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   TBD   Pat Secor   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                  TBD
 March 4                 Procrastinator Theater
 March 11                 Procrastinator Theater
 March 18 No SEMINAR -  BREAK                
 March 25                 Procrastinator Theater
 April 1                 TBD
 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