Date

Time

Title

Speaker

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

 

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

 

Symposium 1 TBD

 

7/19/25

 

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

 

8/1/25

 

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

 

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