2023 Spring Seminar Series
Sponsored by Ewing Halsell Foundation of San Antonio
Seminars held from 9:00-10:00 am at the UTSA main campus in BSB 3.03.02
January 20, 2023
The Distribution of Duplicated Antibiotic Resistance Genes Across Complete Microbial Genomes Reflects Ecologically Relevant Selection and Horizontal Gene Transfer
Rohan Maddamsetti, PhD, Duke University
January 27, 2023
Development of Engineering Probiotics to Deliver Narrow-Spectrum Siderophore Antimicrobial Peptides against Drug-Resistant Enteric Bacteria
Benedikt Mortzfeld, PhD, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
February 3, 2023
Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Adhesion
Shuaiqi Guo, PhD, Yale University
February 10, 2023
Quantifying Interactions of the Intestinal Microbiota in Space and Time
Octavio Mondragon Palomino, PhD, National Institutes of Health
February 17, 2023
Discovery and Function of BDL, a Novel B Cell Subset that Dampens CNS Autoimmunity through Regulatory T Cells
Bonnie Dittel, PhD, Versiti Blood Research Institute
February 24, 2023
Fungal Kinase-Mediated Fitness in the Host Lung Niche
Jarrod R Fortwendel, PhD, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
March 3, 2023
Assessing the Role of FrhA and the Peptide Binding Domain in Vibrio cholerae
Cameron Lloyd, PhD student, UTSA
March 10, 2023
How Whole Genome Sequencing Supports Public Health
Maria Hoffmann, PhD, FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
March 17, 2023
Spring Break
March 24, 2023
The Tick Microbiome and One-Health
Kelly Brayton, PhD, Washington State University
March 31, 2023
Of Spores and Cells – Adventures in Clostridioides difficile Physiology
Aimee Shen, PhD, Tufts University
April 7, 2023
TBA
Lucasz Kozubowski, PhD, Clemson University
April 14, 2023
TBA
Mariana Xavier Byndloss, DVM, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
April 21, 2023
cancelled
April 28, 2023
Role of Plasmid Encoded Genes in the Pathophysiology of Lyme Disease
Taylor MacMackin, PhD student, UTSA
