| Spring Semester 2008 |
Date |
Speaker |
Flyer |
Slides |
Paper (PDF and link to PubMed) |
| Apr 21 |
Denise Aslett |
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| Apr 7 |
Justin Bradshaw |
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| Mar 24 |
Drew Devine |
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| Mar 10 |
Jae Lee |
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| Feb 25 |
Rebecca Weingarten |
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| Feb 11 |
Dilan Weerakoon |
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| Jan 28 |
Youwen Pan |
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| Jan 14 |
Jim Brown |
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| Spring Semester 2008 |
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Flyer |
Slides |
Paper (PDF and link to PubMed) |
Dec 3 |
Matt Evans |
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Nov 19 |
Mike Traveirne
w/ Brian Troxell |
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Nov 5 |
Alice Lee |
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Oct 22 |
Trent Peacock |
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R. Randal Bollinger et al. Biofilms in the large bowel suggest an apparent function of the human vermiform appendix, Journal of Theoretical Biology (2007), doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.08.032 (not yet listed on PubMed) |
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Oct 8 |
Youwen Pan |
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Sept 24 |
Alan House
w/ Denise Aslett |
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Sept 10 |
Jim Brown |
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Organizational meeting - CANCELLED (Conference room not ready yet!) |
| Spring Semester 2007 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Flyer |
Slides |
Paper (PDF and link to PubMed) |
| Apr 16 |
Casey Theriot |
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| Apr 2 |
Bryan Troxell |
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| Mar 19 |
Denise Aslett |
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| Mar 5 |
Spring Break |
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| Feb 19 |
Oscar Tirado–Acevedo |
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| Feb 5 |
Jim Brown |
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| Jan 22 |
CANCELED |
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Cancelled due to bad weather - rescheduled for Feb 5 |
Fall Semester 2006 |
Date |
Speaker |
Flyer |
Slides |
Paper (PDF and link to PubMed) |
Nov 20 |
Jae Yun Lee
w/ Trent Peacock |
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Nov 13 |
Jonathan Trent
(NASA-Ames) |
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Special Journal Club - 11:00am, Tox 2211
Protein folding in vivo veritas, or... Do you think proteins need chaperones? |
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Nov 6 |
Justin Bradshaw
w/ Alice Lee |
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Oct 23 |
Mikyoung Ji
w/ Matt Evans
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Oct 9 |
Drew Devine
w/ Alan House |
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Sept 25 |
Rebecca Weingarten |
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Sept 11 |
Dilan Weerakoon |
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Aug 28 |
Jim Brown |
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| Spring Semester 2006 |
Date |
Speaker |
Slide show |
Paper |
Apr 24 |
Alan House |
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Bäckhed F., et al. 2005. Science 307:1915-20.
Host-bacterial mutualism in the human intestine. |
Apr 10 |
Mike Taveirne |
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Partida-Martinez LP, Hertweck C. Nature. 2005 437:884-8.
Pathogenic fungus harbours endosymbiotic bacteria for toxin production. |
Mar 27 |
Alice Lee |
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T.G. Lilburn, et al, 2001 Science 292(2495-2498)
Nitrogen Fixation by Symbiotic and Free living Spirochetes. |
Mar 13 |
Youwen Pan |
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Yip ES, Grublesky BT, Hussa, EA & Visick KL. 2005 Molecular Microbiology 57:1485-1498. A novel, conserved cluster of genes promotes symbiotic colonization and sigma54-dependent biofilm formation by Vibrio fischeri. |
Feb 27 |
Kim Glover |
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CURRIE CR, SCOTT JA, SUMMERBELL RC & MALLOCH D 1999 Fungus-growing ants use antibiotic-producing bacteria to control garden parasites. Nature 398, 701 - 704 |
Feb 13 |
Jim Brown |
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Goffredi SK, Waren A, Orphan VJ, Van Dover CL, Vrijenhoek RC. 2004. Appl Environ Microbiol. 70:3082-3090. Novel forms of structural integration between microbes and a hydrothermal vent gastropod from the Indian Ocean. |
Jan 30 |
CANCELLED |
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| Fall Semester 2005 |
Date |
Speaker |
Slide show |
Paper |
Nov 22 |
Casey Theriot |
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Kim K-S Rao NN, Fraley CD Kornberg A 2002 PNAS 99:7676
Inorganic polyphosphate is essential for long-term survival and virulence factors in Shigella and Salmonella spp. |
Nov 08 |
Cherilyn Garner |
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Nicole Lopanik Niels Lindquist Nancy Targett. 2004. Oecologia 139:131-139
Potent cytotoxins produced by a microbial symbiont protect host larvae from predation. |
Oct 25 |
Brian Troxler |
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Singh, P. K., et al. (2002) Nature 417, 552-5.
A component of the innate immunity prevents bacterial biofilm development. |
Oct 11 |
Denise Aslett |
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Jiggins FM, et al. 2000 J. Evol. Biol. 13:495
High-prevalence male-killing Wolbachia in the butterfly Acraea encedana. |
Sept 27 |
Oscar Tirado-Acevedo |
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Appl Environ Microbiol. 2004 Nov;70(11):6855-64.
Relationship of Vibrio species infection and elevated temperatures to yellow blotch/band disease in Caribbean corals. |
Sep 13 |
Jim Brown |
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A new phylum of Archaea represented by a nanosized hyperthermophilic symbiont. and
The genome of Nanoarchaeum equitans: insights into early evolution and derived parasitism. |
Aug 30 |
Jennifer Jones |
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Acinas, S.G. et al. (2004). J. Bacteriol. 186(9):2629-2635.
Divergence and redundancy of 16S rRNA sequences in genomes with multiple rrn operons. |
| Spring 2005 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Lab |
Paper |
| Apr 25 |
Jen Smith |
Hyman |
Acinas, S.G., Marcelino, L., Klepac-Ceraj, V., Polz, M.F. (2004). Divergence and redundancy of 16S rRNA sequences in genomes with multiple rrn operons. J. Bacteriol. 186(9):2629-2635. |
| Apr 11 |
Dilan Weerakoon |
Olson |
The title of the paper : "Comparative analysis of four Campylobacterales."
Authors : Eppinger M, Baar C, Raddatz G, Huson DH, Schuster SC.
Journal : Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2004 Nov;2(11):872-85.
PMID: 15494744 |
| Mar 28 |
Eric Miller |
Miller |
Butland, et al., 2005, Interaction network containing conserbed and essentiaal protein complexes in Escherichia coli. Nature 433:5331-537 |
| Mar 14 |
Kim Glover |
Hyman |
A survey of indigenous microbial hydrocarbon degradation genes in soils from Antarctica and Brazil. Can J Microbiol. 2004 May;50(5):323-33. |
| Feb 28 |
Trent Peacock |
Hassan |
Ventura M, et al., 2004 The prophages of Lactobacillus johnsonii NCC 533: omparative genomics and transcription analysis. Virology 320:229-242. |
| Feb 14 |
Alice Lee |
Grunden |
An integrated analysis of the genome of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi. |
| Jan 31 |
Jim Brown |
Brown |
Viollier, et al., 2004, Rapid and sequential movement of individual chromosomal loci to specific subcellular locations during bacterial DNA replication. PNAS 101:9257-62 |
| Fall 2004 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Lab |
Paper |
| Nov 10 |
Rebecca Weingarten |
Olson |
Wynand, et al., 2004, Regulog Analysis: detection of conserved regulatory networks across bacteria: application to Staphylococcus aureus, Genome Res., 14:1362-1373 |
| Oct 27 |
Eric Miller |
Miller |
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed&term=protelomerase
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| Oct 13 |
Matt Evans |
Hassan |
Doumith, et al., New aspects regarding evolution and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes revealed by comparative genomics and DNA arrays. Infect Immun. 2004, 72:1072-83. |
| Sept 29 |
Mike Hyman
Denise Aslett |
Hyman |
Chain, et al., Complete Genome Sequence of the Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacterium and Obligate Chemolithoautotroph Nitrosomonas europaea, J. Bacteriol., 2003,185, p. 2759-2773 |
| Sept 15 |
Xuelian Du |
Grunden |
Identification of an Na-Dependent Transporter Associated with Saxitoxin-Producing Strains of the Cyanobacterium Anabaena circinalis. 2004. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.70:4711-4719 |
| Sept 1 |
Jim Brown |
Brown |
Venter JC, et al., 2004, Environmental genome sequencing of the Sargasso Sea. Science 304:66-74. |