Fall 2005
  Date   Speaker   Title
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9/12/2005 Seminar Series Kickoff! (TBI Faculty, Staff, and Students)
9/19/2005 Dr. Matthew Posewitz "Identification of Genes Required for Sustained H2 Production in Phototrophic Organisms Using Chemochromic Sensors"
9/26/2005 Tamar Barkay "The Bacterial Mercury Resistance System: Role in Mercury Geochemistry and Possible Evolution in Geothermal Environments"
10/3/2005 No seminar No seminar
10/11/2005 Mark Young Community Lecture at the Emerson: Viruses: The Hotshots of Yellowstone.”
10/24/2005 Curtis Suttle “Viruses of the Sea: What’s New and Not So New"
10/31/2005 ReBecca Hunt “The Precambrian Fossil Record of Glacier National Park”
11/7/2005 Alexis Templeton Metal-Oxidizing Biofilms and Submarine Volcanoes”
11/14/2005 Blake Wiedenheft and George Gauss Functional and Structural Studies of DPS: An Archaeal Anti-oxidant Protein
11/15/2005 Kathy Sheehan Community Lecture at the Emerson: "A Walk in the Park: Exploring Yellowstone’s Microbes"
11/21/2005 James van Etten The Unusual Lifestyle of Giant Algal Viruses”
11/28/2005 No Seminar TBI Faculty Meeting
12/5/2005 Nikolay Zorin TBA
 
Fall 2006
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9/11/2006 Brian Bothner So Many Proteins, So Little Time
9/18/2006 No seminar None
9/25/2006 Dan Arp Genome-enabled studies of chemolithoautotrophy, iron metabolism, and stress in the ammonia-oxidizing bacterium, Nitrosomonas europaea
10/2/2006 Anne Summers 19F-NMR, XAFS, and Titration Calorimetry Reveal Metal-Specific Allostery in Free and DNA-bound MerR
10/9/2006 Roger Lasken Whole genome amplification from single bacterial cells using Multiple Displacement Amplificatio
10/16/2006 Russell Vreeland Lessons from Ancient Biomaterials: Can they be Applied in Thermal Biology?
10/23/2006 Paul Blum Functional genomics and the genetics of thermoacidophilic archaea
10/30/2006 Greg Druschel Microbial Geochemistry: A chemical look at the role microbes play in geological and environmental processes
11/6/2006 Mircea Podar How microbes adapt to extremes: it's all in their (meta)genomes
11/13/2006 Henry Ehrlich TBA
11/20/2006 Joe Grzymski Environmental microbiology in the informatics era: lessons from extreme environments
11/27/2006 Arina Omer Small non-coding RNAs in Archaea
12/4/2006 James Elkins The “Korarchaeota” revealed: Identification, cultivation, and genomics of a novel hyperthermophile inhabiting Obsidian Pool, YNP
 
Spring 2007
  Date   Speaker   Title
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1/22/2007 Dr. John Stolz "Microbial transformation of arsenic: from geocycles to genomes"
2/5/2007 Dr. Lee Krumholz Microbiology of a Mesophilic Sulfur Spring in Oklahoma
2/12/2007 Dr. Rachel Whittaker Microbial Marsupials: Adaptive Radiation and Divergence on Geothermal Islands
2/19/2007 No Classes (no seminar)
2/26/2007 Dr. Robin Gerlach "Chromatographic and Mass Spectrometric Observation of the Transformation of Organic Compounds at Elevated Temperatures"
3/5/2007 Dr. Thane Papke Population Genomics and Genetics of Haloarchaea
3/12/2007 Spring Break! (no seminar)
3/19/2007 Vicki Thompson "Extremophiles at the INL: Catalase, Xylanase and Hydrogen”
3/26/2007 Dana Skorupa and Seth D'Imperio “A Functional Genomics Approach to Cyanidia Ecology” and “Arsenic, Sulfide, Hydrogen, and the Microbes That Love Them”
4/2/2007 Dr. John Baross CANCELLED due to illness
4/9/2007 Dr. Debashish Bhattacharya CANCELLED due to illness
4/13/2007 Gijs Kuenen “Microbiology and application of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (Anammox)”
4/16/2007 Dr. Cathy Zabinski and Ylva Lekberg "Utilizing natural gradients in ecological research – Examples from Yellowstone National Park"
4/23/2007 Dr. Juergen Wiegel "Living in sun heated alkaline salt brines? Halophilic alkalithermophiles, a novel group of triple extremophiles"
4/30/2007 Dr. Scott Ensign "How aerobic and anaerobic bacteria grow using acetone: elucidating a 50 year old puzzle"
5/7/2007 Robert Blankenship "Energy and Electron Transfer Processes in Green Phototrophic Bacteria"
5/14/2007 Jocelyne DiRuggiero "Microbial Genome Evolution in Hydrothermal Environments"
4/14/2008 David Prangishvili TBA
 
Fall 2007
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9/17/2007 Dr. Tuomo Glumoff Multifunctional enzymes of fatty acyl beta-oxidation – a structural perspective
9/24/2007 Dr. Peter Flynn A new paradigm for studies of encapsulated proteins
10/1/2007 Dr. Matthew Fields Characterization of Diverse Anaerobes via Genomes and Physiological Traits
10/8/2007 No Seminar Columbus Day
10/15/2007 Dr. Hope Lee Evaluation of viral and prokaryotic community dynamics in Alvord Desert Hot Springs
10/29/2007 Dr. Angela Gronenborn CANCELLED Structures and Carbohydrate Binding of the CVNH Family of Lectins
11/12/2007 No Seminar Veteran's Day (observed)
11/19/2007 Dr. Luis M. Rubio Biosynthesis of the iron-molybdenum cofactor of nitrogenase
12/10/2007 Dr. Chris Gammons Biogeochemistry of flooded mine waters in Butte
 
Spring 2008
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2/4/2008 Dr. John Leigh Nitrogen regulation in Methanococcus maripaludis: the archaeal perspective
2/11/2008 Jeff Boyd Thiamine Biosynthesis, Iron-Sulfur Cluster Metabolism, and ORFs of Unknown Function; Addressing Metabolic Complexity Using Salmonella enterica
2/18/2008 No seminar No classes (President's Day)
2/25/2008 Dr. John Peters Update on TBI
3/3/2008 Dr. Ginny Edgcomb Protist diversity of oxic/anoxic interface: Cariaco and Bannock Basins
3/10/2008 No seminar (Spring Break)
3/17/2008 TBA TBA
3/24/2008 Dr. Heidi Sofia Genome comparison analysis for metagenomics
3/31/2008 Dr. Brian Hedlund Playa lakes: Insights into Mars' last aquatic systems?
4/7/2008 Dr. Paul King Functional and applied studies on hydrogenases for solar hydrogen production systems
4/14/2008 TBI/BSI "University of the Yellowstone" award grantees A Glimpse of Yellowstone through the Eyes of Artists, Historians, and Political Scientists
4/21/2008 Dr.Chuanlun Zhang Carbon and energy metabolism of Archaea in terrestrial hot springs
4/28/2008 Deborah Newby Microbial Metabolic Systems Approach to the Evaluation of Hydrogenic Activity of Extremophilic Anaerobic Carboxydotrophs
 
Fall 2008
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9/8/2008 Russell T. Hill, Ph.D. Bacterial Symbionts of Marine Sponges: Diversity, Roles and Applications
9/22/2008 TBI FACULTY MEETING TBA
9/29/2008 Forest Rohwer, PhD TBA
10/6/2008 Britt Hedman, PhD Structural biology with synchrotron radiation - present and future
10/20/2008 Michael Russell, PhD T.B.A.
10/27/2008 Rob Knight, PhD "Defining a core human gut microbiome".
11/10/2008 Michael Rossmann, PhD TBA