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 - The Postdoc Pivot, Building a Career Outside Academia |
| Nov 5 | Ileana 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 3 | Lea Ann Chen, Rutgers University - Altering Inflammatory Bowel Disease Activity Using Gut Microbiomes Shaped by Host Genetic Risk |
Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title |
|---|---|
Jan 28 | Eric Klein, Rutgers University |
Feb 4 | Jonathan M. Conway, Princeton 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 Shah, Raritan 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 Dillon, TCNJ |
Apr 29 | Xinning Zhang, Princeton University |