Microbiology
Today, October 9, 2025
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Microbial evolution: Deep-branching lineages and symbiosis reshape the Tree of Life
Purificación López-García -- CNRS & Université Paris-Saclay | Host -- Betül Kaçar
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Thursday, October 16, 2025
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Engineering and evolving insect symbionts: bug fixes and new features
Jeffrey Barrick -- The University of Texas at Austin | Host -- Charlie Mo
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Thursday, October 23, 2025
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The Population and Evolutionary Biology of Antibiotic and Phage Therapy
Bruce Levin -- Emory University | Host -- MDTP Students, contact Tony Yao
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Thursday, October 30, 2025
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Too Hot to Handle?: Temperature shapes the endosymbiont community of a spider
Matt Doremus -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Host -- Kerri Coon
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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FRESH Food Safety Webinar
Safety of food additives and ingredients: Association versus causation, myths and realities
11 a.m.-12 p.m.
Thursday, November 6, 2025
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VirB, CTP, and the mechanism of antisilencing virulence genes in Shigella flexneri
Helen Wing -- Stanford University | Host -- Briana Burton
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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FRESH Food Safety Webinar
Application of risk models to physical dry-cleaning: scenario testing to optimize interventions and quantify risk reduction
11 a.m.-12 p.m.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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FRESH Food Safety Webinar
Disease epidemiology and prevention in food production animals
11 a.m.-12 p.m.
Thursday, November 20, 2025
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Microbial physiology in an ecosystem context
Aretha Fiebig -- Michigan State University | Host -- Federico Rey
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Thursday, December 4, 2025
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Genomic Time Travel: Decoding Microbial Chronicles of Earth's Evolution
Rika Anderson -- Carleton College | Host -- Betül Kaçar
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Thursday, December 11, 2025
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Academic drug discovery: challenges and opportunities
Zhiqiang An -- University of Texas Health Science Center | Host -- Jae-Hyuk Yu
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences