Tuesday/Thursday, 11:15 a.m., 201 Morrill Science Center IVN
Coordinator: James Holden, 577-1742
Surprises from the genome of Pelobacter carbinolicus
Muktak Aklujkar, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Microbiology, UMass Amherst
Development of a Fish TB Model: Mycobacterium marinum is Transmitted Amongst Fish by Ingestion
Don Ennis, Ph.D.
Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Host: Steve Sandler
Discovery of a Curable, Infectious-Asthma Phenotype
Wilmore Webley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology, UMass Amherst
Developing Cancer Therapies at the Interface of Engineering and Microbiology
Neil Forbes, Ph.
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, UMass Amherst
Activation of gamma delta T cells in responses to zoonotic bacterial infections (Leptospira and Mycobacterium)
Cynthia Baldwin, Ph.D.
Professor of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, UMass Amherst
Evidence and Detection of Microbial Life on Mars
Samuel Kounaves, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Tufts University
Host: Microbiology Graduate Student Group
An Ecological Perspective on Microbial Dormancy
Jay Lennon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University
Host: Klaus Nüsslein
DNA Repair in E. coli: from Genomes to Single Cells
Meriem El Karoui, Ph.D.
Visiting Scientist in Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Host: Steve Sandler