2025 Microbial Diversity Schedule
Date |
Time |
Title |
Speaker |
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7/7/25 |
9-10:15 am |
What is microbial diversity? |
Scott Dawson/John Spear |
7/7/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Historical overview of microbial diversity and the course |
Mitch Sogin |
7/8/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Building a cell |
Emily Fleming |
7/8/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Making energy with redox reactions |
Daniel Bond |
7/9/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Electron transport reactions inside and outside the cell |
Daniel Bond |
7/9/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Phototrophic microbes (photosystems PS, PNS, GS, Cyanos) |
Daniel Bond |
7/10/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Methanogenesis |
Leslie Day |
7/10/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Natural sulfur systems |
John Spear |
7/11/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Nitrogen cycle bacteria and archaea |
TBA |
7/11/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Maynard and Suzanne Goldman Lecture |
Daniel Bond |
7/12/25 |
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Sippewissett and Sulfur Field Trip |
John Spear |
7/14/25 |
9-10:15 am |
H2 and syntrophy |
John Spear |
7/14/25 |
10:30 -11:45 am |
Microbial Dark Oxygen |
Emil Ruff |
7/15/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Heterotrophic and fermenting bacteria |
Deb Hogan |
7/15/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
C1 metabolism and C fixation |
Leslie Day |
7/16/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Man-made carbon compound degradation |
Becky Parales |
7/16/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Abigail Salyers Endowed Lecture |
Leslie Day |
7/17/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Genomes and system-level metabolism |
Scott Dawson |
7/17/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
"Functional" genes and biochemical pathways |
Scott Dawson/Brad Stevenson |
7/18/25 |
9-10:15 am |
The Geo Part of Geobiology |
Frank Corsetti |
7/18/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Roger D Milkman Endowed Lecture |
Brad Stevenson |
7/19/25 |
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Symposium 1 TBD |
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7/19/25 |
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Holger W. Jannasch Endowed Lecture |
Julie Maresca |
7/21/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Origins and Evolution of Cells |
Scott Dawson |
7/21/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Building new genetic systems |
Sean Crosson |
7/22/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Douglas Eveleigh Endowed Lecture |
Sean Crosson |
7/22/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Microbial appendages and type IV pili |
Aretha Fiebig / Arthur Charles-Orszag |
7/23/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Microbial Motility |
Becky Parales |
7/23/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Symbiosis |
Colleen Cavanaugh |
7/24/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Chemo- and other taxis |
Becca Schomer |
7/24/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Archaeal Cell Biology |
Arthur Charles-Orszag |
7/25/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Eukaryote Diversity and Organelles |
Scott Dawson |
7/25/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Amoeboid motility and diversity |
Sarah Guest |
7/26/25 |
10 am - Noon |
Mega Lab Meeting |
2025 Groups |
7/28/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Microbiology is Wild (sans culture) |
John Spear/Scott Dawson |
7/28/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Quantitative microbial diversity |
John Spear/Scott Dawson |
7/29/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Microbial Interactions and Community Ecology |
Roberto Kolter |
7/29/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Polymicrobial Communities |
George O'Toole |
7/30/25 |
9-10:15 am |
Functional genomics and RBTnSeq |
Yolanda Huang |
7/30/25 |
10:30-11:45 am |
Microbial Diversity: past, present, and future recap |
John Spear/Scott Dawson |
7/31/25 |
Open Lab |
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8/1/25 |
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Open Lab / Optode Sensing Demonstration |
Ketil Koop-Jakobsen / Klaus Koren |
8/4/25 |
3:00 pm |
Tea Talk: Scientific Ethics |
Lillian Fritz-Laylin (and crew) |
8/5/25 |
3:00 pm |
Tea Talk: Staff research talk |
Sam Eggins |
8/6/25 |
3:00 pm |
Tea Talk: TBA |
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8/7/25 |
3:00 pm |
Tea Talk: Staff research talk |
Amarantha Kahn |
8/8/25 |
10:00 am - 4:00 pm |
2025 Student Mini-project talks |
2025 Students |