RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES IN
MICROBIOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
SUMMER 2011 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
| Date | Time |
Activity |
| May 22 (Sun) | all day |
Check-in at Mayflower Hall |
6:00 pm |
Welcome pizza party at Mayflower | |
May 23 (Mon) |
9:00 am |
Welcome, Breakfast, Program Orientation, Paperwork, ID cards |
12:00 Noon |
Lunch | |
1:00 pm |
Mentors pick up students to take to labs | |
| May 27 (Fri) | 12:30 pm |
Group lunch; graduate student Tiara Pérez, guest |
| May 28 (Sat) | 5:00 pm |
Dinner at Dr. Linda McCarter's home |
| May 31 (Tue) | 10:00 am |
Seminar: Dr. Richard Roller, "Genetic analysis of virus assembly" |
| June 3 (Fri) | 12:30 pm |
Group lunch; postdoc Mike Trimble, guest |
| June 7 (Tue) | 10:00 am |
Seminar: Dr. Craig Ellermeier, "Identification of a Novel Site-1 Protease" |
| June 9 (Thu) | 4:30 pm |
Biosciences Welcome Reception |
| June 10 (Fri) | 12:30 pm |
Group lunch; recent Ph.D. graduate Jeremiah Johnson, guest |
| June 14 (Tue) | 10:00 am |
Seminar: Dr. Steven Clegg, "Fimbrial assembly and production in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium" |
| June 15 (Wed) | 9:30 am |
Biosciences "Survival Skills Workshop for Young Researchers" |
| June 17 (Fri) | 12:30 pm |
Group lunch; Dr. Theresa Ho, "Clostridium difficile extra-cytoplasmic function s factor CsfV regulates lysozyme resistance," and student presentation |
| June 21 (Tue) | 10:00 am |
Seminar: Dr. Michael Feiss, "DNA packaging in dsDNA viruses: Examples in the λ-like bacteriophages" |
| June 24 (Fri) | 12:30 pm |
Group lunch; Dr. Linda McCarter, "To swarm or stick: decision making by Vibrio parahaemolyticus," and student presentation |
| Introduction to summer project paper due | ||
| June 28 (Tue) | 10:00 am |
Seminar: Dr. Alex Horswill, "Peptide quorum sensing in Gram positive bacteria" |
| July 1 (Fri) | 12:30 pm |
Group lunch; Student presentations |
| July 7 (Thu) | 2:30 pm |
Seminar: Dr. George Stauffer, "Genetic redundancy in the small non-coding regulatory RNA GcvB in Escherichia coli" |
| July 8 (Fri) | 12:30 pm |
Group lunch; Student presentations |
| July 10 (Sun) | 5:00 pm |
Movie night at Dr. Linda McCarter's home |
| July 12 (Tue) | 10:00 am |
Ethics/Responsible Conduct of Research, Part 1 |
| July 15 (Fri) | 12:30 pm |
Group lunch; Ethics/Responsible Conduct of Research, Part 2 |
| July 19 (Tue) | 10:00 am |
Abstract Draft and Poster Workshop |
| July 22 (Fri) | 12:30 pm |
Group lunch; Dr. Steven Clegg, "Graduate School Admissions" |
3:30 pm |
Ice Cream Social with Microbiology Department | |
| July 25 (Mon) | 4:30 pm |
Biosciences Farewell Reception |
| July 27 (Wed) | 1:00 pm |
UI Summer Undergraduate Research Conference - IMU Main Lounge (poster presentations) |
| July 28 (Thu) | 6:00 pm |
Dinner celebration, Mondo's, Coralville |
| July 29 (Fri) | 12:30 pm |
Group lunch; Program wrap-up/evaluation |
| Research papers due | ||
| July 30 (Sat) | by 12:00 Noon |
Check out from Mayflower Hall and depart Iowa City |