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.
| 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” |