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| 21st Century Microbial Tools for the Production of... |
The latter part of the 20th century and the beginn... |
Jens Nielsen, Sima Sariaslani, Allen Las... |
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| Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award |
ASM07-0106 |
Norman Pace |
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| Acinetobacter, a Non-Motile Organism in Movement |
Bacteria of the genus Acinetobacter occur widespre... |
Fred Tenover, Lenie Dijkshoorn, Luis Act... |
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| Adaptive Landscapes |
Adaptive landscapes central to evolutionary theory... |
Antony Dean, Lin Chao, Paul Turner, Dari... |
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| Alteration of Host Cell Organelle Trafficking by L... |
Attendees to this session will hear five presentat... |
Ralph Isberg, Howard Shuman, Yousef Abu-... |
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| Animal Prion Diseases: Research and Diagnostics |
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) a... |
Marcus Kehrli, Juergen Richt, Richard Be... |
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| Antibiotic Resistance: Where Does it Come From and... |
Resistance to virtually all classes of antibiotics... |
Jo Handelsman, David Hooper, John Blanch... |
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| Antibiotic Treatment of TB: Old Problems and New S... |
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest recorded hu... |
William Bishai, Ann Ginsberg, David Alla... |
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| Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Bacteria C... |
Chronic airway infection is the leading cause of m... |
Peter Gilligan |
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| Artifacts, Pitfalls, and Problems in the Diagnosis... |
The diagnosis of blood parasite infections has alw... |
Lynne Garcia |
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| Back to the Future - The Healthcare Environment as... |
ASM07-119L |
David Henderson, Robert Weinstein, John ... |
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| Bacterial Mortality - Who's Killing Whom? |
Bacterial mortality is an important ecological pro... |
Curtis Suttle, David Caron, K. Wommack, ... |
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| Biodefense in the Home: Women as the First Respond... |
This session addresses the impact of microorganism... |
Stuart Levy, Kathryn Boor, Douglas Lowy,... |
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| Biodiversity |
ASM07-0001 |
Ferric Fang, Diane Griffin, Jeff Miller,... |
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| Biofilm vs. Planktonic Lifestyles: Understanding t... |
Biofilms are surface-associated communities of bac... |
Daniel Wozniak, Matthew Parsek, Daniel K... |
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| Biogeochemistry and Evolving Microbes: What's Elem... |
This session looks at the metabolic imprint that e... |
Janet Siefert, Daniel Schrag, Susan Glas... |
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| Brave New Nitrogen Cycle |
The discovery of completely new pathways in the ma... |
Douglas Capone, Bess Ward, Bo Thamdrup, ... |
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| Carbapenemases in Enterobacteriaceae |
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae are occurr... |
Arjun Srinivasan, Jean Patel |
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| Career Development Forum: Microbiologists Make a D... |
This session will provide examples of successful p... |
Meryle Melnicoff, Judith Steenbergen, Br... |
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| Careers Pathways and Opportunities in Microbiology |
This session is targeted to faculty involved with ... |
D. Jane Hata, Tod Merkel, Matthew Latime... |
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| Case Presentations in Clinical Microbiology |
This assembly of clinical case studies in diagnost... |
Roberta Carey, Mary York, Charles Cartwr... |
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| Challenges in Assessing Microbial Risks from an Ac... |
Microbial risk assessment is the process of evalua... |
Tonya Nichols, Irwin Baumel, Brandolyn T... |
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| Chromosome Dynamics |
The purpose of this session is to describe recent ... |
Barbara Funnell, Finbarr Hayes, Joseph P... |
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| Citizen Microbiologist: Social Responsibility in t... |
Recent events and potentialities have moved the mi... |
Jeffrey Pommerville, Marion Fass, Ronald... |
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| Clean Water and Food: What is Acceptable Microbial... |
Assessment of microbial risk is fundamental to the... |
Joan Rose, Mark LeChevallier, Charles Ge... |
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| Clinical Microbiology in Jeopardy |
An interactive session in which attendees will hav... |
Betty Forbes, Ferric Fang, Ajit Limaye |
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| Clinical Microbiology in the 21st Century |
This session will highlight the specific scientifi... |
J. Michael Miller, V.d. Shortridge, Davi... |
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| Comparative Genomics on Lactic Acid Bacteria with ... |
The lactic acid bacteria are a group of Gram posit... |
Todd Klaenhammer, David Mills, James Ste... |
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| Crossing the Species Barrier: Relationships Betwee... |
As Mark Woolhouse has observed, researchers concer... |
Sarah Cleaveland, Peter Daszak, Thijs Ku... |
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| Data Sharing, Data Registries and Metagenomics: Em... |
Database registries and data sharing are quickly b... |
George Garrity, Peter Dawyndt, Suzanna L... |
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| Dendritic Cell-Pathogen Interactions |
ASM07-0324 |
Mary O'Riordan, JoAnne Flynn, Alan Sher,... |
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| Detection of MRSA and VRE Carriers: Who and How Sh... |
There is increasing evidence supporting global sur... |
Franklin Cockerill, Richard Thomson, Vic... |
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| Detection of Sexually Transmitted Infections from ... |
High-risk sexual practices including the frequency... |
John Papp, Richard Steece |
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| Developments in the Conversion of Complex Polysacc... |
The breakdown of complex carbohydrates is a first ... |
Ron Weiner, Robert LaRossa, David Wilson... |
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| Diverse Microbial Metabolisms |
ASM07-0306 |
Michael McInerney, Edward Leadbetter, Jo... |
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| Division G Student Oral Session |
ASM07-274G |
Michael Calcutt, James Daubenspeck, Jenn... |
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| Division M Student Oral Presentations |
Microbial diversity estimates in the oceans (and l... |
Nicholas Olivarez, Marianne Kramer, Ana ... |
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| Division P Student Oral Presentations - I |
ASM07-057P |
Reid Ivy, Sarita Raengpradub, Bwalya Lun... |
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| Division P Student Oral Presentations - II |
ASM07-275P |
Mark Carter, Geneviève Rousseau, M. Eliz... |
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| Do Microbes Play by the Rules? New Explorations in... |
We will explore current thinking and recent studie... |
Heather Reed, Steve Allison, M Horner-De... |
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| Ecology of Zoonoses and Disease Prevention |
The majority of emerging infectious diseases are z... |
Alan Barbour, Mitchell Palmer, Francis M... |
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| Eli Lilly and Company Research Award |
ASM07-0055 |
Craig Roy |
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| Emerging Infectious Diseases |
This session will present timely updates on the la... |
Charlotte Gaydos, Lisa Jackson, Michael ... |
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| Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), E. coli O157 and... |
This session will provide a comprehensive review o... |
Thomas Besser, Sharon Rolando, Brian Sau... |
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| Environmental Change and Infectious Disease |
New and resurgent infectious diseases, and changin... |
Timothy Ford, Terry Yates, David Rogers,... |
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| Environmental Forensics: Microbial Clues to Contam... |
Environmental forensics is the systematic examinat... |
Raul Cano, Abigail Salyers, Sonia Hunt, ... |
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| Environmental Proteomics |
Advances in tandem mass spectrometry and increases... |
Phillip Wright, Jillian Banfield, Stephe... |
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| Epigenetics and Gene Expression in Pathogenic Prot... |
Presentations will focus on the rapidly emerging f... |
Scott Waterman, Bill Sullivan, Kami Kim,... |
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| Eucaryotic DNA Viruses: Modulation of Cellular Str... |
Infection by eucaryotic DNA viruses induces increa... |
James Alwine, Clodagh O'Shea, Grant McFa... |
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| Eukaryotic Microbial Interactions with Non-Mammali... |
Presentations will focus on several major host sys... |
David Schneider, Eleftherios Mylonakis, ... |
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| Evolution of Cooperation and Competition |
Cooperation and conflict abound in nature. This se... |
Gregory Velicer, Antony Dean, Paul Raine... |
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| Exploiting Basic Immunology for Rational Vaccine D... |
For numerous infectious diseases, vaccines are sti... |
Stefan Kaufmann, Robert Seder, Michael B... |
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| Extensively Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB): Publi... |
Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is prese... |
Qian Gao, Carole Heilman, Gail Cassell, ... |
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| For Better or Worse? Exploring Surprising Effects ... |
Pathogenic outcomes depend on a dynamic interplay ... |
L. Brady, Joseph Igietseme, Nancy Haigwo... |
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| Frontiers in Cell Imaging |
Newly developed tools allow the imaging of microbi... |
Kit Pogliano, Benoît Zuber, Guy Nhieu, G... |
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| GlaxoSmithKline International Member of the Year A... |
ASM07-0164 |
Pascale Cossart |
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| Global Infection Strategies in Pathogenic Protozoa... |
Presentations will focus on the rapidly emerging f... |
Kasturi Haldar, L. David Sibley, Patrici... |
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| History of Microbiology Lecture |
This lecture will address the continuing evolution... |
Christon Hurst, Edward Adelberg, Syed Sa... |
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| HIV Testing: Revised Recommendations and Assay Sel... |
This session will examine the array of issues that... |
Barbara Werner, Paul Swenson, Bernard Br... |
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| Host-Pathogen Interactions for Human Pathogenic Fu... |
Fungi are major human pathogens. There has been an... |
Lois Hoyer, Louis de Repentigny, Bruce K... |
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| Human Microbial Communities and the Immune System:... |
The subject of this symposium will be on the role ... |
Paul Fidel, Larry Forney, Catherine Davi... |
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| Hypervirulent Clostridium difficile: Always Lurkin... |
This session will provide a comprehensive overview... |
Gayatri Vedantam, Dale Gerding, Abraham ... |
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| Impact of the Food Chain on the Emergence of Antib... |
The rapid emergence of antibiotic resistant pathog... |
Michael Doyle, Hua Wang, Marilyn Roberts... |
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| Improving the Consultative Feel of the Laboratory:... |
This is an interactive session intended for microb... |
Joan Barenfanger, Paul Schreckenberger |
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| Incorporating Molecular Diagnostics for Virus Dete... |
One of the major challenges facing laboratories to... |
Richard Hodinka, Christine Ginocchio |
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| Infectious Diseases: Mechanisms of Emergence |
ASM07-0222 |
Mark Woolhouse, Scott Weaver, Kathryn Ho... |
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| Innovations in Microbiology Specimen Collection, T... |
After many years of minimal changes in the types o... |
Robert Rennie, Paul Bourbeau, Max Cherne... |
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| Innovative Activities to Build Global Public Healt... |
This session will examine the current weak state o... |
Ralph Timperi, Steven Specter, Christian... |
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| Integrating Ecology into the Teaching of Microbiol... |
Recently there have been tremendous advances in th... |
Jean Cardinale, Ruth Gyure, Debra Wohl, ... |
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| Integration of Federal Food Safety Initiatives: Th... |
Several federal and academic food safety initiativ... |
David White, Martin Wiedmann, Olga Henao... |
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| Interaction of Viral and Host Genomes in Pathogene... |
ASM07-0228 |
Grant McFadden, Michael Buchmeier, Miche... |
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| Interactions of Human Pathogens with Plants: New P... |
The increasing incidence of food-borne disease lin... |
Sima Yaron, Maria Brandl, Lisa Gorski, E... |
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| Is Anything New in the Laboratory Detection of a U... |
The laboratory detection of the etiology of a urin... |
Gerri Hall, David Tison |
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| Is the Magic Bullet Tarnished? Clinical Significan... |
The recognition of vancomycin-intermediate (VISA) ... |
Duane Newton, Barbara Robinson-Dunn, Fre... |
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| Laboratory Diagnosis of Vaginitis and Vaginosis |
There are two major questions to be asked in labor... |
Nancy Cornish, Carol Spiegel |
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| Less is More: Reductive Evolution in Bacteria |
Recent studies of bacterial evolution have emphasi... |
Nancy Moran, Dan Andersson, Stewart Cole... |
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| Mechanisms of Drug Resistance and Tolerance in Euk... |
The goal of this symposium is to review and provid... |
Judith Berman, David Fidock, Leah Cowen,... |
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| Mechanisms of Pathogenicity: What Genomics Has Tau... |
Genomics has revolutionized our understanding of m... |
Steven Lindow, Saskia Hogenhout, Gary Pa... |
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| Mechanisms of Ribosome-Mediated Control of Gene Ex... |
While it has been long appreciated that mRNA trans... |
Catherine Squires, Matthew Sachs, Patric... |
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| Medical, Scientific and Public Health Responses to... |
Emerging and reemerging infections whether natural... |
Stephen Redd, Sandra Lehrman, Ivan Walks... |
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| Microbial Complement Evasion |
In order for microbes (viruses, bacteria, fungi, p... |
Jos van Strijp, Arvind Sahu, Sanjay Ram,... |
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| Microbial Endocrinology: Neuroendocrine-Bacterial ... |
For most microbiologists consideration of the role... |
Mark Lyte, Primrose Freestone, Vanessa S... |
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| Microbial Interactions with Host Barriers |
A number of microbial pathogens induce their patho... |
Marc Lecuit, Michael Wessels, Guillaume ... |
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| Microbial Roots and Branches on the Eukaryotic Tre... |
This session will emphasize the importance of micr... |
John Logsdon, Jeffrey Silberman, Charles... |
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| Microbiology of Space Flight |
The advent of space flight is one of the most exci... |
Laura Leff, Robert McLean, Kasthuri Venk... |
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| Molecular Testing in Support of Transplantation |
ASM07-126V |
Brian Duchateau, E. Richard Stiehm, Rima... |
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| Mycobacterial Cell Surface Components and Complex ... |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of... |
Pappachan Kolattukudy, Miriam Braunstein... |
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| Nanotechnology Meets Microbiology |
Emerging nanotools provide new fundamental insight... |
Shimon Weiss, Uwe Sleytr, Ziowei Zhuang,... |
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| New Adventures in the Bacterial SOS Regulon |
The SOS Response in E. coli has been a major parad... |
Kenneth Kreuzer, Steven Sandler, Susan R... |
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| New Insights into Bacterial Pathogenesis within th... |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa remains the leading cause o... |
Gerald Pier, Joanna Goldberg, Stephen Lo... |
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| New Vaccines for TB |
While effective drugs and a vaccine are available ... |
Yasir Skeiky, Marcus Horwitz, Stefan Kau... |
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| Nitrification by Archaea: Nature and Significance |
Nitrification plays a central role in the biogeoch... |
James Prosser, David Stahl, Jose de la T... |
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| Novel Concepts in Respiratory Diseases |
Viral respiratory infections are a major cause of ... |
Malik Peiris, Ray Pickles, David Woodlan... |
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| Novel Roles of tRNA Synthetases in Microbial Physi... |
This session will present some of the novel roles ... |
Dieter Söll, Dieter Jahn, Christopher No... |
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| Pathogens and Produce: What We Know and What We Ne... |
While it has been long appreciated that mRNA trans... |
Gary King, Mark Sobsey, Christine Moe, M... |
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| Pediatric Clinical Microbiology: Selected Topics |
This symposium will present an overview of selecte... |
Randall Hayden, James Versalovic, Jim Du... |
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| Persistent Infection: A Dynamic Balance between Ho... |
The mammalian host immune system is highly adept a... |
Corrella Detweiler, John Leong, Lalita R... |
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| Perspectives of the Microbial World |
This session commemorates the 50th anniversary of ... |
Syed Sattar, Christon Hurst, Page Painte... |
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| Phage Directed Re-Programming of Cellular Processe... |
Gene expresion during phage infection is orchestra... |
Eric Miller, Jim Karam, Leonid Minakhin,... |
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| Physiology of Microbial Pathogens: Biting the Hand... |
This session would highlight the need to consider ... |
Rod Welch, Michele Swanson, Paul Cohen, ... |
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| Polar and Alpine Microbiology and the Internationa... |
Terrestrial environments beneath ice or snow were ... |
Brian Lanoil, Craig Cary, Mark Skidmore,... |
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| Pooling Our Intellectual Resources: Microbiology E... |
This session will attempt to encourage clinical mi... |
Judy Daly, Karen Carroll, Lucy Kluckhohn... |
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| Probing Metabolic Complexity with Experimental and... |
The focus will be on the combination of computatio... |
Valerie de Crecy-Lagard, Andrei Osterman... |
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| Processing and Presentation of Microbial Determina... |
This session will cover a number of topics related... |
Jack Bennink, Carolyn Black, Ann Hill, C... |
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| Promega Biotechnology Research Award |
ASM07-0161 |
George Smith |
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| Quality Control in Microbial Protein Synthesis |
Translation uses the genetic information in messen... |
Joseph Krzycki, Osamu Nureki, Jamie Cate... |
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| Real Time Non-Molecular Diagnosis of Fungal Infect... |
Rapid fungal diagnostics are critical to the healt... |
Leslie Hall, Paul Fidel, Thomas Walsh, Z... |
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| Recent Advances in the Studies of Mycoplasmal Path... |
Mycoplasmas are known to cause diseases of humans,... |
Steve Geary, Kevin Dybvig, Warren Simmon... |
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| Research Activities in Today's Clinical Microbiolo... |
ABMM and ABMLI diplomates are leaders in the field... |
Mark LaRocco, Barbara Detrick, John Mats... |
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| Research in an Age of Terrorism: What are your Res... |
This session will present new information about th... |
Ruth Berkelman, Amy Patterson, David Fra... |
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| Resistances in the Wings |
Although antibiotic resistance continues to increa... |
Karen Bush, Donald Low, Scott Weese, Lou... |
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| Review of Procedures for Packing and Shipping Infe... |
This session will be of interest to clinical labor... |
Larry Gray |
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| Richard and Mary Finkelstein Student Award Present... |
ASM07-273BD |
Timothy Yahr, Michael Donnenberg, Annett... |
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| Sea Sickness: Ocean Health and Infectious Disease |
The frequency and abundance of marine diseases are... |
Erin Lipp, Kathryn Sutherland, Alvin Smi... |
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| Sensing the Environment: Themes and Variations in ... |
One of the major tools used by bacteria to alter g... |
Sarah Ades, Thorsten Mascher, Timothy Do... |
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| Sequencing-Based Identifications in the Diagnostic... |
Traditional biochemical approaches to identificati... |
Melissa Miller, Melinda Poulter |
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| Sexual Promiscuity Caused by Mobile Resistance Gen... |
The evolution of antibiotic resistance has resulte... |
Stefania Stefani, Gian Rossolini, David ... |
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| Strategies for Validating Antimicrobial Susceptibi... |
According to CLIA, laboratories must perform metho... |
Angela Prouse, Janet Hindler |
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| Structure and Function in Microbial Communities |
In real ecosystems bacteria commonly function as m... |
J Costerton, Staffan Kjelleberg, Yuri Go... |
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| Surface Organelles in Gram-Positive Bacteria |
Gram-positive bacteria assemble on their surface a... |
Hung Ton-That, John Telford, Olaf Schnee... |
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| Systems Analysis of Intracellular Signaling Molecu... |
Reexamination of small molecule effectors of gene ... |
Tyrrell Conway, Alan Wolfe, Daniel Hyduk... |
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| Systems Biology and Genetic Network Dynamics |
The purpose of the session is a) to illustrate how... |
Michael Laub, Adrie Steyn, Gordon Church... |
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| Systems Biology Approaches to Understanding Microb... |
Broad proteomic and genomic technologies can be sh... |
Harry Mobley, Nicholas Bergman, Guido Gr... |
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| The Ecological Attributes of Fecal Indicator Bacte... |
New technologies to monitor sources and sinks of E... |
Sandra McLellan, Michael Sadowsky, Roger... |
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| The Gram-Positive Cell Envelope |
This session will introduce attendees to the lates... |
Terry Beveridge, Jeffery Errington, John... |
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| The Interface between Microbial Pathogenesis and C... |
Chemical biology is an emerging field that has pro... |
Rey Carabeo, Luis Quadri, E Greenberg, H... |
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| The Interface of Science and Art: Microbial Degrad... |
Research into the effects of human activity on the... |
Ralph Mitchell, Christopher McNamara, Sa... |
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| The Perfect Storm: Re-emerging Anaerobic Infection... |
Emerging and re-emerging anaerobic infections are ... |
Dennis Stevens, David Hecht, Ellen Baron... |
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| The Prokaryotic Cytoskeleton: Structure, Function,... |
This session will introduce attendees to cutting e... |
Laura Romberg, Petra Levin, William Marg... |
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| The Rare Microbial Biosphere: Implications and Stu... |
Microbial diversity estimates in the oceans (and l... |
Gerhard Herndl, John Baross, Martin Polz... |
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| Triumph of Bacteriophages over Diseases |
ASM07-215M |
Sankar Adhya, Rotem Edgar, Randall Wolco... |
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| Undergraduate and Graduate Research Fellows Presen... |
ASM07-0059 |
Laurel Southard, Ryan Trojan, Omar Perez... |
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| Undergraduate and Graduate Research Fellows Presen... |
ASM07-0056 |
Richard Birkett, Robert Sons, Laurel Sou... |
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| Undergraduate and Graduate Research Fellows Presen... |
ASM07-0163 |
Amanda Butler, Erica Cain, Yekaterina Vo... |
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| Undergraduate and Graduate Research Fellows Presen... |
ASM07-0165 |
Laurie Caslake, James Cherwa, Carolyn Ph... |
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| USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award |
ASM07-0162 |
Mitchell Sogin |
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| Versatile Regulators: Regulation of Transcription ... |
Bacteria use multiple regulatory strategies to mod... |
Paul Babitzke, Tina Henkin, Gisela Storz... |
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| Vibrio parahaemolyticus : New and Disturbing Event... |
Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Gram-negative halophilic ... |
Rita Colwell, G. Nair, Yoshifumi Takeda,... |
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| What's New in Type III Secretion |
ASM07-0006 |
Jeff Miller, Kim Orth, Natalie Strynadka... |
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| When Things Go Really Wrong in DNA Replication: Ch... |
Recent research has suggested that replication for... |
Anthony Poteete, Martin Marinus, Andrei ... |
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| Work Up of Respiratory and Wound Cultures |
This session will start with an informal lecture o... |
Yvette McCarter, Susan Sharp |
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| You're Stressing Me Out: Stress Response and Virul... |
All bacteria, whether they are environmental, comm... |
D Merrell, Martin Voskuil, Erin Gaynor, ... |
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