Unless otherwise noted, Seminars are at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Ebling Auditorium in the Microbial Sciences Building. The Department of Bacteriology Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology are supported in part by the J.B. Wilson Fund, the Perry Wilson Fund, the Dennis and Alicemay Watson Lectureship Fund, and the E.B. Fred Memorial Fund.
The Department of Bacteriology values and prioritizes increasing diversity, of both visible and invisible forms, in our invited speakers for the Distinguished Lectures in Bacteriology seminar series and departmental symposia.
Translational research and findings from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW)
Speaker: Amy Schultz & Adam Paulsen, Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW)description Seminar Flyer
Conflict in symbiosis and the limits on host control
Speaker: Joel Sachs, University of California, Riversidedescription Seminar Flyer
Microbe-mediated asexual reproduction
Speaker: Amelia Lindsey, University of Minnesotadescription Seminar Flyer
The Predatory Bdellovibrio and like organisms: Hidden Figures in the Microbial Loop
Speaker: Henry N. Williams, Florida A&M Universitydescription Seminar Flyer
Stress eating: Escherichia coli consumes nucleosides to fend off glucose-phosphate stress
Speaker: Gregory Richards, UW-Parksidedescription Seminar Flyer
New players in Ftz-based cell division in Archaea
Speaker: Sonja-Verena Albers, University of FreiburgThe intersection of nutrition and infection at the host-pathogen interface
Speaker: Eric Skaar, Vanderbilt UniversityExploring the electric side of photosynthesis
Speaker: Arpita Bose, Washington University in St. LouisBadger Watch Safety Training
Speaker: Erik Pearce, UWPDCANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER Decoding the immunomodulatory function of gut bacteria
Speaker:Philip Ahern, Lerner Research Institute @ the Cleveland Clinic
CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER
The Surprising Microbiology and Geomicrobiology of Caves
Speaker: Hazel Barton, University of Akron, OhioCell Division Regulation in Bacteria
Speaker: Prahathees Eswara, University of South FloridaA phage that deploys eukaryotic-like DNA compartmentalization to resist CRISPR-Cas nucleases
Speaker: Joseph Bondy-Denomy, UCSF