History

1983/1984 Branch Year
Meeting Date: October 21 & 22, 1983
Meeting Location: Fairbanks

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Patrick Dugan, Microbes and mining.
Mr. Jim Savage, Clinical microbiology in Alaska.

Branch Officers
President: Jamie Morton
Secretary/Treasurer: Elena Sparrow
Councilor: Carol Feist

1984/1985 Branch Year
Meeting Date: October 19 & 20, 1984
Meeting Location: Anchorage

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Phillip J. Baker
Regulation of the antibody response to bacterial polysaccharide antigens.
Dr. Frank Pauls
Early microbiology in the territories, and
Experiences with epidemiology in Alaska.

Branch Officers
President: Roger Grischkowsky
President-elect: Steve Sparrow
Treasurer: Elena Sparrow
Secretary: Marie Fried
Councilor: Betsy Robertson
Alternate councilor: Steve Norell

1985/1986 Branch Year
Meeting Date: November 1 & 2, 1985
Meeting Location: Fairbanks

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Tracy Wilkins
Colon cancer: a bacterial disease?; and
Immunological and biochemical studies of ‘new’ clostridial enterotoxins.

Branch Officers
President: Steve Sparrow
President-elect: Jill Follett
Treasurer: Elena Sparrow
Secretary: Mike Fallon
Councilor: Betsy Robertson
Alternate councilor: Steve Norell

1986/1987 Branch Year
Meeting Date: October 31 & November 1, 1986
Meeting Location: Anchorage

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Marilyn Menegus
Enterovirus infections in young children: epidemiology, clinical features and laboratory diagnosis.

Branch Officers
President: Jill Follett
President-elect: Ed Brown
Treasurer: Elena Sparrow
Secretary: Elisa Elliot
Councilor: Betsy Robertson
Alternate councilor: Steve Norell

1987/1988 Branch Year
Meeting Date: April 29 & 30, 1988
Meeting Location: Fairbanks

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Eugene Nester, Crown gall genetics
Dr. F. Robert Tabita, Lecture topic not recorded

Branch Officers
President: Ed Brown
President-elect: Mary Schmitt
Treasurer: Elena Sparrow
Secretary: Joan Forshaug Braddock
Councilor: Mary Schmitt
Educational representative: Carol Feist

1988/1989 Branch Year
Meeting Date: April 14 & 15, 1989
Meeting Location: Anchorage

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Records not available

Branch Officers
President: Mary Schmitt
President-elect: Verlan Cochran
Treasurer: Elena Sparrow
Secretary: Joan Bloom Thomas
Councilor: Don Button
Alternate councilor: Brian Himelbloom
Educational representative: Jamie Morton Dieterich

1989/1990 Branch Year
Meeting Date: April 20 & 21, 1990
Meeting Location: Fairbanks

Invited Speaker and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Katherine Baker, Bioremediation (specific lecture titles not recorded)

Branch Officers
President: Verlan Cochran
President-elect: Joan Thomas
Treasurer: Elena Sparrow
Secretary: Ardella Snow
Educational representative: Josh Schimel

1990/1991 Branch Year
Meeting Date: May 25 & 26, 1991
Meeting Location: Kodiak

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Arthur Koch
The wall is the vital organ for bacterial growth and division; and
Way down upon the large intestine.

Branch Officers
President: Brian Himelbloom
President-elect: Josh Schimel
Treasurer: Elena Sparrow
Secretary: Robin Rainwater
Councilor: Peggy Arps
Alternate councilor: Betsy Robertson
Educational representative: Joan Braddock

1991/1992 Branch Year
Meeting Date: Records not available
Meeting Location: Records not available

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Records not available

Branch Officers
President: Josh Schimel
President-elect: Karen Rudolph
Treasurer: Elena Sparrow
Secretary: Ed Brown
Councilor: Peggy Arps
Alternate councilor: Joan Braddock
Educational representative: Mary Janis

1992/1993 Branch Year
Meeting Date: April 23 & 24, 1993
Meeting Location: Anchorage

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Douglas Berg, Lecture topic not recorded

Branch Officers
President: Karen Rudolph
President-elect: Verlan Cochran
Treasurer: Records not available
Secretary: Records not available
Councilor: Records not available
Alternate councilor: Records not available
Educational representative: Records not available

1993/1994 Branch Year
Meeting Date: April 29-30, 1994
Meeting Location: Fairbanks

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Michael A. Savageau, How genes and genies get turned on.
Dr. Betty H. Olsen, Cleaning up with biotechnology.

Branch Officers
President: Verlan Cochran
President-elect: Alan Parkinson
Treasurer: Records not available
Secretary: Records not available
Councilor: Records not available
Alternate councilor: Records not available
Educational representative: Records not available

1994/1995 Branch Year
Meeting Date: March 31-April 1, 1995
Meeting Location: Anchorage

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Joan Rose, Cryptosporidium: a new risk for drinking water
Dr. Robert Good, Emerging mycobacterial infections in the United States

Branch Officers
President: Alan Parkinson
President-elect: Betsy Robertson
Treasurer: Carolyn Zanis
Secretary: Karen Rudolph
Councilor: Joan Braddock
Alternate councilor: Record not available
Educational representative: Elena Sparrow

1995/1996 Branch Year
Meeting Date: May 3 & 4, 1996
Meeting Location: Fairbanks

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Ron Doyle, History, misery and microbes; and Applications of lectins in microbiology.
Dr. Kate Scow, Constraints limiting the bioremediation of contaminated soils; and Biodegradation of solvents in the soil and the vadose zone: implications for intrinsic bioremediation.

Branch Officers
President: Betsy Robertson
President-elect: Quentin Reuer
Treasurer: Elena B. Sparrow
Secretary/Membership Coordinator: Alan Parkinson
Councilor: Joan F. Braddock
Alternate councilor: Karen Rudolph

Corporate Sponsors:
Packard Instrument Company of Canberra Industries, Inc.
Dynatech Laboratories, Inc.

1996/1997 Branch Year
Meeting Date: April 18-19, 1997
Meeting Location: Anchorage

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Abigail Salyers, Lecture topic not recorded
Dr. Joe Suflita, Lecture topic not recorded

Branch Officers
President: Quentin Reuer
President-elect: Joan Braddock
Treasurer: Record not available
Secretary/Membership Coordinator: Alan Parkinson
Councilor: Karen Rudolph
Alternate councilor: Record not available

1997/1998 Branch Year
Meeting Date: April 10-11, 1998
Meeting Location: Fairbanks, AK

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Gerben Zylstra
Gene probes for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degrading bacteria in the environment: promises and pitfalls; and Phthalates: from plastics to leisure suits to food for microorganisms.

Dr. Richard Schwalbe
Issues in antimicrobial drug resistance: the role of the clinical microbiology laboratory; and Vancomycin-resistant enterococci: surveillance strategies and activity of investigational antibiotics.

Branch Officers
President: Joan Braddock
President-elect: Sylvia Orr
Treasurer: Carolyn Zanis
Secretary/Membership Coordinator: Alan Parkinson
Councilor: Betsy Robinson
Alternate councilor: Karen Miernyk

1998/1999 Branch Year
Meeting Date: April 23-24, 1999
Meeting Location: Girdwood, AK

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Marylynn Yates
Enteric microorganisms: characterization, detection and transmission by water; and Constructed wetlands: the answer to our problems.

Dr. Linda Utrup
Update on Helicobacter pylori: diagnosis, treatment, and epidemiology; and
Why Helicobacter pylori treatment regimes fail: pharmacology, resistance, and pathogenesis genes.

Branch Officers
President: Sylvia Orr
President-elect: Steve Sparrow
Treasurer: Carolyn Zanis
Secretary: Alan Parkinson
Councilor: Joan Braddock
Alternate councilor: Mark Hines

1999/2000 Branch Year
Meeting Date: April 28 & 29, 2000
Meeting Location: Fairbanks

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. William Costerton
Biofilms as complex, highly coordinated, multicellular communities; and
Role of biofilms in the etiology and consequences of device-related and other chronic infections.

Branch Officers
President: Steve Sparrow
President-elect: Mark Hines
Treasurer: Elena Sparrow
Secretary: Karen Miernyk
Councilor: Joan Braddock
Alternate councilor: Alan J. Parkinson

2000/2001 Branch Year
Meeting Date: April 27 & 28, 2001
Meeting Location: Anchorage

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Philip Lister
The evolution of antibiotic resistance among bacteria: are we approaching the post-antibiotic era?; and
The search for novel antibacterial combinations to treat multiply-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Dr. Michael Schmidt
Iron transport and heme-dependent signal transduction in the gram positive pathogen Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

Branch Officers
President: Mark Hines
President-elect: Jon Lindstrom
Treasurer: Elena Sparrow
Secretary: Karen Miernyk
Councilor: Joan Braddock
Alternate councilor: Alan Parkinson

2001/2002 Branch Year
Meeting Date: March 15 & 16, 2002
Meeting Location: Fairbanks

Invited Speaker and Lecture Topics:
Professor Robert V. Miller
A postcard from Antarctica: bacteria and the ozone hole; and
Bacterial Gene Swapping in Nature.

Branch Officers
President: Jon Lindstrom
President-elect: Khrystyne Duddleston
Treasurer: Elena Sparrow
Secretary: Karen Miernyck
Councilor: Joan Braddock
Alternate councilor: Alan Parkinson

2002/2003 Branch Year
Meeting Date: April 25 & 26, 2003
Meeting Location: Anchorage

Invited Speakers and Lecture Topics:
Dr. Fred Brockman, Integrating Many "-omics": Bringing Genomes to Life; and
Microbiology of the Vadose Zone: Extremophiles to Bioremediation

Branch Officers
President: Khrystyne Duddleston
President-elect: Sharon Richmond
Treasurer: Elena Sparrow
Secretary: Carolynn DeByle
Councilor: Joan Braddock
Alternate councilor: Jon Lindstrom

2003/2004 Branch Year
Meeting Date:
Meeting Location: Fairbanks

Invited Speaker and Lecture Topics

Branch Officers
President: Sharon Richmond
President-elect: Karen Rudolf
Treasurer: Elena Sparrow
Secretary: Carolynn DeByle
Councilor:
Alternate councilor