SEMINAR IN MICROBIOLOGY, M5971 -- Fall 2009

Meeting time: 3:00 pm Fridays throughout the semester
Room 129 GLCH

DateSpeakerTitle
AUG 28O R G A N I Z A T I O N A L    M E E T I N G
SEP 2Dr. Matthew Kane
Program Director for Ecosystem Science
National Science Foundation
“Current Funding Opportunities at the National Science Foundation"
SEP 11NoneNo Seminar This Week
SEP 18Mr. Robert Grizzle
(OU Microbiology Master’s Student)
"Microbial Corrosion: Who's the Real Culprit? A closer inspection of sulfide-producing organisms in petroleum production facilities"
SEP 25Mr. Chris Lyles
OU Microbiology Ph.D. Student
"Is there a Link Between Anaerobic Fuel Biodegradation and Corrosion?"
OCT 2Ms. Kimberly Thomas
(OU Microbiology Ph.D. Student)
"Enzymes involved in Substrate Level Phosphorylation”"
OCT 9Mr. Christopher Marks
OU Microbiology Ph.D. Student
"Preliminary Investigations into the Microbial Biodiversity of the Thermal Springs at Hot Springs National Park, AR"
OCT 16N O   S E M I N A R
OCT 23Mr. Feifei Liu
(OU Microbiology Ph.D. Student)
"Elevated CO2 and Nitrogen alters microbial community functional structure"
OCT 30Mr. Wenbin Liu
(OU Microbiology Ph.D. Student)
"Hydrogen production from cellulose by the co-culture of Clostridium cellulolyticum H10 and Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough"
NOV 6Dr. William Picking
(Chair, Microbiology
Oklahoma State Univ)
"Dissection of the early steps of type III secretion induction in Shigella"
NOV 13Mr. Juan Torres
OU Microbiology Master’s Student
"Microbial production of butanol from synthesis gas via fermentation"
NOV 20Ms. Rosalie Maltby
(OU Microbiology Ph.D. Student)
"Carbon nutrition of the human commensal Escherichia coli HS in the mouse intestine"
NOV 27T H A N K S G I V I N G   H O L I D A Y
DEC 4TBA"TBA"
DEC 11TBA(Final day of classes)