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MSU MMG Seminar Schedule

MMG Seminars for Fall 2009

All MMG seminars are at 4:10 P.M., TUESDAY, 1415 Biomedical Physical Sciences, unless noted otherwise.
Seminar Coordinators: ,

MMG Seminar Date MMG Seminar Topic Seminar Speaker Host
 Sep 8
 Expanding peptide signaling to pathogenic Streptococci: have their conversations gone unnoticed?  Mike Federle
 University of Illinois at Chicago

 Sep 15
How do vaccines protect?  Lessons from mousepox.
 Luis Sigal
 Fox-Chase Cancer Center
 
 Sep 22
Bacterial Symbionts of Marine Sponges:  Diversity and Roles.
 Russel Hill
 University of Maryland's Center for Marine Biotechnology
 
 Sep 29
     
 Oct 6
Unveiling the genetic changes underlying adaptations using high-throughput massively parallel sequencing.
 Corbin Jones
 University of North Carolina
 
 Oct 13
 Prospects for Renewable Chemical Building Block Molecules from Biomass  Bobby Bringi
 President and CEO, MBI
 
 Oct 20
A gene regulatory network that orchestrates innate versus adaptive immune cell fate  Chauncey Spooner
 University of Chicago
 
 Oct 27
Salmonella:  Life in the inflamed intestine.
 Andreas Baumler
 University of California Davis
 
 Nov 3
Pockets of nickels - metal transport and regulation in bacteria  Peter Chivers
 Washington University in St. Louis
 

*Nov 9 Monday
4:10
1425 BPS

 

Influence of the microbiome on pathogen transmission: Lessons learned from tsetse flies  Serap Aksoy
Head of Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University
Deputy Editor of PloS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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Joint Entomology and MMG
 Nov 10
Viral and Microbial Dynamics: Coral Reefs to the Cystic Fibrosis Lung  Forest Rohwer
San Diego State University
  Graduate Students

 Nov 17

*11:30 AM 1415 BPS

Mechanisms Underlying Translocations in Lymphoma  Frederick Alt
 Harvard University
 
 Nov 24
GATA factors in intestinal development and function
 Michele Battle
 Medical College of Wisconsin
 
 Dec 1
Bacterial production of hydrogen:  an energy source for the future?
 Carrie Harwood
 University of Washington
 
 Dec 8
Bacterial-fungal interactions:  Interspecies signaling and chemical warfare.
 Deborah Hogan
 Dartmouth

 Dec 15    David Roth
 New York University
 
 
     

 *Please note special location and time

 

MMG Seminars for Spring 2010

All MMG seminars are at 4:10 P.M., TUESDAY, 1415 Biomedical Physical Sciences, unless noted otherwise.
Seminar Coordinators: ,

MMG Seminar Date MMG Seminar Topic Seminar Speaker Host
 Jan 12
     
 Jan 19
   Gary Huffnagle
 University of Michigan
 Graduate Students
 Jan 26
   
 Feb 2
 Novelty and the evolution of developmental gene networks  Veronica Hinman
 Carnegie Mellon University
 
 Feb 9
     
 Feb 16      
 Feb 23
     
 Mar 2      
 Mar 9
 SPRING BREAK
   
 Mar 16
   Andy Camilli
 Tufts University
 Graduate Students
 Mar 23
   Jeff Murray  
 Mar 30
 

 Phil Tucker
 Univ. of Texas

 
 Apr 6
 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Biophysical Studies of HIV and Influenza Viral Fusion Proteins  David Weliky
 MSU
 
 Apr 13
   Kurt Frederick
 Ohio State University
 
 Apr 20
   Gary Dunny
 University of Minnesota
 
 Apr 27
   Zoe Cardon
 Marine Biological Laboratory
 Graduate Students
 May 4   FINALS WEEK
   

 *Please note special location and time


MMG Seminars for Fall 2010

All MMG seminars are at 4:10 P.M., TUESDAY, 1415 Biomedical Physical Sciences, unless noted otherwise.
Seminar Coordinators: TBA

MMG Seminar Date MMG Seminar Topic Seminar Speaker Host
 Sep 7
   
 
 Sep 14

 Lora Hooper
 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
 Graduate Students
 Sep 21

 KC Huang
 Stanford
 
 Sep 28
     
 Oct 5

 
 
 Oct 12
   
 
 Oct 19

 Charles Rice
 Rockefeller University

 
 Oct 26


 
 Nov 2

 
 
 Nov 9

 
  

 Nov 16


   
 Nov 23

 
 
 Nov 30

 
 
 Dec 7

 


     
 
     

 *Please note special location and time