Friday, February 19th 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Caitlin Kowalski
“The Maternal Effect Gene Wds Controls Wolbachia Titer in Nasonia”
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META Center Events
Friday, February 12th 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Laura Desban
“Experimental evolution makes microbes more cooperative with their local host genotype”
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Friday, January 15th, 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Janelle Stevenson
“Proximal colon–derived O-glycosylated mucus encapsulates and modulates the microbiota”
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Friday, January 22nd, 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Julia Ngo
“Trading amino acids at the aphid–Buchnera symbiotic interface”
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Monday, January 25th 4pm
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Kristi Hamilton
Topic: “The enteric nervous system maintains intestinal health by modulating the microbial habitat”
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Monday, December 14th via Zoom
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Karen Adair
Topic: “The zebrafish skin and gut microbiomes (and related projects)”
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Friday, November 13th 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Karen Guillemin
“Schistosoma mansoni Eggs Modulate the Timing of Granuloma Formation to Promote Transmission”
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Monday, November 16th 4pm
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Deepika Sundarraman
Topic: “Spatial and temporal structure of interacting gut bacterial communities”
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Friday, November 6th 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Julia Ngo and Steph VanBeuge
“Vibrio cholerae-Symbiont Interactions Inhibit Intestinal Repair in Drosophila”
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Monday, November 2nd, 4pm
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Jayson Paulose
Topic: “Patterns of genetic diversity under long-range dispersal”
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Friday, October 30th, 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Kristi Hamilton
“Co-infection of Malassezia sympodialis With Bacterial Pathobionts Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Staphylococcus aureus Leads to Distinct Sinonasal Inflammatory Responses in a Murine Acute Sinusitis Model”
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Friday, October 23rd 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Kristi Hamilton
“Enteroendocrine cells sense bacterial tryptophan catabolites to activate enteric and vagal neuronal pathways”
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Monday, October 19th 4pm
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Arden Perkins
Topic: “A bacterial inflammation sensor regulates c-di-GMP signaling, adhesion, and biofilm formation”
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Monday, October 12th, 4pm via Zoom
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Lauren Ponisio
Topic: “Flowers: The doorknobs of the bee world; Mass-flowering crops amplify wild bee parasitism in industrial agricultural”
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Friday, May 22nd via Zoom
Journal Club
Speaker: Laura Desban
“A Host-Produced Quorum-Sensing Autoinducer Controls a Phage Lysis-Lysogeny Decision”
META Meetings
Monday, March 19
Meta Meeting-Cancelled
Matt Barber
“Exploring adaptation at the bacterial-host cell interface”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, March 12
Meta Meeting
Jarrod Smith
Postdoctoral Candidate, Dartmouth College
“An old dog with new tricks: type 1-secreted biofilm adhesins with a periplasmic intermediate”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, February 26
Meta Meeting
Ellie Melancon, Elena Wall, and Kyleah Murphy
Operations of the Gnotobiology Room
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, January 22
Meta Meeting
Travis Wiles Practice Talk
“Dissecting the form and function of host–microbe relationships within the intestine”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, January 15
No Meta Meeting – MLK Holiday
Monday, January 8
No Meta Meeting
Journal Club
Friday, February 2
Journal Club
Karen Guillemin
Brito and Alm Review 2016
Nayfach etal Research Paper 2016
275 Onyx, 3pm
Friday, January 26
No Journal Club
Friday, December 8
No Journal Club – Winter Break
Friday, December 1
No Journal Club
Friday, November 17
Journal Club
Jessica Cothern and Claire Goodfellow
Tasoff et al 2015
327 Pacific, 3pm
Friday, October 27
Journal Club
Jarrett Lebov
Cira et al Preprint
Fisher and Mehta 2014
327 Pacific, 3pm
Seminars
Tuesday, May 13
Seminar – Streisinger Lecture
“How Do Zebrafish Decide to Develop as a Male or Female?”
John Postlethwait
Department of Biology, University of Oregon
100 Willamette Hall, 4-5pm
Tuesday, April 29
Seminar
“Programmed Cell Death and the Microbial Loop”
Monica Orellana
Institute for Systems Biology, University of Washington
110 Willamette Hall, noon
Tuesday, November 5
Seminar
“Genome-Enabled testing of the Evolutionary Arms Race in Plant-Mutualistic and Plant-Gram-Positive Pathogen Interactions”
Jeff Chang
Botany & Plant Pathology, Oregon State University
110 Willamette Hall, noon
Tuesday, June 4
Seminar
“Speciation, dispersal, and invasion patterns in microalgae”
Karin Rengefors
Lund University
110 Willamette, noon
Wednesday, May 29
Seminar
“Synapse Formation in the Zebrafish Mauthner Circuit”
Cecilia Moens
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Deschutes Hall, Colloquium Room, 11 am
Tuesday, May 28
Streisinger lecture
“Single Cell Analysis in Early Mammalian”
Janet Rossant
Senior Scientist and Chief of Research Lombard Chair in Paediatric Research Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children Departments of Molecular Genetics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto
100 Willamette Hall, 4 pm
Tuesday, May 7
Seminar
“Eukaryotes are microbes too: Environmental diversity and computational challenges for studying microscopic taxa with a nucleus”
Holy Bik
UC Davis
110 Willamette, noon
Tuesday, April 30
Seminar
“Microbial seed banks: ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy”
Jay Lennon
Indiana University
110 Willamette, noon
Tuesday, April 23
Seminar
“Vibro cholera Biofilms: Structural Components and Regulatory Networksâ€
Fitnat Yildiz
University of California, Santa Cruz
110 Willamette Hall, 4 pm
Tuesday, April 2
Seminar
“Mainlining the Hologenome Into Biology”
SETH BORDENSTEIN
Vanderbilt University
110 Willamette, noon
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Seminar
“New tools for exploring the human gut microbiomeâ€

Andrew Goodman
Microbiology, Yale University
110 Willamette Hall, noon
Special Events