October
4
MSB 3.001
|
Joseph Dillard
(University of Wisconsin)
"Secretion and release of DNA and peptidoglycan fragments from
Neisseria gonorrhoeae" |
October 11
MSB 2.103 |
Jade Wang (Baylor College
of Medicine)
"Control of Elongation of DNA Replication in Bacillus subtilis" |
October 18
MSB 3.301
|
Christina Hull (Univeristy
of Wisconsin)
"Fungal Sexual Development, Infectious Particles, and the Host
Immune Response" |
October 25
MSB 2.103 |
Scott Landfear (Oregon
Health Sciences University)
"An essential role for glucose transporters in the life cycle
of Leishmania parasites" |
November 1
MSB 2.103
|
Oleg Igoshin (Rice University)
"Graded and bistable switches in bacterial development and stress
response" |
November 8
MSB 2.103
|
Petra Anne Levin
(Washington University)
"Sugar shock: A metabolic sensor controlling bacterial cell size" |
November 15
MSB 3.301 |
Faculty Colloquium-Heidi
Kaplan
TBA |
November 29
MSB 2.103 |
Susan Egan (University
of Kansas)
"Transcription activation b the AraC family transcription activators
RhaS and RhaR of E. coli" |
December
6
MSB 2.103 |
Eric Skaar
(Vanderbilt University)
"The battle for metal between Staphylococcus aureus
and its host" |
December 13
MSB 2.103 |
Vanessa Sperandio
(UT Southwestern Medical Center)
"Inter-kingdom signaling in bacterial pathogenesis"
|
December 20
MSB 3.301 |
Faculty Colloquium-
TBA |
January
10
MSB 2.103 |
Juan C. de la Torre (Scripps
Research Institute)
“Deconstructing the prototypic arenavirus LCMV: Implications
for understanding and combating acute and chronic viral infections
and associated diseases” |
January
17
MSB 3.301 |
Alison Criss (Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine)
“Subversion of host immune responses by Neisseria gonorrhoeae” |
January
24
MSB 2.103 |
Hung Ton-That (University
of Connecticut Health Center)
"Pili in gram-positive bacteria: Assembly, involvement in colonization,
and biofilm development." |
January
31
MSB 2.103 |
Sasha Shafikhani (University
of California at San Francisco)
"Pseudomonas aeruginosa and host cell interactions.
New insights into Pseudomonas pathogenesis and mammalian cell biology" |
February
7
MSB 2.103 |
Jess Leber (University
of California - Berkeley)
"Manipulation of innate immune signaling by Listeria monocytogenes" |
February
14
MSB 2.103 |
Lorena Navarro (UCSD
School of Medicine)
" Identification of a molecular target for the Yersinia
protein kinase A: Insights into the molecular mechanism of Yersinia
pathogenesis." |
February
21
MSB 3.301 |
Paul Brett (Rocky Mountain
Laboratories)
"Interactions of Burkholderia mallei with murine macrophages" |
February 28
MSB 2.103
|
Victor Torres (Vanderbilt
University)
"Staphylococcus aureus senses host environments to modulate
virulence" |
March 6
MSB 2.103 |
Richard Brennan (UT MD
Anderson Cancer Center)
“Structural mechanism of organic hydroperoxide induction of
the transcriptional regulator OhrR” |
March 13
MSB 2.103 |
Jaenette Kunz
(Baylor College of Medicine)
" PI4,5P2 signaling to the actin cytoskeleton: A yeast perspective" |
March 27
MSB 2.103 |
Maria Sandkvist (University
of Michigan)
"The ins and out of type II secretion" |
April 3
MSB 2.103 |
Tricia Serio (Brown University)
"Prion dynamics and protein-only inheritance" |
April 10
MSB 2.103 |
Beth Lazazzera (University
of California, Los Angeles)
"Formation of multicellular biofilms by Bacillus subtilis" |
April 17
MSB 3.301 |
Michael Caparon (Washington
University)
"The ExPortal of Streptococcus pyogenes" |
April 24
MSB 2.103 |
No seminar
MMG graduate program retreat |
May 8
MSB 2.103 |
Ursula Jakob (University
of Michigan)
"Redox regulation of protein activity" |
May 15
MSB 3.301 |
Hye-Jeong Yeo (University
of Houston)
"Towards structural mechanisms of secretion and virulence in
Gram-negative pathogens" |
May 22
MSB 2.103 |
Gabriela Bowden (Texas
A&M Health Science Center)
"The Panton Valentine Leukocidin is a virulence factor in S.
aureus necrotizing pneumonia" |
May 29
MSB 2.103 |
Kim Orth (UT Southwestern)
"Black death, black spot, black pearl: Tales of bacterial effectors" |
June 12
MSB 2.103 |
Jun Liu (UTHSC-Houston,
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
"A tale of two pathogens: HIV and Borrelia burgdorferi" |
June 26
MSB 2.103 |
Barrett Harvey (UTHSC-Houston,
Institute for Molecular Medicine)
"Passive protection from Enterococcal infection" |
