We would like to invite faculty, students, postdocs and staff to our 4th Microbiology Symposium that includes our 3rd Annual Distinguished Microbiologist Seminar. The goal of this event is to bring the microbiologists from UConn departments and campuses together to interact. There will be coffee break after the first talk and as usual a reception after the second talk that is sponsored by Eppendorf.
Please RSVP so that we can order the right amount of food and drinks.
We are also thinking of having Posters this year, one poster per lab. If your lab is interested in having a poster please email erin.breaker@uconn.edu soon with a title and list of authors. If we have a quorum, we will have a poster session. April 19th 4th UConn Microbiology Symposium and 3rd Distinguished Microbiologist Lecture
4:00 pm: New UConn Microbiologist lecture: Sarah Hird, MCB: "Avian influenza virus and the cloacal microbiome of wild avian hosts"
4:30 pm: Coffee break
4:45 pm: 3rd Annual Distinguished Microbiologist lecture: Martin Blaser, NYU: "Early life perturbation of the microbiota and its long-term consequences"
5:45 pm: reception with poster presentations.
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uconns-3rd-annual-distinguished-microbiologist-lecture-tickets-32894915578
Professor Marty Blaser is a leader in microbiome field and studies how early life perturbations affect host developmental phenotypes. His work focuses on the metabolic syndrome and inflammatory disorders such as type 1 diabetes, asthma, psoriasis, and skin infections. One example is the paper entitled "Antibiotic use and its consequences for the normal microbiome” published in Science in 2016 and "Antibiotic-mediated gut microbiome perturbation accelerates development of type 1 diabetes in mice" in Nature microbiology. 2016. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Assistant Professor Sarah Hird joined MCB from UC Davis where she worked with Prof. Jonathan Eisen. Her main research questions are about the evolution of host-associated microbiomes and microbial phylogeography. She focuses on what factors shape and maintain the gut microbiomes of wild birds. In mSystems she described the interaction of the mallard microbiome an influenza A viruses. In a publications in Frontiers in Microbiology she compared the microbiome of many tropical birds.
Please feel free to send this e-mail to other interested parties and invite your students. Please contact Joerg at Joerg.Graf@uconn.edu if you have questions.
Best regards,
The organizing committee: (Steve Geary, Peter Gogarten, Joerg Graf, Justin Radolf, Leslie Shor and Kumar Venkitanarayaan)
These events are sponsored by the Professional Science Master’s in Microbial Systems Analysis, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Eppendorf.
For more information, contact: Joerg Graf at joerg.graf@uconn.edu