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2012-2013 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
Updated February 25, 2013
| Date | Presenter | Title | Host |
| 9/7/12 | Roberto Kolter (HMS-MIB, Professor) |
The chemical lives of microbes | Karen Lachmayr |
| 9/21/12 | Kiana Frank (FAS-MCB, PhD Candidate in P. Girguis's lab) |
Key factors influencing heterotrophic sulfate reduction rates at hydrothermal vents | Peter Girguis |
| 9/28/12 | Marina Besprozvannaya (FAS-MCB, PhD Candidate in B. Burton's lab) |
"I like to move it, move it..." The story of a directional DNA translocase | Briana Burton |
| 10/5/12 | Wiebke Mohr (FAS-EPS, Postdoctoral Fellow in A. Pearson's lab) |
Marine dinitrogen fixation revisited | Ann Pearson |
| 10/19/12 | Federico Capasso (SEAS, Professor) |
From quantum cascade lasers to flat lenses: New photonic probes for biology? | David Clarke |
| 10/26/12 | Nigel Delaney (FAS-OEB, PhD Candidate in C. Marx's lab) |
Adaptive dynamics of evolving bacterial populations | Chris Marx |
| 11/2/12 | David Nelson (FAS-Physics, Professor) |
Strand extension centers and bacterial elongation | Karine Gibbs |
| 11/16/12 | Liraz Chai (HMS-MIB, Postdoctoral Fellow in R. Kolter's lab) |
Protein aggregation through the amyloid state-from humans to bacteria | Roberto Kolter |
| 2/1/13 | Dan Fraenkel (HMS, Professor) |
The Ure phenotype | Roberto Kolter |
| 2/8/13 | Christine Beemelmanns (HMS-BCMP, Postdoctoral Fellow in J. Clardy's lab) |
Symbiotic and associated bacteria: Big players in evolution and rich sources of new natural compounds | Jon Clardy |
| 2/22/13 | Adam Cohen (FAS-CCB, Associate Professor) |
Microbial electrophysiology | Emily Balskus |
| 3/1/13 | Wil Leavitt (FAS-EPS, PhD Candidate in D. Johnston's lab) |
Time-machines and Transmogrifiers: Integrating geological and biochemical stable sulfur isotope records | David Johnston |
| 3/8/13 | Thomas Norman (FAS-MCB, PhD Candidate in R. Losick's and J. Paulsson's labs) |
Swimming and chaining: Spontaneous differentiation of Bacillus subtilis during steady state growth | Rich Losick |
| 3/29/13 | Michael Valentino (HMS-Ophthalmology, Postdoctoral Fellow in M. Gilmore's lab) |
Staphylococcus aureus fitness in physiological environments using TnSeq | Michael Gilmore |
| 4/5/13 | Eleftherios Mylonakis (HMS-Medicine, Associate Professor) |
Asking the worms for advice: Using C. elegans to study fungal pathogenesis | Katherine Lemon |
| 4/19/13 | Lia Cardarelli (FAS-MCB, Postdoctoral Fellow in K. Gibbs's lab) |
The self-identity complex of Proteus mirabilis | Karine Gibbs |
| 4/26/13 | Final Breakfast | NA | Colleen Cavanaugh and Roberto Kolter |
Download "MSI Chalktalk Guidelines for Speakers" (PDF)