2006 Meeting of the North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology

When:

Thursday, October 12th, 2006 (This is the first day of Fall Break for the UNC system). Registration at 8:00am, meeting 9:00am to 5:00pm

Where:

Ruby C. McSwain Education Center at the JC Raulston Arboretum, Raleigh, NC.
Visitor information includes the address, parking instructions, and other useful information about the arboretum.
Driving directions includes a map as well as a description of how to get to the arboretum from any direction.

Registration:

Email notice of intention to attend to svallen@uncfsu.edu before October 5, 2006. The $10 registration fee (plus $10 NC ASM membership for non-members) is payable at the door. Registrants will receive a program (including abstracts and attendee roster), a box lunch and morning and afternoon refreshments.

Tip: The registration/membership form can be downloaded, printed out, and filled out in advance, saving you time at the meeting registration table.

Schedule:

Preliminaries
8:00 am	Registration
	Poster and Talk set-up
	Coffee Break
	Awards Committee's organization
8:45 am	Sherrice Allen	Welcome and Introductory comments
Session I – Molecular/Cellular (9: 00 am to 10:00 am) Sherrice Allen, Chair
9:00 am	Henry S. Gibbons	Identification of two Mycobacterium smegmatis cell envelope sugar-binding proteins that depend on the SecA2 protein
9:20 am	Justin A. McDonough	Beta-lactamase (BlaC) as a Genetic Reporter to Identify Exported Proteins of the Tat pathway in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
9:40 am	Dilan R. Weerakoon	Respiratory Chain of Campylobacter jejuni Poston Award Winner!
10:00 am	Poster Session I (Unattended)
	Coffee Break
Session II - Pathogenesis (10:40 am to 12:00 pm) Wrennie Edwards, Chair
10:40 am	Belen Belete	The Pseudomonas aeruginosa response regulator AlgR controls twitching motility by activating the fimU-pilVWXY1Y2E operon, which is required for proper assembly, localization, and export of type IV pilin monomers. Melton Award Winner!
11:00 am	Terry L. Morris	Signaling Cascades Triggered by Bacterial Metabolic End-products During KSHV Reactivation
11:20 am	Gina Parise	Role of a Putative Polysaccharide Locus in Bordetella Biofilm Development
11:40 am	Elizabeth Waligora	DNA binding properties of Pseudomonas aeruginosa AmrZ
12:00 pm	Poster Session II (Attended)
	Lunch
Session III - Environmental (1:20 pm to 2:00 pm) Jim Brown, Chair
1:20 pm	Bongkeun Song	Detection and Diversity of Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidizing Bacteria (ANAMMOXA) in the Cape Fear River Estuary
1:40 pm	Ann G. Matthysse	Genes Involved in the binding of E. coli O157 to plant surfaces
2:00 pm	Coffee Break
Plenary Session (2:15 pm to 3:13 pm) Daniel Williams, Chair
2:15 pm	William Shafer	Drug Efflux Pumps and Bacterial Pathogenesis
3:15 pm	Poster Session III (Attended)
Postscript
4:00 pm	Sherrice Allen	Thank you and Concluding Comments
4:15 pm	Business Meeting
	Election of New Officers
5:00 pm	Adjournment

Poster presentations:

#	Presenter	Title
1	Reha O. Azizoglu	Role of Growth Temperature on Freeze-Thaw Resistance of Listeria monocytogenes
2	Anna Lisa De Obaldia	Difference in mating of Cryptococcus species on pigeon guano defines their ecological niche
3	Kenny Esho	Effects of Mechanical Stretch on Fetal Lung Type II Epithelial Cells
4	Liesl Jeffers	Sjogren’s Syndrome is associated with BK virus
5	Ine Jorgensen	Characterization of Iaps, a Novel Family of Secreted Chlamydial Inclusion-associated Proteins
6	Melanie Lee-Brown	Phylogenetic analysis of Azomonas insignis.
7	Luyan Ma	Analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa conditional Psl variants reveals roles for the Psl as an adhesin and in maintaining biofilm structure post-attachment
8	Jessica McCann	b-lactamase as a reporter for protein export in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
9	Danielle McLaurin	RNase P in Pyrobaculum?
10	Benjamin Mudrak	Investigating the interaction between heat-labile enterotoxin and lipopolysaccharide
11	Holly Oates	Molecular Determination of Uncultured Novel Arsenate Reducing Bacteria in Estuarine Sediments and Groundwater
12	Kristina Rehm	The Poxvirus A35R Protein Down-Regulates the Immune Response
13	Nathan Rigel	Genetic analysis of the SecA2 secretion pathway of mycobacteria
14	Andrea Rockel	Identification of DinB, a novel DNA polymerase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
15	Ro Shauna Rothwell	Mechanisms of Oral Viral Reactivation and Pathogenesis
16	Timothy Brian Shirey	Detection and Diversity of Denitrifying Bacterial Communities at the Cape Fear River Estuary, North Carolina
17	Kris Spaeth	Mapping out the pathogen-host interface on the parasitophorous vacuole of Chlamydia trachomatis. Best Poster Award Winner!

Information for presenters:

Poster setup will be during registration, 8:00am-8:45am, and will remain up for the duration of the meeting. Posters will be mounted on corkboards (BRING PINS!). The maximum poster size is  3 ' x 4' - We have 8ft boards, and 2 will go on each side. The first poster session (10:00-10:40 am) is unattended; you don't have to be there. The second poster session is over lunch - try to spend the time between 1:05pm and 1:20 at your poster. The third poster session (3:15-4:00 pm) is attended - please plan to spend this time at your poster.

Talk setup is during registration, 8:00-8:45 am.  Bring your presentation either on a CD or a USB memory stick, in either Microsoft Powerpoint or Apple Keynote format. These will be copied to a computer (we'll have both PC and Mac) connected to the projector during the setup time. If you have other software needs, plan to bring your own laptop & we'll plug it into the projector at the appropriate time.

Printed material:

• Announcement flyer (60Kbyte PDF file)
• Complete Program (284 Kbyte PDF)

Organizing Committee:

Sherrice Allen (President-elect)
James W. Brown (President)
Geraldine Luginbuhl (Treasurer)

Contact:

Sherrice V. Allen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Department of Natural Sciences
Fayetteville State University
1200 Murchison Rd.
Fayetteville, NC 28301
phone: (910) 672-1046
fax: (910) 672-1159
email: svallen@uncfsu.edu