Microbiology
Thursday, January 29, 2026
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Regulation and mechanisms of horizontal gene transfer by natural transformation
Speaker: Ankur Dalia -- Indiana University | Host -- Mark Mandel
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Saturday, January 31, 2026
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Badgers on Tap: Friends, Foes, and Fixers: The Microbes in Us at Uncommon Pints!
Presenters: Ania Bialic, Alex Dobrila, and Doran Goldman
4 p.m.
27 Brown Blvd, Rothschild, WI 54474
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
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Badgers on Tap: Imagined Worlds, Microbial Realities at The Tardigrade's Shelf!
Presenters: Joie Ling, Chandler Holschbach, and Seth Greengo
6 p.m.
501 N Richmond St, Appleton, WI 54911-4674, United States
Thursday, February 5, 2026
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Phage Foundry, a systematic multi-scale phage characterization capability to combat bacterial pathogens
Vivek Mutalik -- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Host -- Karthik Anantharaman
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Thursday, February 12, 2026
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Cyclic-di-AMP modulates cytoplasmic turgor pressure to protect cells from lysis
David Rudner -- Harvard University | Host -- Tu-Anh Huynh
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Thursday, February 19, 2026
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Microbes and Climate Warming: Impacts, Feedbacks, and Modeling
Jizhong (Joe) Zhou -- University of Oklahoma | Host -- Jade Wang
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Thursday, February 26, 2026
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Swarming motility and the control of flagellar number in Bacillus subtilis
Dan Kearns -- Indiana University | Host -- Briana Burton
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Thursday, March 5, 2026
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Going Where The Wild Things Are: Ocean microbes, their interactions & ecosystem consequences
Alexandra Worden -- University of Chicago, Marine Biological Laboratory | Host -- Katrina Forest
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Thursday, March 12, 2026
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TBA
Clay Fuqua -- Indiana University | Host -- David Hershey
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Thursday, March 19, 2026
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Using Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases to Discover and Produce New Bioactive Molecules Inspired by Natural Products
Andrew Gulick -- SUNY Buffalo | Host -- Michael Thomas
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Thursday, March 26, 2026
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Investigating fundamental growth rate restrictions in the dominant and cosmopolitan SAR11 bacterioplankton
Cameron Thrash -- University of Southern California | Host -- Trina McMahon
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Thursday, April 9, 2026
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From Metabolomics and Fluxomics to Metabolic Engineering
Junyoung (Jun) Park -- University of California, Los Angeles | Host -- Daniel Amador-Noguez
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Thursday, April 16, 2026
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Inorganic polyphosphate, (p)ppGpp, and a journey through bacterial physiology
Michael Gray -- University of Alabama at Birmingham | Host -- Briana Burton
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
Thursday, April 23, 2026
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TBA
Romy Chakraborty -- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Host -- Erica Majumder
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences