| Location: | Best Western Rolling Hills Resort
3501 West Rolling Hills Circle Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328 |
Click HERE to visit the hotel's website! |
| For Reservations: | 1-800-327-7735 | Be sure to mention you are attending the Florida Branch ASM Meeting when making reservations |
| Abstracts and Pre-Registration Due March 18, 2005 | Send abstracts electronically to Dr. Theresa Slifko at
terri.slifko@ocfl.net |
Send pre-registration to Dr. William Saffranek,
4635 Janet Road, Cocoa, FL 32926 Make checks payable to 'FL Branch ASM' |
| **Undergraduate Student Lodging Provided (limited)!** | Contact Christina Kellogg for more information at ckellogg@usgs.gov | |
| Waksman Foundation Guest Speaker: | Dr. Ralph Tanner | Title: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way From The Sewage Treatment Plant |
| (see below for biographical sketch) | ( see below for a summary) | |
| Guest Speakers: | Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele | Title: The Effect Of Environmental Factors On Indicator Microbe Levels Within Marine Subtropical Waters And Future Efforts To Evaluate Relationships With Human Health |
| Dr. Christina Kellogg | Title: Deep-Sea Coral Microbial Ecology | |
| Dr. James Hickman | Title: The Creation Of Cellular Circuits And Their Integration With Silicon-Based Devices For Biological Applications | |
| Michael Gray | Title: People, Caves, And Floating Bugs | |
| There is a rumor that Dr. Stan Malloy, Director of the Center for Microbial Sciences at San Diego State will make a guest appearance! | ||
| More speakers to follow! | ||
| Meeting Schedule: | ||
| Friday April 1 | Guest Speakers, 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Mixer, 6:00 pm until |
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| Saturday April 2 | Student Presentations and Guest Speakers,
8:30 am to 4:00 pm |
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Maps and directions available on the resort's web site.
The microbiotoa of bluegills
living in treated sewage was examined, along with the water. A new
genus in the cytophagales was discovered. Aeromonas sp. were
common gut inhabitants and also behaved as fecal indicator organisms.
The microbiota was highly variant from fish to fish, but large numbers
of antibiotic-resistant bacteria were recovered. Bluegills from rural
lakes with no significant human impact, however, and the water from these
lakes were also found to be carrying large numbers of antibiotic-resistant
bacteria, including resistance to more recently available compounds like
ciprofloxacin. The impact and meaning of these reservoirs of resistance
remains unclear.
Biographical Sketch
Ralph Tanner is an applied microbial
physiologist with particular experience with acetogens, methanogens, SRB,
clostridia and other anaerobes. By inclination and training in industry,
much of his research has been collaborative efforts with colleagues from
chemical engineering (e.g., ethanol from biomass), environmental science
(e.g., hydrocarbon degradation) and petroleum engineering (e.g., enhanced
oil recovery). He also works in industrial biocides and disinfectants,
another hangover from his industry days. New microorganisms are a
routine reward in this work, resulting in about 20 publications in microbial
systematics over the years. Many of these were in collaboration with
Carl Woese, always an interesting event. Ralph Tanner is a professor
of microbiology at the University of Oklahoma, teaching the senior laboratory
in microbial diversity and physiology, a la Ralph S. Wolfe, for the past
15 years. He was an ASM Wellcome Visiting Professor and was a past
chair of Division Q.