Previous Seminars
Spring 2023 Schedule
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Date
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Speaker
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Affiliation
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Presentation
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Feb. 27 (Webinar
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Ashley Shade
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Michigan State University
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Resilience and recovery of soil bacterial communities to an ongoing underground coal
fire
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March 6
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Paige Schlegel
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MontanaState University
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Isolation and Characterization of Pyrosphaera, a novel genus of thermophilic Crenarchaeota
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March 13
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SPRING BREAK
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March 20
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Anna-Louise Resenbach
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Portland State University
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Genomic and functional microbial diversity in deep-sea vent deposits: Indicators of
subsurface geological processes?
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March 27 (Webinar)
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Lei Cheng
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Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu, China
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Novel carbon metabolism by newly identified methanogens and their biochemical role
in the subsurface biosphere
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April 10
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Eran Hood
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University of Alaska
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Impacts of glacier loss on riverine biogeochemistry and ecology
Google Scholar Page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JSE-ii4AAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1 |
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April 17
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Isaac Cann
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University of Illinois
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Fiber degradation: From the cow rumen to thermophilic and hyperthermophilic environments
and to the human colon
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Spring 2022 Schedule
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Date
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Speaker
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Affiliation
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Presentation
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January 24
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Associate Professor, |
From Microbes to Metabolites: Uncovering the Molecular Mediators of Dysbiosis and
Gynecological Disease
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January 31
*Virtual* 8:00 am MST |
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Joint Microbiome Facility, University of Vienna |
Nanopore sequencing of complex samples
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February 7
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Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology |
Microbial Iron Cycling in Brazilian Iron Caves: Microbially induced Cave Formation
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April 11
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Anthony Kohtz
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PhD Student,
Chemistry & Biochemistry, Montana State University |
Metagenomics and cultivation provide new insights on methylotrophic archaea inhabiting
Yellowstone hot springs
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May 2
**Virtual** |
Professor,
University Research Chair, Biology, University of Waterloo |
Microbial ecology of engineered and natural barriers intended for a deep geological
repository of used nuclear fuel
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Fall 2021 Schedule
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Date
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Speaker
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Affiliation
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Presentation
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September 20
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AAAS Executive Fellow/USAID Environmental Specialist, |
Thermophiles; or, the modern Prometheus: Employing extreme microorganisms to understand
extracellular electron transfer and |
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October 4 *virtual seminar*
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Professor, |
From alkaline soda lakes to climate change - from microbial mats to gatorade
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October 18 *virtual seminar*
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Professor, |
Insights into the Evolution of the Mitochondrial Aerobic Respiratory Chain from Anaerobic
Hyperthermophilic Archaea
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November 1 *virtual seminar*
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Associate Professor,
Microbiology, Monash University |
Atmospheric trace gas oxidation: from enzymes to ecosystems
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November 8
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Professor,
Chemical & Biological Engineering & Chemistry, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology |
Epigenome and transcriptome of Desulfovibrio alaskensis G20 under copper stress
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November 15
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Luke Roberson
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Senior Principal Investigator, |
Bioreactors for Space Exploration at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
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Fall 2020 Schedule
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Date
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Speaker
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Affiliation
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Presentation
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Sep 21 |
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech |
How to anaerobically oxidize hydrocarbons: lessons from hydrothermal (and cold) marine sediments
Via WebEx Contact Kristen Griffin for access to this seminar |
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Oct 19 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Marine Science, University of Texas at Austin |
Novel archaeal phyla in extreme environments
Via WebEx Contact Kristen Griffin for access to this seminar |
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Oct 26 *9:00 a.m. MDT |
Director, Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria |
Microbial ecology of hot and cold desert soils
Via WebEx Contact Kristen Griffin for access to this seminar |
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Nov 9 |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-University
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A geochemical route to primordial carbon and energy metabolism
Via WebEx Contact Kristen Griffin for access to this seminar |
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Nov 16 *4:15 p.m. MDT |
Dr. Masaru Nobu Dr. Hiroyuki Imachi |
Asgard archaea and their relationship to eukaryotes
Via WebEx Contact Kristen Griffin for access to this seminar |
Spring 2020 Schedule
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Date
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Speaker
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Affiliation
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Presentation
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Jan 27 |
Dr. Martin Lawrence
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Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, MSU, TBI |
Biological warfare in a Yellowstone hot spring |
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Feb 10 |
Dr. Rebecca Mueller
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Assistant Research Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering, MSU, TBI, CBE |
Microbial community assembly in hot springs across spatial and temporal gradients |
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Mar 2 |
Dr. Sandra Halonen & Dr. Elliott Barnhart |
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, MSU
Research Hydrologist, USGS Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center |
Naegleria fowleri in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks |
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Mar 9 |
Dr. Doug Bartlett
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Professor, Marine Microbial Genetics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego |
Microbial life at the greatest ocean depths |
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The remaining spring 2020 schedule for TBI Seminar was cancelled due to the COVID-19
shutdown
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Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation |
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Oct 7 *Roberts 301 |
Dr. Jeff Gralnick |
Professor, Plant & Microbial Ecology University of Minnesota |
Exploring electric bacteria using genetics, CRISPR, FISH, and phage |
| Nov 4 | Dr. Manuel Kleiner |
Assistant Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology North Carolina State University |
Assessing metabolism and interspecies interactions in microbial symbioses via metaproteomics |
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Nov 5 *MSU Provost Distinguished Lecturer Series 7:00 p.m. Museum of the Rockies |
Dr. Brent Peyton |
Director, TBI; Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering,MSU |
Trails to Yellowstone (and other biotech adventures) |
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Nov 25 *11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Peter Lu |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University |
Single-cell whole-genome sequencing beyond the species level |
Spring 2019
TBI Seminar Schedule Seminar is at 3:10pm, 108 Plant Bioscience Bldg unless otherwise
noted
Dr. Brent Peyton, Director, Thermal Biology Institute; Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering,
MSU, CBE
"Keck Thermophile Project Highlights and TBI Update"
Jacob Munson-McGee, PhD Student, Microbiology and Immunology, MSU
"Virus-host interactions at the single cell level in hot springs of Yellowstone National
Park"
Dr. Mike Wilkins, Asst. Professor, Soil & Crop Sciences, Colorado State University
"Deep shales as windows into cryptic carbon cycling in the terrestrial subsurface"
Dr. Haley Sapers, Postdoctoral Scholar, Human Frontier in Science Cross-disciplinary Fellow, USC/Caltech/NASA
JPL
"Combining Deep UV Raman spectroscopy and stable isotope probing to map microbial
activity on complex environmental substrates: From life detection to the subsurface
biosphere"
Dr. Roland Hatzenpichler, Asst. Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, MSU, TBI, CBE
"A new Confocal Raman microscope with cell-sorting ability at MSU: What to do with
it and how to get seed funding for using it"
Dr. Lee Krumholz, Professor, Microbiology, University of Oklahoma
"Microbial interactions involved in syntrophic growth"
Jesse Peach, PhD Student, Chemistry & Biochemistry, MSU
"Hot Springs Story in Four Parts: Using Large Data Sets to Describe Extreme Environments"
Nick Reichart, PhD Student, Chemistry & Biochemistry, MSU
"Identification of cellulolytic hot spring organisms through bioorthogonal labeling"
Dr. Jim Hemp, Adjunct Instructor, Internal Medicine, University of Utah
"Diversity and evolution of high potential metabolisms: Photosynthesis, aerobic respiration,
and nitrogen cycling"
Dr. Olivia Nigro, Assistant Professor, Biology, Hawaii Pacific University
"Unearthing virus-host relationships in a geothermal oceanic ecosystem"
Fall 2017-Spring 2018
Fall 2017
Dr. Bruce Fouke and Tom Murphy
“The Art of Yellowstone Science: Mammoth Hot Spring as a Window on the Universe”
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Fine Art Landscape and Wildlife Photography
Dr. Tim Magnuson
“What do radioactive hot springs tell us about life on other planets?”
Idaho State University
Dr. Gregg Beckham
“Deconstructing Plants and Plastics with Novel Enzymes and Microbes”
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dr. Geoff Puzon
“Tales from the Golden pipeline: Thermophilic amoebae in West Australian Water Distribution
Systems”
CSIRO, Land and Water Flagship
Dr. Donald Bryant
“Life on the (red) edge of darkness: Photo acclimation of terrestrial cyanobacteria
to far-red and low light”
Pennsylvania State University
Dr. William Levitt
“Taking vitals after death: quantitative isotopic & proteomic indicators of a sulfate
reducers metabolic state”
Dartmouth College
Spring 2018
Dr. Catherine Reardon, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
Dr. John Aston, Idaho National Laboratory
Dr. Richard Gross, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Dana Skorupa and Dr. Rebecca Mueller, Montana State University
Dr. James Wilking, Montana State University
Dr. Jefferson Hungerford, Geologist, Yellowstone National Park
Dr. Masafumi Yoshinaga, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Fall 2016-Spring 2017
TBI Seminar Schedule Seminar is at 3:10pm, 108 Plant Bioscience Bldg unless otherwise noted
Fall 2016
Dr. David Sands, Professor Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University-
Kristopher Hunt, Ph. D Student in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Montana State University
Dr. Valerie Copie, Professor and Director of MSU NMR Center NMR Structural Biology, Protein Biochemistry, Montana State University
Dr. Matthew Stott, Extremophiles Research Group at GNS Science, New Zealand
Dr. Ross Carlson, Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Montana State University
Rebecca Mueller, Keck Postdoctoral Researcher with TBI, Montana State University
Spring
Dr. Ahmet Muren Eren, University of Chicago
Dr. Eric Becraft, Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Sciences
Dr. Andreas Taske, The University of North Carolina Marine Sciences
Fall 2015-Spring 2016
TBI Seminar Schedule Seminar is at 3:10pm, 108 Plant Bioscience Bldg unless otherwise noted
Fall
Kerry Gunther YNP
Harald Engelhardt – Max Planck Inst. Germany
John Spear- CSU
Michael Lienemann- VTT Finland
Alysia Cox- MT Tech
Dan Colman- MSU
Spring
Charlotte Uetrecht- Heinrich Pette Institute
Arthur Edison- University of Georgia
Anne Dekes
Mircea Podar- Oakridge National Laboratory
Fall 2014-Spring 2015
TBI Seminar Schedule Seminar is at 3:10pm, 108 Plant Bioscience Bldg unless otherwise noted
11/17 Cheryl Kuske, Los Alamos National Lab,Chronic deposition impacts on decomposer fungal and bacterialcommunity structure and processes in temperate forests.
12/1 Jennifer Biddle, University of Delaware Science Rocks (literally): microbes and microbialites in Pavilion Lake, Canada
12/8 Becky Hochstein, Montana State University TBA
1/26 Kristine Uldahl, Danish Archaea Centre TBA
2/9 Jake Beam, Ph.D. candidate, MSU, Inskeep Lab. Assembly and Succession of Iron Oxide
Microbial Mat Communities in Acidic Geothermal Springs
2/17 Ramunas Stepanauskas, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. Single cell genomics:
from science fiction to mainstream microbiology **SEMINAR IS ON TUESDAY, Feb. 17 in
the Byker Auditorium (CBB) at 2:10pm due to President’s Day holiday.
2/23 Brian Hedlund, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Insights into candidate microbial phyla
inhabiting geothermal springs in the Great Basin, China, and Yellowstone
3/2 Haluk Beyenal, Washington State University, TBA
3/16 Zack Jay, MSU, Inskeep Lab. TBA
3/23 Luke McKay, MSU Post Doctoral Researcher, Boyd Lab, TBA
3/30 Dave Lageson, MSU, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Variability in stromatolite morphology,
Paleoproterozoic Nash Formation (~2.0 Ga), Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming:
biogenic versus non-biogenic influences
4/13 Zoe Harrold, MSU, Post Doctoral Researcher, Skidmore and Boyd Labs. TBA
4/20 John Coates, UC Berkeley, TBA
Fall 2013-Spring 2014
TBI Seminar Schedule Seminar is at 3:10pm, 108 Plant Bioscience Bldg unless otherwise noted
10/28 Brian Bothner, MSU, Has Omics Gone Viral?
11/4 Ken Stedman, Portland State University, Viruses from Hell
11/25 Gill Geesey ,MSU, Influence of microbial processes on carbonate mineral formation
12/2 Valerie Copie, MSU, Metabolomics studies of the Ignicoccus--‐Nano archeum archaeal system: can metabolite profiling shed light on the mechanism of interspecies interactionsbetween these two archaea?
2/3 Vangie Koonce (PetersLab); Dan MacDonald, Undergrad Workforce Internship Reports
3/3 Steve D’hondt, University of Rhode Island, TBA
3/24 Matthew Fields, MSU, Hydrogenotaxis and Cooperative Resource Sharing
4/7 Frank Roberto, Newmont Mining Corp, Biomining of refractory gold and copper sulfide ores
4/14 Bill Inskeep, MSU,TBA
4/21 Trent Northern, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, TBA
4/28 Robert Powers, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, TBA
5/5 Yukari Maezato, PPNL, Study of Catabolite Repression in Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus