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Past friday breakfasts| spring 07
| Date | Topic/Presenter |
|---|---|
| Jan 26 | "Leech Symbiont and Mouse Pathogen, Aeromonas veronii, a Beneficial Microbe with a Dark Side" Joerg Graf Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of Connecticut Storrs |
| Feb 2 | “Microbial Problems of Planetary Importance” Dan Schrag Earth and Planetary Sciences Harvard University |
| Feb 16 | ”Metazoan influence on microbial processes: The biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon seeps” Erik Cordes (Girguis Laboratory) Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University |
| Feb 23 | "Chromosome Motion and Position in Escherichia coli" Nancy Kleckner Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University Research Focus: Behavior of chromosomes in bacteria and yeast |
| Mar 2 | "C. elegans olfactory learning on pathogenic bacteria" Yun Zhang Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University Research Focus: Chemical signaling between C. elegans and bacteria |
| Mar 9 | No Chalktalk: (day after MSI Thurs Evening Seminar Series) |
| Mar 16 | "Striking a Balance between Teaching and Research at a 4-year College" Amy Cheng Vollmer Professor of Biology Swarthmore College Research Focus: Bacterial Stress Response and Microbiology Education Hosts: Colleen Cavanaugh and Irene Newton (OEB) |
| Mar 23 | "Regulation of cytolysin toxin by Enterococcus faecalis" Shonna McBride (Gilmore Laboratory) Ophthalmology Dept. Schepens Eye Research Institute Harvard University Research Focus: Evolution of Virulence in Entercoccus faecalis |
| Apr 6 | "Mineral Associated Biofilms and Bacterial Diversity" Chris McNamara (Mitchell Laboratory) Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University |
| Apr 13 | "Bacterial Nanowires: Is the Microbial World Hardwired?" Yuri Gorby J. Craig Venter Institute Rockville, MD Host: Prof. Colleen Hansel (SEAS) |
| Apr 20 | "Computational representation of the E.coli regulatory network" Julio Collado Roberto F. Kennedy Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Medical School Center for Genomic Sciences Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Cuernavaca, Mexico Host: Roberto Kolter (HMS) |
| Apr 27 | "Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria: Microbial Methylmercury Polluters" Eileen Ekstrom (Hansel Laboratory) Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University |
| May 4 | "Microbial Biogeography" Celeste Peterson (Kolter and Pringle Laboratories) MSI Postdoctoral Fellow Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (FAS) & Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (HMS) Harvard University |
| May 11 | No Chalktalk (Post MSI Thurs Evening Seminar) |
| May 18 | “Sociobiology for microbes (and those that study them)” Kevin Foster FAS Center for Systems Biology Bauer Laboratories Harvard University Research Focus: Microbes And The Genetics Of Sociality |
| May 25 | Year End Breakfast and Review of MSI |