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.
Choanoflagellates and the origin of animal immunity
Speaker: Arielle Woznica - Faculty CandidateThis way out: Vibrio cholerae Dispersal from Biofilm Communities
Speaker: Drew Bridges - Faculty CandidateRepurposing ribosomes for understanding life and synthetic biology
Speaker: Antje Krüger - Faculty CandidateEvolution of a σ–(c-di-GMP)–anti-σ switch
Speaker: Kelley Gallagher - Faculty CandidateExploring the interplay between CRISPR-Cas systems and evolution
Speaker: Charlie Mo - Faculty CandidateEvolutionary origins of cGAS–STING innate immune signaling
Speaker: Ben Morehouse - Faculty CandidateA role for toxin-antitoxin systems in bacterial immunity to phage
Speaker: Michele LeRoux - Faculty CandidatePoint-of-Care Diagnostics for Animals and Humans
Speaker: Mohit Verma, PurdueCRAGE Enables Rapid Development of Synthetic Biology
Speaker: Yasuo Yoshikuni, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryMechanisms of molecular mimicry: Advances in understanding host cell invasion and reprogramming by the intracellular pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis
Speaker: Mary Weber, University of IowaMicrobes, Metals, and Nanowires
Speaker: Gemma Reguera, Michigan State UniversityPrimary Producers in the Precambrian
Speaker: Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo, University of BristolThe Quest for Precision Nutrition: Optimization of Response to Dietary Fiber Interventions
Speaker: Angela Poole, Cornell UniversityMicrobial Dark Matter: Implications for Biotechnology and Astrobiology
Speaker: Jennifer Glass, Georgia TechLife on the leaf: seasonal activities of the phyllosphere microbiome of perennial crops
Speaker: Ashley Shade, Michigan State UniversityYes, bacterial cells have organelles! How are they organized?
Speaker: Anthony Vecchiarelli, University of MichiganCan we predict changes in microbial communities?
Speaker: María Rebolleda-Gómez, University of California, Irvine36th Annual Kenneth B. Raper Symposium
The good, the bad, and the ugly of food microbial genomics
Speaker: John Gibbons, University of MassachusettsState of the Department
Speaker: Katrina Forest, UW-MadisonSPECIAL TENURE SEMINAR Advancing microbial and viral ecology frameworks for human and environmental microbiomes
Speaker: Karthik Anantharaman, UW-MadisonConnecting the biosphere and geosphere across subsurface landscapes
Speaker: Karen Lloyd, University of TennesseeDecoding root nodule symbiosis by manipulating rhizobial genomes
Speaker: Barney Geddes, North Dakota State UniversityMolecular mechanisms for opening a bacterial replication origin
Speaker: Heath Murray, Newcastle University, UKBioengineering beyond cells to enable a fair and sustainable 21st bio-century
Speaker: Michael Jewett, Northwestern UniversityGrowth and morphogenesis in diverse alphaproteobacteria
Speaker: Erin Goley, Johns HopkinsThe multitasking secrets of a ribosome-binding protein in Staphylococcus aureus
Speaker: M.-N. Frances Yap, Northwestern UniversitySterol synthesis and transport in the bacterial domain
Speaker: Paula Welander, Stanford UniversityWhat’s a Botulinum Neurotoxin?
Virulence Factor, Pathogen, Pharmaceutical
Untapped potential of fungal-based systems for water treatment and resource recovery
Speaker: Erika Espinosa-Ortiz, Montana State University
