Unless otherwise noted, Seminars are at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, in 1220 Microbial Sciences Building (Ebling Symposium Center). 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.
Complex combinations of genetic, environmental, and ecological factors shape compositional features of the gut microbiome: the emerging story of an uber-complex trait
Speaker: Andrew Benson, University of Nebraska- Lincolndescription Seminar Flyer
Mycoplasma pneumoniae Terminal Organelle: A look under the hood of a front-wheel drive
Speaker: Duncan Krause, University of Georgiadescription Seminar Flyer
PASTA Kinases- from virulence to antibiotics
Speaker: JD Sauer, University of Wisconsin-Madisondescription Seminar Flyer
New paradigms in microbial sulfur metabolism
Speaker: Karthik Anantharaman, UC-Berkeleydescription Seminar Flyer
Tales from Biological Dark Matter & the Contributions of Phages
Speaker: Anca Segall, San Diego State Universitydescription Seminar Flyer
Thymineless death: paradoxes multiply
Speaker: Andrei Kuzminov, University of Illinoisdescription Seminar Flyer
Ecology and Evoluation of Plant and Fungal Viruses
Speaker: Marilyn Roossinck, Penn Statedescription Seminar Flyer
Assembly and eco-evolutionary dynamics of communities of antibiotic producing bacteria
Speaker: Kalin Vetsigian, UW-Madisondescription Seminar Flyer
Discovery of an essential bacterial DNA replication origin element
Speaker: Heath Murray, Newcastle Universitydescription Seminar Flyer
Outer membrane biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria
Speaker: Tom Silhavy, Princeton Universitydescription Seminar Flyer
Bacterial behavior that requires translation quality control
Speaker: Beth Lazazzera, University of California, Los Angelesdescription Seminar Flyer
How symbiotic bacteria generate chemical diversity
Speaker: Eric Schmidt, University of Utahdescription Seminar Flyer
Architecture of Mce lipid transport systems that connect inner and outer bacterial membranes
Speaker: Jeff Cox, University of California, Berkeleydescription Seminar Flyer
On the origins of sexual reproduction: A view from the fungal kingdom
Speaker: Joseph Heitman, Duke Universitydescription Seminar Flyer
Guanine nucleotide regulation of development and virulence
Speaker: Dick Brennan, Duke Universitydescription Seminar Flyer
Structural mechanisms of DNA segregation and multidrug tolerance
Speaker: Maria Schumacher, Duke Universitydescription Seminar Flyer
Annual State of the Department Address and Group Picture
Speaker: Charles Kaspar, UW-MadisonDiet Induced Selection of Strains of an Epidemic Enteric Pathogen
Speaker: Rob Britton, Baylor Universitydescription Seminar Flyer
What is old is new again: Buchnera, a bacterial endosymbiont living in a modern day RNA world
Speaker: Allison Hansen, University of Illinois Urbana Champaigndescription Seminar Flyer
The Bacteroidetes do it differently: novel motility, protein secretion, and polysaccharide utilization machineries
Speaker: Mark McBride, UW-Milwaukeedescription Seminar Flyer
Fungal Natural Products in Drug Discovery – Fungal Gene Activation and Beyond
Speaker: Sandra Loesgen, Oregon State Universitydescription Seminar Flyer
When the end is the means: 5'-terminal control of mRNA degradation
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Room 1360 Genetics and Biotechnology
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Learning from failure in the social amoeba - Paraburkholderia symbiosis
Speaker: Joan Strassman, Washington Universitydescription Seminar Flyer
Advancing integrative genome science beyond sequencing
Speaker: Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institutedescription Seminar Flyer
Genome-based analysis of fungal secondary metabolism gene clusters and its application to biotechnology
Speaker: Masayuki Machida, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japandescription Seminar Flyer