Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology

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.

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2019 Seminars

  • Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Special Lecture - Bacteriology Faculty Candidate
    Electric microbes: the role of extracellular electron transfer in Gram-positive bacteria

    Speaker: Sam Light
    Host: Rick Gourse
  • Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Special Lecture - Bacteriology Faculty Candidate
    Living with lanthanides. Unraveling the mysteries of new life metals.

    Speaker: Cecilia Martinez-Gomez
    Host: Rick Gourse
  • Monday, January 28, 2019 at 12:00 pm

    Special Lecture - Bacteriology Faculty Candidate
    Transcriptional regulation during slow growth in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Speaker: Megan Bergkessel
    Host: Rick Gourse
  • Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 3:30 pm
    Speaker: SEMINAR CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
  • Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Special Lecture - Bacteriology Faculty Candidate
    Gram positive secretion: Don’t leave the cell without a chaperone!

    Speaker: Laty Cahoon
    Host: Rick Gourse
  • Monday, February 11, 2019 at 12:00 pm

    Special Lecture - Bacteriology Faculty Candidate
    Contact-Dependent Growth Inhibition Systems in Bacteria

    Speaker: Zachary Ruhe
    Host: Rick Gourse
  • Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Microbial Populations in the Wild

    Speaker: Martin Polz, MIT
    Host: Cameron Currie
  • Monday, February 18, 2019 at 12:00 pm

    Special Lecture - Bacteriology Faculty Candidate
    Bridging the gap: Visualizing DNA repair intermediates in live cells

    Speaker: Harshad Ghodke
    Host: Rick Gourse
  • Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Molecular and Chemical Dissection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis persistence

    Speaker: Christina Stallings, Washington University
    Host: Rick Gourse
  • Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Microbial Growth and Competition within a Host: Insights from a Natural Animal-Microbe Symbiosis

    Speaker: Tim Miyashiro, Penn State
    Host: Mark Mandel
  • Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    The illusion of cooperation in the legume-rhizobium symbiosis

    Speaker: Joel Griffits, Brigham Young University
    Host: Jean-Michel Ane
  • Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Cryptic genes and genomic black holes: Finding new surprises in the Escherichia coli K12 genome

    Speaker: Peter Freddolino, University of Michigan
    Host: Rick Gourse
  • Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Reactive oxygen species signaling and fungal cell differentiation

    Speaker: Jesus Aguirre, Institute of Cellular Physiology
    Host: Jae-Hyuk Yu
  • Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Mycobacterial protein secretion: Virulence factors and control of gene expression

    Speaker: Patricia Champion, University of Notre Dame
    Host: Briana Burton
  • Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Disentangling host and microbiome contributions to drug metabolism and toxicity

    Speaker: Andrew Goodman, Yale
    Host: Federico Rey
  • Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Towards a systems level understanding of microbial metabolism

    Speaker: Daniel Amador-Noguez - University of Wisconsin–Madison
    Host: Tim Donohue
  • Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    State of the Department

    Speaker: Chuck Kaspar - University of Wisconsin–Madison
    Host: Chuck Kaspar
  • Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Exploring light as a driver of microbial behavior on leaves and drought as a driver of microbiome shifts on roots

    Speaker: Gwyn Beattie - Iowa State University
    Host: Katrina Forest
  • Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Quorum sensing gene regulation: How Vibrio harveyi turns on the light

    Speaker: Julia C. van Kessel - Indiana University
    Host: Mark Mandel
  • Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Allorecognition mechanisms regulate social cooperation in fungi

    Speaker: Louise Glass - University of California, Berkeley
    Host: Jean-Michel Ane
  • Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Mechanisms of enterococcal colonization and genome defense in the intestine

    Speaker: Breck Duerkop - University of Colorado, Denver
    Host: Federico Rey
  • Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Deep-sea volcanoes: Genomic diversity ‘hot spots’

    Speaker: Anna-Louise Reysenbach - Portland State University
    Host: Karthik Anantharaman
  • Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Regulatory mechanisms controlling the multicellular developmental program of the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus

    Speaker: Penelope I. Higgs - Wayne State University
    Host: Garret Suen
  • Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Geobiological Feedbacks, Oxygen, and the Evolution of Thermoacidophiles

    Speaker: Eric Boyd - Montana State University
    Host: Eric Roden/Trina McMahon
  • Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Precise Control of Microbial Proteome

    Speaker: Gene-Wei Li - MIT
    Host: Rick Gourse
  • Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Biochemical and Cellular Reconstitution of the CO2 Concentrating Mechanism

    Speaker: Dave Savage - University of California, Berkeley
    Host: Jade Wang