Campuswide Microbial Systems Events

Monday, October 5, 2026

• Microbe Mondays - Lunch & Science

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  IGB Conference Center - Room 612, located on the concourse level of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  This week’s Microbe Monday explores how microbes shape systems at very different scales, from nitrifying microorganisms driving global nutrient cycles to maternal microbial environments influencing fetal brain development.

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Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Karine Gibbs, University of California - Berkeley -- "Contact-dependent communication drives mesoscale spatial organization of bacterial virulence-associated behaviors"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, October 22, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Shady Amin, New York University Abu Dhabi -- "Steroid hormones produced by coral-associated bacteria modulate the coral immune response during thermal stress"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Junya Li/Martinez Lab and Angie Caserio/Metcalf Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, October 29, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Zoi Rapti, Mathematics/University of Illinois Urbana-Illinois -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Tuesday, November 3, 2026

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Jiayue Yang/Whitaker Lab and Simrandeep Singh/Imlay Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Xavier Mayali, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -- "Isotopes and high resolution mass spectrometry to quantify microbial biogeochemical cycling "

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Monday, November 9, 2026

• Microbe Mondays - Lunch & Science

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Bevier Commons -Room 249, Bevier Hall

  Join us for lunch, informal networking, and two short research talks connecting microbial systems across different scales.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2026

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Brooke Ebner/Slauch Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, November 12, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Benjamin Good, Stanford University -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Imlay and Yishuo Jiang/Sirk Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, November 19, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Mohammed Kaplan, University of Chicago -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Tuesday, December 1, 2026

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab and Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Tuesday, December 8, 2026

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Tori Boyle/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Keegan Schoeller/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Tuesday, January 19, 2027

• Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Tuesday, March 9, 2027

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab and Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Tuesday, March 23, 2027

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and William Wightkin/Blanke Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Tuesday, March 30, 2027

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Abagail Long/Mera Lab and Lance Pollitz/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Tuesday, April 6, 2027

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Claire Murphy/Slauch Lab and J.D. Norcross/Dr. Steven Blanke

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Tuesday, April 13, 2027

• Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Nathan Walker/Whitaker Lab and Thomas Cowell/Whitaker Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Tuesday, April 20, 2027

• Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Motaher Hossain/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Yumi Iwadate/Slauch Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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