2011-2012 friday chalk-talk breakfasts

Informal presentations by members of the MSI community that promote debate and discussion. Coffee and pastries will be served.
Day and Time: Fridays (during term), 8:30AM-9:30AM (not held on Fridays following an MSI Thursday evening seminar)
Location: Harvard Center for the Environment (HUCE) in Cambridge

 

Date Presenter Title Host
9/2/11 Michael Gilmore
(HMS-Opthalmology, Professor)
Multidrug Resistant Enterococci: What makes a good bug go bad? Colleen Cavanaugh
9/16/11 Tsuyoshi Uehara
(HMS-MI, Research Associate in T. Bernhardt's lab)
Shaping bacteria: peptidoglycan hydrolases tailor the wall David Rudner
9/23/11 Curtis Huttenhower
(HSPH-Biostatistics, Assistant Professor)
Functional metagenomics and the human microbiome Chris Marx
9/30/11 Arpita Bose
(FAS-OEB, Postdoctoral Fellow in P. Girguis's lab)
Bacteria pumping iron in the sun - Photoferrotrophy in Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 Peter Girguis
10/7/11 Ann Pearson
(FAS-EPS, Professor)
Progress towards whole community P-SIF (protein stable isotope fingerprinting) David Johnston
10/21/11 Emily Balskus
(FAS-CCB, Assistant Professor)
Discovering chemistry in the microbial world Colleen Cavanaugh
10/28/11 Veronica Kos
(HMS-Opthalmology, Postdoctoral Fellow in M. Gilmore's lab)
What do we know about hospital-acquired Staphylococcus aureus? Michael Gilmore
11/4/11 Christian Jogler
(HMS-MI, Postdoctoral Fellow in R. Kolter's lab)
Eating and being eaten - What bacterial cell biology can tell us about the evolution of eukaryotic cells Roberto Kolter
11/18/11 Wendy Garrett
(HSPH-IID/HMS-Medicine, Assistant Professor)
Colitogenic and beneficial gut microbiota in experimental colitis Katherine Lemon
1/27/12 Marcia Goldberg
(HMS-Medicine/MGH, HSPH-IID, Associate Professor)
Mechanisms involved in generating bacterial asymmetry Tom Bernhardt
2/17/12 Rachel Dutton
(FAS-Center for Systems Biology, Bauer Fellow )
Cheese microbial communities Andrew Murray
2/24/12 David Clarke
(SEAS, Professor)
Microbial harvesting of scarce
energy metals: How can we make this a reality?
Peter Girguis
3/2/12 Elizabeth Shank
(HMS-MI, Postdoctoral Fellow in R. Kolter's lab)
Chemical microbial ecology Hera Vlamakis
3/23/12 Jon Sanders
(FAS-OEB, Graduate Student in P. Girguis's and N. Pierce's labs)
From ants to whales: What's a normal gut microbiome, and how did it come to be? Peter Girguis
3/30/12 Mohammed Seyedsayamdost
(HMS-BCMP, Postdoctoral Fellow in J. Clardy's lab)
Microbial symbioses: Marine bacteria and microalgae Jon Clardy
4/6/12 Ariel Weinberger
(HMS-Opthalmology, Postdoctoral Fellow in M. Gilmore's lab)
Adaptive immunity: Why some microbes have it and others don't Michael Gilmore
4/20/12 Year End Breakfast Colleen Cavanaugh and Roberto Kolter

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