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| 21st Century Communications: The Key to Successful... |
Timely and accurate communication during public he... |
Mary Gilchrist, Benjamin Park, David Mil... |
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| A Guideline to Practice Guidelines: Development an... |
A number of governmental and non-governmental orga... |
Alice Weissfeld, Mitchell Burken, Lesley... |
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| A New Look at the Cell Wall: From Cell Signals to ... |
Our view of the bacterial cell wall is rapidly cha... |
Joseph Dillard, Heidi Kaplan, Neal Silve... |
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| A Tribute to Mary Hickox Mandels: Mother of Cellul... |
This session will provide a bridge from the pionee... |
Lars Ljungdahl, Douglas Eveleigh, Harry ... |
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| Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award |
ASM09-0097 |
Jan Sapp, Edward DeLong, Norman Pace |
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| Advances in New Pathogen Discovery |
In the long term, the identification of novel micr... |
Joseph DeRisi, Tobias Allander, David Fr... |
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| Algorithm for Detection and Reporting of ESBL, Amp... |
This sunrise session is intended for clinical micr... |
Linda Bruno, Paul Schreckenberger |
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| Animal Microbiomes: Adventures in Molecular Ecolog... |
Essentially all exposed tissue surfaces of humans ... |
Alexandra Scupham, Bryan White |
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| Antibiotic Crisis: Keeping Ahead of the Resistance... |
For over sixty years, the use of antibiotics has t... |
Raul Cano, Arturo Casadevall, Crystal Jo... |
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| Assessment in Science Education: Engaging Students... |
Assessment is an issue that is central to all micr... |
David Hanauer, Jo Handelsman, Graham Hat... |
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| Bacterial Adaptations to a Chronic Colonization Li... |
Chronic bacterial infections are prevalent in huma... |
Jane Koehler, Ian Orme, Guy Palmer, Nina... |
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| Bacterial Dormancy and Regrowth |
While individual bacteria respond to environmental... |
Nathalie Balaban, Huiyi Chen, JoAnne Fly... |
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| Bacterial Growth Control and Control by Bacterial ... |
Connecting the properties of molecular components ... |
Mans Ehrenberg, Stefan Klumpp, Atul Nara... |
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| Beyond Board Certification: Current Research in Cl... |
ABMM and ABMLI Diplomates are leaders in the field... |
James Snyder, Tracey Bonfield, Nathan Le... |
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| Biobased Materials |
Concomitantly to the shortage of gasoline our soci... |
Richard Gross, Mark van Loosdrecht, Manf... |
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| Biofilms in the Undergraduate Curriculum |
Prominent leaders in biofilm research will provide... |
John Lennox, Robert McLean, Rocky Ross, ... |
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| Biosafety - Best Practices 2009 |
The risk incurred in clinical and public health la... |
Kathleen Beavis, Janet Nicholson, Michae... |
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| Career Preparation in Microbiology: Non-academic C... |
This session is targeted to faculty involved with ... |
Clifford Houston, Crystal Icenhour, Clar... |
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| Cases Studies in Sequencing-Based Identifications ... |
Traditional biochemical approaches to identificati... |
Melissa Miller, Melinda Poulter |
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| Catching a Ride: Microbial Adherence to Animal Epi... |
The goal of this symposium is to highlight to memb... |
Magnus Höök, Michael Konkel, Chris Minio... |
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| Caught in the Act: Single Cell Ecophysiology of Un... |
Uncultured microorganisms dominate most ecosystems... |
Marcel Kuypers, Mary Lidstrom, Jeppe Nie... |
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| Chemical Biology Approaches for Studying and Comba... |
ASM09-0301 |
Dirk Bumann, Deborah Hung, Carl Nathan, ... |
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| Clinically-Relevant Work Up of Sputum and Wound Cu... |
Sputum and wound cultures are frequently contamina... |
Yvette McCarter, Susan Sharp |
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| Clostridium difficile Diagnosis & Testing |
Clostridium difficile testing has been, and contin... |
Karen Carroll, Brandi Limbago |
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| Code Sepsis: Clinical Microbiology Responds to Sep... |
This session frames the critical nature of sepsis ... |
Kenneth Becker, Anand Kumar, Carol Spieg... |
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| Community Robustness |
ASM09-0102 |
Joerg Graf, Jo Handelsman, Katherine McM... |
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| Coping with Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing C... |
This session will focus on the most critical antim... |
Janet Hindler, Jean Patel |
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| Diarrhea Friend or Foe? Its Role in Pathogen Trans... |
Theorists in the past have argued that diarrhea al... |
Nat Brown, David Francis, Denise Monack,... |
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| Digital Imagery – Another of Those Subjects I Wish... |
Quite a few microbiologists these days work with d... |
Joseph Campos |
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| Diseases of Antiquity Are Still With Us - What Wil... |
Despite enormous advances in public health and med... |
Elisabeth Carniel, Gordon Dougan, Christ... |
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| Division AA Student Oral Presentations |
ASM09-269AA |
Grant Herges, Matthew Hirakawa, Rhonda P... |
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| Division G Student Oral Presentations |
ASM09-267G |
Li Xiao, Jason Cloward, Dominika Jurkovi... |
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| Division M Student Oral Presentations |
ASM09-159M |
Tammy Bullwinkle, Josiane Garneau |
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| Division O Student Oral Presentations |
ASM09-348O |
Whitney Boland, Chaitali Ghosh, François... |
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| Division P Student Oral Presentations - I |
ASM09-157P |
Yuhua Chang, Haley Oliver, Kitiya Vongka... |
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| Division P Student Oral Presentations - II |
ASM09-347P |
Katherine McElhany, Sujata Sirsat, Preet... |
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| DNA Mismatch Repair: Basic Mechanisms and its Role... |
DNA mismatch repair is an important process to mai... |
Ivan Matic, Patricia Foster, Martin Mari... |
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| Dynamic Microbial Genomes |
This symposium synthesis emerging data on the dyna... |
Esther Angert, Doug Chalker, Anuradha Lo... |
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| Electron Bifurcation as a Novel Mechanism of Energ... |
In catabolic clostridial butyrate synthesis, the h... |
Rudolf Thauer, Wolfgang Buckel, Michael ... |
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| Emerging Infections: Usual Suspects "Unusual Crime... |
New trends and outbreak events continue to arise t... |
David Arguello, John Besser, Michael Sau... |
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| Environmental Limits to Microbial Survival |
Recent reports of diverse extremophile microbes on... |
Shiladitya DasSarma, Lisa Pratt, John Pr... |
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| Extremophiles - Potential for Industrial Applicati... |
Extremophilic microorganisms thrive under environm... |
Deborah Roberts, Percival Zhang |
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| From Direct Counts to Metagenomics: Two Decades of... |
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first ... |
John Paul, Shawn Polson, Matthew Sulliva... |
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| Functional and Comparative Genomics of Pathogenic ... |
The topics in this session represent distinct appl... |
M Gutierrez, Gary Schoolnik |
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| Funky Photosynthesis: Novel Ways of Using Light En... |
Solar energy generation is currently of great inte... |
Amaya Garcia Costas, Ronald Oremland, Al... |
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| Genomic Approaches to Studying Evolution of Metabo... |
This colloquium session would highlight the use of... |
Mikhail Gelfand, Timothy Cooper, Charles... |
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| Genomics Enabled Biogeography of Planet Earth |
The global movement and distribution of microorgan... |
Elizabeth Dinsdale, Jessica Green, Edwar... |
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| Geobiology: Microorganism-Rock Interactions from t... |
In the summer of 2008, the International Geobiolog... |
Frank Corsetti, Annette Engel, Kurt Konh... |
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| GlaxoSmithKline International Member of the Year A... |
ASM09-0270 |
Philippe Sansonetti |
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| Global Clean Water: The World Cup |
Worldwide, the supply of pure water, potable as we... |
Jennifer Clancy, Rita Colwell, Mark LeCh... |
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| Granulomatous Host Defenses against Endemic Mycose... |
Paracoccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, cryptococc... |
George Deepe, Bruce Klein, Kieren Marr, ... |
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| High Throughput Genomic Technologies for Complex M... |
The objective of this symposium is to highlight th... |
Gary Andersen, James Cole, George Kowalc... |
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| HIV Rethought: A Future Commensal |
Recent data from the Centers of Disease Control an... |
Walid Heneine, James Hildreth, Guido Sil... |
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| Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Tree/Web of Life |
The proposed session will address the question “Ho... |
Fiona Brinkman, Gregory Fournier, Terry ... |
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| Hot Topics in Point-of-Care Microbiology |
The role and characteristics of current point-of-c... |
Sheldon Campbell, Roger Klein |
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| How and Why To Get the Right Specimens for Microbi... |
Accurate results in the Microbiology lab is depend... |
Nancy Cornish, Carol Rauch |
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| Infections from Within |
Upon completion of this session, participants shou... |
John Galgiani, Stuart Johnson, Mairi Nov... |
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| Infectious Agents through the Food Chain: Farm, Fe... |
The globalization of our food supply, modern farmi... |
David Acheson, Mary Estes, Juergen Richt |
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| Integrating and Interpreting the Human Microbiome |
ASM09-0300 |
Ruth Ley, Rob Knight, Nikos Kyrpides, Pe... |
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| Intracellular Trafficking of Protein Toxins |
Many bacteria utilize protein toxins to kill or su... |
Kirsten Sandvig, Joseph Barbieri, Billy ... |
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| Iron-Sulfur Proteins: At the Center of Life and De... |
Iron-sulfur proteins play a central and ancient ro... |
James Collins, Andrew Dancis, Jim Imlay,... |
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| Lateral Gene Transfer and Bacterial Evolution - Me... |
Lateral Gene Transfer is now recognized to have pl... |
Miroslav Radman, Martin Lercher, Howard ... |
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| Maurice Hilleman Merck Award |
This presentation will discuss the evolution of st... |
Stanley Plotkin |
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| Microbes in a Changing World: Translations from Da... |
Microbes are ubiquitous. They control Earth’s biog... |
Katrina Edwards, Anne Pringle, Valeria S... |
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| Microbes, Evolution, and the World Around Us |
The presence of microbes can be traced throughout ... |
Andrew Knoll, W Lipkin |
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| Microbial Endocrinology- Perception of Host Hormon... |
Microbiologists working with different pathogens a... |
Mark Lyte, John Crane, Deborah Hogan, Ko... |
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| Microbial Single Cell Genomics |
Recent advances in cell separation and whole genom... |
Ramunas Stepanauskas, Yuichi Hongoh, Rog... |
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| Microbiological Analysis of Urine in the 21st Cent... |
The session will focus on a variety of methods use... |
Lynne Garcia, Gerri Hall, Susan Novak-We... |
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| Microbiology and Immunology at Mucosal Surfaces |
This session addresses a rapidly changing and deve... |
Jeffrey Gordon, Andreas Baumler, Akiko I... |
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| Model Microbial Communities - A Tractable and Mani... |
Genomic and physiological based studies of individ... |
Ronald Crawford, Peter Kennedy, Gerard M... |
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| Modification of Bacterial Proteins |
ASM09-0213 |
John Helmann, Ivan Mijakovic, Ann Stock,... |
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| Modulation of Host Immunity by Bacterial Pathogens |
ASM09-0105 |
Brad Cookson, Sheryl Justice, Victor Niz... |
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| Molecular Mechanism of Antifungal Resistance |
Candida albicans is the 4th most frequent organism... |
Mahmoud Ghannoum, Daniel Diekema, Kieren... |
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| Molecular Methods in the 21st Century: Are Molecul... |
Clinical and public health laboratories are under ... |
Joanne Bartkus, Cheryl Bopp, Charles Chi... |
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| Molecular Pathogenesis of Co-Infections |
ASM09-217B |
Dennis Metzger, Renée Tsolis, Jeffrey We... |
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| MRSA Everywhere: Implications for Prevention |
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)... |
Jeff Bender, Michael Edmond, Loren Mille... |
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| New Insights from Global Studies of Gene Regulatio... |
In microbes, gene expression is controlled at many... |
Stephen Busby, David Gresham, Robert Lan... |
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| Non-canonical Roles of tRNAs: Protein Biosynthesis... |
Upon completion of this session, participants shou... |
Tina Henkin, Michael Ibba, Adrian Lloyd,... |
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| Non-Coding RNAs and New RNA Mediated Regulatory Me... |
ASM09-216B |
Pascale Cossart, Susan Gottesman, Pascal... |
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| Novel Approaches for Microbial Detection and Ident... |
Novel technologies for detection and identificatio... |
Mohamed Karmali, Gary Procop, Christine ... |
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| Novel Themes in Bacterial Signaling |
Bacteria utilize a variety of signals, both intrac... |
Bonnie Bassler, Ronald Breaker, Caroline... |
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| Obligate Vacuolar Pathogens and New Paradigms in C... |
ASM09-320D |
Jason Carlyon, Marci Scidmore, Daniel Vo... |
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| Odors in Microbiology: Humans and Animals |
End products of normal bacterial metabolism can be... |
Terence Whitehead, George Fahey, Jr., Gl... |
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| Omics: New Tools for Food Microbiology and Impacts... |
ASM09-310P |
Andrew Benson, Thomas Cebula, Michael Mc... |
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| One Health - A New Paradigm for Microbiology and P... |
The One Health concept arose from the realization ... |
Charles Beard, John Gittleman, Lonnie Ki... |
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| Pathogen Targeting of Mitochondria as the Multifun... |
Host cell mitochondria are emerging as an importan... |
Steven Blanke, Vojo Deretic, Michael Don... |
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| Peptiglycan: From Genes to Structures |
This session will present recent structural and ge... |
Lori Burrows, John Dutcher, Alexander To... |
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| Perturbation of the Host Autophagy System by Intra... |
ASM09-011B |
Nicola Jones, Oleg Krut, Beth Levine, Ya... |
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| Phage |
ASM09-0317 |
Ivana Gudelj, Eugene Koonin, Luciano Mar... |
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| Phage & Pathogenic Bacteria: Involvement of Phage ... |
Bacteriophage and related genetic elements are imp... |
David Friedman, José Penadés, Matthew Wa... |
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| Philadelphia Microbiology, Past, Present and Futur... |
Philadelphia is the birthplace of much of microbio... |
James Poupard |
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| Philadelphia's Giants of Microbiology: Their Contr... |
Philadelphia is the birthplace of much of microbio... |
Joan Bennett, Douglas Eveleigh, William ... |
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| Plugging Microbial Activities and Genomes into the... |
Upon completion of this session, participants shou... |
Timothy Donohue, Martin Keller |
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| Polyhedral Microbial Protein Compartments: Structu... |
In the early 1970s, polyhedral inclusions were fou... |
Gordon Cannon, Cheryl Kerfeld, Michael P... |
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| Prevention and Control of Multiply-Drug Resistant ... |
Antimicrobial resistance among Gram-negative bacte... |
Neil Fishman, Ebbing Lautenbach, Arjun S... |
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| Procter & Gamble Award in Applied and Environmenta... |
ASM09-0161 |
Jim Spain |
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| Protection beyond the Condom: Immune Response to S... |
Microbes that cause sexually transmitted diseases ... |
Gerald Byrne, Alison Criss, Stanley Spin... |
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| Protein Secretion and Virulence in Pathogenic Myco... |
Mycobacteria possess multiple mechanisms of virule... |
Miriam Braunstein, Jeffery Cox, Sarah Fo... |
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| Quantitative Detection and Monitoring of Viremia i... |
Viral infections are a significant cause of morbid... |
Karen Frank, Alexander McAdam |
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| Regulation and Control of Antibiotic Resistance |
Antibiotic resistant bacteria are occurring in inc... |
Gordon Archer, Glenn Kaatz, Hannah Wexle... |
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| Resourcing and Practicing Clinical Microbiology in... |
This session will feature Army microbiologists who... |
Dan Erwin, Steven Mahlen |
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| Response of Food Microorganisms to High Pressure |
ASM09-323P |
Elaine Black, Roman Buckow, Rolf Joerger... |
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| Ribosome Regulation: Assembly, Modification and Fu... |
Ribosomes are the complex, macromolecular machiner... |
Barry Cooperman, Stephen Douthwaite, Kur... |
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| Richard and Mary Finkelstein Student Award Present... |
ASM09-266B-D |
Emily Clementi, Maureen Diaz, Marie-Eve ... |
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| RNA Viruses Navigating Host Defenses |
An RNA virus population does not consist of a sing... |
Raul Andino, Takashi Fujita, Adolfo Garc... |
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| Role of GTP-Binding Proteins in the Mechanics of O... |
GTP-binding proteins play structural, regulatory, ... |
Erfei Bi, Joe Lutkenhaus, Jodi Nunnari, ... |
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| Role of the Clinical Immunology Laboratory in Mana... |
It goes without saying that states of immunodefici... |
Steven Holland, Diane Leland, Susan Orto... |
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| Sensing of Small Molecules and Environmental Cues ... |
In general, the evolutionary pressure on pathogeni... |
Maurizio Del Poeta, Joseph Heitman, Caro... |
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| Sexual Reproduction and the Evolution of Eukaryoti... |
This session will cover recent advances in underst... |
Richard Bennett, W. Zacheus Cande, Chris... |
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| Shaking the Tree of Life |
The only figure in Darwin's Origin of Species publ... |
Andrew Roger, Donald Bryant, Gary Olsen,... |
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| Single Molecule & Single Cell Dynamics |
Upon completion of this session, participants shou... |
Laura Finzi, Ido Golding, Mikhail Kashle... |
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| Structure and Function of the Bacterial Cytoskelet... |
Upon completion of this session, participants shou... |
Harold Erickson, Zemer Gitai, Christine ... |
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| Systems Microbiology |
With the continuing flood of data on bacterial reg... |
Ilka Bischofs-Pfeifer, Harley McAdams, B... |
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| Teaching Careers for Microbiologists |
This session is targeted to undergraduate and grad... |
Lawrence Aaronson, Jennifer Bennett, Rac... |
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| TH17 and Its Impact on Infections and Other Human ... |
Discovery of TH17 has emerged in recent years as o... |
Jay Kolls, Wenjun Ouyang, Manuela Raffat... |
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| The $1 Bacterial Genome |
The National Human Genome Research Institute has l... |
George Church, Jonathan Eisen, Paul Keim... |
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| The 3 R's: Recombination, Replication and Recombin... |
The interplay between replication and recombinatio... |
Graham Hatfull, Kenan Murphy, Joseph Pet... |
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| The Application of Bench Science to Important Clin... |
Summary: Upon completion of this session, partic... |
Johanna Daily, Neil French, James Nataro |
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| The Biology of Tuberculosis Latency |
Latency in tuberculosis is one of the most importa... |
Anil Ohja, Christopher Sassetti, David S... |
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| The Deep Subsurface Biosphere |
In a 1992 essay, Thomas Gold postulated the existe... |
Cara Santelli, Axel Schippers, Lisa Prat... |
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| The Ecology of Antibiotics |
The presence of antibiotics in nature has only rec... |
Julian Davies, Roberto Kolter, Dianne Ne... |
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| The Influence of Host and Pathogen Factors/Diversi... |
Infectious disease is a multistep process that inv... |
Brendan Cormack, Paul Fidel, Anita Sil, ... |
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| The Interactions of Microorganisms with Metals in ... |
Microbial activities in the environment are recogn... |
Elisabetta Bini, Paul Blum, Gill Geesey,... |
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| The Lure of the Zebrafish for Deciphering Host-Pat... |
ASM09-012B |
Jimmy Ballard, Carol Kim, Melody Neely, ... |
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| The Microbiology of the Atmosphere |
Microorganisms of anthropogenic, terrestrial or aq... |
Birgit Sattler, Parisa Ariya, Brent Chri... |
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| The Molecular Conversation Between Symbiotic Bacte... |
Bacteria occupy nearly every niche in ecology. Ani... |
Andrea Cerutti, Lora Hooper, Sarkis Mazm... |
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| The Most Outrageous and Contagious!: Extreme Case ... |
The clinical microbiology laboratory continually e... |
Jill Clarridge, Susan Butler-Wu, Glen Ha... |
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| The Origin of Microbial Species: 150 Years of Pers... |
In 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of... |
William Hanage, Konstantinos Konstantini... |
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| The Physical and Biological Sciences versus the T3... |
This session will focus on using interdisciplinary... |
Wonpil Im, William Picking, Wendy Pickin... |
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| The Rare Biosphere: An Emerging Paradigm for Micro... |
The “rare biosphere” concept embraces the ideas th... |
David Caron, Julie Huber, David Mark Wel... |
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| The Unique PE/PPE Multigene Families of Mycobacter... |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative ag... |
Michael Brennan, Wilbert Bitter, Giovann... |
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| Transmission as a Key Component of Microbial Patho... |
It can be argued that the dynamics of infectious d... |
Eric Harvill, Michele Swanson |
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| Undergraduate and Graduate Research Fellows Presen... |
ASM09-0052 |
Felicia Barriga, Michael Ciaramella, Pet... |
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| Undergraduate and Graduate Research Fellows Presen... |
ASM09-0053 |
Patricia Davison, Max Schroeder, Ashley ... |
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| Undergraduate and Graduate Research Fellows Presen... |
ASM09-0156 |
Chris Attaway, Kristen Sukraw, Neil Gott... |
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| Undergraduate and Graduate Research Fellows Presen... |
ASM09-0158 |
Tobin Hammer, Brian Yagi, Julia Schwartz... |
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| Unusual Appetites: From Enzymes to Environmental A... |
The symposium will explore some unusual microbial ... |
Elizabeth Edwards, Krassimira Hristova, ... |
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| Update on Gram-Negative Pathogen Resistance and La... |
Antibiotic resistance in gram-negative pathogens i... |
Nancy Hanson, David Hooper, David Landma... |
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| Update on Sexually Transmitted Infections: CDC Lab... |
This session will present new molecular diagnostic... |
Charlotte Gaydos, Mark Pandori, John Pap... |
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| Update on Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli: ... |
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli have evolve... |
Robyn Atkinson, Vickie Baselski |
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| Viruses and Cancer |
The symposium will focus on a range of viral agent... |
Jae Jung, James Pipas |
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| What Did Salmonella Saintpaul Teach Us? |
One of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in ... |
Sherri McGarry, Edward Beckman, Francisc... |
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| Why Do You Hurt the Ones You Love? - Factors Promo... |
Conventional wisdom holds that pathogens and hosts... |
Troy Day, B. Finlay, Margaret Mackinnon |
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