| Date |
Schedule of Events |
| May 22 (Sun) |
Check-in at Mayflower Hall; Welcome pizza party at Mayflower |
| May 23 (Mon) |
Orientation session and lunch, Bowen Science Building (BSB) |
| May 27 (Fri) |
Group lunch: graduate student Tiara Pérez, guest |
| May 28 (Sat) |
Dinner at Dr. Linda McCarter's home |
| May 31 (Tue) |
Seminar: Dr. Richard Roller, "Genetic analysis of virus assembly" |
| June 3 (Wed) |
Group lunch: postdoctoral student Mike Trimble, guest |
| June 7 (Tue) |
Seminar: Dr. Craig Ellermeier, "Identification of a Novel Site-1 Protease" |
| June 9 (Thu) |
Biosciences Welcome Reception |
| June 10 (Fri) |
Group lunch: recent Ph.D. graduate Jeremiah Johnson, guest |
| June 14 (Tue) |
Seminar: Dr. Steven Clegg, "Fimbrial assembly and production in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium" |
| June 15 (Wed) |
Biosciences Program: Survival Skills Workshop for Young Researchers |
| June 17 (Fri) |
Group lunch: Dr. Theresa Ho, Clostridium difficile extra-cytoplasmic function s factor CsfV regulates lysozyme resistance"; Student presentation |
| June 21 (Tue) |
Seminar: Dr. Michael Feiss, "DNA packaging in dsDNA viruses: Examples in the λ-like bacteriophages" |
| June 24 (Fri) |
Group lunch: Dr. Linda McCarter, "To swarm or stick: decision making by Vibrio parahaemolyticus"; Student presentation |
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Introduction to summer project paper due |
| June 28 (Tue) |
Seminar: Dr. Alex Horswill, "Peptide quorum sensing in Gram positive bacteria" |
| July 1 (Fri) |
Group lunch: Student presentations |
| July 7 (Thu) |
Seminar: Dr. George Stauffer, "Genetic redundancy in the small non-coding regulatory RNA GcvB in Escherichia coli" |
| July 8 (Fri) |
Group lunch: Student presentations |
| July 10 (Sun) |
Movie night at Dr. Linda McCarter's home |
| July 12 (Tue) |
Seminar: Ethics/Responsible Conduct of Research, Part 1 |
| July 15 (Fri) |
Group lunch: Ethics/Responsible Conduct of Research, Part 2 |
| July 19 (Tue) |
Abstract Draft and Poster Workshop |
| July 22 (Fri) |
Group lunch: Dr. Steven Clegg, "Graduate school admissions" |
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Ice cream social with Microbiology Department |
| July 25 (Mon) |
Biosciences Farewell Reception |
| July 27 (Wed) |
UI Summer Undergraduate Research Conference (poster presentations) |
| July 28 (Thu) |
End of summer celebration dinner |
| July 29 (Fri) |
Group lunch: Program evaluation/wrap-up |
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Research papers due |
July 29-30
(Fri-Sat) |
Check out from Mayflower Hall |