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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
DateSpeaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title
Sept 17Jonathan M. Conway, Princeton University - Gateways to Catabolism: Lignocellulose Breakdown and Uptake in Anaerocellum bescii
Sept 24Kyle Skalenko, Rutgers University - The biological mechanism of primer dependent initiation in Escherichia coli
Oct 1Clara 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 29Victoria Sharp, Acon Pharma - The Postdoc Pivot, Building a Career Outside Academia
Nov 5Ileana Pérez-Rodríguez, University of Pennsylvania - The metabolic phenotypes of microbes from basaltic environments.
Nov 12 Timothy Stephens, Rutgers University - Cosmopolitan gene families with known functions are hotspots for the evolution of novel genes in stony corals
Dec 3Lea Ann Chen, Rutgers University - Altering Inflammatory Bowel Disease Activity Using Gut Microbiomes Shaped by Host Genetic Risk
Spring 2026

Date

Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title

Jan 28

Eric KleinRutgers University

Feb 4

Jonathan M. ConwayPrinceton University - Gateways to Catabolism: Lignocellulose Breakdown and Uptake in Anaerocellum bescii

Feb 11

Nicholas Sawyer, Fordham University - New Antibiotics Targeting DNA Replication: Structure-Function Studies of Griselimycin

Feb 25

Madhavi ShahRaritan Valley Community College

Mar 4 

Lisa Lyu, Shemaila Sultana, Eusebio Pires, Rutgers Technology Transfer Office

Mar 11

Yangyang Zhao, Princeton University - From Source to Sea Surface: Untangling the Drivers of Oceanic N₂O Emissions

Mar 25

Aishwarya Santosh Deshpande, Montclair State University - Microbial Health in One Health: Interactions, Resistance, and Biomonitoring Approaches

Apr 1  

Ali Afify, Drexel University - Functional characterization of mosquito host-seeking and oviposition repellents

Apr 8

Meiyin Wu, Montclair University 

Apr 15 

Mehmet Orman, UW-Madison

Apr 22

Kevin DillonTCNJ

Apr 29

Xinning Zhang, Princeton University