| Date |
Speaker & Institution |
Seminar Title |
Host |
| 05/01/13 |
Dr. Dao Nguyen |
Antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Dr. Matt Wargo |
| 04/17/13 |
Dr. Rachel Dutton |
Food for thought: Cheese as a model microbial ecosystem |
Dr. Aimee Shen |
| 04/10/13 |
Dr. Benjamin Morin |
Functional and structural studies of negative-strand RNA viruses L polymerases |
Dr. Sylvie Doublie |
| 03/27/13 |
Dr. Laurie Comstock |
Interactions between bacterial members of the colonic microbiota |
Dr. Aimee Shen |
| 02/13/13 |
Dr. Mark Nelson |
Elementary Ca2+ signals through endothelial TRPV4 channels regulate vascular function |
MMG Seminar Committee |
| 02/06/13 |
Dr. Robert Desalle |
CANCELLED |
Dr. Neil Sarkar |
| 01/30/13 |
Dr. Jeffrey Spees |
Priming with ligands secreted by human stromal progenitors (p75MSCs) promotes grafts of cardiac stem cells after myocardial infarction |
MMG Seminar Committee |
| 01/16/13 |
Dr. Vincent Racaniello |
Antagonism of innate immunity by picornaviruses |
Dr. Markus Thali |
| 12/12/12 |
Dr. Bryce Nickels |
NanoRNAs: a new class of regulatory small RNAs |
Dr. Aimee Shen |
| 11/28/12 |
Dr. Simon Dove |
Essential transcription regulators in Pseudomonas and Francisella |
Dr. Matt Wargo |
| 11/14/12 |
Dr. Anthony Sinai |
Autophagy in Toxoplasma gondii: a matter of life and death |
Drs. Sylvie Doublié and Greg Gilmartin |
| 11/07/12 |
Dr. Heran Darwin |
Breaking TB: Pup, proteasomes and pathogenesis |
Drs. Sylvie Doublié and Greg Gilmartin |
| 10/31/12 |
Dr. Scarlet Shell |
Sculpting the transcriptome of a pathogen: from DNA methylation to mRNA processing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
Dr. Aimee Shen |
| 10/24/12 |
Dr. Christopher Lima |
Structure and activities of the eukaryotic RNA exosome |
Drs. Sylvie Doublié and Greg Gilmartin |
| 10/17/12 |
Dr. Jeffrey Wilusz |
CANCELED |
Drs. Sylvie Doublié & Greg Gilmartin |
| 10/10/12 |
Dr. Daniel Schoenberg |
Cytoplasmic capping: A new post-transcriptional mechanism with impacts on translation, mRNA stability and the complexity of the proteome |
Drs. Sylvie Doublié and Greg Gilmartin |
| 10/03/12 |
Dr. Michael Terns |
Small RNA-Guided Immune Systems in Prokaryotes |
Drs. Sylvie Doublié and Greg Gilmartin |
| 05/16/12 |
Dr. Andrew L. Goodman |
New tools for exploring the human gut microbiome |
Dr. Aimee Shen |
| 05/09/12 |
Dr. Dimitry N. Krementsov |
Unraveling the immune mechanisms of multiple sclerosis using animal models: a tale of two kinases |
MMG Seminar Committee |
| 05/02/12 |
Dr. Hera C. Vlamakis |
Regulation of cell fate in biofilms by extracellular signals |
Dr. Aimee Shen |
| 04/18/12 |
Dr. Bryan Ballif |
Braking While Accelerating: Identifying Novel Mechanisms of Negative Feedback in Ras-MAPK Signaling |
MMG Seminar Committee |
| 04/11/12 |
Dr. Janet Lindow |
Vaccines and T cells: a search for a correlate of protection for dengue fever |
MMG Seminar Committee |
| 04/04/12 |
Dr. Gary E. Ward |
Invade and conquer: An intracellular parasite’s ingenious tactics of stealth and subterfuge |
University Scholar Inaugural Lecture |
| 03/28/12 |
Dr. Brent Berwin |
A Few Poynters on the Immune Response to Bacterial Motility: Can This Make the WarGo Better Against Infection? |
Dr. Matt Wargo |
| 03/21/12 |
Dr. Daniel Zenklusen |
OEDissecting Gene Expression Regulation in yeast One Molecule at a Time |
Dr. Markus Thali |
| 02/29/12 |
Dr. Alan Howe |
Protein Kinase A in Cell Migration: The Tension Mounts |
MMG Seminar Committee |
| 02/15/12 |
Dr. Nicholas H. Heintz |
Redox-dependent mitochondrial targets in cancer therapy |
MMG Seminar Committee |
| 02/08/12 |
Dr. Jason Stumpff |
Spatial control of mitotic chromosome movements |
MMG Seminar Committee |
| 01/25/12 |
Dr. Ralph Budd |
Caspase Regulation in Immune Function: the FLIP Side |
MMG Seminar Committee |
| 01/18/12 |
Dr. Mary Tierney |
Signals from the outside-in: new insights on ECM control of cell growth |
MMG Seminar Committee |
| 12/15/11 |
Dr. Eric Cohen |
Novel Insights into HIV-1-host cell interactions governing viral replication and transmission |
Dr. Markus Thali |
| 12/07/11 |
Dr. Jie Xiao |
Noise in Gene Regulation |
Dr. Gary Ward |
| 11/30/11 |
Dr. Craig Ellermeier |
Activation of ECF sigma factors in response to cell envelope stress in Bacillus subtilis and Clostridium difficile |
Dr. Aimee Shen |
| 11/16/11 |
Dr. Arjun Raj |
Taking a picture of transcriptional activity along a chromosome |
Dr. Gary Ward |
| 11/09/11 |
Dr. Yuri Lazebnik |
Cell promiscuity, common sense and the hallmarks of cancer |
Dr. Gary Ward |
| 11/02/11 |
Dr. Gürol Süel |
Decision-making: Insights from single cell and population dynamics |
Dr. Gary Ward |
| 10/26/11 |
Dr. Jane Hill |
Identity and Status: how the volatile molecules from bacteria tell us who they are, how many there are, and what they are doing … |
Dr. Markus Thali |
| 10/19/11 |
Dr. Matthew J. Wargo |
Eating for the sake of knowledge: Pseudomonas aeruginosa catabolism and its role in sensing the host |
|
| 10/05/11 |
Dr. Mary J. Dunlop |
Dynamics and Correlated Noise in Gene Regulation |
Dr. Gary Ward |
| 09/28/11 |
Dr. John MacKenzie Burke |
What I Did During My Sabbatical in England |
|
| 09/21/11 |
Dr. Cecilia Rodriguez Furlán |
The polarized localization of ATPRP3 within the ECM of root hairs is regulated by secretory and endocytic mechanisms |
|
| 09/14/11 |
Dr. Susan S. Wallace |
DNA Glycosylase Recognition of Oxidative DNA Damage |
|
| 09/09/11 |
Dr. Xiaowei Zhuang |
Nanoscopic Imaging of Biomolecules and Cells with Single-molecule and Super-resolution Fluorescence Microscopy |
Dr. Markus Thali |
| 08/17/11 |
Dr. Jonathan Beckwith |
How studying disulfide bond formation in E. coli led to screening for new antibiotics and anti-coagulants |
|
| 04/20/11 |
Dr. Daniel Gage |
New signals on old hardware: an updated signaling paradigm for the phosphotransferase (PTS) system of bacteria |
Dr. Matt Wargo |
| 04/13/11 |
Dr. Robert Shanks |
Red into Gold and other fun genetic studies with Serratia marcescens |
Dr. Matt Wargo |
| 04/06/11 |
Dr. Mary J. Dunlop |
Engineering Feedback Control Systems in Microbes |
Dr. Matt Wargo |
| 03/02/11 |
Dr. Thomas Murray |
The metabolic regulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa surface behaviors |
Dr. Matt Wargo |
| 02/16/11 |
Dr. Jennifer Bomberger |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa inhibits viral immunity in the lung |
Dr. Matt Wargo |
| 01/26/11 |
Dr. Marvin Whitely |
Bacterial dinner conversations: tales of bacterial lobster traps and polymicrobial interactions |
Dr. Matt Wargo |
| 01/19/11 |
Dr. Akira Ono |
HIV-1 Assembly and Beyond – the Events Taking Place at the Plasma Membrane of Polarized T Cells |
Dr. Markus Thali |
| 12/08/10 |
Dr. Yves Lussier |
Hypothesis-driven translational bioinformatics: from in silico models to clinical trails with transit in vitro and in vivo |
Drs. Bond, Bouffard & Sarkar |
| 12/01/10 |
Dr. Leslie Biesecker |
ClinSeq – A pilot study for clinical genomics research |
Drs. Bond, Bouffard & Sarkar |
| 11/17/10 |
Dr. Heidi Parker |
Complex Trait Mapping in the Domestic Dog: Tracking the Genetics of Morphology and Disease |
Drs. Bond, Bouffard & Sarkar |
| 11/10/10 |
Dr. Sean Conlan |
The Human Skin Microbiome: Community Structure and Specialization |
Drs. Bond, Bouffard & Sarkar |
| 09/15/10 |
Dr. Andre-Denis Wright |
"From Livestock to Humans: The Wonderful World of Methanogens" |
Dr. Susan Wallace |
| 06/30/10 |
Dr. Anahi Odell |
A Yeast Three-Hybrid system for target identification of small molecules that inhibit Toxoplasma gondii invasion |
|
| 05/19/10 |
Dr. Stefan Stamm |
Alternative splicing under physiologial and pathophysiological conditions |
Dr. Mariana Matrajt |
| 05/05/10 |
Dr. Brenton Graveley |
Dynamics and Diversity of the Drosophila |
Dr. Mariana Matrajt |
| 04/28/10 |
Dr. Kristen W. Lynch |
Signal-induced regulation of alternative splicing in the immune system |
Dr. Mariana Matrajt |
| 04/20/10 |
Dr. Ramiro Barrantes-Reynolds |
Cooperating amino acids: computational methods to discover cooperating amino acids provide insight into structure and function of Fpg/Nei |
Bond Lab |
| 04/14/10 |
Dr. Gaoyan (Grace) Tang |
Glycosylation of the collagen adhesin EmaA of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is dependent upon the lipopolysaccharide biosynthetic pathway |
Mintz Lab |
| 04/07/10 |
Dr. Jason Botten |
Hantavirus and Arenavirus Host-Pathogen Interactions |
Dr. Mariana Matrajt |
| 03/31/10 |
Dr. S. Fabiola Parussini |
Regulated Intramembrane Proteolysis of Toxoplasma gondii AMA1 Mediated by Rhomboids Plays a Critical Role in Daughter Cell Formation |
Ward Lab |
| 03/24/10 |
Dr. Janet Lindow |
Clearance of Salmonella Typhi infections in humans; opsonins at work |
Kirkpatrick Lab |
| 01/27/10 |
Dr. Amy Brock |
Dynamics and heterogeneity in cell fate decisions |
Dr. Susan Wallace |
| 01/13/10 |
Dr. Steven Hanes |
Cracking the CTD Code: Ess1 provides a new twist |
Dr. Susan Wallace |
| 12/09/09 |
Dr. Iwona Buskiewicz |
Hammerhead Ribozyme – Folding and Catalysis |
Drs. Chris Huston & Beth Kirkpatrick |
| 12/02/09 |
Dr. Joel Kline |
CpG Oligonucleotides: Promoting Immune Tolerance in Allergic Inflammation |
Drs. Chris Huston & Beth Kirkpatrick |
| 11/11/09 |
Dr. Eric Martens*
University of Michigan |
Complex glycan metabolism by human distal gut Bacteroides |
Drs. Chris Huston & Beth Kirkpatrick |
| 10/21/09 |
Dr. Marc-Jan Gubbels
Boston College |
Cell division in Toxoplasma gondii: two buns in the oven |
Dr. Gary Ward |
| 10/07/09 |
Dr. Rich Darveau*
University of Washington |
Porphyromonas gingivalis LPS: interactions with innate host defense |
Drs. Chris Huston & Beth Kirkpatrick |
| 09/30/09 |
Dr. Eric Pamer*
Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
Innate immune responses to bacterial infection |
Drs. Chris Huston & Beth Kirkpatrick |
| 09/23/09 |
Dr. Deborah Hogan*
Dartmouth College |
Communication and Competition: The roles of reactive oxygen species in bacterial-fungal interactions |
Drs. Chris Huston & Beth Kirkpatrick |
| 09/16/09 |
Dr. Philip Hanawalt
Stanford University |
Coordinating multiple mechanisms for genomic maintenance |
Dr. Susan Wallace |
| 04/29/09 |
Dr. Eugene Koonin*
NIH |
Origin and evolution of viruses: Implications for cellular evolution |
Dr. Markus Thali |
| 04/22/09 |
Dr. Daniel DiMaio
Yale University |
From a viral oncogene to an artificial hormone |
Dr. Susan Wallace |
| 04/15/09 |
Dr. Jeanne Harris*
University of Vermont |
Underground Architecture: coordinating root development with symbiotic nodule formation in legumes |
Dr. Markus Thali |
| 04/08/09 |
Dr. Marilyn J. Roossinck*
The Samual Roberts Noble Foundation |
Ecogenomics, Viral Ecology and Mutualism |
Dr. Markus Thali |
| 03/25/09 |
Dr. J. Peter Googarten*
University of Connecticut |
Phylogenetics in Light of Horizontal Gene Transfer |
Dr. Markus Thali |
| 03/06/09 |
Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai*
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Forming a lasting partnership: The establishment and maintenance of the squid-vibrio symbiosis |
Dr. Markus Thali |
