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Microbiology Spring Seminar Series 2009
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Spring Seminars

Seminars will be at 11:00 a.m. in 404D Biological Sciences Building.

  Date Speaker Title Abstract Faculty Host
  January 15

FACULTY RECRUITMENT

     
 

January 23

(please note seminar is on Friday)

Dr. Lynn Zechiedrich
Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Considering the patient and the microbe: Fluoroquinolone and multidrug resistance in clinical isolates of E. coli

TBA Dr. Anna Karls
  January 29 FACULTY RECRUITMENT      
 

February 9

(please note seminar is on Monday in the Coverdale bld. room S175)

Dr. Vincent Starai
Department of Biochemistry
Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, NH
Regulating eukaryotic intracellular membrane
fusion: Maintaining integrity and fusion specificity
TBA  
  February 12 Dr. Mollie W. Jewett
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID/NIH
Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens
Hamilton, MT
Determination of the genetic basis for /Borrelia burgdorferi/
survival throughout its infectious cycle
TBA  
 

February 16

(please note seminar is on Monday in the Auditorium H237 Vet. Med. Building)

 

Dr. Joseph Dillard
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health
Madison, Wisconsin

The gonococcal type IV secretion system secretes
chromosomal DNA and affects host cell interactions

TBA  
  February 26

Dr. Ichiro Matsumura
Department of Biochemistry
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

Artificial evolution of genes and genomes

Ichiro Matsumura

Dr. Ellen Neidle
  March 5

Dr. Jason Locklin
Department of Chemistry
University of Georgia


Using Polymer Brushes to Create “Smart” Interfaces: From Antimicrobials to Microfluidics TBA Dr. Tim Hoover
  March 19

Dr. John Helmann
Cornell University
Department of Microbiology
Ithaca, NY

Oxidative Stress Responses in Bacillus subtilis

John Helmann Dr. Larry Shimkets
  March 26

Dr. Ford Doolittle
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada

On the Origin of (Prokaryotic) Species

Ford Doolittle Dr. Barny Whitman
  April 2

Dr. Jonathan Frye
USDA, ARS, SAA
Athens, GA


Salmonella enterica genomics and antimicrobial resistance

TBA Dr. Tim Hoover
  April 9

Dr. Ed Swords
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Winston-Salem, NC

Host-pathogen interface in chronic airway infections Ed Swords Dr. Eric Stabb
  April 16

Dr. Sonia Altizer
Odum School of Ecology
University of Georgia

Timing, toxins and transmission:  infection and immunity in a migratory
butterfly host
TBA Dr. Duncan Krause
  April 23 Dr. Stuart Thompson
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, GA

Post-transcriptional regulation of virulence in Campylobacter jejuni

Stuart Thompson Dr. Duncan Krause
  April 30

Dr. Bill Shafer
Emory University School of Medicine
Microbiology and Immunology
Atlanta, GA

Bacterial Efflux Pumps: Linking Antibiotic Resistance and Pathogenicity

Bill Shafer Dr. Anna Karls
  May 7

Dr. Mary Hondalus
Department of Infectious Diseases
University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

Pathogenesis of the Facultative Intracellular Actinomycete /Rhodococcus equi
TBA Dr. Duncan Krause