META Center Events
Friday, January 17th
Journal Club
Speaker: Julia Ngo
“Bioremediation of a Common Product of Food Processing by a Human Gut Bacterium”
275 Onyx 3pm
Monday, January 6th
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Arden Perkins
Topic: “Practice chalk-talk for faculty interview”
350 Willamette 4pm
Friday, December 6th
Journal Club
Speaker: Julia Ngo
“The composition of the gut microbiota shapes the colon mucus barriera”
275 Onyx 3pm
Monday, December 2nd
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Judith Eisen
Topic: “Feedback in the microbiota-gut-brain axis”
350 Willamette 4pm
Friday, November 22nd
Journal Club
Speaker: Kristi Hamilton
“Chitin-based barrier immunity and its loss predated mucus-colonization by indigenous gut microbiota”
275 Onyx 3pm
Wednesday, November 20th
Meta Meeting
Guest Speaker: Daniel Savson from Cornell University
Topic: “Relationship between sleep disturbance and the microbiome of zebrafish”
240D Willamette 4pm
Friday, November 15th
Journal Club
Speaker: Karen Adair
“Personalized Gut Mucosal Colonization Resistance to Empiric Probiotics Is Associated with Unique Host and Microbiome Features”
275 Onyx 3pm
Monday, November 11th
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Cathy Pohl Robinson
Topic: “SpdE, a novel bacterial protein, regulates host colonization”
350 Willamette 4pm
Friday, November 8th
Journal Club
Speaker: Lila Kaye
“Innate lymphoid cells regulate intestinal epithelial cell glycosylation”
275 Onyx 3pm
Monday, November 4th
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Joseph Bruckner
Topic: “Microbial modulation of neurodevelopment and behavior”
350 Willamette 4pm
Friday, November 1st
Journal Club
Speaker: Jarrod Smith
“The world of bacterial transcriptional regulation in response to mucins–the major glycoprotein component of mucus”
275 Onyx 3pm
Friday, October 25th
Journal Club
Speaker: Shola Aleru
“Colitogenic Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Antigens Access Host Immune Cells in a Sulfatase-Dependent Manner via Outer Membrane Vesicles”
275 Onyx 3pm
Monday, October 28th
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Matt Jemielita, Princeton University
Topic: “A quorum-sensing-controlled aggregative community formation program in Vibrio cholerae”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, October 21st
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Raghuveer Parthasarathy
Topic: “Possible Future Projects”
350 Willamette 4pm
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