Events & Calendars Biology Seminar: Amy Camp, Ph.D.

Dr. Amy Camp is an assistant professor of biological sciences at Mount Holyoke College. Her talk is entitled "A 'Feeding Tube' Model for Bacterial Cell-Cell Communication." Research summary: Upon nutrient starvation, the bacterium Bacillus subtilis transforms itself into a metabolically dormant spore. This primitive developmental process involves two sister cells, only one of which becomes a spore. The Camp Lab eavesdrops on these two developing cells to discover the elegant and unexpected ways that they communicate and control gene expression.