The Bug Club is a journal club within the Department of Microbiology and Immunology organized for the discussion of bacteriology related topics. The club format provides an informal setting for interested students and faculty to discuss and to critically evaluate papers from the current literature. Bug Club discussions may deal with any aspect of bacteriology. Historically, these have included a broad range of topics including bacterial physiology, metabolism, genetics, molecular biology, antibiotic resistance, or pathogenesis.

Fall 2011

September 16, 2011:  "TLR Signaling is Required for Salmonella typhimurium Virulence"
Matthew Ellison, Ph.D., Research Associate, Microbiology & Immunology 

September 23, 2011:  "Lipooligosaccharide is required for the generation of infectious elementary bodies in Chlamydia trachomatis"
Claire Knoten, Doctoral Candidate, Microbiology & Immunology

October 14, 2011:  "Acceleration of Emergence of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance in Connected Microenvironments"
Morgan Harrell, Research Specialist, Microbiology & Immunology

October 28, 2011:  "Discovery and Characterization of a Unique Mycobacterial Heme Acquisition System" 
Akarsh Manne, Research Specialist, Microbiology & Immunology  

November 11, 2011:  "Engineering Microbes to Sense and Eradicate Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a Human Pathogen"
Ivan Ndamukong, Ph.D., Research Instructor, Microbiology & Immunology 

December 9, 2011:  "D-amino Acids Trigger Biofilm Disassembly"
Yanlu Cao, Doctoral Candidate, Microbiology & Immunology

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Spring 2011

January 14, 2011: "A novel copper-responsive regulon in Mycobacterium tuberculosis"
Eric Anderson, Ph.D., Research Associate, Microbiology & Immunology 

January 28, 2011:  "CANCELED" "Role of a Zn-independent DksA in Zn homeostasis and stringent response"
Marty Roop, Ph.D., Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

February 3, 2011:  Note: Thursday - "Role of a Zn-independent DksA in Zn homeostasis and stringent response"
Marty Roop, Ph.D., Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

February 11, 2011:  "Lipoprotein Cofactors Located in the Outer Membrane Activate Bacterial Cell Wall Polymerases" 
Anna Krykunivsky, Bristol Student, Microbiology & Immunology 

February 25, 2011:  "Signal integration by DegS and RseB governs the σ^Ε mediated envelope stress response in Escherichia coli"
Yanlu Cao, Doctoral Student, Microbiology & Immunology 

March 11, 2011:  "The Opportunistic Human Pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii Senses and Responds to Light"
Kyle Tipton, Doctoral Student, Microbiology & Immunology

March 25, 2011:  "Functional Analysis of VopF Activity Required for Colonization in Vibrio cholerae"
Syed Sultan, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Scholar, Microbiology & Immunology

April 8, 2011:  "Iron enzyme ribulose-5-phosphate 3-epimerase in Escherichia coli is rapidly damaged by hydrogen peroxide but can be protected by manganese"
Michael Betteken, Doctoral Student, Microbiology & Immunology

April 29, 2011:  "Targeting botulinum neurotoxin persistence by the ubiquitinproteasome system"
Tristan Boquoi,  Bristol Student, Microbiology & Immunology

May 27, 2011:  "Expression hierarchy in the Yersinia type III secretion system established through YopD recognition of RNAmmi"
Dave Martinson, Doctoral Candidate, Microbiology & Immunology

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Spring 2010

January 8, 2010 - "Functional Analysis of the Quorum-Sensing Streptococcal Invasion Locus (sil)"
Clay Caswell, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Microbiology & Immunology

January 22, 2010-  "A Protein Secretion System linked to bacteroidete gliding mortility and pathogenesis"
Yanlu Cao, Doctoral Student, Microbiology & Immunology

February 12, 2010 - "Composite system mediates two-step DNA uptake into Helicobacter pylori" 
Matthew Ellison, Ph.D., Research Associate, Microbiology & Immunology 

February 26, 2010 - "WHEN SCIENTISTS ATTACK!!  If you kick the dogma, it might bite you”

Eric Anderson, Research Associate, Microbiology & Immunology

March 26, 2010 - "Structural and Biochemical Characterization of SrcA, a Multi-Cargo Type III Secretion Chaperone in Salmonella Required for Pathogenic Association with a Host"
Syed Sultan, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Microbiology & Immunology

April 8, 2010 - (Note: THURSDAY) "Comprehensive genetic dissection of the magnetosome gene island reveals the step-wise assembly of a prokaryotic organelle"
David Martinson, Doctoral Student, Microbiology & Immunology

April 23, 2010 - "Penetration of the Blood-Brain Barrier by Bacillus anthracis Requires the pXO1-Encoded BslA Protein"
Alan Curtis, Doctoral Student, Microbiology & Immunology

May 14, 2010 - "Reactogenicity of live-attenuated Vibrio choleraevaccines in dependent on flagellins"
Michael Betteken, Doctoral Student, Microbiology & Immunology

May 28, 2010 - "A unique regulator controls the activation threshold of quorum-regulated genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
Kyle Tipton, Doctoral Student, Microbiology & Immunology

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Fall 2010

August 27, 2010 -  "Ciprofloxacin Causes Persister Formation by Inducing the TisB toxin in Escherichia coli"
Matthew Ellison, Ph.D., Research Associate, Microbiology & Immunology 

September 10, 2010- "Functional microdomains in bacterial Membranes"
Clay Caswell, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Scholar, Microbiology & Immunology

September 24, 2010 - "Vp1659 Is a Vibrio parahaemolyticus Type III Secretion System 1 Protein That Contributes to Translocation of Effector Proteins Needed To Induce Cytolysis, Autophagy, and Disruption ofActin Structure in HeLa Cells" 
Jen Ojeda, Doctoral Candidate, Microbiology & Immunology
 

October 8, 2010 - "The PhyR (EcfG) signaling cascade is involved in stress response and symbiotic efficiency in Bradyrhizobium japonicum”

Ivan Ndamukong, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Scholar, Microbiology & Immunology

October 22, 2010 - "Bacterial charity work leads to population-wide resistance"
John Farrow, Doctoral Student, Microbiology & Immunology

November 12, 2010 - "A Trojan horse mechanism of bacterial pathogenesis against nematodes"
Claire Knoten, Doctoral Candidate, Microbiology & Immunology

December 10, 2010 - "Role of Porins in Iron Uptake by Mycobacterium smegmatis"
Mike Reott, Doctoral Candidate, Microbiology & Immunology

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