Fall 2025 Microbiology Seminar Series
The Fall 2025 Microbiology Seminar Series will be held on Mondays at 3:00pm in Mossman 202.
| DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTE | SEMINAR TITLE |
| August 18 | Heidi Goodrich-Blair | UTK Microbiology | Semester Welcome |
| August 25 | Sean Gibbons | ISB Science | Microbial community-scale metabolic models enable ecosystem engineering |
| September 8 | Daniel Muratore | Santa Fe Institute | Marine Viral Ecology as a Telescope from Molecular Processes to Global Cycles |
| September 15 | Melanie Hamon | Institut Pasteur | Streptococcus pneumoniae induced histone modifications in health and disease |
| September 22 | Andrea Lear | UTIA | Prenatal Pathogens and Postnatal Immunity: Insights from Livestock Models |
| September 29 | Jozef Nissimov | University of Waterloo | Unravelling the “dark matter” of aquatic viruses: from protein structure to potential function. |
| October 13 | Christine Foreman | Montana State University | Cold-Active Biosurfactants: Chill Solutions for Microbial Survival |
| October 20 | Caroline Grunenwald | University of Missouri | Coping mechanisms: Post-translational regulation of bacterial stress responses |
| October 27 | Jake McKinlay | Indiana University | Learning about phototrophic bacterial physiology from a fermentative friend |
| November 3 | Jim Cassat | Vanderbilt University Med Center | Bone appétit: Host-pathogen interactions during Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis |
| November 10 | Tamara Doering | Washington University St. Louis | Stories of a pathogenic yeast: sterols, cell wall, and SNPs |
| November 17 | Christina Stallings | Washington University St. Louis | TBD |
| November 24 | Jenny Morrell-Falvey | ORNL | Uncovering the Mechanisms Driving Rhizosphere Microbiome Assembly |
| December 1 | Gautam Shireskar | UTIA | Graphs and Mosaics: Understanding evolutionary patterns in the wild plant-pathosystems |