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Fermentation Club Seminars

All seminars are held in-person, Wednesdays from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. in Institute for Food, Nutrition & Health, Room 205.

Students and postdocs are invited to have lunch with each speaker from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Please contact Jennifer Sun (jennsun@rutgers.edu) to sign up.

Fall 2025 Seminars
Date Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title
Sept 17

Jonathan M. Conway, Princeton University

Gateways to Catabolism: Lignocellulose Breakdown and Uptake in Anaerocellum bescii

Sept 24

Kyle Skalenko, Rutgers University

The biological mechanism of primer dependent initiation in Escherichia coli

Oct 1

Clara Chan, University of Delaware

“Painting the Earth orange: how microbes oxidize iron and drive biogeochemical cycling in wetlands”

Oct 8 

Kim Davis, Johns Hopkins University

Studying antibiotic persistence in Yersinia and S. aureus models of infection
Oct 15 

Nilgun Tumer, Rutgers University

Targeting ribosome interactions of ricin and Shiga toxin by small molecule inhibitors
Oct 29 Victoria Sharp, Acon Pharma
Nov 5

Ileana Pérez-Rodríguez, University of Pennsylvania

Nov 12 

Timothy Stephens, Rutgers University

“Cosmopolitan gene families with known functions are hotspots for the evolution of novel genes in stony corals”

Dec 3

Lea Ann Chen, Rutgers University

“Altering Inflammatory Bowel Disease Activity Using Gut Microbiomes Shaped by Host Genetic Risk”