February 7, 2024
Jo Handelsman, Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Vilas Research Professor, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. “Finding THOR’s Hammer: Multiomics search for the driver of a microbial community.”
February 22, 2023
Colleen M. Cavanaugh, Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology, Associate of Leverett House, Harvard University. “Modern mysteries in microbial symbioses: Missing enzymes, absentee guts, and a (not so secret) guiding principle.”
April 5, 2022
Mitchell Sogin, Ph.D., Distinguished Emeritus Senior Scientist, Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. “Setting the Pace of Discovery.” Download flyer
February 2, 2021
Edward F. DeLong, Professor and C-MORE Co-Director, University of Hawai`i, Mānoa. “Genomic perspectives on microbial ecology and evolution in the sea: A rising tide lifts all boats.” Download flyer
March 3, 2020
Tom Schmidt, Professor, Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Internal Medicine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan. “Ecological engineering of the human gut microbiome.” Download flyer
February 26, 2019
Esther Angert, Professor of Microbiology, Cornell University. “Fish tales about giant bacteria.” Download flyer
May 7, 2018
Norman R. Pace, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado-Boulder. “Into the natural microbial world: the beginnings of metagenomics.” Download flyer
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