NEMPET 2002

June 20-22

Minnowbrook Lodge

Blue Mountain Lake, NY

Thursday 20 June

5:00p.m.  THE NEMPET LECTURE:

"Of Rust and Microbes: Elucidating the Role of Bacteria in Iron Oxidation at Circumneutral pH

Dr. David Emerson

American Type Culture Collection

5:00 pm, Thursday June 20th

DINNER: 6:00,    SOCIAL: Following

Friday 21 June

7:00 a.m.          BREAKFAST

8:45 a.m.          "An immunological approach to reducing methane production by methanogens from the rumen."  Sue Baker, CSIRO, W.Australia

9:20                  "Reductive dehalogenation of haloaromatics by microbes associated with the marin sponge Aplysina aerophoba."  Y-B Ahn, S-K Rhee, D.E. Fennell, L.J. Kerkhof, U.  Hentschel, M. Haggblom, Rutgers University

9:45                  "Role of aminotransferases in taurine metabolism by different bacteria."  R. Novak, E. Leadbetter, W. Godchaux, University of Connecticut

10:20               INTERVAL - refreshments

10:45               "Biofilm formation by a soil pseudomonad."  S. Hinsa, M. Espinosa-Urgel, G.A. O'Toole, Dartmouth College

11:10               "Exotic plant species alter microbial structure and function in the soil."  P.S. Kourtev, J.G. Ehrenfeld, M. Haggblom,  Rutgers University

12:00               LUNCH

Afternoon free for swimming, boating, hiking, museum-going etc.

6:30 p.m.          DINNER

8:00 p.m.          POSTER SESSION

Saturday 22 June

7:00 a.m.          BREAKFAST

9:00                 "Bacterial-fungal interactions: an ecological role for virulence factors"  D. Hogan, R. Kolter,  Harvard Medical

9:20                 "Dehalogenation by the denitrifying bacterium Thauera chlorobenzoica SCB1"  E.J. Pavlik-Amato, M.E. Caldwell, B. Song, M. Haggblom, Rutgers University

9:45                 "Isolation of C. elegans mutants with altered str-1 expression levels using automated, high sensitivity fluorescence profiling."  A.A. Ferrante, B. Moellers, V. Chang, B.       Holcombe, S. Alam, Union Biotechnica, Boston

10:10                INTERVAL - refreshments

10:30               "Bacterial flagellar assembly --data, motion demonstration."  J. Poindexter, Barnard College

11:00               NEMPET business meeting

12:00               LUNCH; DEPARTURE

POSTER PRESENTATIONS--Saturday evening

Distribution of fliC gene expression in E. coli PHL628 biofilms.    L.M. Junker, A.G. Hay. Cornell

Rhizosphere microbial communities associated with tall fescue in PCB-contaminated and uncontaminated soils.    D. Ciulla, K. Nusslein.  University of Massachusetts

Investigating the Sigma B regulon in Listeria monocytogenes.    M. Kazmierczak, S. Mithoe, M. Wiedmann.  Cornell University

Identifying genes regulating the production of Sinorhizobium meliloti succinoglycan.    Y. Rodriguez, M. Thankachan, H-P Cheng.  CUNY-Lehman

Anaerobic metabolism of p-cresol.    A. Wise, C. Phelps, L.Y. Young.  Rutgers University

Development and application of FP-GC/MS for determining the fate of TNT in soil.    J. Weiss, C. DeRito, E. Madsen.  Cornell University

Constructing a promoter library for identifying genes expressed during nodulation of alfalfa by Sinorhizobium meliloti Rm1021.    X-S. Zhang, H-P. Cheng.  CUNY-Lehman

Use of metabolic biomarkers for monitoring anaerobic naphthalene biodegradation.    J. Battistelli, C. Phelps, L.Y. Young.  Rutgers University

Methanogens in kangaroos.    Sue Baker, T. Schoep, N.J Edwards, A-G. D. Wright.  CSIRO, W.Australia

Monitoring expression of Sinorhizobium meliloti exoY gene in real time.    X-S. Zhang, H-P. Cheng.  CUNY-Lehman

Characterization of the microbial community in slime samples from different areas of paper machines.    P.S. Kourtev, A. Whiteside, L.J. Kerkhof, M. Haggblom.  Rutgers University

Whole genome ampliflication using a random-primed polymerase chain reaction.  J. Flint, E. Angert.  Cornell University

Identifying the promoters of the Sinorhizobium meliloti exoYFQ operon.    S-Y Yao, H-P. Cheng.  CUNY-Lehman

Quantitative analysis of cereulide, the emetic toxin of Bacillus cereus, produced under various conditions.    M. Haggblom, C. Apetroaie, M.A. Andersson, M.S. Salkinoja-Salonen.  Rutgers

Harpins: helpers or HOPs of the type III protein secretion system of Pseudomonas syringae.    A.R. Ramos, A. Collmer.  Cornell University

Effects of UV radiation on Bacillus cereus spore germination.    E.A. Stephens.  University of Massachusetts

Enhancement of anaerobic dechlorination of 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in marine and estuarine sediments.  Y-B Ahn, D. Fennell, L. Kerkhof, S-K. Rhee, M. Haggblom.  Rutgers

Temporal and architectural coincidence of RNA and DNA bacteriophage receptor sites in Caulobacter crescentus.  B.C. Reilly, C. Suri, A. Price-Whelan, J. Poindexter.  Barnard College

Characterization of high-spin cytochromes in Rhodobacter sphaeroides and their relationship to nitric oxide.  P.S. Choi, J.P. Shapleigh.  Cornell University

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