Overview of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Seminars
The Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology supports a number of activities that encourage scientific exchange.
Seminars are part of the series sponsored by the basic science departments within the Worcester Campus and are available to everyone at the campus.
Please use the selection list below to view our current seminar calendar and the lists of presenters from the past year. To see past seminars, go to MGM Past Seminars
2010-2011 | |
| 08/18/2010 | Maria Gloria Dominguez, Ph.D.
The Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation of the University of Puerto Rico | The human microbiota: coevolution and impact by modern lifestyles |
09/17/2010 | Frank L. DeLeo, Ph.D.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Heath | Evasion of Innate Host Defense by Bacterial Pathogens |
09/24/2010 | Jef D. Boeke
Johns Hopkins Medicine | Building Saccharomyces 2.0: Porbing genome plasticity |
09/28/2010 | Vanessa Sperando, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern | Inter-kingdom chemical signaling in host-bacterial associations |
10/5/2010 | Judith Berman
U. Minnesota | Centromere and neocentromere dynamics in Candida albicans |
10/14/2010 | David Bedwell
University of Alabama, Birmingham | Translation Termination: Mechanistic Studies and Potential as a Therapeutic Target for Genetic Diseases |
10/19/2010 | No Seminar | |
10/26/2010 | Zhiping Weng
Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, UMass Medical School | Genomic Analysis of Transposon Movement in Drosophila melanogaster |
11/2/2010 | Bill Kerr, Ph.D.
SUNY Upstate Medical University | Using Chemistry and Genetics to Identify the In Vivo Functions of SHIP1 |
11/9/2010 | No Seminar | |
11/16/2010 | Wayne Lenzer
Children's Hospital, Boston, MA | Entry of cholera toxin into host cells: going retro |
11/23/2010 | No Seminar | |
11/30/2010 | Marion Walhout
Program in Gene Function and Expression, UMass Medical School | Gene Regulatory Networks |
12/7/2010 | Oliver Rando
Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, UMass Medical School | |
| 12/14/2010 | No Seminar | |
12/21/2010 | No Seminar | |
12/28/2010 | No Seminar | |
1/4/2011 | Marion Walhout
Program in Gene Function and Expression, UMass Medical School | Gene Regulatory Networks |
1/11/2011 | No Seminar | |
| 1/18/2011 | No Seminar | |
| 1/25/2011 | Jeffrey N. Weiser
University of Pennsylvania | Manipulation of Innate Immunity by Commensal Bacteria |
| 2/1/2011 | No Seminar | |
| 2/8/2011 | Denise Kirschner | A systems biology approach toward understanding the immune response to Tuberculosis |
| 2/15/2011 | Aviv Regev
MIT | |
| 2/22/2011 | No Seminar | |
| 3/01/2011 | John Gunn
Ohio State University | |
| 3/8/2011 | Mike O'Donnell
Rockefeller University | |
| 3/15/2011 | Anne Sperling
The University of Chicago | |
| 3/22/2011 | | |
| 3/29/2011 | | |
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| 4/12/2011 | Dara Frank
Medical School of Wisconsin | |
| 4/19/2011 | No Seminar | |
| 4/26/2011 | | |
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| 5/10/2011 | | |
| 5/17/2011 | | |
| 5/31/2011 | No Seminar | |
| 6/7/2011 | | |
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A listing of seminars at the UMass Amherst Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program is available here.
UMass Amherst Seminars