A. Costello, Syracuse U.

     10:00           Taurine metabolism by the purple nonsulfur bacteria.

                               R. Novak,W. Godchaux, E. Leadbetter, UConn-Storrs

     10:15     INTERVAL

     10:30           Sporocytophaga myxococcoides: a cellulose-decomposing bacterium.

                               J. van Baaren, E. Leadbetter, W. Godchaux, UConn-Storrs

     10:45           A second flagellar motor and a new response regulator involved in biofilm formation and swarming motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA 14

                              C. M. Toutain, G. O'Toole, Dartmouth

     11:10           Protein translocation across the haloarchaeal cytoplasmic membrane.

                              M. Pohlschroder, U. Penn.

     12:00 LUNCH

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

     6:00 p.m. DINNER

     7:30 p.m. POSTER SESSION--LISTING FOLLOWS

Saturday 21, June

     7:00 a.m.  BREAKFAST

     Special Presentation of Appreciation to Bob Mortlock for 20 years of service

               S. Leschine, Session Chair

     8:30 a.m.     Invasion by a symbiont: Growth and behavior of Sinorhizobium meliloti inside infection threads during root nodule formation.

                             D. Gage, UConn- Storrs

     9:10            Endospore formation in Epulopiscium.

                              J. Flint, E. Angert,Cornell U.

     9:25            Role of microbial transformations in methylmercury production in mercury contaminated water.

                             J. Schaefer, T. Barkay, Rutgers U.

     9:40    INTERVAL

     10:10           Characterization of a regulatory system important for biofilm development by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

                               S. Kuchma, G. O'Toole, Dartmouth

     10:30           Assembly of a bacterial flagellum--a CD-video borrowed by and with comments by

                               J. Poindexter, Barnard-Columbia U.

     10:50     NEMPET business meeting--R. P. Mortlock, presiding

     12:00     LUNCH; DEPARTURE

     C. Phelps, Rutgers U.

Microbial composition and the role of atmospheric trace gases on recent lava flows.

     V. Gomez-Alvarez, G.M. King, K. Nusslein, UMass-Amerst, U.Maine

Isolation and initial characterization of novel organomercurial lyases.

     A. Chatziefthimiou, T. Barkay , Rutgers U.

Metal resistant bacteria in the rhizosphere of Lemna minor.

     L. Stout, UMass-Amherst

A significant percentage of anaerobes in the human colon are starch-fermenting Bifidobacteria.

     T.L. Miller, M. J. Wolin, Wadsworth Ctr--NYSDH-Albany

Bacterial growth on p-octylphenol.

     A. E. Wise, A.G. Hay, Cornell U.

Factors controlling methylmercury production in bank soils of Carson River, Nevada.

     J.Yagi, T.Barkay, Rutgers U.

Bacterial growth on styrene uses a mosaic pathway.

     L. M. Junker, A.G. Hay, Cornell U.

Biofilm formation and cellulose degradation by the thermophilic acinomycete, Thermobifida fusca.