undergraduate research fellowship symposium

Friday, August 17, 2007

Harvard Univeristy Center for the Environment

8:30-9:00 – Welcome and Buffet breakfast

8:45 – Poster session (also at 11:45 am)

Kristi Fenstermacher (Pringle Lab)
 “Growth and Aging Studies in Fungal Communities”

Alan Baik (Cavanaugh Lab)
 “Population Genetics of Mutualistic Chemosynthetic Endosymbioses in Solemya velum”

9:00 – Introduction from MSI

9:05- 9:20 - Daniel Stolper (Girguis Lab)
            “Environmental Proteomics:  Developing Novel Protein Extraction Protocols in Order to Investigate the Metabolic Activity of Deep Sea Sedimentary Microbes”

9:20- 9:35  -Gordon Powers (Kolter Lab)
            “Induction of Genetic Competence in Bacillus subtilis 3610 by a Soil Isolate”

9:35- 9:50 - Sergio Mauricio Ramirez (Kleckner Lab)
            “A New Perspective on Plasmid Supercoiling”

9:50-10:05 - Sonam Sharma (Girguis Lab)
            “Examining the Microbial Diversity of a Cold Seep Chamber Fuel Cell”

10:05-10:20 - Break with Light Refreshments

10:20-10:35 - Lela Sims (Marx Lab)
            “Influence Of Environmental Factors on the Emergence of Cooperation and Coevolution in Defined, Multi-Species Microbial Consortia”

10:35-10:50 - Nicolae Done (Walker Lab)
            “Genetic Studies on the Regulation of Moenomycin A Biosynthesis in Streptomyces ghanaensis nsdA-disruption Mutants”

10:50-11:05 - Brandon Ross (Mitchell Lab)
            “Simple Methods for Early Detection of Microbial Deterioration”

11:05-11:20 – Shuyu Wang (Verdine Lab)
            “Capturing AlkA in Action: X-ray Crystallography of a DNA Repair Glycosylase with Unusually Broad Substrate Specificity”

11:20-11:35 - Alexa Weingarden (Girguis Lab)
            “Microbial Diversity at a Hydrothermal Vent”

11:45 – Closing Remarks

 *On Friday, Aug 24 at 9:00 am
Katie Rose Clapham(Losick Lab) will present

“A Role for a 26-Residue Protein in Morphological Coupling in Bacillus subtilis”

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