Archived Events

We have 2 awesome talks lined up:

Luis Zea, Assistant Research Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Talk title: "Bacterial Phenomena Observed in Space"

Tanya Alderete, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Integrative Physiology Talk title: "Environmental Exposures and the Human Gut Microbiome Across the Lifecourse”

We have two awesome speakers lined up for our last meeting of the semester!  Please join us on Zoom:  https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/119432036

Corrie Detweiler, Professor, MCDB, "Exploring new ways to treat bacterial infections”

Cody Warren, Postdoctoral Fellow, BioFrontiers,  "Identification of a primate hemorrhagic fever virus fully competent for replication in human cells"

The 65th Annual WInd River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology will be held virtually June 16-17, 2021.

This year's keynote speakers are Beronda L. Montgomery (Michigan State University) and Michael D.L. Johnson (University of Arizona).  

Abstract submissions are due April 16, 2021.  For more information go to http://wriver.sites.unlv.edu

Abstract deadline is July 28th.  Registration deadline is August 20th.

More information at https://rmgs2021.wixsite.com/rmgshome

The series showcases up and coming junior researchers studying microbiomes from a variety of systems.

Thursdays, 12-1pm

Speaker schedule here

Registration

Please join us for our first meeting of Spring 2022!

We will have two speakers for this in person meeting.

- Dr. Laura Parfrey (Assoc. Professor, Univ of British Columbia) "Stability and host specificity in the seaweed microbiome"

- Dr. Uday Tak (postdoc, Aaron Whiteley group, CU) "Membrane pore-formation in bacterial antiphage systems"

The full day symposium is Friday April 15 with a kick-off Thursday evening at New Belgium. The keynote speakers are Drs. Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello and Zakee Sabree. 

Information at http://frontrangemicrobiomesymposium.com/

For our first CME meeting of the semester, the guest speaker will be Jennifer Pett-Ridge  from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The title of her talk is "Microbes Persist: how soil moisture regimes shape the ecophysiology and ecology of wild soil microbiomes".

Our guest speaker this month will be Cathy Lozupone an Assoc. Professor in the Division of Biomedical Informatics & Personalized Medicine at CU-Anschutz. The title of her talk is: "Immune modulation by the gut microbiome in people living with HIV".

Our first CME meeting of 2023 will be devoted to lightning talks by graduate students and postdocs!  Please join us to learn what microbial research is going on here at CU.  To sign up to give a lightning talk (3-5 mins), please go here.

Food and drinks will be served after the talks!