Microbial Sciences at Harvard

friday breakfasts | fall 2006

Date Topic/Presenter
Sept 22

"Some Theoretical Questions for Experimental Evolution"
Daniel Fisher
(Physics and Applied Physics
Harvard University)
Research Focus: evolutionary dynamics

Sept 29

"Natural and Unnatural Roles for Small Molecules"
Jon Clardy
(Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School)
Research Focus: Microbial Chemical Biology
Oct 6

”E. coli in Motion”
Howard Berg
(Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University)
Research Focus: Motility and Chemotaxis

Oct 13 (No chalktalk, post seminar)
Oct 20 "How Proteins Find Their Way – Mechanisms Of Protein Localization In Bacteria"
Marcia B. Goldberg
(Mass General Hospital)
Research Focus: Host-Pathogen Interactions
Oct 27

"Negative Feedback In Replication Control: Noise Suppression And Intracellular Selfishness"
Johan Paulsson
(Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School)
Research Focus: Modeling Gene Networks
Nov 3 "Bacterial natural product assembly lines"
Christopher T. Walsh
(Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School)
Research Focus: Enzymology
Nov 10 (No chalktalk, post seminar)
Nov 17

”Brainstorming Against Pathogens”
Prof. Laurence Rahme
(Dept of Surgery - Mass General Hospital
& Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Harvard Medical School)
Research Focus: Multi-Host Pathogenesis
Nov 24 (Thanksgiving holiday)
Dec 1

"Microbial Epistasis Network"
Roy Kishony
(Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School)
Research Focus: Microbial Epistasis Networks

Dec 8

'Encapsulating single cells and molecules in microfluidic devices
for high and low-throughput studies'
Drs. Amy Rowat and Jeremy Agresti (Weitz Laboratory)
(Dept Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University)
Research Focus: Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Physics
Dec 22 (Winter Holiday enterim)

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