Our meetings take place every second Thursday of the month at 1:00 PM EST
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Missed a meeting? Catch up with the recording on our slack channel!
Meeting Schedule
Current Series: Spring 2023
February 9th, 2023
Hosts: Mayel Silva-Flores and Farid Halim
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Dr. Anna Rasmussen, Stanford University
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"Insights into massive ammonia-oxidizing archaea blooms in South San Francisco Bay using meta-omics and nitrification rate data"
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Dr. Nahui Medina, University of Minnesota
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"Domesticating Archaea"
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March 9th, 2023
Hosts: Farid Halim and Karol Sanchez
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Blake Downing, UC Berkeley
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"The non-overlapping roles of the Rnf complex and associated multi-heme cytochrome c MmcA during methanogenesis in Methanosarcina acetivorans"
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Jasleen Saini, University of Arkansas
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"Genetic analysis of the role of the SUF Fe-S cluster biogenesis system in methanogenic archaea"
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April 13th, 2023
Hosts: Rylee Hackley and Priyanka Chatterjee
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Dr. Johana Rotterova, University of Rhode Island
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Title TBD
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Dr. Marie Schoelmerich, UC Berkeley
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Title TBD
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May 11th, 2023
Hosts: Mackenzie Lynes and Rylee Hackley
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Dr. Mar Martinez-Pastor, Duke University
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Title TBD
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Dr. Brett Baker, The University of Texas at Austin
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Title TBD
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Dr. Mansha Seth-Pasricha, Princeton University
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Title TBD
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Previous Presentations: Fall 2022
October 13th, 2022
Hosts: Arthur Charles-Orszag and Karol Sanchez
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Sean Carr, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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"Expressing extremophilic archaeal enzymes in mesophilic heterologous hosts"
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Stefan Schulze, Rochester Institute of Technology
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"Harvesting glycoproteomes from public proteomics datasets across a diverse set of archaeal species"
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Cody Lloyd, Pennsylvania State University
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"Discovery, structure, and mechanistic analysis of a tetraether lipid synthase"
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November 10th, 2022
Hosts: Rylee Hackley and Mackenzie Lynes
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Bradley Tolar, University of North Carolina - Wilmington
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"A glimpse into the dynamics of an unexpected summer bloom of ammonia-oxidizing Archaea within southeastern US salt marshes"
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Jordan Greco, LambdaVision
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"Bacteriorhodopsin-Based Artificial Retinas"
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Pedro Leao, University of Texas
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"Asgard archaea viruses"
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December 8th, 2022
Hosts: Farid Halim and Rylee Hackley
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Paige Schlegel, Montana State University
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"Isolation and characterization of Pyrosphaera, a novel genus of Crenarchaeota"
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Nicole Fiore, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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"Calcium carbonate as a sole inorganic carbon source for methanogenesis at alkaline pH"
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Fernando Medina Ferrer, UC Berkeley
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"Experimental evolution reveals novel regulators of methylotrophic methanogenesis in Methanosarcina acetivorans"
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Photo by Arthur Charles-Orszag