| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
9/11 |
Kelly Hughes University of Utah |
Reducing the irreducible complexity of the bacterial flagellum |
Lory |
| 9/18 |
Laurie Comstock
Channing Lab, Harvard Medical School |
Extensive and regulated glycan synthesis by the intestinal Bacteroidales |
Starnbach |
| 9/25 |
Mauricio Montal
University of California at San Diego
|
Botulinum Neutotoxin: A Modular Nanomachine |
Collier
Co-Sponsored by NERCE |
| 10/2 |
Todd Yeates
UCLA |
Piecing together the structure of the carboxysome, a primitive bacterial
organelle |
Beckwith |
| 10/9 |
Yves Brun
Indiana University |
Spiderman vs Caulobacter: Developmental control of bacterial surface adhesion |
Bernhardt |
| 10/16 |
Ursula Jakob University of Michigan |
Oxidative Stress and Redox Regulation in Bacteria |
Beckwith |
| 10/23 |
Dan Kearns
Indiana University |
Regulation of Motility in Bacillus Subtilis: A Bistable Switch and a Flagellar Brake |
Rudner |
| 10/30 |
Jaisri Lingappa
University of Washington |
Virus assembly and restriction: from cell biology to therapeutics |
Evans |
| 11/6 |
Colleen Jonsson
Southern Research Institute |
Rational and High Throughput Screening Approaches for the Discovery of Antivirals for Highly Lethal RNA Viruses |
Yang
Co-Sponsored by NERCE |
| 11/13 |
Jaqueline Dudley
University of Texas at Austin |
Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus: A Model for Cancer and Infectious Disease |
Johnson |
| 11/20 |
Jimmy Ballard
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center |
Characterizing the Cellular and Systemic Effects of Intracellular Bacterial Toxins |
Higgins |
| 11/27 |
Victor Nizet
UCSD School of Medicine
|
Pathogen Subversion of Host Phagocyte Defenses |
Graduate Students
Co-Sponsored by NERCE |
| 12/4 |
Bob Landick
University of Wisconsin-Madison
|
Transcriptional regulation via allosteric control of RNA polymerase active site |
Hochschild |
| 12/11 |
Anura Rambukkana
The Rockefeller University
|
Bacterial-induced Reprogramming of Adult Tissue Cells to Stem Cell-like Cells |
Mekalanos |
| 12/18 |
Daniel Douek
NIAID/NIH |
HIV Disease Pathogenesis: Immune Activation, Microbes and a Leaky Gut |
Desrosiers |
2008 |
| 1/8 |
Tim Cover
Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
Structure and function of Helicobacter pylori VacA, a bacterial pore-forming toxin |
Starnbach |
| 1/15 |
Michael Gale
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
CANCELED
|
VIRAL TRIGGERING AND CONTROL OF INNATE IMMUNE DEFENSES |
Gehrke
Co-Sponsored by NERCE |
| 1/22 |
Tania Baker
MIT |
REMODELING PROTEINS AND THE PROTEOME BY AAA+ UNFOLDING MACHINES |
Hochschild |
| 1/29 |
Lora Hooper
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSES TO COMMENSAL BACTERIA AT THE GUT EPITHELIAL SURFACE |
Kasper
Co-Sponsored by NERCE |
| 2/5 |
Jeff Cox
UCSF, Mission Bal Campus |
Regulation of ESX-1 virulence factor export in Mycobacterium
tuberculosis |
Hung
Co-Sponsored by NERCE |
| 2/12 |
Walter Mothes
Yale University School of Medicine |
Retroviruses manipulate cell-cell contact for efficient cell-to-cell
transmission |
Nibert |
| 2/19 |
Jan Löwe Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Medical Research Council |
Structure and function of FtsK, a DNA motor |
Rudner |
| 2/26 |
Tony Pugsley
Institut Pasteur |
The secrets of bacterial secretion |
Lory |
| 3/4 |
Nahum Sonenberg
McGill University |
Translation control in cancer and innate immunity |
Whelan |
| 3/11 |
Paul Hergenrother
University of Illinois |
Controlling Bacterial and Cancer Cell Death with Small Molecules |
Walker
Co-Sponsored by NERCE |
| 3/18 |
Caroline Harwood
University of Washington |
Development of a model bacterial system for bio-hydrogen production |
Lory |
| 3/25 |
Skip Virgin
Washington University School of Medicine |
Autophagy Genes and Interferons: Mechanisms Controlling Chronic
Inflammation and Symbiotic Herpes Virus Infection |
Kieff
Co-Sponsored by NERCE |
| 4/1 |
Peter Palese
Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
The pathogenicity of pandemic influenza viruses |
Knipe
Co-Sponsored by NERCE |
| 4/8 |
Michael Rossman
Purdue University
CANCELED |
|
Mekalanos
Co-Sponsored by NERCE |
| 4/15 |
Andy Camilli
Tufts University |
Genetic analysis of the transmissible state of Vibrio cholerae |
Higgins
Co-Sponsored by NERCE |
| 4/22 |
Norman Pace
University of Colorado, Boulder |
Into the Natural Microbial World: From Hot Springs to Human Health |
Collier |
| 4/29 |
Brendan Bohannan
University of Oregon |
The Macroecology of Microorganisms |
Kolter |
| 5/6 |
Craig Roy
Yale University School of Medicine |
Manipulation of eukaryotic membrane transport pathways by
intracellular pathogens |
Collier
Co-Sponsored by NERCE |
| 5/13 |
Eva Harris
University of California, Berkeley |
Dengue Pathogenesis: From Mice to Humans |
Yang
Co-Sponsored by NERCE |
| 5/20 |
Heidi Goodrich-Blair
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Nematode life and insect death: How can one bacterium do it all? |
Graduate Students |
| 5/27 |
Jay Keasling
University of California, Berkeley |
Synthetic biology in pursuit of low-cost, effective, anti-malarial
drugs |
Rudner |