META Center Events
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
Friday, April 12th
Journal Club
Speaker: Travis Egerton
“The gut microbiota of marine fish”
275 Onyx 3pm
Monday, April 15th
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Teddy Hay and Deepika Sundarraman
“Multi-species microbial interactions in larval zebrafish”
350 Willamette 4pm
Monday, April 1st
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Beth Miller
“Dispersal Ecology for the Microbiome: How the properties of the surrounding environment affect the composition and traits within the host microbiome”
350 Willamette 4pm
Friday, March 15th
Journal Club
Speaker: Stephanie VanBeuge
“Commensal microbiota-induced redox signaling activates proliferative signals in the intestinal stem cell microenvironment”
275 Onyx 3pm
Monday, March 11th
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Aura Raulo from Oxford University
“How touch defines our immunological essence- Transmission of endosymbiotic microbiota in social networks of mammalian hosts”
350 Willamette 4pm
Friday, March 8th
Journal Club
Speaker: Jarrett Lebov
“Genomes of a major nosocomial pathogen Enterococcus faecium are shaped by adaptive evolution of the chromosome and plasmidome”
275 Onyx 3pm
META Meetings
Monday, November 14
No META Meeting
Monday, November 7
Meta Meeting
Annah Rolig and Savannah Logan
“Type 6 secretion systems facilitate cross-species bacterial competition in zebrafish”
350 Willamette, 4pm
Monday, October 31
Meta Meeting
Jarrett Lebov
“Experimental adaptation of an environmental bacterium to the zebrafish digestive tract”
350 Willamette, 4pm
Monday, October 24
Meta Meeting
Sophie Sichel and Adam Burns
“Investigating the Etiology of a Transmissible Intestinal Cancer in Zebrafish”
350 Willamette, 4pm
Monday, October 10
No Meta Meeting
Consider attending UO Provost Search Open House
123 Pacific, 3:30-4:30pm
Monday, September 26
Meta Meeting
What I did over summer vacation
Brief highlights from conferences and workshops attended by members over the summer
350 Willamette, 4pm
Journal Club
Friday, April 8
Journal Club Meeting
Jennifer Hampton
Wen Review 2015
Peng et al 2014
Hu et al 2015
327 Pacific, 3pm
Friday, March 11
Journal Club Meeting
Ariel Royall
Norman et al 2014
Norman et al 2015
327 Pacific, 3pm
Friday, March 4
Journal Club Meeting
Ashley Bateman
Bordenstein etal 2015
Moran etal 2015
327 Pacific, 3pm
Friday, December 4
Journal Club Meeting
Jennifer Hampton
Baldridge et al 2015
Supporting Material
327 Pacific, 3pm
Friday, November 20
Journal Club Meeting
Leslie Leve, UO College of Education
Leve etal 2013
327 Pacific, 3pm
Seminars
Special Events