all friday breakfasts - fall 2007

Fridays, 8:30-9:30 AM.  Informal “chalk talk” presentations by members of the MSI community, with lots of opportunity for discussion. Coffee and pastries will be served. At the MSI offices within the Center for the Environment at Harvard University in Cambridge.

 

Date	Topic/Presenter
Sept 14	Richard Losick (MCB) "Stochasticity and cell fate"
Sept 21	Floyd Dewhirst (HDS) "Diversity of the Human Oral Microbiome"
Sept 28	Rachel Dutton (Beckwith Lab, HMS) "Diversity in the redox biology of the bacterial exportome"
Oct 5	Lauren Junker (Clardy Lab, HMS -BCMP) “Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Development”
Oct 19	Mike Feldgarden (Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics & Tufts University) "The Resistance Problem Doesn't Start at the Hospital Door: Commensals, Population Biology, and Surveillance" Faculty Sponsor: Chris Marx (OEB)
Oct 26	Gautam Dantas & Morten O. A. Sommer (Church Lab, HMS/MGH) “Harnessing Environmental Diversity for Improving Microbial Biofuel Production”
Nov 2	Alan Saghatelian (CCB) “Small Molecule Discovery Using Mass Spectrometry”
Nov 16	Ron Milo (Systems Biology, HMS) "Energy optimization and the design of photosynthesis”
Nov 23	No chalktalk (Thanksgiving Break)
Nov 30	Helen White (MSI Postdoctoral Fellow, Girguis Lab, OEB) "Insights into the Ecology of Environmental Microbial Fuel Cells"
Dec 7	Woody Hastings (MCB) “Genes, Proteins and Organelles Responsible for Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence"
Dec 14	"Germ Stories, GASPing and Microfluidics" Roberto Kolter (HMS)
	Winter Recess (MSI Chalktalks start back on Fri, Jan 25, 2008!)

 

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