The 18th Annual NEMPET Meeting

Keynote Lecture

"From Sheep Poisoning to Prevention of Kidney Stones"

Prof. Milton Allison, Iowa State University

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Thursday, 21 June

    5:00 p.m.                             THE NEMPET LECTURE    - Prof. Milton Allison

    6:30 p.m.                                     Dinner followed by Social Hour(s)

Friday, 22 June

    7:30 a.m.                                     Breakfast

    9:00 a.m.                             "Preliminary evidence for styrene oxidation via the tod pathway"  - Lauren Junker, Cornell University

    9:15 a.m.                             "In situ detoxification of high molecular weight PAH's in the rhizosphere of salt marsh plants"  - Michael Fleming and J. Kukor, Rutgers University

    9:30 a.m.                             "A modified Winogradsky column for teaching the iron cycle" - Craig Phelps and Eric Hacherl, Rutgers University

    10:00 a.m.                                     Refreshments

    10:30 a.m.                             "Bananas, bagels and butyric acid" (or, "Starch fermentation in the human intestine") - M. J. Wolin, Wadsworth Labs, NY Dept. of Health

    11:15 a.m.                             "Ion mobility spectrometry and trace-chemical detection"  - J.E. Dugas, UConn-Avery Point

    Noon                                             Lunch

    6:30 p.m.                                       Dinner

    7:30 p.m.                                 Poster Session followed by Social Hour(s)

Saturday, 23 June

    7:30 a.m.                                         Breakfast

    9:00 a.m.                                 "Reductive dechlorination of chloroethenes by Dehalococcoides ethenogenes, strain 195"  - Ivonne Nijenhuis, Cornell University

    9:15 a.m.                                 "Isolation and characterization of a soluble NADPH-dependent Fe(III) reductase from G. sulfurreducens" - Franz Kaufman and Derek Lovley, UMass

    9:30 a.m.                                 "Molecular ecology of TCE-contaminated sites"  - Amy Carrol, Cornell University

    9:45 a.m.                                         Refreshments

    10:15 a.m.                                 "Evolution of an unusual mode of propagation for Bacteria" - Esther Angert, Cornell University

    11:00 a.m.                                 Impromptu Comments;  NEMPET Business

    Noon                                               Lunch, Departure

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

    "Aerobic transformation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by microorganisms isolated from sediments of the San Jose Lagoon"  - Vincente Gomez-Alvarez,  UMass - Amherst

    "Colonization of natural polymers and biofilm formation by Cellulomonas uda in its quest for food" - Gemma Reguera and Susan Leschine, UMass - Amherst

    "An aquatic plant root community as a model system for the phytoremediation of heavy metals" - Lisa Stout, Umass - AMherst

    "Metal resistance among bacteria isolated from subsurface cores" - Gili Benyehuda, Jonna Coombs and Tamar Barkay, Rutgers University

    "Microbial factors controlling methylmercury accumulation in freshwater ecosystems" - Jeffra Scaefer, Ruth Dorn and Tamar Barkay, Rutgers University

    "Profile of a healthy human gastrointestinal bacterial community using molecular methods: On the way to understanding bacterial community shifts associated with Inflammatory Bowel Disease" - Peter Martel, UMass - Amherst

    "A carbohydrate fermenting ruminal bacterium that inhibits obligate amino acid fermenting ruminal bacteria" - Jennifer Rychlik and James B. Russell, Cornell U.

    "The bacteriocin production of Streptococcus bovis HC5 is catabolite repressed by glucose" - Hilario Montovani and James B. Russell, Cornell University

    "The genome sizes of Clostridium lentocellum and Clostridium propionicum: Possible insights into the genome of Epulopiscium" - Joe Flint, Cornell U.

    "The effects of increased carbon dioxide concentration on the growth of a marine bacterium" - Michael P. Labare, Alicia Smith and J. Timothy Bays, USMA - West Point

    "Ion mobility spectrometry and trace-chemical detection" - Jeffrey Dugas, UConn - Avery Point

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