Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 3:30 pm
Speaker: Benjamin Good | Stanford
Host: Charlie Mo
Title: Evolution and strain transmission in the human gut microbiome
Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 3:30 pm
Speaker: Ankur Dalia | Indiana University
Host: Mark Mandel
Title: Regulation and mechanisms of horizontal gene transfer by natural transformation
Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 3:30 pm
Speaker: Vivek Mutalik | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Host: Karthik Anantharaman
Title: Phage Foundry, a systematic multi-scale phage characterization capability to combat bacterial pathogens
Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 3:30 pm
Speaker: David Rudner | Harvard University
Host: Tu-Anh Huynh
Title: Cyclic-di-AMP modulates cytoplasmic turgor pressure to protect cells from lysis
Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 3:30 pm
Speaker: Jizhong (Joe) Zhou | University of Oklahoma
Host: Jade Wang
Title: Microbes and Climate Warming: Impacts, Feedbacks, and Modeling
Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 3:30 pm
Speaker: Dan Kearns | Indiana University
Host: Briana Burton
Title: Swarming motility and the control of flagellar number in Bacillus subtilis
Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 3:30 pm
Speaker: Alexandra Worden | University of Chicago, Marine Biological Laboratory
Host: Katrina Forest
Title: Going Where The Wild Things Are: Ocean microbes, their interactions & ecosystem consequences
Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 3:30 pm
Speaker: Clay Fuqua | Indiana University
Host: David Hershey
Title: TBA
Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 3:30 pm
Speaker: Andrew Gulick | SUNY Buffalo
Host: Michael Thomas
Title: Using Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases to Discover and Produce New Bioactive Molecules Inspired by Natural Products
Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 3:30 pm
Speaker: Cameron Thrash | University of Southern California
Host: Trina McMahon
Title: Investigating fundamental growth rate restrictions in the dominant and cosmopolitan SAR11 bacterioplankton
Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 3:30 pm
Speaker: Junyoung (Jun) Park | University of California, Los Angeles
Host: Daniel Amador-Noguez
Title: From Metabolomics and Fluxomics to Metabolic Engineering
Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 3:30 pm
Speaker: Michael Gray | University of Alabama at Birmingham
Host: Briana Burton
Title: Inorganic polyphosphate, (p)ppGpp, and a journey through bacterial physiology
Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 3:30 pm
Speaker: Romy Chakraborty | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Host: Erica Majumder
Title: TBA