Microbiology 799 Seminar Schedule

Autumn Quarter 2007

Weds at 4:30 p.m. in Room 111 Parks Hall

Sept. 19: Anirban Mahapatra, OSU Microbiology (Ph.D. dissertation seminar).

Translation of UAG as pyrrolysine: ligation of a natural, genetically-encoded amino acid to its cognate tRNA in vitro and in vivo.

Host: Joe Krzycki

Sept. 26: John Helmann, PhD, Cornell University,

Mechanisms of Peroxide-sensing in Bacteria: Bacillus subtilis PerR and OhrR

Host: Kurt Fredrick

Oct. 3: Michael Otto, PhD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Molecular basis of virulence in community-associated MRSA

Host: Hua Wang

Oct. 10: Juan Alfonzo, PhD, OSU Microbiology

Editing and import of tRNA: playing tricks on the decoding machinery

Host: John Reeve

Oct. 17: Stephen Abedon, PhD, OSU Microbiology

Bacteriophage Ecology and Growth Optimization

Host: Joe Krzycki

Oct. 24:

Oct. 31: Robert Quivey, PhD, University of Rochester Medical Center

Dropping acid: how Streptococcus mutans lowers environmental pH and lives to tell about it.

Host: Bob Tabita

Nov. 7: Jitesh Soares, OSU Microbiology (Ph.D. dissertation seminar)

Methanogenesis: expanding genetic codes and reducing metals.

Host: Joe Krzycki

Nov. 14 : Philip Scott, University of Pennsylvania

Central Memory T cells in a Chronic Disease: Studies with Leishmania major

Host: Abhay Satoskar

Nov. 28: Charles Carter, University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill

The Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Class Distinction: Coding, Complementarity, and Catalysis

Host: Mike Ibba

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