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Dinner-Lecture: Sex, Drugs, and Penguins: A Study of Drug Resistance in Antarctica

Robert V. Miller, ASM Foundation Speaker
Regents Professor
Oklahoma State University
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Stillwater, OK

Widespread use of antibiotics is rapidly and dramatically changing the face of drug- resistance in bacteria. To understand how antibiotic use has affected the evolution of drug resistance in bacteria, a "base line" of
drug-resistance distribution must be obtained. Currently, we do not possess a time machine that will allow us to go back to a pre-antibiotic era. However, antibiotic use in the Antarctic has been minimal and may afford us with a base-line resistance profile. We have been exploring the distribution of antibiotic resistance of Antarctic penguins. What drug resistances are co-inherited? How prevalent is drug resistance? Are these resistances transferable by conjugation or other gene transfer mechanism?

Date: Thursday February 6, 2003
Time: Reception 5:30pm, Dinner 6:30pm, Lecture 7:30pm
Place: Doubletree Guest Suites Waltham, Tel: 781-890-6767
550 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451
Members, $35; Nonmembers $40; Full time students $15.

Dinner: Entree of grilled chicken breast or baked scrod, including appetizer, mixed greens salad, warm rolls & butter, Chef's selection of fresh vegetables, potato or rice, dessert, coffee, decaffeinated coffee and herbal teas.

Registration Deadline: January 29,2003 Confirmations will not be sent.

Contact: Irene H. George, NEB Secretary, 617-983-6371

 

Dinner Lecture -DOUBLETREE GUEST SUITES WALTHAM -Registration Form

Sex, Drugs, and Penguins: A Study of Drug Resistance in Antarctica

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Mail to: Irene H. George, c/o NEB-ASM, PO Box 155, West Roxbury, MA 02132

Due by January 29, 2003 (Also, Cancellations must be received by this date for refund).

Directions:

From Massachusetts Turnpike(Route 90): Take Exit 14 to Route 128/1-95 North. Take Exit 27B "Winter Street", take right at exit ramp, take a right onto Winter Street, turn left onto First Avenue.

From Boston and Logan Airport: Take Expressway (Route 1-93) South to Massachusetts Turnpike West (1-90 West) to Route 128/1-95 North to Exit 27B "Winter Street", take right at exit ramp, take right onto Winter Street, turn left onto First Avenue.

From Route 128/1-95 South: Take Exit 27B "Winter Street". Take a right at exit ramp, take right onto Winter Street, turn left onto First Avenue.

FROM FIRST A VENUE: you will see the Doubletree Guest Suites on your left. The hotel is on the corner of First Avenue and Winter Street...

PARKING: There is ample free of charge on-site parking at the Guest Suites.