Microbial Sciences at Harvard

friday breakfasts | spring 2006

Date Topic/Presenter
Feb 7 "On the functionality of microdiversity”
Roberto Kolter

Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Feb 24 “Life and death in a Petersham cemetery”
Anne Pringle

Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
Mar 3 "Experimental Evolution: Frankenbugs, Coping with Loneliness, and Getting More than We Expected"
Chris Marx

Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
Mar 10 "Methanotrophic Bacteria in Microbial Consortia:
What is Everyone Doing?
"
Meredith Fisher (Cavanaugh Laboratory)
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
Mar 17 "Methane production and oxidation in terrestrial environments"
Julie Shoemaker (Schrag Laboratory)
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
and Earth and Planetary Sciences
Mar 24 "Of Ancient Greek Pottery and Molecular Environmental Microbiology"
Dianne K. Newman
Professor of Geobiology
California Institute of Technology
Apr 7 "Cryptic Speciation in a Globally Distributed and (Apparently) Asexual Human Pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus"
Anne Pringle

Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
Apr 14 Drilling the ice cover of Lake Hoare in the McMurdo Dry Valleys "Living It Up in Cold, Dark Places"
Jill Mikucki
(Pearson Laboratory)
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Apr 21 "Microbial Biogeography - Where Do Phages Fit In?"
Kara O'Keefe

NSF Post-Doctoral Fellow
Yale University
(and Visting Scholar in
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University)
Apr 28 "Importance of Green Algae in the Ocean: Past and Present"
Robin Kodner (Knoll Laboratory)
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard University
May 5

"What do Geostable Compounds Do in Modern Bacteria?"
Tanja Bosak (Losick and Pearson Laboratories)
MSI Post-Doctoral Fellow
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard University

May 12 "Manganese Photosynthesis
Woody Fischer (Knoll Laboratory)
Earth and Planetary Sciences
May 19 "Signal Transduction Traffic Jams in Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
Steve Lory
Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Harvard Medical School

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