PREVIOUS SEMESTERS IN THE

MICROBIAL BIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES

MARIAN CARLSON , Columbia University

"Upstream kinases that activate the Snf1/AMPK family of metabolic stress response kinases"

KATHLEEN RYAN , UC Berkeley

"Cell cycle-regulated protolysis of CtrA is coupled to its polar localization in Caulobacter "

JOHN ROSSI , City of Hope

"Functional analysis and therapeutic applications of RNA interference"

JARED LEADBETTER, Cal Tech

"Quieting the raucous crowd: biodegradation of signals affecting microbial social function"

LIEF KIRSEBOM , Sweden

"An RNA catalyst and its substrate: understanding and possibilities"

CAROL BLAIR, Colorado State

"The role of RNA interference in arthropod-borne virus infections of mosquitoes"

LEN POST , Onyx Corporation, Richmond

"Replicating adenoviruses for treatment of cancer: vectors for tumor-specific delivery of gene therapy"

PHILLIP E. KLEBBA, University of Oklahoma

"Iron acquisition by Listeria monocytogenes "

CHARLES YANOFSKY, Stanford

"RNA-based regulation of tryptophan metabolism in E. coli and B. subtilis "

PATRICIA JOHNSON , UCLA

"Transcription initiation: core promoter recognition in a primitive eukaryote"

NANCY CRAIG , JHMI

"Smarter and smarter transposons"

RICH DARVEAU , University of Washington

"Porphyromonas gingivalis LPS: Interactions with the innate host defense system"

SCOTT ENSIGN , Utah State

"Pathways, enzymes, and co-factors of bacterial short-chain hydrocarbon metabolism"  

SHARON LONG, Stanford University

"Genetic and Genomic Studies of Rhizobium Symbiosis"

CHRIS RAETZ, Duke University

"Dangerous Liaisons:  Assembly, Secretion and Function of Lipopolysaccharide Endotoxins, Potent Bacterial Activators of Innate Immunity"

J. CLARK LAGARIAS, UC Davis

"Phytochrome Ancestry: Sensors of Bilins and Light"

JOSEPH HEITMAN, Duke University

"Sex and the evolution of virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans"

JOHN HELMANN, Cornell University

"Think Globally - Act Locally: Metal Ions and Oxidative Stress in Bacillus subtilis"

JAY LEVY, UCSF

"The Importance of Innate Immunity in Preventing HIV Infection and Disease Progression"

JIM VANETTEN, University of Nebraska

"Unusual Life-Style of Giant Algal Viruses"

MICHAEL STARNBACH, Harvard Medical School

"CD8+ T cell Responses to Bacterial Pathogens"

DANIEL ARP, Oregon State University, Corvallis

"Insights into the Life of an Obligate Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacterium, Nitrosomonas europaea, from the Complete Genome Sequence"

JULIE THERIOT, Stanford University

"Life on the Inside: Cell Biology of Bacterial Infection in Intestinal and Bladder Epithelia"

STANIER MEMORIAL LECTURE

THURS.

LUCY SHAPIRO, Stanford University

"The Caulobacter Cell Cycle: Spatial and Temporal Control of a Multicomponent Genetic Network"

PAM SMALL, University of Tennessee

"Mysteries of Mycobacterium ulcerans and the Immunomodulatory Macrolide Toxin, Mycolactone"

GEORGE SPRAGUE, University of Oregon

Signal Transduction Specificity and Filamentous Growth in Budding Yeast"

Jan. 15, 2003

KIT POGLIANO, UC San Diego

Dynamic Reorganization of the Bacterial Cell During Bacillus subtilis Sporulation"

Jan. 22, 2003

SAM MILLER, University of Washington, Seattle

"Bacterial Resistance to Innate Immunity"

Jan. 29, 2003

NANCY CRAIG, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

"Smarter & Above Average Transposons"

Feb. 5, 2003

JOHN COATES, UC Berkeley

"Bioremediation -Taking the Bang Out of Perchlorate and Other Environmental Contaminants"

Feb. 12, 2003

LINDA KENNEY, Oregon Health and Science University

"The Role of OmpR Phosphorylation in Signaling and Pathogenesis"

Feb. 19, 2003

JOSEPH A. POGLIANO, UC San Diego

"Subcellular Dynamics of Plasmid DNA During Bacterial Growth and Development"

Feb. 26, 2003

ERIN O'SHEA, UCSF

"Yeast Signal Transduction"

Mar. 5, 2003

ERIC BROWN, UCSF

"The Mycobacterium Marinum Model of Intracellular Pathogens"

Mar. 12, 2003

KOTTY POSTLE, Washington State University

"TonB-dependent Energy Transduction Between the Cytoplasmic and Outer Membranes of Gram-Negative Bacteria"

Mar. 19, 2003

LUCIA ROTHMAN-DENES, University of Chicago

"Expanding the Family of Single-subunit DNA-dependent RNA Polymerases"

Apr. 2, 2003

PAUL LUDDEN, UC Berkeley

Regulation of Nitrogenase Activity by Reversible ADP-ribosylation in Rhodospirillum rubrum

Apr. 9, 2003

DIANNE K. NEWMAN, California Institute of Technology

How Bacteria Make Magnetite"

Apr. 16, 2003

BRENDAN BOHANNON, Stanford University

"The Ecology and Evolution of Spatially-structured Microbial Communities"

Apr. 23, 2003

LAURENT COSCOY, UC Berkeley

"The KSHV Modulators of Immune Recognition: Their Function and Potential Cellular Origin"

Apr. 30, 2003

TOM BUCKLEY, University of Victoria

"Exploiting the Properties of a Bacterial Toxin: Biomedical Applications of the Channel-forming Protein Aerolysin"

May 7, 2003

PATRICIA JOHNSON, UCLA

"Gene Expression in Trichomonas vaginalis, a Highly-divergent Eukaryotic Parasite"

May 14, 2003

PETER HEIFETZ, Novartis

"Expression of Proteins and Metabolites in Chloroplasts via Chemically Inducible Control"

Sept. 18, 2002

MILTON SAIER, UC San Diego

"Answering Fundamental Questions in Biology and Mapping Evolutionary Pathways Using Bioinformatics"

Sept. 25, 2003

MICHAEL MAHAN, UC Santa Barbara

"DNA Adenine Methylation: an Achilles Heel of Bacterial Pathogens"

Oct. 2, 2002

CAROL GROSS, UCSF

"Stress Signaling Pathways"

Oct. 9, 2002

STEVE LINDOW, UC Berkeley

"Microbial Ecology of Leaf Surface Bacteria"

Oct. 16, 2002

DALE KAISER, Stanford University

"Bacterial Patterns: Building Multicellular Fruiting Bodies"

Oct. 17, 2002

ROGER Y. STANIER MEMORIAL LECTURE

RICHARD M. LOSICK, Harvard

"Generating and Exploiting Asymmetry in a Bacterium"

Thurs., 4:00 PM, 100 GPBB

Oct. 23, 2002

PETER ZUBER, Oregon Health & Science University

"A Novel Regulatory Protein That Interferes With Activator-Stimulated Transcription"

Oct. 30, 2002

KATHERINE BORKOVICH, UC Riverside

"G Proteins Control Growth and Development in Filamentous Fungi"

Nov. 6, 2002

JACK KEENE, Duke University

Molecular Configurations of a Posttranscriptional Eukaryotic Operon"

Nov. 13, 2002

JONATHAN BECKWITH, Harvard Medical School

"Electron Avenue: Pathways of Disulfide Bond Formation and Isomerization"

Nov. 20, 2002

C.C. WANG, UCSF

"The Proteasome From Trypanosome Provides a Simplified Model for an In-depth Understanding of Its Structure and Function"

Dec. 4, 2002

THERESA KOEHLER, University of Texas Medical School, Houston

"Linking Virulence Gene Expression to Bacillus anthracis Development"

Dec. 11, 2002

RY YOUNG, Texas A&M University

"Murder and Suicide: Molecular Mechanisms of Phage Lysis"

Jan. 30

JOSEPH DERISI, UCSF

"Malaria Genomics"

Feb. 6PAULA SUNDSTRO, The Ohio State University

"Hwp1, a Molecule Ideally Suited to Function as an Intermolecular Cross-bridge Between Candida albicans Hyphae and Mammalian Buccal Epithelial Cells"

Feb. 13

BRETT FINLAY, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

"Pathogenic E. coli: Exploitation of Host Cell Processes"

Feb. 20

JOHN MEKALANOS, Harvard Medical School

"Understanding Pathogen Biology Through Functional Genomics"

Feb. 27

DONALD P. WEEKS, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

"Cia5, a Master Gene Controlling the Carbon Concentrating Mechanism of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii"

Mar. 6

KATHY BORKOVICH, UC Riverside

"Life Without Heterotrimeric G Proteins"

Mar. 13

JULIAN DAVIES, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

"The Biology of Antibiotics"

Mar. 20

TASIOS MELIS, UC Berkeley

"The Biology of Photosynthetic Hydrogen Production in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii"

Apr. 3

CAROLINE KANE, UC Berkeley

"On the Move with RNA Polymerase: Transcript Elongation and Its Regulation"

Apr. 4

NORMA ANDREWS, Yale University

"Lysosomes and Trypanosomes: The Unexpected Journey From Cell Invasion CDB/Micro to Plasma Membrane Repair"

Apr. 10

PETER WALTER, UCSF

"Intracellular Signaling from the ER to the Nucleus"

Apr. 17PETER SARNOW, Stanford University

"Translation Initiation by Internal Ribosome Entry in Viral and Cellular mRNAs"

Apr. 24

MATT SACHS, Oregon Health and Science University

"A Genome Sequence for Neurospora"

May 1

JILLIAN BANFIELD, UC Berkeley

"Microbes and Geochemical Cycling of Metals"

May 8

FERRIC FANG, University of Washington

"The First Line of Defense: Innate Immunity to Salmonella"

Aug. 29

MICHAEL LAI, HHMI, University of Southern California

"Rolling Circle Replication of Hepatitis Delta Virus RNA Carried Out by Two Different Cellular RNA Polymerases"

Sept. 5

KIT POGLIANO, UC San Diego

"Dynamic Reorganization of the Bacterial Cell During Bacillus subtilis Sporulation"

Sept. 19

JACK MEEKS, UC Davis

"An Overview of the Genome of Nostoc punctiforme, a Phenotypically Complex, Multicellular Cyanobacterium; There’s a Whole Lot of Information In There!"

Sept. 26

DON GANEM, UCSF

"Viral Regulation of Ubiquitination and Endocytosis in Immune Evasion by Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus"

Oct. 3

MARY BETH MUDGETT, UC Berkeley

"Delivery of Bacterial Type III Effector Proteins to Plant Cells Specifying Plant Disease and Resistance"

Oct. 10

JAMES TIEDJE, Michigan State University

"Getting a Grip on Soil Microbial Diversity"

Oct. 17

ANITA SIL, UCSF

"Using Genomics to Probe Pathogenesis in Histoplasma capsulatum"

Oct. 24

DAVID ZUSMAN, UC Berkeley

"Nine Chemosensory Pathways Complicate Life for the Fruiting Bacterium Myxococcus xanthus"

Oct. 31

MICHAEL KATZE, University of Washington

"High Throughput Approaches to Cure the World of Virus Infections: Will DNA Microarrays and Proteomics Save Us or Are We Only Going Fishing?"

Nov. 7

BARBARA BAKER, Plant Gene Expression Center

"Mechanisms of Plant-Microbe Interaction"

Nov. 14

ANNE PRINGLE, UC Berkeley

"The Ecology of Mutualism: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plants of a North Carolina Old Field"

Nov. 28

JOHN ROTH, University of Utah

"The Mechanism and Evolutionary Significance of ‘Adaptive’ (Cairnsian) Mutation in Bacteria"

Dec. 5

SANDY JOHNSON, UCSF

"Genetic Screens, Haploinsufficiency, and Mating in the Human Fungal Pathogen Candida albicans"

Jan. 24

SYDNEY KUSTU, Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley

"Regulation of Nitrogen Metabolism in Enteric Bacteria: Genomic and Structural Studies"

Jan. 31

DAVID LOW, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology , UCSB

"How do DNA Methylation-Dependent Epigenetic Switches Regulate the Expression of Adhesins in Bacterial Pathogens?"

Feb. 7

JEFFREY COX, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF

"Genetic Dissection of M. tuberculosis Pathogenesis"

Feb. 14

PAUL KOLENBRANDER, National Institutes of Health

"Community Architecture of Human Oral Bacterial Biofilms"

Feb. 21

DAVID KNIPE, Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School

"Regulation of Viral and Host Gene Expression During Productive and Latent Infection by Herpes Simplex Virus"

Feb. 28

DAVID BRAMHILL, Microbial Vaccine Research, Merck Research Laboratories

"Mechanism and Regulation of Bacterial Cell Division"

Mar. 7

JEREMY THORNER, Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley

"A Checkpoint Pathway That Couples Cell Cycle Progression to Assembly of the Cytokinesis Apparatus"

Mar. 8

Stanier Lecture: 4:00 p.m., Thurs., 100 GPBB

ALEX GLAZER, Director, University of California Natural Reserve System and Professor of the Graduate School, Dept. of MCB, UC Berkeley

"Photosynthetic Antennae: Light and Life"

Mar. 14

REID JOHNSON, Dept. of Biological Chemistry, UCLA

"Structure and Activation of the Hin Invertasome, An Intermediate in DNA Inversion"

Mar. 21

SIMON LYNCH, Tularik, Inc.

"Strategies for Discovering Novel Antibacterial Agents"

Apr. 4

EUGENE NESTER, Dept. of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle

"Agrobacterium and Crown Gall: Insights into a Bacterial-Plant Interaction Through Genome Sequencing"

Apr. 11

JIM KRONSTAD, Biotechnology Laboratory, University of British Columbia

"Fungal Pathogenesis: Sex, Signaling and Morphogenesis"

Apr. 18

GISELA STORZ, National Institutes of Health

"Novel Mechanisms for Controlling Bacterial Gene Expression: A Redox Sensitive Transcription Factor and Small Regulatory RNAs"

Apr. 25

MOSELIO SCHAECHTER, Dept. of Biology, San Diego State University, Emeritus, Tufts University

"Bacterial Mitosis and Other News in Microbial Cell Biology"

May 2

ALLAN CAMPBELL, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

"Evolution of Phage Insertion Specificities"

Aug. 30

CHIHIRO SASAKAWA, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo

"Modulation of Host Actin and Tubulin Dynamism by Shigella"

Sept. 6

W. IAN LIPKIN, Emerging Diseases Laboratory, UC Irvine

"And the Crows Fell from the Sky: The Emergence of the West Nile Virus in North America"

Sept. 13

CRAIG CRIDDLE, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University

"Even More Serendipity: The Increasingly Strange Story of Pseudomonas stutzeri KC"

Sept. 20

LALITA RAMAKRISHNAN, Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University

"Mycobacterium Virulence Genes Selectively Expressed in the Host"

Sept. 27

TED HACKSTADT, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Montana

"Subversion of Host Vesicular Trafficking Pathways by Chlamydia trachomatis"

Oct. 4

GILLIAN TURGEON, Plant Pathology, Cornell University and Novartis Agricultural Discovery Institute, Inc.

"Evolution of Fungal Pathogenesis to Plants"

Oct. 11

LEON EIDELS, Dept. of Microbiology, University of Texas SW Medical Center at Dallas

"Expression Cloning and Characterization of the Diphtheria Toxin Receptor"

Oct. 18

STEVE CARROLL, XOMA (US) LLC

"Characterization and Clinical Applications of BPI, an Anti-Infective Protein from Human Neutrophils"

Oct. 25

SASHA SHAFIKHANI, MCB and Plant & Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley

"Metabolic and Genetic Regulation of Selenium Biovalence Transformation in Bacillus subtilis"

Nov. 1

RODNEY K. TWETEN, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

"The Cholesterol-Dependent Cytolysins: How a Soluble 54 kDa Protein Can Form a 25 nm Hole in the Membrane"

Nov. 8

TRISH HARTZELL, Department of Microbiology, Molecular Biology, & Biochemistry,University of Idaho

"Membrane Complexes Required for Motility and Development in Myxococcus xanthus"

Nov. 15

DAVID J. DEROSIER, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center,Brandeis University

"The Structure of the Bacterial Flagellum and a New Model for the Motor"

Nov. 22

WENYUAN SHI, UCLA Molecular Biology Institute and School of Dentistry

"Type IV pilus is a Chemotaxis-guided Motility Apparatus"

Nov. 29

MICHAEL EISEN, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley

"Experimental Genomics: Probing the Biology of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with DNA Microarrays"

Jan. 12

Pascale Cossart, Pasteur Institute

"Molecular and Cellular Basis of the Infection by Listeria monocytogenes: Bacterial Factors, Cellular Ligands and Signaling"

Jan. 19

Lucy Shapiro, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University

"Dynamic Spatial Localization of Regulatory Proteins Controls Cell Cycle Progression"

Jan. 26

Robert L. Metzenberg, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

"Meiotic transvection in fungi"

Feb. 2

Barry Bowman, Department of Biology, UC Santa Cruz

"The Vacuolar ATPase: Why Such a Complex Enzyme for Such a Simple Reaction?"

Feb. 9

Peter Greenberg, University of Iowa, Iowa City

"Bacteria Go On Line: Control of Gene Expression by Cell-to-Cell Signaling"

Feb. 16

Nina Agabian, Department of Stomatology, UCSF School of Medicine

"Reading the Candida Genome for Virulence and Life Style?"

Feb. 23

Olaf Schneewind, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics, UCLA

"Surface Protein Targeting to the Cell Wall Envelope of Gram-Positive Bacteria"

Mar. 1

Stan Cohen, Stanford University School of Medicine

"The Many Faces of Prokaryotic RNA Decay"

Mar. 8

Stanley Maloy, Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Champaign

"Use of Genetic Hybrids for Functional Genomics: What Determines the Host Specificity of Salmonella serovars?"

Mar. 15

Mary Firestone, Department of ESPM, Division of Environmental Science, UC Berkeley

"Plant-microbial interactions in rhizosphere soil: competition or bartering for nutrients?"

Mar. 22

Kelly T. Hughes, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle

"The Efficient Flagella Assembly in Salmonella is Accomplished Using a Hierarchy of Secretion Substrates"

Apr. 5

Adam Arkin, Biophysical Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

"Mechanistic Modeling of Microbial Pathways"

Apr. 12

Roger Brent, Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley

"Assigning Function to Genes, Alleles, Network Members, and Network Connections"

Apr. 19

Jane Koehler, Division of Infectious Diseases, UCSF School of Medicine

"Bartonella: A Pathogenic, Arthropod-borne Bacterial Hemophile"

Apr. 26

Kris Niyogi, Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley

"Photo-oxidative Stress Responses in Chlamydomonas"

May 3

Mary Lidstrom, College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle

"Growth on One-Carbon Compounds: Borrowed Metabolic Strategies?"