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spring 08 friday breakfasts
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 unless otherwise specified below.
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| Date | Topic/Presenter |
|---|---|
| Feb 1 |
(Kolter Lab, Dept. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School) TOPIC: "The Surprising Microbial Diversity of Cystic Fibrosis Lung Infections" |
| Feb 8 |
(Dept. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School) TOPIC: “The Ecology of Cholera” |
Feb 15 |
(No chalktalk, day after MSI Thurs Evening Seminar) |
| Feb 22 |
(Mass General Hospital, Dept of Medicine) TOPIC: "Modeling mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis in yeast" |
| Feb 29 |
(Kolter Lab, Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School) |
| Mar 7 |
(Losick Lab, Molecular and Cellular Biology) TOPIC: "On the Initiation of Spore Coat Assembly"
|
| Mar 14 | (No chalktalk...day after MSI Thurs Evening Seminar) |
| Mar 21 |
(MSI Postdoctoral Fellow, OEB and HMS, Lory and Cavanaugh Lab) TOPIC: "The Methanoarchaea: Universal Concepts in Electron Transport" |
Mar 28 |
(No chalktalk...Harvard Spring Recess, March 22-30) |
| Apr 4 | (No chalktalk...day after MSI Thurs Evening Seminar and day before MSI Annual Symposium) |
| Apr 11 | Morten O. A. Sommer & Gautam Dantas TOPIC: “Fleming’s Nemeses: Bacteria Feasting on Antibiotics”
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| Apr 18 |
(Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard, HSPH Alumna) "Antibiotic Resistance in Massachusetts Bay"
|
| Apr 25 | Birgit Scharf (Berg Lab, MCB) Topic: "Sinorhizobium (nitrogen-fixing bacterium) motility and chemotaxis" |
| May 2 |
Topic: "Isotopic fractionation from microbes to humans" |
| May 9 | (No chalktalk, day after MSI Thurs Evening Seminar) |
| May 16 | Tentative: End of Year Review |
| May 23 | TBA (Harvard College Spring Exams) |
Past Friday Breakfast Talks