HapR