Seminars Schedule

Seminar Schedule

FALL 2017 MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS SEMINAR SCHEDULE:

DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TITLE
Aug 21	No Seminar
Aug 28	Dr. Jason Kirksey	OSU - Vice President for Institutional Diversity	*Understanding Diversity*
Sept 4	University Holiday
Sept 11	Dr. Pascale Charest	University of Arizona - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry	*Investigating Signaling Mechanisms Controlling Directed Cell Migration*
Sept 18	Dr. Dennis Burns	Wichita State University - Department of Chemistry	*Designing a Targeting System for Bacterial Plasma Membranes: Liptins, A New Class of Antimicrobial Small Molecules that Bind to the Phosphatidylglycerol (PG) Head Group*
Sept 25	Dr. Herman Staats	Duke University School of Medicine - Department of Pathology	Optimization and Evaluation of Intranasal Immunization for HIV-1 Vaccines
Oct 2	Michelle King Jon Riggs	OSU - MMG	TBA
Oct 9	Dr. Piet de Boer	Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine	*Initiation of cell fission in E. coli*
Oct 16	Dr. Si Wu	OU - Chemistry and Biochemistry	TBA
Oct 23	Dr. Puni Jeyasingh	OSU - Integrative Biology	Ecological stoichiometry beyond Redfield: Understanding ionomes
Oct 30	Prakash Sah Radwa Hanafy	OSU - MMG	TBA
Nov 6	Dr. Brian Hedlund	UNLV - School of Life Sciences	TBA
Nov 13	Dr. Kendra Rumbaugh	Texas Tech Health Sciences Center - Department of Surgery	*Uncovering new treatment strategies for P. aeruginosa wound infections*
Nov 20	Dr. Noha Youssef	OSU - MMG	TBA
Nov 27	Anton Avramov Biraj Kayastha	OSU - MMG	TBA
Dec 4	Dr. Stephan Klähn	University of Frieburg - Department of Genetics & Experimental Bioinformatics	TBA

SPRING 2017 MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS SEMINAR SCHEDULE:

DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TITLE
Jan 23	Tanya Lowery, PhD	OSU	*I Didn't See Anything Or Did I?* (Safety Seminar)
Jan 31	Fares Najar, PhD	OU	*Sequencing Technologies & Bioinformatics*
Feb 6	Ibrahim Farag Jorge Lightfoot	OSU - Graduate Student OSU - Graduate Student	*Exploring the Ecological and Metabolic Diversities in Candidate Phylum "Latescibacteria"* Metabolically Engineering Aspergillus nidulans using RNA Interface
Feb 13	Justin Talley	OSU Associate Professor Entymology and Plant Pathology	*Fly Microbiome*
Feb 20	Javier Vilcaez Perez	OSU Assistant Professor Boone Pickens School of Geology	*Stimulation of Microbial Methanogenesis From Oil and CO2 in the Cushing Oil Field*
Feb 27	Gail Wilson	OSU Sarkeys Distinguished Professor Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management	*Harnessing Mycorrhizal Fungi For Grassland Restoration and Sustainable Agriculture*
March 6	Tracy Quan	OSU Associate Professor Boone Pickens School of Geology	*Microbially-Mediated Nitrogen Cycling: A Geological Perspective*
March 13	No Seminar	No Speaker	Spring Break
March 20	Rawan Elshy Sharmily Khanam	OSU - Graduate Student OSU - Graduate Student	*Stapylococcus aureus: Antibiotic Resistance & Internalization into Host Mammalian Cells* Calcium-Regulated Antibiotic Resistance in the Human Pathogen Psuedomonas aeruginosa
March 27	Brett Baker	UT Austin Assistant Professor Marine Science Institute	Metagenomics Explorations to New Branches on the Tree of Life
April 3	Carla Garzon	OSU Associate Professor Entomology and Plant Pathology	*Population Biology and Diagnostics of Cryptic Oomycetes*
April 10	Polly Campbell	OSU Assistant Professor Integrative Biology	Speciation in Mice
April 17	Glenn Zhang	OSU	Development of Alternatives to Antibiotics: Immune Modulation or Microbiome Manipulation
April 24	Michelle Visser	University of Buffalo Assistant Professor Department of Oral Biology; School of Dental Medicine	Oral Spirochetes and Neutrophils: Surviving Under the Radar in the Oral Cavity

FALL 2016 MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS SEMINAR SCHEDULE:

DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TITLE	About
Aug 29	Greg Hogan	Occupational Safety& Health Training Coordinator, Oklahoma State University	*Hazard Communication & Chemical Safety*	webpage
Sep 5	University Holiday
Sep 12	Jun Li	Asst. Professor, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma	*Tarageting Plasmodium invasion pathways with fungal metabolites blocks malaria translation*	webpage
Sep 19	Jean-Marie Verchot	Professor, Entomology and Plant Biology, Oklahoma State University	ER Stress and Virus Infection	webpage
Sep 26	No seminar


Oct 3	Shitao Li	Dept. of Physiological Sciences, Center for Veterinary and Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University	*Comparative Analysis of Influenza-Host Protein Interactomes Identify Common and Distinctive Immune Defense Strategies*	webpage
Oct 10	Barry L. Wanner	Visiting Scientist & Lecturer, Harvard Medical School	Design, Synthesis and Testing toward a 57-Codon Genome	webpage
Oct 17	Tracy Quan	Assoc. Professor, School of Geology, Oklahoma State University	CANCELED	webpage
Oct 24	Invitee for Faculty Search
Oct 31	Invitee for Faculty Search


Nov 7	John Morgan	School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University	*Metabolic flux analysis of photosynthetic organisms*	webpage
Nov 14	Invitee for Faculty Search
Nov 21	Babu Fathepure	Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics	MICROBES: TRANSFORMERS OF MATTER AND MATERIAL IN NATURE	webpage
Nov 28	Steve Hartson	Director, Recombinant DNA/Protein Core Facility, Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University	Proteomic Profiling of Drug Mechanisms	webpage


Dec 5	Juliana Artier Wouter Hoff	Ph.D. student, Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University	Structure-function studies of CO₂ uptake protein CupA of the NDH-1₃ complex in cyanobacteria Course-embedded authentic research on microbial diversity and genomics