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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 | |
Download "MSI Chalktalk Guidelines for Speakers" (PDF)