| Date | Speaker & Institution | Seminar Title | Host |
| Date | Event |
Recent Guest Speakers
| Date | Speaker & Institution | Seminar Title | Host |
| 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 |
| 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 |
