Microbiology Dept. at The University of Chicago
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đ Our inaugural Micro Retreat was truly unforgettable! Two days filled with enlightening scientific dialogues, bonding, and joy with our amazing community. Overwhelmed with gratitude for the memories we've created together. Dive into the highlights with our video recap! đ„
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This Friday's work in progress talks will be Tess Brunner (the gut microbiome as a longitudinal reservoir and adaptive niche for hospital-associated pathogens) and Tess McNeely (characterizing mechanisms of how microbes exacerbate high-fat diet metabolic dysfunction).
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This week COM is hosting Dr. Daisy W. Leung from Washington University - St. Louis who will talk about viral immune antagonism through nuclear host functions.
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This week's COM talks will be Michaela Marra from the Kaplan lab (the flagellar system of the fastest known bacterium on Earth) and Aspen Kremer in the Missiakas lab (peptidoglycan hydrolases: the architects of the cell wall).
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This weeks research in progress will be Alejandro Rivera-Madera in the Green lab on mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in Enterococcus spp and Tea Pappas in the Comstock lab on mechanisms of regulation of T6SS-mediated antagonism in Bacteroides fragilis.
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Tomorrow's invited speaker is Dr. Wenhan Zhu from Vanderbilt University talking about host-microbiota interactions in the gut.
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This week's WIPs will be Michael Bucher from the Green lab on the genetic determinants of environmental persistence and virulence in Acinetobacter baumannii and Noreen Dela Pena from the Gerrick lab on the role of a human-associated protist and its endosymbiont in the gut.
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This week's invited seminar speaker is Dr. Ann Stock from the Center for Advanced Medicine at Rutgers talking about two-component signal transduction in bacteria.
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This Friday's COM work in progress will be by Elise Hall in the Gerrick lab talking about a commensal protistâs response to humoral immunity in the gut and Sean Sullivan in the Cheng lab talking about the model community hCom2 and carbohydrate metabolism.
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This week's invited speaker is Dr. Jonathan Pruneda from Oregon Heath & Science University talking about how pathogenic bacteria manipulate host ubiquitin signaling with surgical precision.
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This week's work in progress will be Dr. Biswarup Banerjee from the Missiakas lab talking about antibody-mediated mechanisms of protection against Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection.
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This week's COM invited speaker is Dr. Katherine Amato from Northwestern University aho will talk about using comparative primate research to enrich our understanding of human-microbiome interactions.
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Tjis week's COM work in progress will be by Dr. Falak Pahwa in the Khader lab talking about T & B cell interactions in tuberculosis.
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This week's COM invited speaker is Dr. Eric Martens from the University of Michigan who will talk about contributions of dietary fiber mucin-degrading bacteria to inflammatory bowel disease.
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The next COM work in progress will be Dr. Yunys Perez Betancourt from the Missiakas lab talking about how Staphylococcal Protein A diverts host humoral immunity to sustain persistent S. aureus colonization.
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This week's COM invited speaker is Dr. Graham Hatfull from the University of Pittsburgh. His talk will be on mycobacteriophages and their potential: from Petri dish to patient.
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This week's COM work in progress will be Izzy Izquierdo in the Randall lab talking about characterizing NBR1 mediated lipophagy and egress during dengue virus infection.
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This week's COM invited speaker is Dr. Y. Erin Chen from MIT talking about harnessing skin bacteria for immunotherapy.
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This Friday's work in progress will by by Maddie Sheahan in the Comstock lab talking about the properties of nanaerobic growth in Bacteroides.
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This week's COM invited speaker is Dr. Huitung Chu from the University of California-San Diego, talking about how inflammation shapes bacterial evolution and host immunity.
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This week's COM work-in-progress will be by Zoe Kellermyer in the Green lab talking about a Lon protease adaptor that influences desiccation tolerance in Acinetobacter baumannii.
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