• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Christopher Jones , Felicity Alcock , Nicolas Delalez
• Timing: Mondays, 11am
• Organising department: Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 4 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) talks 4-3-15
  TBA

Thursday 26 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) talks 26-3-15
  TBA

Monday 23 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Stefan Heldt, Sheng-Wen Chiu

Monday 30 November 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Barbara Mertins, Katarzyna Ginda

Monday 22 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Sophie Joliffe, Grace Segall

Monday 29 February 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Aditya Jain, Corinna Oswald

Monday 7 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Katie Robinson, Hayley Brien

Monday 25 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Connor Sharp, Emma Sadler
• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Connor Sharp, Emma Sadler

Monday 9 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Tom Brown, Katarina Jansen
• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Tom Brown, Katarina Jansen

Monday 16 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Marie-Louise Francis, Scott Rata
• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Stefan Heldt, Marie-Louise Francis

Monday 23 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Alberto Merchante Gonzales, Sejeong Lee
• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Alberto Merchante Gonzales, Sejeong Lee

Monday 17 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - MSB seminar - "Single-Molecule Imaging of Electroporated Chemotaxis and Motility Proteins in Live Bacteria" and "Mathematical modelling of double-negative feedback loops in spindle assembly checkpoint signalling"
  Diana Di Paolo, Michael Hopkins

Monday 31 October 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - MSB seminar, "Modelling gene regulation" and "Protein antibiotic import through the iron receptor FpvAI from Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
  Andrew Angel, Paul White

Monday 7 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - MSB seminar, "Re-engineering riboswitches" and "In vivo Mutagenesis Studies on the Interaction Between the Cytochrome c maturation proteins CcmC and CcmE"
  Thomas Folliard, Shevket Shevket

Monday 21 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - MSB seminar, "How a cell decides whether to proliferate or to repair its genome" and "d1 heme biosynthesis puzzle: finding the pieces and putting them together"
  Stefan Heldt, Shilpa Bali

Monday 28 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - MSB seminar, "High resolution structure of the TatBC complex - a (never) ending story" and "Peptidoglycan recycling in the Gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus and its potential role during infection"
  Barbara Mertins, Jack Dorling

Monday 12 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - MSB seminar
  George Wadhams, Christopher Jones

Monday 9 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - MSB seminar
  Professor Colin Kleanthous (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford), Axel Nystrom

Monday 23 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - MSB seminar: "The E. coli twin-arginine translocation channel is not assembled via a charge zipper mechanism", and "Imaging colicin translocation across the E. coli cell envelope"
  Felicity Alcock, Marie-Louise Francis

Monday 30 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - MSB seminar: "Dynamics of cell cycle transitions" and "Interactions of Colicin E9 at the E. coli outer membrane"
  Bela Novak, Nick Housden

Monday 24 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - MSB Seminar Series
  Professor David Sherratt (University of Oxford), Tom Brown

Monday 8 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - MSB Seminar Series
  Emma Sadler, Frederic Lauber (University of Oxford)

Monday 15 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - MSB Seminar: "Protein exchange in bacterial machines" and "Two interlinked bistable mechanisms generate a robust M phase"
  Judy Armitage (Biochemistry), Scott Rata

Monday 22 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - MSB Seminar Series
  Jarno Makela, Katarina Jansen (Kleanthous group)

Monday 5 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - MSB Seminar Series
  Stuart Ferguson, Onno Akkermans

Monday 12 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - MSB Seminar Series
  Alberto Merchante Gonzales, Sam Hickman

Monday 9 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Bacterial chemotaxis: Investigating the diffusion of CheY6 in photoheterotrophic and aerobic Rhodobacter sphaeroides using single molecule tracking
  Jia Hui Khoo

Monday 16 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Modelling the Effects of Antisense Transcription" and "Response of the P. aeruginosa flagella motor to changing load"
  Andrew Angel, Sam Tusk

Monday 23 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Cooperation and competition in microbes: from model systems to the microbiome
  Kevin Foster

Monday 30 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "How do bacteria navigate through biofilms?" and "Does MukBEF transport DNA?"
  James Wheeler, Florence Wagner

Monday 6 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "TBA" and "Cell size control in budding yeast"
  Stefan Heldt, Will Smith

Monday 20 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Exploring the Structure and Import Mechanism of Protein Antibiotic Pyocin S5" and "Cell wall aminosugar recycling and pathogenesis in the Gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus"
  Hannah Behrens, Jack Dorling

Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Towards a cryo-EM structure of the twin-arginine translocation (Tat) substrate receptor" and "Interference competition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during chronic infection"
  Justin Deme, Daniel Unterweger

Monday 4 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - “The E. coli MatP - MukB - ParC interplay” and “The tortoise and the hare: how mutations of twitching motility affect bacterial collective behaviours”
  Karthik Rajasekar, Oliver Meacock

Monday 11 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "TBA" and "Quitters and persisters: How can E. coli survive ciprofloxacin treatment?"
  Nicolas Delalez, Mathew Stracy

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Title 1:"Fungal and bacterial membrane proteins as drug targets", title 2: "Towards function of a Radical SAM Enzyme, NirJ of d1-heme biosynthesis pathway"
  Various Speakers

Sunday 21 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Talk 1: "The MukBEF complex: reconstitution of its loading onto DNA and exploration of the role of conformational dynamics "; Talk 2: "The nuclease bacteriocins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumonia"
  Various Speakers

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Dr Stephan Uphoff: "Visualizing the regulation of mutagenesis in single cells", Scott Rata: "Two interlinked bistable mechanisms generate a robust M phase"
  Various Speakers

Monday 5 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - MSB seminar: "Structural Studies of DNA Import in Naturally Competent Bacteria" and "Pause, rewind, go! - Investigating polymerase dynamics via stochastic models"
  August (Silale), Tom (Brown)

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Mathew Stracy (Sherratt group): “Quitters and persisters: How can E. coli survive ciprofloxacin treatment?", Alberto Merchante González (Angel group): "The Yeast Metabolic Cycle: Understanding Gene Expression through Statistical Analysis"
  Various Speakers

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Dr Ravinash Krishna Kumar: ‘Spatially positioning bacteria using a 3D droplet printer’, Michael Hopkins: 'Mathematical modelling of the mitotic checkpoint'
  Various Speakers

Monday 26 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Samuel Bannon: "Purification and structural studies of the lipid II flippase, MurJ", Isabelle Pickett: TBC, Emma Jones: TBC
  Various Speakers

Monday 5 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Jethro Lundie Brown: “Towards the structural characterisation of the lipid-modifying multiple peptide resistance factor”; George Bates: "Investigating the role of GldJ in gliding motility”
  Various Speakers
• 11:30 - Martin Vesely: "Pyocin Translocation across the Iron receptor FpvAI in P. aeruginosa"; Paul Guy: “Investigating the Type IX Secretion System Targeting Domain”
  Various Speakers

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Emma Sadler, Will Smith

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Prof Béla Novák: 'Dynamics of cell cycle surveillance mechanisms', June Han: 'Characterising sRNAs as tunable regulators for synthetic biology application', Katie Paul: 'Investigating stator dynamics in Rhodobacter sphaeroides'
  Various Speakers
• 11:00 - "Dynamics of cell cycle surveillance mechanisms"; "Investigating stator dynamics in Rhodobacter sphaeroides"; "Characterising sRNAs as tunable regulators for synthetic biology applications"
  Bela Novak, June Han, Katie Paul

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - "Protein secretion by Flavobacterium johnsoniae" and "Super-resolution microscopy to study folded protein translocation across membranes in E. coli"
  Frederic Lauber (University of Oxford), Sam Hickman

Monday 4 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Patrick Inns, Jarno Makela

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Helen Miller, Jonathan Goult

Monday 18 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - "Assembling a transporter for folded proteins" and "Single-molecule approaches to study MukBEF translocation on DNA"
  Man Zhou, Felicity Alcock

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Bacterial navigation without a canonical chemotaxis system
  James Wheeler, Jia Hui Khoo

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Common design principles of size control in proliferating cells & Quantifying self-lysis in colicin-producing bacteria
  Stefan Heldt, Elisa Granato

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - How the protein antibiotic pyocin S5 enters Pseudomonas aeruginosa & Demixing with motility: defect-mediated segregation of bacterial populations
  Hannah Behrens, Oliver Meacock

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Dimerize or die? The functional role of Escherichia coli kleisin MukF
  Sandip Kumar (University of Oxford ), Rachel Bakers (University of Oxford )

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Quitters and persisters: How do non-resistant E. coli survive antibiotic treatment? & Elucidating the spatiotemporal organization of outer membrane proteins
  Mathew Stracy, Gideon Mamou

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - structural snapshots of the Type 9 secretion system translocon reveal a new protein transport mechanism & The role of Tol-Pal system in stabilizing outer membrane
  Justin Deme, Joanna Szczepaniak

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Structural characterisation of the fungal proton pump Pma1 & Bacterial Weapons: Studies of Colicin Translocation
  Sabine Heit, Ruth Cohen Khait

Monday 14 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Characterisation of klebicin translocation pathways
  Nick Housden, Rory Hennell-James

Monday 21 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - "The T9SS outer membrane translocon - an update" & "Dynamic architecture of the Escherichia coli Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) complex, MukBEF"
  Frederic Lauber (University of Oxford), Karthik Rajasekar

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The quest for a single-molecule assay that recapitulates DNA organisation by MukBEF and The T9SS outer membrane translocon - an update
  Dr Gemma Fisher (University of Oxford), Frederic Lauber (University of Oxford)

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Investigation of the DNA uptake machinery in naturally competent bacteria and Delayed adaptation to oxidative stress cause mutagenesis pulse in E. coli
  August (Silale), Valentine Lagage (University of Oxford )

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - "Imaging the organization of the DNA mismatch repair pathway using single-molecule tracking" and "Investigation of Bacteroidetes Gliding Motility"
  Nehir Banaz, Andreas Kjaer

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - "The Escherichia coli SMC complex, MukBEF, compacts the chromosome lengthwise by forming a ring-shaped axial filament" and "Translocation Dynamics of Protein Antibiotics across the Outer Membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
  Jarno Makela, Jonathan Goult

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - "Characterisation of the Type IX Secretion System attachment complex", "Developing an assay for the identification of antibiotic targets using photoactivated single-molecule tracking","The dynamics and spatial organisation of mutagenesis in E. coli"
  Alex Mingjun Xu, Hannah Glover, Madeleine Hooper

Monday 11 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - "Towards 3D tracking of electroporated, fluorescently labelled CheY proteins" & "Single molecule assays recapitulate mechanism of chromosome organization by E.coli SMC: MukBEF - Approach to unified model of all SMC proteins"
  Helen Miller, Man Zhou

Monday 18 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Capturing protein transport in bacteria using ultra-long single-molecule tracking & The organization and dynamics of OmpF in E.coli
  Sam Hickman, Patrick Inns

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Quantifying self-lysis in colicin-producing bacteria
  Elisa Granato

Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Commitment issues: regulation of the proliferation-quiescence decision in eukaryotic cell" and "The bow and the sword: the evolution of bacterial weapon systems"
  Stefan Heldt, Will Smith

Monday 28 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Imaging organisation in the Escherichia coli outer membrane" and "Macromolecular crowding in Rhodobacter sphaeroides"
  Sandip Kumar (University of Oxford ), Jia Khoo

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Investigating Salmonella-microbiome interactions" and "Determining the mechanism of ColicinE9 import into host cells"
  Olivier Cunrath, Melissa Webby

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Investigating the Fitness Effects of Mobile Colistin Resistance" and "Combining Structured Illumination with Solid Immersion Lens to investigate MipZ ‘rings’ in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides"
  Lois Ogunlana, Stephen Maughan

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Colicins: Where do they go?" and " Understanding human gut bacteria ecology"
  Ruth Cohen Khait, Holly Wang