| DATE |
LECTURER |
TITLE |
HOST |
| Feb 5 |
Dr. Sarah O'Connor,
Dept. of Chemistry, MIT |
Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Madagascar Periwinkle |
Mark Distefano |
| Feb 12 |
Dr. Boris Shklovskii,
UM Dept. of Physics |
Ion Transport in Biological Ion Channels and Solid State Nano-pores |
Ted Davis |
| Mar 5 |
Dr. Adrian Hegeman, UM Dept. of Horticultural Science |
Plant Metabolomics Methodology: Using/ in Vivo/ Stable-Isotopic Labeling for Elemental Composition Assignments |
Wei-Shou Hu |
| Mar 19 |
Dr. John Battista, Louisiana State University |
Directed Evolution of Ionizing Radiation Resistance in Escherichia coli |
Jeff Gralnick |
| Mar 26 |
Dr. Ron Oremland, USGS, Menlo Park CA |
The Ecology of Arsenic: A lurid tale of murder, mayhem, mobilization in malodorous Mono muds, microbes, Mars and minimal methane |
Daniel Bond |
| Apr 2 |
Dr. Chad Saltikov, Dept. of Environmental Toxicology, UCSD |
Metal-reducing Pathways in Bacteria that Influence Arsenic Fate and Transport |
Jeff Gralnick |
Apr 9
10-11AM |
Erik Reynolds, MicE Program, University of Minnesota |
TBA |
|
Apr 14
Noon |
Steve Heilmann |
Hydrothermal Carbonization of
Algae |
|
| Apr 16 |
Dr. Evgeny Katz, Dept. of Chemistry & Biomolecular Science, Clarkson Univ. |
TBA |
Ping Wang |
| Apr 23 |
Dr. David Richardson,
Univ. of East Anglia |
Electron transfer to the microbe-mineral interface |
Jeff Gralnick |
| Apr 30 |
Dr. George Philippidis,
Florida International Univ. |
Production of Sustainable Biofuels: Opportunities and Challenges |
Wei-Shou Hu |
| May 7 |
Chris Flynn, MicE Program, University of Minnesota |
TBA |
|
| May 14 |
Dr. Ramon Gonzalez, Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Eng., Rice Univ. |
Understanding and Harnessing the Microbial Fermentation of Glycerol: A New Path to Biofuels and Biochemicals |
Wei-Shou Hu |
May 26
2-3PM
|
Noriko Masuda, MicE Program,University of Minnesota |
"Production of Eicosapentaenoic Acid(EPA) in Shewanella frigidimarina." |
|
| May 28 |
Ted LaBelle, MicE Program,University of Minnesota |
TBA |
|
