2007

June 22-24, Minnowbrook Lodge, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

PHOTO GALLERIES

    - LECTURES, POSTER SESSIONS and SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

    - MICROBE WALK

This Year's Schedule: 

Friday 22 June

5:00p.m.          "The Riddle of the Sphingolipid and Other Tales of Cutaneous Chemical Defenses Against Fungi"

Prof. Lawrence Aaronson

Utica College

6:00 p.m.         DINNER        

7:30 – 9:00 p.m.          POSTER SESSION A                         SOCIAL: Following

Saturday 23 June

7:30 a.m.         BREAKFAST

9:00                 The Role of Universal Stress Proteins in the Regulation of Stress Response in E. coli

                        Amy Cheng-Vollmer – Swarthmore College

9:50                 Novel Mechanisms of IgA-Mediated Immunity to Salmonella and Shigella

                        Stephen Forbes – SUNY Albany

10:10               Role of Defective Prophage in Biofilm Formation

                        Andreas Toba – Cornell University

10:30               Interval

10:50               Deep Impact:  Subsurface Microorganisms, Bioremediation, and Microbial Evolution 

                        Jonna Coombs – Adelphi University

11:40               The Response of Frankia and Actinorhizal Plants to Mixed Pollution

                        Teal Furnholm – University of New Hampshire

12:00               Cemeteries – A Resting Platform for the Microbial Community

                        Douglas Eveleigh – Rutgers University

12:30 p.m.       LUNCH

1:45 p.m.         Microbial Field-Trip (Optional)

                        - A nature walk around Minnowbrook focusing on microbial habitats and field marks.

6:00 p.m.         DINNER

7:30 – 9:00 p.m.          POSTER SESSION B                                      SOCIAL: following

Sunday 24 June

7:30 a.m.         BREAKFAST

9:00 a.m.         Investigating DNA Replication Dynamics in Uncultured Bacteria

                        Esther Angert – Cornell University

9:50                 Moving In, Moving Out: Microbial Community Structural Shifts along a Chronosequence of Volcanic Deposits

                        Vicente Gomez-Alvarez – University of Massachusetts at Amherst

10:25               Interval

10:45               Manganese Oxidation in Leptothrix discophora-A Chest with Well-Kept Secrets

                        Daniela Bocioaga – Cornell University

11:05               On the Best of Our Senses

                        Jeanne Poindexter – Barnard College

11:40               NEMPET business meeting

12:30 p.m.       LUNCH; DEPARTURE

POSTER SESSION A:                                                                                 Friday, 7:30 – 9:00 pm

The Response of Frankia and Actinorhizal Plants to Mixed Pollution

    N. Beauchamin, T. Furnholm and L. Tisa – University of New Hampshire

Attenuation of Acid Mine Drainage by Microbes

    C. Becerra and K. Nusslein – UMass-Amherst

Isolation and Characterization of Genes Essential for Predation by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

    L. Cory and J. Tudor – St. Joseph’s University

Phage Integrase Involvement in HGT of Metal Resistance Genes

    D. Cuneo and J. Coombs – Adelphi University

Characterization of the Pervasiveness of Mercury and Antibiotic Resistance Due to Co-Selection Using Population Studies of Sphagnum Core Samples Dating Back 2000 Years

    J.P. Moody, A.I. Olcerst, L.H. Wardwell, R.A. Nelson, and F.A. Fekete – Colby College

Novel Mechanisms of IgA-Mediated Immunity to Salmonella and Shigella

    S. Forbes, M. Eschmann, T. Bumpus, R. Cole, W. Samsonoff and N.J. Mantis – SUNY Albany, Union College, and Wadsworth Center NYSDOH

The Respiratory Physiology of Brucella neotomae

    A.K. Hartsock and J.P. Shapleigh – Cornell University

Distribution of Anaerobic Dehalogenating Bacteria in Sponge Species from the Atlantic and the Mediterranean

    N. Lopez, I. Horna Gray, Y.-B. Ahn, K. Parisi, B. Saks, U. Hentschel, A. Siegl, L. Kerkhof, and M. M. Häggblom – Rutgers University

Determining Different Regulation of the Listeria seeligeri Virulence Gene Cluster through Exploration of the Transcriptional Regulator PrfA, in comparison to Listeria monocytogenes

    C.R. Lucas and M. Wiedmann – Cornell University

Genes Involved in Biofilm Formation by Enterobacter sakazakii

    P. Polito and T.C. Householder – SUNY Brockport

Selenate Reducing Bacterial Communities are Ubiquitous and Physiologically Diverse 

    I. Rauschenbach and M. Häggblom – Rutgers University

Comparative Hydrogenase Gene Expression in a Dechlorinating Microbial Community

    A. Rowe, B. Rahm, J. Werner, and R. Richardson – Cornell University

Alteration of Candida albicans Biofilm Development by Sphinganine 

    E. Szymanska and L.R. Aaronson – Utica College

Role of Cryptic Phage in Biofilm Formation

    A. Toba – Cornell University

POSTER SESSION B:                                                                                 Saturday, 7:30 – 9:00 pm

The Isolation and Characterization of Multiply Antibiotic Resistant Strains of Fish Pathogenic Flavobacterium Species 

    S.E. Clark, J.-H. Yun, G.R. Danner, and F.A. Fekete – Colby College

Search for Predation Genes in Twenty Different Strains of Bdellovibrio and Like Organisms (BALO)

    A.M. Collins and J. Tudor – St. Joseph’s University

Investigation of Osmotolerance in Enterobacter sakazakii using Transposon Mutagenesis

    K. Forrest, D. Newman, C. Blanchard, T.C. Householder – SUNY Brockport

Bacterial Communities Associated with Podostemaceae Biofilms

    K. Garren and R. Gyure – Western Connecticut State University

Characterization of a Novel Lipodepsipeptide from a Soil Isolate

    E. Kuffour and T. Braun – SUNY Oswego

Determination of the rRNA Operon Copy Number in the Caulobacter Group

    V. Mewani and Jeanne Poindexter – Barnard College

Cloning and Expression of Genes Involved in the Predation of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J: Exploiting the Prey to Express the Predator

    P. Mohandas and J. Tudor – St. Joseph’s University

Characterizing Anaerobic Dehalogenating Bacteria in Marine Sponges Using in vitro Feeding Experiments

    K. Parisi and M. Häggblom – Rutgers University

Comparison of qPCR-Based Microbial Source Tracking Data to Traditional Water Quality Measurements in the Upper Cohansey River Watershed

    C.D. Phelps, K.A. Buckley, C.C. Obropta, and L.Y. Young – Rutgers University

Synchronization of Prey-Independent Bdellovibrio in Complex Media

    K. Schultz and J. Tudor – St. Joseph’s University

Role of Cryptic Lambdoid Phage Antiterminators in Biofilm and Stationary Phase Lifestyle of Escherichia coli

    M. Thompson – Cornell University

Role of Conserved Proximal Heme Site Residues in the Oxygen Sensing Mechanism of FixL from S. meliloti

    M. Weaver, Z. Lutz, L Ackley and M. Reynolds – St. Joseph’s University

Effects of Environmental Conditions on Class I Integron Mediated Horizontal Gene Transfer in Aeromonas salmonicida

    Z. Zalinger, K. Langenborg, B. Thomas, I. Gilg and F.A. Fekete – Colby College

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Attendees:

Name                                                Institution