MMG Seminars 2011 - 2012

September

September 15 - MSB 2.135 | Galia Zaide (Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona Israel)
"Essential virulence determinants of Bacillus anthracis identified by genomic and proteomic analyses"

September 22 - MSB 2.135 | K. C. Huang (Stanford University)
"The sinister truth behind the E. coli cell wall"

September 29 - MSB 2.135 | Slavena Vylkova (UT Medical School)
"Environmental pH modulation by Candida albicans"

October

October 6 - MSB 2.135 | I-Hsiu Huang (UT Medical School)
"Direct sortase-sortase interaction regulates pilus assembly in C. diphtheriae"

October 13 - MSB 2.135 | Daniel Haeusser (UT Medical School)
"Division inhibition: A bacteria's worst nightmare"

October 20 - MSB 2.135 | Carolina Barillas-Mury (NIH)
"Plasmodium-mosquito interactions that determine malaria transmission"

October 27 - MSB 2.135 | James Versalovic (Texas Children's Hospital)
"The gut microbiome and mechanisms of immunomodulaton"

November

November 10 - MSB 2.135 | David G. Thanassi (Stony Brook University)
"Pilus assembly and secretion by the outer membrane usher protein"

November 17 - MSB 2.135 | Robert Palmer (NIDCR/NIH)
"Mechanisms of oral biofilm development"

December

December 1 - MSB 2.135 | Douglas Weibel (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Chemical biological studies in intracellular organization in bacterial cells"

December 8 - MSB 2.135 | Ido Golding (Baylor College of Medicine)
"A quantitative look at gene regulation"

December 15 - MSB 2.135 | Matthew Lawrenz (U. of Louisville School of Medicine)
"Stick with me: Post-translational regulation of a Yersinia pestis adhesin"

January

January 5 - MSB 2.135 | Shonna McBride (Tufts University School of Medicine)
"The C. difficile cpr locus mediates resistance to antimicrobial peptides through molecular mimicry"

January 24 - MSB 2.103 | Vasant Muralidharan (Washington University School of Medicine)
"Chaperoning the intraerythrocytic life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum"

January 26 - MSB 2.135 | Eduardo Torres (MIT)
"Identification of aneuploidy-tolerating mutations"

January 31 - MSB 2.103 | Frank Liu (Yale University)
"Systems-level analysis of host-pathogen interactions using mass spectrometry-based proteomics"

February

February 7 - MSB 2.103 | Alexander Paredez (University of California-Berkeley)
"The Giardia actin cytoskeleton: lessons from a non-conformist"

February 9 - MSB 2.135 | Wai-Leung Ng (Princeton University)
"Modulating quorum sensing in vibrio species"

February 16 - MSB 2.135 | Zhao-Qing Luo (Purdue University)
"Making a living in a hostile environment: Strategies by Legionella pneumophila"

February 28 - MSB 2.103 | Elitza Tocheva (California Institute of Technology)
"Sporulation in the Gram-negative bacterium Acetonema longum"

March

March 1 - MSB 2.135 | Raphael Valdivia (Duke University School of Medicine)
"Insights into the biology of the obligate intracellular pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis through proteomic and "NextGen" genetic approaches"

March 6 -MSB 2.135| Yunrong "Win" Chai (Harvard University)
"Multicellular development by Bacillus subtilis"

March 8 - MSB 2.135 | Laura Lackner (University of California-Davis)
"The molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial division and positioning"

April

April 5 - MSB 2.135 | Laurie Read (SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine)
"Essential players in Trypanosome RNA editing"

April 12 - MSB 2.135 | Dominique Missiakas (University of Chicago)
"Title to be announced"

April 19 - MSB 2.135 | Doug Cyr (UNC Chapel Hill)
"Title to be announced"

April 26 - MSB 2.135 | John Taylor (UC Berkeley)
"Population genomics, natural selection and adaptive evolution of fungi"

previous MMG Seminars series:

2010-2011

2009-2010

2008-2009

2007-2008

2006-2007 (pdf)

2005-2006 (pdf)

2004-2005 (pdf)

2003-2004 (pdf)