META Center Events
Journal Club
Speaker: Julia Ngo
“Stepwise metamorphosis of the tubeworm Hydroides elegans is mediated by a bacterial inducer and MAPK signaling”
Article Here
275 Onyx 3pm
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Debra Wohl Elizabethtown College
“A Comparative Study of the Oral Microbiome of Amish and Non-Amish Individuals”
350 Willamette 4pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Cathy Robinson
“Dietary Fructose and Microbiota-Derived Short-Chain Fatty Acids Promote Bacteriophage Production in the Gut Symbiont Lactobacillus reuteri”
Article Here
275 Onyx 3pm
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg
“Design the UnSeen”
350 Willamette 4pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Michael DeSantis
“Quorum Sensing Attenuates Virulence in Sodalis praecaptivus”
Article Here
275 Onyx 3pm
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Maria Banuelos
“Investigating the role of AI-2 mediated aggregation in structuring bacterial communities”
350 Willamette 4pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Karen Guillemin
“Mechanisms Underlying Microbial-Mediated Changes in Social Behavior in Mouse Models of Autism Spectrum Disorder”
Article Here
“Why does the microbiome affect behaviour?”
Article Here
275 Onyx 3pm
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Taihei Fujimori, University of Tokyo
“Navigation rules at the single-cell level in the development of Dictyostelium discoideum”
350 Willamette 4pm
Seminar
Speaker: Scott F. Gilbert
“Holobiont Evo-Devo: The case of herbivory”
110 Willamette 4:00pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Brandon Schlomann
“The impact of early-life sub-therapeutic antibiotic treatment (STAT) on excessive weight is robust despite transfer of intestinal microbes”
Article Here
275 Onyx 3pm
Special Seminar
Speaker: Suresh Jesuthasan
“How bacteria enable altruism in their host”
Previous Paper
275 Onyx 3:00pm
Student Seminar
Speaker: Michelle Massaquoi
“Investigating the role of bacterial protein BefA on host beta cell development”
275 Onyx 3:30pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Stephanie VanBeuge
“Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont”
Article Here
275 Onyx 3pm
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Hannah Tavalire
“Genetic and environmental drivers of microbiome composition in related children separated by adoption at birth”
350 Willamette 4pm
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Christoph Geiz
“Exploring the Skin microbiota in zebrafish”
350 Willamette 4pm
META Meetings
Meta Meeting
Doug Turnbull
Genomics Core
350 Willamette, 4pm
Meta Meeting
Annah Rolig
Research Area II
350 Willamette, 4pm
No Meta Meeting
350 Willamette, 4pm
Meta Meeting
Michael Taormina
Live Imaging Core
350 Willamette, 4pm
Meta Meeting
Genevieve Metzger, visiting graduate student, University of Idaho
Title: “Biofilm growth and the evolution of plasmid persistence”
350 Willamette, 4pm
No Meta Meeting – Spring Break
Meta Meeting
Sarah Stednitz: Behavorial phenotypes of germ-free zebrafish
350 Willamette, 4pm
Meta Meeting
Tobias Rees: (guest faculty from McGill University)
350 Willamette, 4pm
Meta Meeting
Travis Wiles: “Genetic Engineering Strategies for Tracking and Controlling Bacterial Behavior in the Zebrafish Gut.”
350 Willamette, 4pm
Meta Meeting
MELISSA LIEBERT: “HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN AMAZONIAN ECUADOR: INSIGHTS FROM THE SHUAR HEALTH AND LIFE HISTORY PROJECT”
KEATON STAGAMAN: “INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF IMMUNITY, PARASITES, AND MARKET INTEGRATION ON AN INDIGENOUS ECUADORIAN POPULATION”
350 Willamette, 4pm
Meta Meeting
MARIA REBOLLEDA-GOMEZ: “CONSTRUCTING INDIVIDUALITY: ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS IN EXPERIMENTAL TRANSITIONS TO MULTICELLULARITY”
350 Willamette, 4pm
Meta Meeting
NELSON TING: “APPROACHES TO STUDYING THE PRIMATE MICROBIOME.”
350 Willamette, 4pm
Meta Meeting
Cathy Robinson: Adaptive Bacterial Evolution in the Vertebrate Gut
Ariel Royall: Dehosting of complex microbial communities
350 Willamette, 4pm
No Meta Meeting
Martin Luther King Day
350 Willamette, 4pm
Meta Meeting
Raghu Parthasarathy: Discussion on working with “conventional animals”
350 Willamette, 4pm
Journal Club
Journal Club Meeting
Brandon Schlomann
327 Pacific, 3pm
Journal Club Meeting
Robert Steury
327 Pacific, 3pm
Journal Club Meeting
Keaton Stagaman
327 Pacific, 3pm
Journal Club Meeting
Melissa Randel
327 Pacific, 3pm
Journal Club Meeting
Maria Banuelos
327 Pacific, 3pm
Journal Club Meeting
Ashley Bateman
327 Pacific, 3pm
Journal Club
Organizational Meeting
327 Pacific, 3pm
Journal Club
Will Resume Fall 2015
Journal Club Meeting
David Levin and Annah Rolig
327 Pacific, 3pm
Journal Club Meeting
Ashley Bateman
327 Pacific, 3pm
Journal Club Meeting
Melissa Hinman
327 Pacific, 3pm
Journal Club Meeting
Jarrett Lebov
327 Pacific, 3pm
Journal Club Meeting
Precious de Verteuil
327 Pacific, 3pm
Journal Club Meeting
Jennifer Hampton
327 Pacific, 3pm
Journal Club Meeting
Adam Burns
327 Pacific, 3pm
Seminars
Special Events