Microbial Sciences at Harvard

thursday evening seminars |

fall 06/spr 07

Date Topic/Presenter
Oct 12

"Interconnections Between the Biogeochemical Cycles of Cobalt and Vitamin B12"
Dr. Mak Saito
Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI)
Woods Hole, MA
Host: Prof. Ann Pearson (FAS: Earth and Planetary Sciences)

Nov 9

“Quantitative Subcellular Imaging of Nitrogen Fixation: First Glimpse of an Elusive Phenomenon”
Dr. Dan Distel

New England Biolabs & the Ocean Genome Legacy
Host: Colleen Cavanaugh (FAS: Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)

Dec 14

"The Puzzle of Uncultured Bacteria"
Prof. Kim Lewis
Professor of Biology & Director of the Antimicrobial Drug Discovery Center
Northeastern University
Host: Prof. Jon Clardy (BCMP at Harvard Medical School)

Mar. 8

"Species composition, structure and function of a cyanobacterial mat community inhabiting a Yellowstone hot spring"
Prof. Dave Ward

Montana State University-Bozeman
Hosts: Dr. Ashlee Earl (HMS, Kolter Lab) and Dr. Jill Mikucki (EPS, Pearson lab)

Apr. 12

“Magnetosomes: a model system for the study of organelle biology in bacteria”
Arash Komeili

Professor
University of California Berkeley (Dept of Plant and Microbiology)
Hosts: Dr. Vanja Klepac-Ceraj (HMS, Kolter Lab) and Dr. Tanja Bosak (EPS-MCB, Pearson and Losick labs)

May 10

JOINT MSI and PEGG Seminar
"Molecular Phylogenies, Genomics and the Microbial Species Concept" Margaret Riley
Professor of Biology
University of Massachusetts- Amherst

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