SPRING 2008

       

DATE

SPEAKER

LAB

TITLE

 

Feb. 25     Center for Microbial Pathogenesis Faculty Meeting
       
Mar. 10     CANCELLED
       
Mar. 24

Beth Lowe

 

Dept. of Immunology & Microbiology,   Wayne State Univ. School of Medicine

Analysis of the polysaccharide capsule of the systemic pathogen Streptococcus iniae and its implications in virulence

 
       
Apr. 7 Martha Mulks Mulks, Marsh, Kiupel collaboration

Microbial ecology of the porcine respiartory tract

       
Apr 21 Debbie Yoder Tiedje The identification of genes involved in niche response in the human pathogen Burkholderia cenocepacia using Solexa sequencing
MMMMmMay May 5ay 5      
May 5      
May 5      
May 19

 

  

       
Jun 2 Steve Cendrowski Cendrowski Bacillus anthracis iron regulation
       
Jun 16   D. Arvidson  
       
Jun 30      
       

FALL 2007

       

DATE

SPEAKER

LAB

TITLE

 

Oct. 8 Mahdi Saeed   Foodborne pathogens
       
Oct. 22 Bill Wedemeyer  

Biophysical, cellular and computational studies of type II and type III secretion
       
Nov. 5 David Stepien D. Arvidson Dominant negative Pseudomonas syringae HrpA mutants with changes of amino acid residues critical to Hrp pilus assembly and function in type III secretion
       
Nov. 17      
       
Dec. 3 Terry Marsh  

Microbial communities of the vaginal tract: is there an archetypal community?
       
Dec. 17  

Special Seminar: Write Winning Grants

Presented by David Morrison of Grant Writers' Seminars and Workshops, LLC

Co-sponsored by The Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station and the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis

       
Dec. 18

 

 

Special Workshop: Write Winning Revisions

Presented by David Morrison of Grant Writers' Seminars and Workshops, LLC

Co-sponsored by the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and the Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

       
 

 

  

       
       

SPRING 2007

       

DATE

SPEAKER

LAB

TITLE

 

Jan. 15 Lixin Zhang Special CMP seminar Library on a slide: Bacterial strain microarray for population level study
       
Jan. 29 Dalen Agnew Agnew

Modeling the Host Response to Tritrichomonas foetus:
Trichs of the Trade.
       
Feb. 12 Alicia Cotey V. Young Cytolethal Distending Toxin and the Host Immune Response.
       
Feb. 26 Julie Funk Funk Preharvest Food Safety: A Search for What to Measure and Practical Interventions
       
Mar. 12    

Executive Committee Meeting

       
Mar. 26   Center for Microbial Pathogenesis Annual Research Forum
       
April 9

Frank Dazzo & Deena Nasr

Dazzo Perturbations in Microbial Community Structure Associated with Bacterial Vaginosis Measured by CMEIAS Computer-Assisted Microscopy & Image Analysis
       
Aprl 23

 

 Mansfield

Modulation of intestinal inflammation

       
May 7 Adam Nelson Whittam  
       
May 21     ASM Annual Meeting, Toronto
       

June 4

Dodd Sledge & Matti Kiupel

Kiupel

 

 

FALL 2006

DATE

SPEAKER

LAB

TITLE

 

Sep. 11 Chris Chang Special seminar Host-pathogen interactions and inflammation in the gut: murine models of Campylobacter jejuni infection
       
Sep. 25 Hilary Phelps C. Arvidson

Characterization of Streptococcus pyogenes factors required for host-pathogen interactions

       
Oct. 9 A. Amalfitano Amalfitano In vitro and in vivo investigations of the innate immune responses elicited by viruses
       
Oct. 23 Dave Wilson Linz Campylobacter jejuni colonization dynamics in Ross 308 broiler chickens
       
Nov. 6 Steve Cendrowski Cendrowski Anthrax and iron
       
Nov. 20 Teresa Bergholz Whittam Survival of E. coli O157:H7 in food and the gastric environment
       
Dec.4

Yong-Hui Zheng

Zheng APOBEC3 Machinery: the hero in defending HIV-1 infection
       
 

 

       
       

 


 

SPRING 2006

DATE

SPEAKER

LAB

TITLE

 

Jan. 16 Burkholderia project members Mulks
Sundin
Marsh
Ciche 		Host specificity of Burkholderia cepacia
       
Jan. 30 Trevor Wagner Mulks

Identification and regulation of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae in vivo induced genes that respond to branched-chain amino acid limitation
       
Feb. 13     Center for Microbial Pathogenesis Research Forum
       
Feb. 27     Center for Microbial Pathogenesis Faculty Meeting
       
Mar. 13 Todd Ciche Ciche Invasion of the Body Snatchers: symbiont transmission in insect parasitic nematodes
       
Mar. 27 Kevin Smith C. Arvidson Development of an in vivo assay for SRP function in Neisseria gonorrhoeae
  Jim Tumbrink   The effects of ciprofloxacin on transformation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae
       
Apr. 10

Vijay Rathinam

L. Mansfield Interaction of murine dendritic cells with Campylobacter jejuni in vitro: Preliminary studies
       
Apr. 24

Sara Blumer

 G. Sundin

IVET analysis and genetic analysis of the apple host response to Erwinia infection
  Youfu Zhao   The type III effector AvrRpt2EA contributes to virulence on pear and genetically recognizes Arabidopsis RPS2 when expressed in Pseudomonas syringae

 

 

 Gayle McGhee   Relevance of the plasmid-encoded thiamine biosynthetic cluster thiOGF to EPS synthesis and virulence

 

      
May 8     ASM meeting
       

May 22

Horasis S. Leung

D. Arvidson

Identification of amino acid residues required for Pseudomonas syringae HrpA pilus function

 

 
 

SPRING/SUMMER/FALL 2005

DATE

SPEAKER

LAB

TITLE

Jan. 31

Lukas Wick

Whittam

Evolution of genomic content in the stepwise emergence of E. coli O157:H7

 

Feb. 14

Trevor Wagner

Mulks

The role of LRP in the regulation of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae in vivo induced (ivi) genes

 

Feb. 28

Jason Pratt

Young

The role of cytolethal distending toxin in murine inflammatory bowel disease induced by Helicobacter hepaticus infection

 

Mar. 14

Andrea Kendziorski


Jason Jens



Monica Markovski

Bagdasarian


D. Arvidson
Wedemeyer

Using gene recombination to investigate the role of pseudopilins in type II secretion of Vibrio cholerae

 Vibrio cholerae type II secretion system: X-ray crystallographic structure determination of the pseudopilin protein, EpsG

Mutagenesis and thermal folding of the cholera type II secretion protein EpsG

 

Mar. 28

Heather Wood


Alicia Cotey

Young


Young

There goes the neighborhood: Invasion of the            intestinal microbiota by Helicobacter hepaticus

 Arrested development: DNA damage caused by recombinant cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) from Helicobacter hepaticus

Apr. 11

Catherine Beauduy


Kevin Smith

C. Arvidson


C. Arvidson

Characterization of the nqr (sodium-translocating ubiquinone-reductase) locus of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Development of an in vivo system to assay SRP function in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Apr. 25

Terry Marsh &
Claudia Holzman

Marsh

Microbial ecology of the vaginal tract and development of bacterial vaginosis: a REF Center progress report

 

May 9 Mansfield CANCELLED
June 20 Jonathan Lenz C. Arvidson

Drugs and bugs:  effects of ciprofloxacin on gene expression in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

 
July 18 Hilary Phelps

Candidate for
post-doc,
C. Arvidson lab

Analysis of Streptococcus pyogenes proteins required for interactions with the host
Aug. 1 Hans Steinsland
 Whittam Epidemiology of enterotoxigenic E. coli infections and
diarrhea in early childhood

Sept. 26

Seth Walk &


Lukas Wick

Whittam

Population genetic differences in E. coli: habitat and antibiotic effects

On-chip non-equilibrium dissociation curve and dissociation rate constant as methods to assess specificity of oligonucleotide probes
Oct. 10 Dave Wilson Linz

Searching for the mechanisms of genetic variation in Campylobacter jejuni

 
Oct. 24

Linda Mansfield &

Vijay Rathinam

 Mansfield

Murine models of Campylobacter jejuni colonization and enteritis: time course studies

Effect of genetic background studies

 
Nov.7 Alicia Cotey Young Cytolethal distending toxin from Helicobacter hepaticus: DNase activity and interactions with cells of the immune system
Nov. 21 Mohammed Faisal Invited by T. Marsh Bacterial kidney disease in the Great Lakes: Historical
perspectives and future needs
Dec. 5 William Underwood He Arabidopsis response to Pseudomonas syringae and Escherichia coli
       


 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
     
 
     
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