Schedule

Microbiology Journal Club will meet on alternating Mondays from 9:10 - 10:00am in the Microbiology Conference room. This is right next to the Microbiology office on the 4th floor of Gardner Hall. These are informal events; BRING COFFEE!

Spring Semester 2010
Date	Speaker	Flyer	Slides	Paper (PDF and link to PubMed)
Apr 26	Samanthi Kottegoda			Brezna, Kweon, Stingley, Greeman, Khan, Polek, Jones & Cerniglia 2006 Molecular characterization of cytochrome P450 genes in the polycyclic hydrocarbon degrading Mycobacterium vanbaalenii PYR-1. Appl Microbiol Biotech 71:522
Apr 12	NONE SCHEDULED
Mar 29	Anna Tuttle			Jill Dewey, ... & Ry Young 2010 PNAS 107:2219-2223 Micron-scale holes terminate the phage infection cycle
Mar 15	Spring Break
Mar 1	Oscar Tirado-Acevedo			Vidgren, . . . & Londesborough 2009 AEM 75:2333-2345 Improved Fermentation Performance of a Lager Yeast after Repair of Its AGT1 Maltose and Maltotriose Transporter Genes
Feb 15	Ahmet Bozdag			Francez-Charlot ... & Vorholt 2009 PNAS 106:3467 Sigma factor mimicry involved in regulation of general stress response
Feb 3	Casey Theriot			Kaye, Gaugler & Sawlowicz PLOS ONE 3:E2808 Dinosaurian Soft Tissues Interpreted as Bacterial Biofilms
Fall Semester 2009
Date	Speaker	Flyer	Slides	Paper (PDF and link to PubMed)
Nov 30	Thanksgiving
Nov 16	Rushyannah Killens			Choi-Rhee & Cronan, 2003 JBC 278:30806 The Biotin Carboxylase-Biotin Carboxyl Carrier Protein Complex of Escherichia coli Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase
Nov 2	Denise Aslet			Peak, et al, 2007 Environ Microbiol 9:143 Abundance of six tetracycline resistance genes in wastewater lagoons at cattle feedlots with different antibiotic use strategies
Oct 19	Mike Traveirne			Wiethaus, et al., 2009 J. Bacteriol. 191:5205 Specific interactions between four molybdenum-binding proteins contribute to Mo-dependent gene regulation in Rhodobacter capsulatus.
Oct 5	Brian Troxell			Adil Anjem, Shery Varghese & James A Imlay 2009 Mol Microbiol 72:844 Manganese import is a key element of the OxyR response to hydrogen peroxide in Escherichia coli
Sept 21	Jim Brown			Noah Fierer, Micah Hamady, Christian Lauber & Rob Knight 2008 PNAS 105:1799 The influence of sex, handedness, & washing on the diversity of hand surface bacteria
Sept 7	Labor Day
Aug 24	N/A			Organizational meeting
Spring Semester 2009
Date	Speaker	Flyer	Slides	Paper (PDF and link to PubMed)
Apr 13	Ahmet Bozdag			Nguyen TT ... & H Antelmann 2009 Mol Microbiol 71:876 Genome-wide responses to carbonyl electrolytes in Bacillus subtilis
Mar 30	Jennifer Lonon POSTPONED			Berleman JE, Scott J, Chumley T & Kirby JR 2008 PNAS 105:17127 Predataxis behavior in Myxococcus xanthus
Mar 23	Weaver Haney			Baya Cherif-Zahar...& Giorgio Matasi 2007 J. Bacteriol. 189:9090-9100 Evolution and functional characterization of the RH50 gene from the ammonia-oxidizing bacterium Nitrosomonas europaea
Mar 16	CANCELED			Rescheduled for March 23rd
Mar 2	Spring Break
Feb 16	Kristen Belanger			Bernard La Scola, ... & Didier Raoult 2008 Nature 455:100-5 The virophage as a unique parasite of the giant mimivirus
Feb 2	Jim Brown			Johann Holzmann, ... & Walter Rosmanith 2008 Cell 135:462 RNase P without RNA: Identification and functional reconstitution of the human mitochodrial tRNA processing enzyme
Jan 19	MLK Day
Fall Semester 2008
Date	Speaker	Flyer	Slides	Paper (PDF and link to PubMed)
Nov 24	Jason Wilson			Caryn Hale,...& Michael Terns 2008 RNA 14:1-8 Prokaryotic silencing (psi)RNAs in Pyrococcus furiosus
Nov 10	Oscar Tirado-Acevedo			Valeria Wanke, et al., 2008 Mol Microbiol 69:277-285 Caffeine extends yeast lifespan by targeting TORC1
Oct 27	Brian Troxell			Patrizia Spitainy & Michael Thomm 2008 Mol Microbiol 67:958-970 A polymerase III-like reinitiation mechanism is operating in regulation of histone expression in Archaea.
Oct 13	Anna Tuttle			Shaevitz JW, Lee JY & Fletcher DA 2005 Cell 122:941-945 Spiroplasma swim by a processive change in body helicity
Sept 29	Casey Theriot			Remonsellez F, Orell A, Jerez CA.2006 Microbiology 152:59-66 Copper tolerance of the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus metallicus: possible role of polyphosphate metabolism.
Sept 15	Jim Brown			Raoult, Drancourt, et al. 2008 Nanobacteria are mineralo fetuin complexes. PLoS Pathog. 4:e41
Sept 1	Labor Day
Spring Semester 2008
Date	Speaker	Flyer	Slides	Paper (PDF and link to PubMed)
Apr 21	Denise Aslett			Genotyping, Orientalis-like Yersinia pestis, and Plague Pandemics Michel Drancourt, ..., & Didier Raoult, 2004, Emerging Infectious Diseases 10:1585-1592
Apr 7	Justin Bradshaw			Poxleitner MK, Carpenter ML, Mancuso JJ, Wang CR, Dawson SC & Cande WZ 2008 Science 319-1530 Evidence of karyogmy and exchange of genetic material in the binucleate intestinal parasite Giardia intestinalis
Mar 24	Drew Devine			McGarvey ... & Mitloehner 2007 Appl Env Microbiol 73:193-202 Bacterial Population Dynamics in Dairy Waste during Aerobic and Anaerobic Treatment and Subsequent Storage
Mar 10	Jae Lee			Food Microbiol. 2007 Jun;24(4):413-8. Epub 2006 May 12 Inhibitory activity of Thai condiments on pandemic strain of Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Feb 25	Rebecca Weingarten			Michael A. Kohanski, ... and James J. Collins 2007 Cell 130:797 A common mechanism of cellular death induced by bactericidal antibiotics
Feb 11	Dilan Weerakoon			Gil AI,..& Rita Colwell 2004 Environ Microbiol. 6:699 Occurrence and distribution of Vibrio Cholerae in the coastal environment of Peru
Jan 28	Youwen Pan			Lu TK & Collins JJ 2007 PNAS 104:11197 Dispersing biofilms with engineered enzymatic bacteriophage
Jan 14	Jim Brown			Julie Huber, ... & Mitch Sogin 2007 Science 318:97 Microbial population structures in the deep marine biosphere.
Fall Semester 2008
Date	Speaker	Flyer	Slides	Paper (PDF and link to PubMed)
Dec 3	Matt Evans			J. L. Royo et al. 2007 Nature Methods 4:937-942. In vivo gene regulation in Salmonella spp. by a salicylate-dependent control circuit.
Nov 19	Mike Traveirne w/ Brian Troxell			Space flight alters bacterial gene expression and virulence and reveals a role for global regulator Hfq. Wilson et al. (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Oct 9;104(41):16299-304. Epub 2007 Sep 27.)
Nov 5	Alice Lee			Ajai Vyas, et al., 2007. Behavioral changes induced by Toxoplasma infection of rodents are highly specific to aversion of cat odors. PNAS 104:6442
Oct 22	Trent Peacock			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)
Oct 8	Youwen Pan			Nishimura et al. 2007. Mutations in rsmG, encoding a 16S rRNA methyltransferase, result in low-level streptomycin resistance and antibiotic overproduction in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). J. Bacteriol. 189:3876-3883
Sept 24	Alan House w/ Denise Aslett			Sarah Stewart Johnson et al. 2007. Ancient bacteria show evidence of DNA repair. PNAS. 104:14401-14405
Sept 10	Jim Brown			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			Elke Saile & Theresa M Koehler 2002 J. Bacteriol. 184:370-80 Control of anthrax toxin gene expression by the transition state regulator abrB.
Apr 2	Bryan Troxell			Haibo Bai & A-Lien Lu Physical & functional interactions between Eschierichia coli MutY glycosylase & mismatch repair protein MutS
Mar 19	Denise Aslett			Stefania Meloni, et al., 2003 Mol. Microbiol. 48:1195-1207 The twin-arginine translocation (Tat) system is essential for Rhizobium-legume symbiosis
Mar 5	Spring Break
Feb 19	Oscar Tirado..Acevedo			JE González-Pastor EC Hobbs & R Losick 2003 Science 301: 510-513 Cannibalism by Sporulating Bacteria
Feb 5	Jim Brown			C Murgia, JK Pritchard, SY Kim, A Fassati & RA Weiss 2006 Cell 126:477-487 Clonal origin and evolution of a transmissible cancer
Jan 22	CANCELED			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			Gudelj, et al., 2001 Extremophiles 5:423 A catalase-peroxidase from a newly isolated thermoalkaliphilic Bacillus sp. with potential for the treatment of textile bleaching effluents.
Nov 13	Jonathan Trent (NASA-Ames)			Special Journal Club - 11:00am, Tox 2211 Protein folding in vivo veritas, or... Do you think proteins need chaperones?
Nov 6	Justin Bradshaw w/ Alice Lee			Maaty, et al., 2006 J. Virology 80:7625 Characterization of the archaeal thermophile Sulfolobus turreted icosahedral virus validates an evolutionary link among double-stranded DNA viruses from all domains of life.
Oct 23	Mikyoung Ji w/ Matt Evans			Medigue, et al. 2005 Genome Res. 15:1325-1335 Coping with cold: the genome of the versatile marine Antarctica bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125.
Oct 9	Drew Devine w/ Alan House			Mori K, Kim H, Kakegawa T, & Hanada S.2003 Extremophiles 7:283 A novel lineage of sulfate-reducing microorganisms: Thermodesulfobiaceae fam. nov., Thermodesulfobium narugense, gen. nov., sp. nov., a new thermophilic isolate from a hot spring.
Sept 25	Rebecca Weingarten			Sattley & Madigan 2006 Appl Env Microbiol 72:5562 Isolation, characterization, and ecology of cold-active, chemolithotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from perennially ice-covered Lake Fryxell, Antarctica.
Sept 11	Dilan Weerakoon			Kotteman 2005 Extremophiles 9:219 Physiological responses of the halophilic archaeon Halobacterium sp. strain NRC1 to desiccation and gamma irradiation.
Aug 28	Jim Brown			Steve Giovannoni, et al. 2005 Science 309:1242 Genome streamlining in a cosmopolitan oceanic bacterium.
Spring Semester 2006
Date	Speaker	Slide show		Paper
Apr 24	Alan House			Bäckhed F., et al. 2005. Science 307:1915-20. Host-bacterial mutualism in the human intestine.
Apr 10	Mike Taveirne			Partida-Martinez LP, Hertweck C. Nature. 2005 437:884-8. Pathogenic fungus harbours endosymbiotic bacteria for toxin production.
Mar 27	Alice Lee			T.G. Lilburn, et al, 2001 Science 292(2495-2498) Nitrogen Fixation by Symbiotic and Free living Spirochetes.
Mar 13	Youwen Pan			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			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			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
Fall Semester 2005
Date	Speaker	Slide show		Paper
Nov 22	Casey Theriot			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			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			Singh, P. K., et al. (2002) Nature 417, 552-5. A component of the innate immunity prevents bacterial biofilm development.
Oct 11	Denise Aslett			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			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			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			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		Cancelled
Apr 11	Dilan Weerakoon	Olson		Eppinger M, Baar C, Raddatz G, Huson DH, Schuster SC. Comparative analysis of four Campylobacterales. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2004 Nov;2(11):872-85.
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 (Want more details?)
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.