Faculty, students, postdocs and staff are invited to our 6th Annual Distinguished Microbiologist Seminar and Microbiology Symposium.
The goal of this event is to bring the microbiologists from UConn departments and campuses together to interact. Please bring a poster to share your work! There will be coffee and cookies before the talks and a reception afterwards that is sponsored by Eppendorf, Shoreline Biome, Bio-Rad Laboratories, MCB and the PSM in Microbial Systems Analysis.
6th Annual UConn Distinguished Microbiologist Lecture and Microbiology Symposium
Schedule:
2:15 pm: Registration with coffee and poster setup
2:45 pm: Opening Remarks
2:55 pm: Dr. Jeff Blanchard, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: “Revealing the Genomic and Morphological Diversity of Giant Viruses at Harvard Forest”
3:25 pm: Dr. Katherine Lemon, Baylor College of Medicine: "Searching for beneficial bacteria: Follow your nose!"
3:55 pm: Break
4:10 pm: Dr. Katherine Milligan-McClellan, University of Connecticut "Adapting an evolutionary host model organism for host-microbe studies"
4:30 pm: Dr. Nancy Moran, University of Texas at Austin: "The gut microbiota in social bees: functions and evolution"
5:20 pm: Reception with poster presentations
Our distinguished microbiologist lecturer is Dr. Nancy Moran. She began her career working on the intracellular symbionts of aphids and other insects at the University of Arizona. While she was at Yale University, she began working on the honey bee gut microbiome. She is now at the University of Texas at Austin where she continues her work on the microbiome of insects. She is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellow Award and a member of the National Academy of Science and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_A._Moran http://web.biosci.utexas.edu/moran/
Dr. Katherine Lemon from Baylor College of Medicine works on the nasal microbiome of humans with the goal of preventing Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae infections. Prior to moving the Houston, she was at the Forsyth Institute and held an appointment in the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She participated in the human microbiome project and her work has an interesting mix of basic research and more clinical work. https://www.bcm.edu/research/faculty-labs/katherine-lemon-lab
Dr. Jeff Blanchard is from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He works on giant viruses and the soil microbiome. One of his study sites is the Harvard Forest long-term ecological research site where he looks at the effect of soil warming. He received the Harvard University Bullard Fellowship and is the Co-Director of the UMass Center for Microbiome Research. https://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/blanchard/node/1
Dr. Kat Milligan-McClellan is from the University of Connecticut. Her work focuses on how host genetic background contributes to the balance between the immune response to microbiota in the gut and intestinal microbial membership. Given that gut microbiota protect the host against pathogens, we are also interested in determining how host genetic background induces or suppresses inflammation in the gut, and how those changes result in differential susceptibility to pathogens due to, or concurrent with, changes in microbiota membership. https://drkatlab.wordpress.com/
For more information, contact: Joerg Graf at joerg.graf@uconn.edu