Tuesday/Thursday, 11:30am, 222 Morrill Science Center II
Coordinator: Michelle Klingbeil, 577-1742
Microbial Conversion of Lignocellulose in the Anthropocene
Kristen DeAngelis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, UMass Microbiology
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 11:30am
Small Game Hunting
Ian Lipkin, M.D.
John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 11:30am
Host: Stephen Rich
Unearthing the Microbial Ecology of the Soil Carbon Cycle
Daniel Buckley, Ph.D.
Professor of Soil & Crop Sciences, Cornell University
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 11:30am
Host: Kristen DeAngelis
Probing Protein and mRNA Surveillance Mechanisms at the Ribosome
Wali Karzai, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Stony Brook University
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 - 11:30am
Host: Steve Sandler
The Microbial Ecology of Xenobiotic Metabolism
Libusha Kelly, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 - 11:30am
Host: Sloan Siegrist
From Artemisia annua to Plasmodium spp. to Mosquito Repellents
Stephen Duke, Ph.D.
Research Leader, US Department of Agriculture
Thursday, October 19, 2017 - 11:30am
Host: Stephen Rich
How the Ice Ages May Explain Contemporary Patterns of Bacterial Diversity and Geography
Cheryl Andam, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology Ecology, University of New Hampshire
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - 11:30am
Host: Steve Sandler
Control of Virulence and Anti-Virulence Factors in Francisella tularensis
Kathryn Ramsey, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston Children's Hospital
Thursday, November 2, 2017 - 11:30am
Host: Sloan Siegrist
How Chlamydia Causes Disease in the Female Genital Tract
Rebeccah Lijek, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - 11:30am
Host: Wilmore Webley
The Great Nuclear Escape: Mechanism of Membrane Budding During Nuclear Escape of Herpesviruses
Katya Heldwein, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - 11:30am
Host: Mandy Muller
Buried Alive: Life Beneath the Seafloor
Beth Orcutt, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - 11:30am
Host: James Holden
Department of Microbiology