Subject:Love  in the Time of Cholera: Cooperation and Conflict in Vibrio  cholerae communities

Speaker:Dr.  Hammer Brian Keith

Host:  Prof.  Yinyue Deng

Time:  2:30pm.November  8 , 2016（Tuesday）

Location:  Science  Building Room 317（科技楼317室）

Dr. Hammer is an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech  in Atlanta GA where he has been since 2008.  Prior to that time Dr.  Hammer studying quorum sensing and biofilms in Vibrios during his postdoc with  Dr. Bonnie Bassler at Princeton University .  During his doctoral training he  studied the genetics of transmission of the aquatic pathogen Legionella  pneumophila at the University of Michigan Medical school in the lab of Dr.  Michele Swanson. His lab at Georgia Tech studies molecular mechanisms used by  the waterborne pathogen Vibrio cholerae to engage in cooperation and conflict in  the environment and in association with hosts including  humans.

Dr. Hammer was a recipient of an NIH postdoctoral  fellowship, and prestigious NSF CAREER award, has earned several teaching awards  on his campus, and recently recorded a TEDx talk on microbial cooperation and  conflict. He has numerous on-going cross-disciplinary collaborators; off his  campus with researchers at the CDC and on his campus with engineers, physicists,  ecologists, and mathematical modelers.

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