Journal Club
Friday, February 11th 3pm via Zoom:
https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/96311155270
Human gut bacterial metabolism drives Th17 activation and colitis (link to paper below)
META Center Events
Journal Club
Friday, November 12th 3pm
Speaker: Caitlin Kowalski
“Anatomy promotes neutral coexistence of strains in the human skin microbiome“
Link to Talks
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Journal Club, Friday, Oct. 8th 3pm
Speaker: Mary Darby Jackson
“Commensal-related changes in the epidermal barrier function lead to alterations in the benzo[a]pyrene metabolite profile and its distribution in 3D skin”
Link to Journal
Onyx 275
Friday, June 4th 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Steph VanBeuge
“Effects of the gut microbiota on host behavior and homeostasis”
Link to Video
Link to Talks
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Friday, May 14th 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Laura Desban
“Social isolation modulates appetite and defensive behavior via a common oxytocinergic circuit in larval zebrafish”
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Link to Article
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Friday, May 7th 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Janelle Stevenson
“How reactions between seawater and the elements in ocean rocks enable chemosynthetic ecosystems to exist in the deep sea” and “How RNA stable isotope probing (SIP) was used to characterize the metabolically active autotrophic microbes”
Link to Video
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Monday, May 10th 4pm
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Laura Desban
Topic: “Role of microbiota in olfactory-driven social behavior”
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Meeting ID: 967 7877 5121
Password: 033947
Friday, April 30th 3 pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Arden Perkins
“Dr. Julia Huang titled: “H. pylori finds its home.”
Link to Presentation
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Monday, April 19th, 4pm
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Dani Konetski, OHSU
Topic: “Leveraging Linked Organ-on-a-Chip Technology to Investigate the Effect of Gut Microbiota on Development of Lethal Breast Cancer”
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Meeting ID: 967 7877 5121
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Friday, April 23rd, 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Michelle Massaquoi
“Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D., “Demystifying Medicine Series: Role of Microbiome in Nutrition, Inflammation and Cancer” (LHIM)”
Link to Bio
Link to Video
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Friday, March 12th 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Karen Guillemin
“The Internal, External and Extended Microbiomes of Hominins”
Link to Paper
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Monday, March 1st, 4pm
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Vivek Ramakrishna
Topic: “Dynamics of commensal gut bacterial colonization in larval zebrafish populations”
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Friday, March 5th @ 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Karen Adair
“On the evolutionary origins of host-microbe interactions”
Link to Paper
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Monday, February 22nd 4pm
Meta Meeting
Speaker: Joanne Yew, University of Hawaii
Topic: “Exploring the role of bacterial-fungal interactions in Hawaiian Drosophila physiology”
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Friday, February 5th 3pm
Journal Club
Speaker: Stephanie VanBeuge
“The Maternal Effect Gene Wds Controls Wolbachia Titer in Nasonia”
Link to Paper
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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