MMG Seminars 2009-2010
Outstanding scientists from around the world give seminars generally every Thursday at 4 pm in our department. Additionally, once a month, one of our faculty members will give a colloquium.
September
September 3 - MSB 2.103 | Jeff Brodsky (University of Pittsburgh)
"Molecular chaperones and protein conformational diseases"
September 10 - MSB 2.103 | Timothy Fothergill (UTHSC-Houston)
"SpaA and its importance in the formation of pili in C. diphtheriae"
September 17 - MSB 3.301 | Yi Xu(Texas A&M IBT)
"Interactions between B. anthracis and lung epithelium"
October
October 1 - MSB 2.103| Ransome van der Hoeven (UTHSC-Houston)
"Hormesis and aging in C. elegans"
October 8 - MSB 2.103 | Deborah Hogan (Dartmouth Medical School)
"Communication and Competition: The roles of reactive oxygen species in bacterial-fungal interactions"
October 15 - MSB 3.301 | Jeffrey Laney (Brown University)
"Phenotypic switching in yeast: a critical role for upiquitin-mediated remodeling"
October 22 - MSB 2.103 | Matthew Sachs (Texas A&M University)
"Gene regulation through the control of ribosome movement"
November
November 12 - MSB 2.103| Yasuko Rikihisa (Ohio State University)
"Type IV secretion system of obligatory intracellular bacteria"
November 19 - MSB 3.301| Richard Bennett (Brown University)
"The secret sex life of the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans"
December
December 3 - MSB 2.103| Swaine Chen (Washington University)
"Discovery of a second in vivo function for type 1 pili in urinary tract infection using positive selection analysis"
December 10 - MSB 2.103| Yousif Shamoo (Rice University)
"Adaptation and atoms: Can we determine a molecular basis for fitness?"
March
March 4 - MSB 2.103| Laura Segatori (Rice University)
"Chemical and biological approaches for the design of protein folding disease therapeutics"
March 18 - MSB 3.301| Kumaran Rmammurthi (National Institutes of Health)
"TBA"
March 25 - MSB 2.103| Peter Bauman (Stowers Institute)
"Telomerase biogenesis and function"
April
April 1 - MSB 2.103| C. Mark Ott (National Air and Space Administration-Johnson Space Center)
"Microbial risk assessment for the spaceflight environment"
April 15 - MSB 3.301| David Bates (Baylor College of medicine)
"TBA"
April 29 - MSB 2.103| Omonike Olaleye (Texas Southern University)
"TBA"
previous MMG Seminars series:
2008-2009
2007-2008
2006-2007 (pdf)
2005-2006 (pdf)
2004-2005 (pdf)
2003-2004 (pdf)
Our Affiliations
Our affiliates include the following:
HEADLINES
- MMG faculty member studies attack of the killer superbugs
- MMG faculty member yeast-based research provides key link to genetic explanation of liver failure
- MMG faculty member elected AAAS Fellow
- Hardy bacterium draws MMG researcher into Department of Energy Genome Sequencing Project
- MMG scientists challenge RNA quality control model
- MMG faculty member Mike Lorenz honored at young investigator luncheon
- MMG faculty member Danielle Garsin honored at young investigator luncheon
- MMG graduate student receives top research scholarship from graduate school
