Seminars for the Fall 2024 & Spring 2025 Terms

                                   All Seminars begin at 2:00PM Unless Otherwise Noted

 

Date

Speaker

 

Institution 

 

        Title                         

 

MCB Host

 

Seminar Location

July 22  

 

Kristine B. Arnvig  11:00AM   University College London   Riboswitches, safeguarding the host-pathogen interface in Mycobacterium tuberculosis   Blake Wiedenheft   Byker Auditorium
July 22 Finn Werner      3:00PM   University College London   Archaeal DNA replication and  transcription machinery structure and function   Blake Wiedenheft   Byker Auditorium
August 1 Peter Dedecker  10:00AM   University of Leuven, Belgium   More informative fluorescence imaging using “smart” probes and new instrumentation   Misha Drobizhev   Barnard Hall 126
August 27 NO SEMINAR                
September 3 NO SEMINAR                
September 10 NO SEMINAR                
September 17 NO SEMINAR                
September 24 NO SEMINAR                
October 1 NO SEMINAR                
October 8 NO SEMINAR                
October 15 Dr. Patrick Secor   MSU   A prophage sRNA reprograms bacterial metabolism to protect against lytic phage infection       Procrastinator Theater
October 22 TL1 Translational Science Summit Keynote Speaker German G. Gornalusse   University of Washington   From K to R, with M in-between   Blake Wiedenfheft   Procrastinator Theater
October 29 NO SEMINAR                
November 5 Emmie de Wit   Rocky Mountain Laboratories  

Pathogenesis of emerging respiratory viruses: Nipah virus and HPAI H5N1 in the lungs and brain

  Michelle Flenniken   Procrastinator Theater
November 12 Laura Jennings   MSU   Bet Hedging in Bacteria: How Random Epigenetic Variability Allows Pseudomonas aeruginosa to Cheat Death and Antibiotics       Procrastinator Theater
November 19 NO SEMINAR                
November 26 NO SEMINAR - BREAK                
December 3 NO SEMINAR                
December 10 Paul L. Bollyky   Stanford U. Medical Center   Does a Bacteriophage Cause Disease in Humans?   Pat Secor   Procrastinator Theater
 January 14 Alison Kell   University of New Mexico   Understanding hantavirus pathogenesis through innate immune activation   Emma Loveday/Alyssa Evans   Procrastinator Theater
 January 21 Sam Sternberg   Columbia University   TBD   Blake Wiedenheft   Procrastinator Theater
 January 28                 Procrastinator Theater
 February 4 Emily Bruce   University of Vermont   TBD   Emma Loveday   Procrastinator Theater
 February 11 Irene Newton   Indiana University   TBD   Frank Stewart   Procrastinator Theater
 February 18 Anna-Louise Reysenbach   Portland State University   TBD   Dan Colman   Procrastinator Theater
 February 25                  REID 202
 March 4                 Procrastinator Theater
 March 11                 Procrastinator Theater
 March 18 No SEMINAR -  BREAK                
 March 25                 Procrastinator Theater
 April 1                 REID 202
 April 8                 Procrastinator Theater
 April 15                 Procrastinator Theater
 April 22 Joe Bondy-Denomy   UCSF   TBD   Nate Burman/Blake Wiedenheft   Procrastinator Theater
 April 29                 Procrastinator Theater