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Regulation of Clostridium difficile virulence factors by the second messenger cyclic diguanylate

Rita Tamayo, from the department of microbiology and immunology at UNC School of Medicine, will present a lecture on the following: Clostridium difficile causes antibiotic-associated diarrhea in humans, with approximately 250,000 cases and 14,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone. A Gram-positive obligate anaerobe, the formation of metabolically dormant, oxygen‐resistant endospores allows transmission between hosts. Once in the anaerobic large…


Cell-cell recognition by the polymorphic myxobacterial TraA receptor leads to beneficial and adversarial interactions

Daniel Wall, from the department of molecular biology at the University of Wyoming, will present this lecture: Cooperative behavior among individuals often involves resource sharing which in turn provides fitness advantages to the community. Myxobacteria are a microbial example where individuals share their resources to build cooperative multicellular communities, as exemplified by fruiting body development. In the case of Myxococcus xanthus,…


"Isa Genzken: Geometries of Lived Perspective"

"Isa Genzken: Geometries of Lived Perspective," Lisa Lee, an assistant professor of art history at Emory University. Lee will discusses German artist Genzken, whose large wooden sculptures challenge the understanding of line and surface. Between 1976 and 1985, the Genzken produced a series of floor-skimming wood sculptures that rigorously elaborate the stereometric forms of the ellipsoid and the hyperboloid. Yet rather than illustrate…


Henry Louis Gates Jr: "Genealogy, Genetics and Race"

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, will present "Genealogy, Genetics and Race" as the 2015 Peabody-Smithgall Lecture. Gates, a celebrated scholar and Peabody winner, has created 13 documentary films and authored 16 books and scores of articles.  Presented by the Peabody Awards and sponsored by the Morton…


Deborah Lipstadt: "The Holocaust: An American Understanding 1945-2015"

Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University presents "The Holocaust: An American Understanding 1945-2015" Lipstadt was appointed by Presidents Clinton and Obama to successive terms on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. A BBC film adaptation of her 2006 book, "History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier," is currently in development. Sponsored by the Office of the…


Georges C. Benjamin: "Becoming the Healthiest Nation: A Public Health Approach"

Georges C. Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, presents "Becoming the Healthiest Nation: A Public Health Approach" as the College of Public Health's 10th Anniversary Lecture. Benjamin is one of the nation's most influential physician leaders and leads the American Public Health Association's push to make America the healthiest nation in one generation. This lecture is part of the UGA fall Signature…


Daniel P. Amos: "The Mason Public Leadership Lecture"

Daniel P. Amos, chairman and CEO of Aflac and A.D. "Pete" Correll, chairman emeritus, Georgia-Pacific, will present this year's Mason Public Leadership Lecture. Amos, who earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from UGA in 1973, has served as CEO of Aflac since 1990 and chairman since 2001. Correll, who earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from UGA in 1963, retired as CEO of Georgia-Pacific and has dedicated…


Jack Rakove: "What did the Constitution Originally Mean?: Two Interpretations"

Jack Rakove, the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science and law at Stanford University, will present this lecture as part of Constitution Day at UGA. Rakove is author and editor of several books related to the founding of America, including "Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution." Sponsored by the School of Public and International Affairs and the Law…


Bob Inglis: "The Climate Conscience of a Conservative"

Inglis is a former South Carolina congressman and co-founder of the Energy and Enterprise Initiative, which promotes free-enterprise solutions to climate challenges. Sponsored by the Division of Biological Sciences, College of Engineering, College of Public Health, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia Initiative for Climate and Society, Odum School of Ecology and the School of Public and International Affairs. Part of the University of…


Allinger Lecture: Adventures with Carbohydrates

Prof. Geert-Jan Boons, of the UGA Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, will present "Adventures with Carbohydrates" as part of the chemistry department colloquia.


"I Am Trayvon Martin: Hoodies Up—How One Case Changed a Nation and Ignited the World."

The University of Georgia Institute for African American Studies will present "I Am Trayvon Martin: Hoodies Up—How One Case Changed a Nation and Ignited the World." The lecture by UGA alumna and civil rights advocate Jasmine Rand will be Sept. 10 at 5 p.m. in the UGA Chapel. Founder of Rand Law LLC and an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law, Rand is a practicing attorney and international legal analyst known for her…


Undergraduates' Solutions to Problems about Key Concepts in Biology

Dr. Paula Lemons, University of Georgia, presents this lecture.


Virulence Determinants of Toxoplasma gondii: Of Mice and Men

Dr. David Sibley, from Washington University School of Medicine, presents this lecture.


Frontiers in Biochemistry: Biofuels and Biomaterials

A lecture on the future of biofuels and biomaterials. 


Protein-protein interactions and iron homeostasis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Dr. Mario Rivera, University of Kansas department of chemistry professor, presents a lecture entitled"Protein-protein interactions and iron homeostasis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa." Hosted by UGA associate professor William Lazilotta.


TGIF: Why do cells need to oxygen and how do they do it?

Dr. Christopher West presents a lecture entitled "Why do cells need to sense oxygen and how do they do it?" Hosted by: Biochemistry Graduate Student Association  


Lunchtime Gallery Talk with Vivienne Varay

Jewelry and Metals MFA candidate, Vivienne Varay will discuss her group exhibition Forms of Adornment: Flesh and the Erotic.


Shouky Shaheen Lecturer: Willian Rudolph, San Antonio Museum of Art

Dr. William Keyse Rudolph is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chief Curator and the Marie and Hugh Halff Curator of American Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art.  Exhibitions he has organized include “Thomas Sully: Painted Performance” (2013–2014), “In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans,” (2011–2012), “Bluebonnets and Beyond: Julian Onderdonk, American Impressionist” (2008–2009), and "Charles Sheeler’…


VAS Series Artist: George Scheer

George Scheer is the co-founder and Director of Elsewhere, a living museum and artist residency set in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC. George is a writer, scholar, and artist who fosters creative communities at the intersection of aesthetics and social change. Other projects include Kulturpark, a public investigation of an abandoned amusement park in East Berlin, and South Elm Projects, a curated series of place-based public art…


Lunchtime Gallery Talk with Ry McCullough

MFA candidate in printmaking and book arts, Ry McCullough will discuss his curated exhibition Slagfields​, a two person exhibition that features word by McCullough and Findlay, Ohio-bases artist Ian Breidenbach. 


VAS Series Artist: Farrah Karapetian, Lecture

Farrah Karapetian is a Los Angeles based artist who works in sculpture, installation and photography. Much of her work is photo based which she achieves without the use of the camera in a process known as photograms. Karapetian explores reality and representation through the constructed image and the use of different mediums. She believes in transparency of process, and in the capacity of photography to communicate the marks of its making. Her…


VAS Series Artist: Henrik Drescher, Lecture

Born in Copenhagen, Henrik Drescher and his family immigrated to the United States in 1967. After only a semester, he broke from his studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to begin a career in illustration. He also traveled throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe, keeping journals of notes and drawings that he later used as portfolios. Drescher’s editorial illustrations appear regularly in The New York Times, The…


Catherine Robson, "Talking to the Enemy: Germany's Capture of British Voices in the Great War"

Catherine Robson is a professor in the English Department at New York University, where she teaches nineteenth-century British cultural and literary studies; she is also a long-time faculty member of the Santa Cruz-based Dickens Project.  She is the author of Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman (2001) and Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem (2012), and co-…


Lunchtime Time Machine: What did the spirits say about Cuba’s future?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Reinaldo Román. Professor Román teaches courses in the history of the Caribbean, Latin America, and religion; he is currently working on a new book about spiritualism and utopian politics in Cuba in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students of all majors welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Are women citizens or mothers of the nation in Africa?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Husseina Dinani. Professor Dinani teaches courses in the history of Africa after 1800, and on women in sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently working on a book about women, citizenship, and development in Tanzania. Students of all majors are welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.
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