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Microbiology Fall Seminar Series 2008
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Seminars will be at 11:00 a.m. in 404D Biological Sciences Building.

  Date Speaker Title Abstract Faculty Host
  August 28 Dr. Ynes R. Ortega
Center for Food Safety, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA
Resistance of parasites to disinfectants TBA Dr. Barny Whitman
  September 11 Dr. Alfred M. Spormann
Departments of Chemical Engineering, and of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Physiology and genome biology of Dehalococcoides TBA Dr. Jan Mrazek
  September 18

Dr. Chuanlun Zhang
SREL and Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Aiken, SC

Geomicrobiology of archaea from terrestrial hot springs TBA  Dr. Barny Whitman
  September 25 Dr. Kostas Konstantinidis
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Exploring and exploiting the units of microbial diversity with (meta-) genomics Kostas Konstantinidis Dr. Tim Hoover
  October 2 Dr. Lynn Zechiedrich
Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
TBA TBA  Dr. Anna Karls
  October 9 Dr. Lisa E. Goehler
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
TBA TBA Dr. Anne Summers
  October 16 Dr. Susan T. Lovett
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Encoded errors: frequent mutations and chromosomal rearrangements associated with DNA replication fork repair Susan Lovett Dr. Ellen Neidle
  October 23 Dr. Gwyn A. Beattie
Department of Plant Pathology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Investigations into phyllosphere ecology: How bacteria on plant leaves tolerate limited water availability, combat host defenses, and degrade organic air pollutants Gwyn Beattie Dr. Eric Stabb
  November 6 Dr. Karen Wassarman
Bacteriology Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
6S RNA: a regulator of transcription in E. coli Karen Wassarman Dr. Duncan Krause
  November 13 Dr. Paul S. Hoffman
University of Virginia Health Systems, Charlottesville, VA
Role of the RdxA nitroreductase in metronidazole resistance of Helicobacter pylori Paul Hoffman Dr. Rob Maier
  November 20 Dr. David Wu
Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
TBA TBA Dr. Joy Peterson
  December 4 Dr. John Glass
J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD
TBA TBA MGSA