Dissertation Defense
Samantha Giffen
The Essential whiB2 Transcriptional Network and its Role in Cell Division
Tuesday, May 18, 2021, 1:00 PM
Advisor: Sarah Fortune
Program: Biological Sciences in Public Health
Dissertation Defense
Braden Tierney
Towards robust hypothesis generation in the human microbiome using data-driven discovery
Monday, May 17, 2021, 11:30 AM
Advisors: Chirag Patel and Alex Kostic
Program: Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Dissertation Defense
Jesse Pyle
Functional regulation of an arenavirus polymerase complex
Monday, May 3, 2021, 2:00 PM
Advisor: Sean Whelan
Program: Virology
Dissertation Defense
Lars Clark
Receptor Binding and Antibody Neutralization of Emerging RNA Viruses
Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 10:00 AM
Advisor: Jonathan Abraham
Program: Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Dissertation Defense
Brandon Sit
Insights into Vibrio cholerae vaccine development and physiology from small animal models of intestinal colonization and disease
Friday, April 2, 2021, 2:00 PM
Advisor: Matthew Waldor
Program: Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Dissertation Defense
Michael Ernandes
Oxidized Phospholipids as Antivirals and Immune Modulators
Monday, March 29, 2021, 1:00PM
Advisor: Jonathan Kagan
Program: Virology
Dissertation Defense
Joel Sher
Genetic analysis of cell envelope assembly and polar growth in Corynebacterium glutamicum
Friday, March 12, 2021, 2:00 PM
Advisor: Thomas Bernhardt
Program: Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Dissertation Defense
Atsushi Taguchi
Biochemical reconstitution and characterization of peptidoglycan synthases and glycosidases
Monday, March 1, 2021, 2:00 PM
Advisor: Suzanne Walker
Program: Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Dissertation Defense
Max Eldon Mertens
The Relationship Between Herpes Simplex Virus 1 and the Cellular DNA Damage Response
Monday, December 14, 2020, 10:00 AM
Dissertation Advisor: David Knipe
Program: Virology
Dissertation Defense
Rebecca Clements
Molecular requirements for morphogenesis in Plasmodium falciparum, the human malaria parasite
Monday, December 7, 2020, 1:30 PM
Advisor: Jeffrey Dvorin
Program: Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Dissertation Defense
Alyson Warr
Functional Genomics at the EHEC-Intestinal Interface: Mechanisms of Pathogenicity and the Host Response
Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 2:00 PM
Advisor: Matthew Waldor
Program: Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Dissertation Defense
Chidiebere D. Akusobi
Interrogating Genetic Diversity in Mycobacterium abscessus with Transposon-Sequencing
Monday, June 15, 2020, 2:00 PM
Advisor: Eric Rubin
Program: Harvard GSAS / Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Dissertation Defense
Tao Troung
The Cell Elongation Activity of Peptidoglycan Endopeptidases Antagonizes Cell Division in Escherichia coli
Tuesday April 28, 2020, 2:00 PM
Dissertation Advisor: Thomas Bernhardt
Program: Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Dissertation Defense
James Eaglesham
Evolution and Regulation of Antiviral Nucleotide Signaling
Thursday April 16, 2020, 11:00 AM
Dissertation Advisor: Philip Kranzusch
Program: Virology
Microbiology Symposium 2019
December 12, 9:30am - 5:45pm
New Research Building Seminar Room 1031
Patrick Mitchell
Inflammasome-sensing of pathogen-specific activities
Monica Guo
Unraveling the molecular basis of chromosome organization: from the single-molecule to the genomic scale
Nicholas Heaton
Atypical interactions between influenza viruses and cells as pathogenic mechanisms
Sampriti Mukherjee
Photo sensing and quorum sensing converge to control collective behaviors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Marco Jost
Harnessing CRISPR to dissect the molecular logic of host-microbiota communication
Alexander Meeske
Molecular mechanisms of anti-viral immunity by RNA-targeting CRISPR-Cas systems
Marta Maria Gaglia
Viral hijacking of host pathways to control gene expression and immune responses