META Center Events
Monday, July 15th
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Clayton Carey
Topic: “Rapid diversification of the mammalian heat-stable enterotoxin receptor reveals an evolutionary battle for water”
350 Willamette 4pm
Friday, June 7th
Journal Club
Speaker: Jarrett Lebov
“Anti-Infective Effect of Adhesive Probiotic Lactobacillus in Fish is Correlated With Their Spatial Distribution in the Intestinal Tissue”
275 Onyx 3pm
Monday, June 10th
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Laura Taggart-Murphy
Topic: “Inflammation and disease in a fish intestinal parasitic infection”
350 Willamette 4pm
Friday, May 24th
Journal Club
Speaker: Clayton Small
“Microbial embryonal colonization during pipefish male pregnancy”
275 Onyx 3pm
Friday, May 17th
Journal Club
Speaker: Karen Adair
“Skin microbiome of coral reef fish is highly variable and driven by host phylogeny and diet”
275 Onyx 3pm
Monday, May 20th
Meta Meeting
Guest Speaker from OSU: Maude David
Topic: “Gut-brain axis: emerging roles of gut microbiome in Autism”
350 Willamette 4pm
Friday, May 10
Special Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Bethany Rader, Assist. Prof. of Microbiology
Southern Illinois University
Topic: “Squid and the microbiome, an unusual model system”
Onyx 275 3pm
Monday, May 13th
Meta Meeting
Guest Speakers from OSU: Keaton Stagaman & Tom Sharpton
Topic: “Gut feelings begin in childhood: how the gut metagenome links to early environment, care-giving, and behavior”
350 Willamette 4pm
Friday, May 3rd
Journal Club
Speaker: Cathy Robinson
“Discussion: Squid/Vibrio model system to investigate ecological considerations for symbiont host colonization”
Symbiont evolution during the free-living phase…
The model squid–vibrio symbiosis
275 Onyx 3pm
Monday, April 29th
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Karen Adair
Topic: “Community assembly of Drosophila microbiota”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, May 6th
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Mike Harms
Topic: “Evolution of binding specificity and pro-inflammatory activity in S100 proteins”
350 Willamette 4pm
Friday, April 26th
Journal Club
Speaker: Stephanie VanBeuge
“The biogeography of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) gut microbiome”
275 Onyx 3pm
Monday, April 22nd
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Emily-Clare Baker
Topic: “Primate variation in CEACAM1 and binding to H. Pylori”
350 Willamette 4pm
Friday, April 19th
Journal Club
Speaker: Brandon Schlomann
“K-Selection as Microbial Community Management Strategy”
275 Onyx 3pm
META Meetings
Monday, January 14
Student Seminar
Speaker: Michelle Massaquoi
“Investigating the role of bacterial protein BefA on host beta cell development”
275 Onyx 3:30pm
Monday, October 8th
Meta Meeting
Raghu Parthasarathy
PO1: Project 2 “Engineering Transmissible Health”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, October 1st
Meta Meeting
Brendan Bohannan
“PO1: Project 1 ‘Engineering Transmissible Health’”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, September 24th
Meta Meeting
Karen Guillemin
“Engineering Transmissible Health”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, June 11
Meta Meeting
Diana Christie
“The gut microbiome and social behavior of black and white colobus”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, June 4
No Meta Meeting
Monday, May 21
Meta Meeting
Maria Banuelos
“Investigating the role of quorum signal, Autoinducer-2, in structuring bacterial communities”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, May 14
Meta Meeting
Michelle Massequoi
“Investigating the role of microbial bio-molecules on host beta cell development”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, April 30
Meta Meeting
Arden Perkins
“Helicobacter pylori’s internal navigator: The surprising capability of a cytosolic chemoreceptor to sense extracellular reactive oxygen species.”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, April 23
No Meta Meeting
Monday, April 16
Meta Meeting
Nick Lowery
“Morphologically complex environments fundamentally alter dynamics and spatial distributions of ecological communities”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, April 9
Meta Meeting
Teddy Hay
“Pairwise and Multi-Species Interactions Among Larval Zebrafish Gut Microbiota”
350 Willamette 4pm
Journal Club
Friday, September 28
Journal Club
Heterogeneity in Response to Vaccinations and Probiotics
Speaker: TBD
275 Onyx, 3pm
Seminars
Tuesday, May 23
IE2 Seminar
Chris Marx
University of Idaho, Department of Biological Services, Center for Modeling Complex Interactions
“Novel induction of cell stasis to protect the cell from a toxic central metabolic intermediate”
110 Willamette Hall, 11-11:40am
Reception and discussion to follow in 327 Pacific Hall
Tuesday, May 2
Ie2 Seminar
Margaret McFall-Ngai
Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa
“Finding the right partner: The molecular, genetic, and ecological underpinnings of symbiosis onset”
110 Willamette Hall, 11-11:40am
Wednesday, April 26
Streisinger Lecture
Jonathan Weissman-UC San Francisco
“Controlling the volume of gene expression with CRISPRi and CRISPRa”
331 Klamath Hall, 2-3pm
Tuesday, April 25
Streisinger Lecture
Jennifer Doudna-UC Berkeley
“Rewriting the language of life: Impacts and challenges of DNA editing”
100 Willamette Hall, 4-5pm
Tuesday, September 27
IMB Seminar
Macrophage-dependent cytoplasmic transfer drives melanoma metastasis in vivo
Minna Roh-Johnson
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle WA
110 Willamette, 4pm
Tuesday, May 24
Keaton Stagaman Thesis Defense
Title: “Investigating the role of immunity and other selective pressures on the assembly of the gut microbiota in zebrafish and humans”
30 Pacific, 2pm
Tuesday, May 17
IE2 Seminar
Stephen Giovannoni, “Predicting Long-Term Impacts of Ocean Desertification on Microbial Plankton Communities”
Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University
110 Willamette, 1pm
Wednesday, March 2
Special Seminar
Dr. Daniel Schultz: “Rapid expression of transcription repressor is critical for early dynamics of antibiotic resistance”
350 Willamette, 4pm
Tuesday, February 16
IMB Seminar
Dr. Pamela Silver: “Designing Biological Systems for Health and Sustainability”
110 Willamette, 4pm
Tuesday, May 26
IMB Seminar
“Growth and Shape Control in Bacteria”
Tristan Ursell
University of Oregon, Department of Physics
Host: Karen Guillemin
110 Willamette, 4 pm
Monday, February 2
Special Seminar
“The right place at the right time: uncovering the mechanisms that lead to spatiotemporal structure and organization in the bacterial cell.”
Nathan J. Kuwada
Department of Physics and Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington
240D Willamette, 4 pm
Tuesday, January 20
IMB Seminar
“Metals and Immunity”
Elizabeth Nolan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry
Host: Vickie De Rose
110 Willamette Hall, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Friday, October 17
Seminar Fall 2014
“Structure, Function, and Inhibition of Bacterial Biofilms: Lessons from Small Molecules and a Big Magnet”
Lynette Cegelski, Stanford University
Cegelski Lab
331 Klamath Hall, 2:30-3:30 pm
Tuesday, October 14
Seminar Fall 2014
“Bacterial Adaptations to Life in the Stomach”
Nina Salama
Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center
110 Willamette Hall, 4-5 pm
Tuesday, May 20
Seminar
“Earthworm nephridial bacteria: diversity and host interactions”
Seana Davidson
University of Washington
331 Klamath Hall, 9:00-9:30am
Special Events