microbial sciences symposium

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Saturday, April 5, 2008
Science Center -Hall C
Harvard University Cambridge, MA
8:45 am - 5:00 pm

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schedule

Opening Remarks and Welcome 8:45-9:00

Session I  9:00-10:20

Kevin Foster
(Harvard Center for Genomics Research)
"Social evolution in microbes"

Greg Hurst
(University of Liverpool, UK)
"A brief guide to bacterial manipulators of insect reproduction"

Coffee Break 10:20-10:40
Session II - 10:40-12:00

Colleen Hansel
(Harvard School of Engineering and Applies Sciences)
"Expanding the Role of Microbes in the Mineralization of Metals"

Martin Polz 
(Mass. Institute of Technology)
"Bacterial Speciation by Ecological Specialization"

Lunch 12:00-2:00
Session III - 2:00-3:20

Adam Kuspa
(Baylor College of Medicine)
"Innate immunity and self-recognition in social amoeba"

Michael Starnbach
(Harvard Medical School)
"Inhibition of immune responses by bacterial pathogens"

Coffee Break 3:20-3:40
Session IV  3:40-5:00

Kit Pogliano
(Univ. of Calif San Diego)
"A sensor for membrane protein biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis

Howard Berg
(Harvard Molecular and Cellular Biology)
"Bacterial motility: probing E. coli with light"

 

Closing Remarks
Reception for the public in Science Center Lobby 5-7 pm

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