thursday evening seminars

complete schedule 07-08

One Thursday each month, 6:00 pm. Once a month we have guests give seminars, preceded by a wine and cheese reception. These Thursday seminars are also at the MSI offices within the Center for the Environment, unless otherwise specified below.

Date	Topic/Presenter
Sept 6	"Programmed Cell Death and the Multicellular Nature of Bacterial Populations" Hanna Engelberg-Kulka Dept of Molecular Biology Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School Jerusalem, Israel Hosts: Rich Losick and Roberto Kolter
Oct 11	"The Ecology of Arsenic (as summarized in ten 'M's): Murder, Mayhem, Mobilization in Malodorous Mono Muds, Mars, Microbes, and Minimal Methane" Ron Oremland United States Geological Survey (USGS) Menlo Park, CA Host: Roberto Kolter (HMS)
Nov 8	"Endophytic and Endolichenic Fungi: Clues to the Evolution of Fungal Symbioses" A. Elizabeth Arnold Division of Plant Pathology and Microbiology Department of Plant Sciences University of Arizona, Tucson AZ Host: Anne Pringle (OEB)
Wednesday Dec 12 at 4 pm	Origins of Life Initiative Forum (co-sponsored by MSI) 'Microbial Population Structure of the World's Oceans: An Underexplored "Rare Biosphere"' Mitchell Sogin Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole & Brown University Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Avenue Contact for seminar info: Carol Knell (cknell@cfa.harvard.edu)
Feb 14	"Genome dynamics and the evolution of bacterial pathogens" Julian Parkhill Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Cambridge, UK Host: Ashlee Earl (Kolter Lab, HMS)
Mar 13	“Tiny Cells, Global Impact: What Prochlorococcus can teach us about microbial systems ” Sallie W. Chisholm Director, The Earth Systems Initiative Massachusetts Institute of Technology Host: Chris Marx (OEB)
Apr 3	“Molecular and Intramolecular Isotopic Signatures of Life: from microbes to ancient rocks and meteorites” Katherine Freeman Dept of Geosciences Pennsylvania State University Hosts: Helen White and David Johnston (MSI Postdoc Fellows) LOCATION CHANGE! Sherman-Fairchild Bldg, Rm 102 -Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave on Harvard campus
May 8	"Daughter Cell Separation Anxiety and Other Tales of Envelope Distress" Thomas G. Bernhardt Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Harvard Medical School Host: Roberto Kolter (HMS)
May 14 4 pm	ORIGINS OF LIFE FORUM (co-sponsored by MSI) "Symbiogenesis and Gaia: Evolution of the Living Earth" Lynn Margulis University of Massachusetts-Amherst Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Avenue

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