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2005 NC ASM Annual meeting
The Jane S. McKimmon Conference Center
1101 Gorman Street, NC State University
Raleigh, NC
Friday, October 7, 2005
Download the complete Meeting Program (424Kbyte PDF)
Meeting Schedule |
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| 8:00 - 8:45AM- Prelude | |
| Registration | |
| ASM Member NC Branch dues: $10.00 (includes meeting registration) | |
| Non-member registration fee : $10.00 | |
| Application for student travel awards | |
| Presentation preparation | |
| Load “Powerpoint” presentations onto computers | |
| Mount posters | |
| Other preliminaries | |
| Continental breakfast | |
| Awards committee organization | |
| 8:45 - 9:00AM- Welcome | |
| James P. Coleman, President, North Carolina Branch of the ASM | |
| 9:00 - 10:30AM- Presentations - Session I - Environmental | |
| 9:00- Extremely Oligotrophic Bacteria Inhabit Soils in Great Smoky Mountains National Park E.A. YORK and S.P. O’CONNELL |
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| 9:15- Seasonal and Individual Differences in Microfloral Communities from Elk as Assessed by Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis B.A. TAYLOR and S.P. O’CONNELL |
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| 9:30- Stable Isotope Probing Used to Investigate the Effect of Salicylate on the Microbial Diversity of a Bioreactor Treating Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Soil S.N. POWELL and M.D. AITKEN |
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| 9:45- IN SILICO: A software suite for the rapid identification of microbial communities J. CHRISTOPHER ELLIS and JAMES W. BROWN |
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| 10:00- Challenges in Developing and Testing HIV/AIDS Vaccines in Africa JONAS E. OKEAGU |
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| 10:15 - 10:45AM- Break & Poster Session I (unattended) |
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| 10:45 - 12:00PM- Presentations - Session II - Pathogenesis |
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| 10:45- The Brucella abortus xthA-1 and xthA-2 Gene Products are Necessary for Base Excision Repair of DNA and Protection from Oxidative Stress MICHAEL L. HORNBACK and R. MARTIN ROOP II Mary Poston Award winner |
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| 11:00- Synergistic Role of Two Homologous Proteins BipA and BcfA in Respiratory Tract Colonization by Bordetella NEELIMA SUKUMAR, MEENU MISHRA, GINA PARISE and RAJENDAR DEORA |
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| 11:15- The mechanistic basis of flagellar repression in mucoid, non-motile Pseudomonas aeruginosa CF isolates A. H. TART, M. J. BLANKS, D. J. WOZNIAK Thoyd Melton Award winner |
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| 11:30- Identification of DinB, a novel DNA polymerase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ANDREA B. ROCKEL, LAURIE SANDERS, MARK D. SUTTON, HAIPING LU AND DANIEL J. WOZNIAK |
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| 11:45- Cryptococcus neoformans alpha strains preferentially disseminate to the central nervous system during coinfection K. NIELSEN and J. HEITMAN |
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| 12:00 - 1:15PM- Box lunch & Poster Session II (attended) | |
| Poster presentors should attend their posters beginning at 1:00 |
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| 1:15 - 2:30PM- Presentations - Session III - Molecular & Cellular | |
| 1:15- Expression Of The bhuA Gene By Brucella abortus 2308 In Low Iron Conditions Requires The ChrA/S Regulatory System JAMES T. PAULLEY, JOHN E. BAUMGARTNER, ERIC S. ANDERSON, RM ROOP II |
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| 1:3- Outer membrane vesiculation is an envelope stress response mechanism in Gram-negative bacteria A. J. MCBROOM, A. P. JOHNSON, A. VERMA, M. J. KUEHN |
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| 1:45- Mycobacterium smegmatis SecA2 Governs Export of Two Putative Sugar-Binding Lipoproteins H.S. GIBBONS, M. ABSHIRE, and M. BRAUNSTEIN |
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| 2:00- FNR in Salmonella enterica var. Typhimurium: metabolism, motility, and virulence R.C. FINK, M. R. EVANS, H. M. HASSAN |
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| 2:15- Complicating the Question: Identification of a Putative Small Regulatory RNA (sRNA) in Brucella abortus E. S. ANDERSON, J. T. PAULLEY, and R. M. ROOP II |
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| 2:30 - 2:45PM- Break | |
| 2:45 - 3:45PM- Featured Presentation | |
| Prof. Jeff Dangl, UNC- Chapel Hill The Molecular Logic of Plant Immune System |
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| 3:45 - 4:15PM- Poster Session III (attended) | |
| Refreshments provided | |
| Awards Committee meeting |
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| 4:15 - 4:30PM- Conclusion | |
| Student Award Presentations | |
| Closing Remarks |
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| 4:30 - 5:00PM- Postscript | |
| Business Meeting & Election of 2005 Officers |
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| 5:00PM- Adjournment | |
Posters
Alice Mei Lee, Chung-Jung Chou, Robert Kelly, Amy Grunden.
Transcriptional profile of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus grown in continuous culture with limited and high concentrations of tungsten
Kendra Hitz, RM. Roop II.
Defining the madness: How Hfq regulates stationary phase genes in Brucella abortus.
Gamze Gulez, Francis de los Reyes
Effect of Carbon and Inoculum Sources on Filamentous Growth in Activated Sludge
Ossie F. Dyson, Benjaman A. Bryan, Patrick W. Ford, and Shaw M. Akula.
Effect of Cigarette Smoking on Kaposi’s Sarcoma
Jennifer Reineke Pohlhaus and Kenneth N. Kreuzer
Norfloxacin-Stabilized DNA Gyrase Cleavage Complexes Block E.coli Replication Forks in vivo
S. Kurtz, K. Williams, J. Ting , M. Braunstein
Elucidating the role of M. tuberculosis SecA2 in macrophages
Mikyoung Ji, Yangju Im, Alice Lee, Wendy Boss, Amy Grunden
Recombinant Expression of Superoxide Reductase from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus in Tobacco Cell Culture
Anthony A. Devine, Joseph C. Ellis, Leonard S. Bull and Amy M. Grunden
Utilizing TRFLP Analysis for the Determination of the Microbial Community Found in Hog Waste Lagoon Systems
Xuelian Du, Sherry Tove, and Amy M. Grunden
Production of Pyrococcus furiosus Prolidase Mutants with Increased Catalytic Activity at Lower Temperatures
A.L. Buchanan and S.P. O’Connell
Fingerprinting Archaeal Communities within the Digestive Tracts of Elk
Samantha G. Harvey, Christian J Sund, C. Jeffrey Smith.
Bacteroides fragilis fusA Homolog in Oxygen Is Induced During Exposure to Oxygen
Benjamin Mudrak, Anshu Verma and Meta J. Kuehn
Investigating heat-labile enterotoxin binding to lipopolysaccharide
E. Waligora, D. Ramsey, D. Wozniak.
DNA binding and oligomerization properties of Pseudomonas aeruginosa AlgZ.
Vernon Edwards, Ipek Goktepe, Bonita Milford, and Mohamed Ahmedna
Antibacterial Effects of Pokeweed Root and Leaves Against Select Bacteria
Belen Belete and Daniel J. Wozniak
The Role of AlgR in the control of pilV, a fimbrial gene required for twitching motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Ramsey F. Connor, Dr. Rachel L. Roper
The Poxvirus A35R Protein Regulates Immunity
S. J. Bauman and M. J. Kuehn.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Outer Membrane Vesicles Export PaAP Aminopeptidase and Activate Human Lung Epithelia
Best Poster award