Dartmouth Life Sciences Symposium History: 2014

Look and Learn: How Microbes Teach Us About Cell Biology

In the world of scientific research, microbes punch well above their weight and their size. Through these tiny creatures, scientists have learned fundamental aspects of biology: the genetic code, the concept of the gene and the central dogma. Microbes are also master cell biologists themselves as they have learned how to manipulate and coexist with host cells for millions of years. Through their close interactions with eukaryotic cells, microbes have led us to understand basic mechanisms that drive cell shape, motility and organization. By their manipulation of a host cell, microbial pathogens have revealed how our own cells function. Join us at the Life Sciences Symposium to learn for yourself all that microbes have to teach us about biology of cells.

Speakers

Pascale Cossart, Ph.D.

Professor and Head of Bacterial-Cell Interactions Unit, Pasteur Institute; Senior International Research Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

George O'Toole, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

John Boothroyd, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford School of Medicine

Judith Armitage, Ph.D.

Professor of Biochemistry, University of Oxford; Director, Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology

Amy Gladfelter, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College

Grant Jensen, Ph.D.

Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute