META Center Events
Monday, February 10th
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Adam Burns
Topic: “Candidate Talk for Human Microbiome Faculty Search”
EMU Crater Lake North, 4pm
January 31st, 2020
Journal Club
Speaker: Brandon Schlomann
“Deciphering the molecular logic of host-microbiota communication”
275 Onyx 3pm
Friday, January 24th
Journal Club
Speaker: Jarrod Smith
“Chlorate Specifically Targets Oxidant-Starved, Antibiotic-Tolerant Populations of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms”
275 Onyx 3pm
Monday, February 3rd
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Marco Jost
Topic: “Candidate Talk for Human Microbiome Faculty Search”
EMU Crater Lake North 4pm
Monday, January 27th
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Melanie Spero
Topic: “Candidate Talk for Human Microbiome Faculty Search”
EMU Crater Lake North 4pm
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
META Meetings
Monday, June 5
No Meta Meeting
Monday, May 22
Meta Meeting
Mike Pluth
“Chemical Tools for Detection and Delivery of Small-Molecule Reactive Sulfur Species”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, May 15
No Meta Meeting
We encourage members to attend the OVPRI Science Advisory Forum
Science Advisory Forum
EMU Gumwood Room, 3:30-5pm
Monday, May 8
No Meta Meeting – CANCELLED
Tiffani Jones
“Dysbiotic microbiota promote pathological proliferation in Drosophila”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, May 1
Meta Meeting
Nick Lowery
“Causes and consequences of phenotypic heterogeneity in microbial populations”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, April 24
Meta Meeting
Cathy Robinson
“Investigating the Selective Pressures of Bacterial Adaptation to the Vertebrate Gut”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, April 10
Meta Meeting
Annah Rolig
“Identifying functionally relevant members of complex microbial communities”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, April 3
No Meta Meeting
Monday, March 27
No Meta Meeting-Spring Break
Monday, March 20
Meta Meeting
Jennifer Hampton
Investigating the mechanism by which the microbiota induces beta cell proliferation in the zebrafish
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, March 6
Meta Meeting
Microbial Ecology Faculty Candidate Seminar
Kevin Kohl
Postdoctoral Scholar, Vanderbilt University, Bordenstein Lab
110 Fenton 4pm
Monday, February 27
Meta Meeting
Microbial Ecology Faculty Candidate Seminar
Kelly Wrighton
Asst. Professor, Ohio State University
110 Fenton 4pm
Journal Club
Friday, March 31
No Journal Club Meeting-Spring Break
Friday, March 24
No Journal Club Meeting
Friday, March 17
No Journal Club Meeting
Friday, March 3
Journal Club Meeting
Forde et al 2004
Schulte et al 2010
Bohannan & Lenski 2000
327 Pacific, 3pm
Friday, February 24
Journal Club Meeting
Giraud et al 2008
Koskiniemi et al 2013
Ebert 1998
327 Pacific, 3pm
Friday, February 17
Journal Club Meeting
Giraud et al. 2001
Barrosso-Batista et al 2014
327 Pacific, 3pm
Friday, February 3
Journal Club Meeting
Rainey et al. 2000
Rainey and Travisano 1998
327 Pacific, 3pm
Friday, January 27
Journal Club Meeting
Lenski and Travisano 1994
Lenski et al. 1991
327 Pacific, 3pm
Friday, November 18
No Journal Club Meeting
Bio-Inspired Design Conference
1:00-4:45 pm, EMU Gumwood Room
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