May 12th, NYC Microbial Evolution Group

• Howard Shuman PhD (Columbia University): The surprising origin and perplexing functions of Legionella virulence determinants.
  

Wednesday 12 May 5-6pm. If you do not have access to the 5th floor of the AMNH, please RSVP to Paul and plan to be at the 1st floor, CPW entrance at 4:45pm.

3rd nyc monthly gathering on evolution and microbes

• Gordon Plague (Fordham): Experimental evolution of bacterial pathogens.
• Thomas Templeton (Weill Cornell): A genome sequence survey for Ascogregarina taiwanensis supports evolutionary affiliation, but metabolic diversity between a gregarine and Cryptosporidium.

Tuesday 15 December 5-6pm. If you do not have access to the 5th floor of the AMNH, please RSVP to Susan and plan to be at the 77th Street entrance at 4:45pm.

2nd NYC monthly gathering on microbes and evolution

• Apurva Narechania (AMNH): Next Generation Sequencing as an alternative to DNA-DNA Hybridization in microbial species assignment.
• Shehre-Banoo Malik (NYU Medical Parasitology): Phylogeny, paraphyly and sex in trichomonads.

Tuesday 17 November 5-6pm. If you do not have access to the 5th floor of the AMNH, please RSVP to Susan and plan to be at the 77th Street entrance at 4:50pm.

1st NYC monthly gathering on microbes and evolution

Welcome to the first NYC gathering of scientists working in the general area of microbes and evolution.

when: Tuesday, October 20, 5pm

where: American Museum of Natural History, Graduate School Seminar Room, floor 5

speakers:

• Sandeep Kishore (Weill Cornell Medical College): A Tale at the Tail: expanding RNA polymerase II tails in primate malaria parasites feature a domain only otherwise seen in mammalian polymerases.
• Paul Planet (Columbia University Children's Hospital) - Ready made resistance: evolution of resistance to interferon therapy in the hepatitis C virus.

If you do not have access to the 5th floor or the AMNH, please RSVP to Susan Perkins and then plan on being at the 77th Street entrance at 4:45pm to meet with Susan.