Seminar Series
Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
MMG Seminar Schedule
In the interest of the health and safety of all who may attend, seminars will be held remotely via WebEx or in a hybrid format (WebEx and in person). Please review each date and email communications for more details. Email invitations containing a WebEx link, when applicable, will be sent out on or before the week of each seminar. Please contact AlySha Jones if you have any questions or would like to be added to (or removed from) the MMG Seminar Series mailing list.
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Jianbin Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Cellular & Molecular Biology
University of Tennessee – Knoxville
“Programmed DNA elimination in nematodes”
10:30 AM
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Bibek GC, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
UTHealth Houston, McGovern Medical School
“Expanding the genetic toolkit for the Fusobacterium nucleatum to study polymicrobial interactions among oral microbiome”
10:30 AM
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Katherine Lemon, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
“Picking sides: interspecies interactions in the nose”
10:30 AM
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Arthur Günzl, PhD
Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences
University of Connecticut Health Center
“Polycistronic transcription and SL trans splicing in Trypanosomes: Hunting for extremely divergent gene expression factors”
10:30 AM
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Yiping Han, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Columbia University
“Fusobacterium nucleatum and host interactions in colorectal cancer”
10:30 AM
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Asma Hatoum, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Mechanisms of defense and counter-defense in the battle between bacteria and their viruses”
10:30 AM
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Christophe Herman, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
“Transcription Errors Drive Phenotypic Variability from E. coli to SARS-CoV-2“
10:30 AM
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Lanying Zeng, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Texas A&M University
“Single-Cell Studies of Phage Infection and Implications on Antimicrobial Strategies”
10:30 AM
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Carrie Shaffer, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
University of Kentucky
“Trans-kingdom conjugation – new insights into DNA transfer from H. pylori to humans”
10:30 AM
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Diana Morales, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Research in Obstetrics & Gynecology
Weill Cornell Medical College
“From Commensal to Pathogen: Untangling Surface Penetration by Enterococci”
10:30 AM
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Chelsie Armbruster, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of New York at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
“Polymicrobial interactions in the urinary tract: implications for infection severity”
10:30 AM