Tuesdays 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (unless otherwise indicated)

April 3  Anna Bakardjiev, Invited speaker, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, UC San Francisco. "The placenta pushes back." 

April 10  Emma Hiolski, 2nd year student talk. "Neurological effects of exposure to the marine toxin domoic acid." Miles Duncan, 2nd year student talk. "The discovery and characterization of inhibitors of the bacterial type three secretion system."

April 17  Laura Kwuan, 1st year student talk. "Characterization of the transcription factor IscR in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis." Richard Cathey, 2nd year student talk. "Early life manganese exposure causes lasting dopamine system changes in the rat prefrontal cortex; a possible role of manganese influence on epigenetics."

April 24  Juan Castellon, 2nd year student talk. "The Helicobacter Pylori CheV chemotaxis signaling proteins do not have a chemoreceptor preference for polar localization." Cherie Musgrove, 1st year student talk. Title TBA.

May 1  Lynn Rothschild, Invited speaker, Professor, Stanford University and researcher at NASA Ames Research Center. "Defining the Envelope for the Search for Life in the Universe."

May 8  Samar Abedrabbo, 1st year student talk. "Unusual marine nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria shows surprising diversity." Cardius Richardson, 1st year student talk. "The role the skeleton plays in mangenese homeostasis."

May 15  Kingsley Odigie, 4th year student talk. "Temporal Changes in Lead Depositions in East Africa: A Case Study of Lake Tanganyika.”  Jaime Hernandez, 1st year student talk, "Using Shewanella arsenic-biosensor strains to monitor arsenic contamination."

May 22  Andreas Bäumler, Invited speaker, Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis.  "Food from the fire: How the host response feeds Salmonella."

May 29  Rachel Eastman, Masters thesis defense. "Establishing biological markers of environmental manganese exposure"

June 5 Melisa Masuda, Masters thesis defense. "Early markers of cellular manganese neurotoxicity: Relationship between manganese and golgi phosphoprotein 4 (GPP130)"

End of seminar series for this year.