American Society for Microbiology Intermountain Branch
Annual Meeting
April 10, 2010
8:00 AM --- Registration/Check-in, Poster set-up
9:15 AM --- Plenary Session - ASMBL Lecture – Stanley Maloy, San Diego State University
“From Cowpox to Mini-cells: New Approaches for the Delivery of Safe, Effective Vaccines”
10:30-10:45 --- Break
10:45-12:15 --- Concurrent sessions
Session A: Virology, Dale Barnard, convener
10:45-11:15 Dale Barnard, Utah State
“SARS-CoV Re-visited: Why Re-visit and What Progress Has Been Made?”
11:15-11:45 Michael Kay, University of Utah
“D-peptide Inhibitors of HIV Entry”
11:45-12:00 Peter Shen, BYU
“The structure of avian polyomavirus reveals pleiomorphic capsids and a putative location of the
minor capsid protein VP4”
12:00-12:15 Daniel Hammond, BYU
“Characterization of Herpes Simplex Virus Clinical Isolate Y3369”
Session B: Gene expression/Physiology, Bill McCleary, convener
10:45-11:15 Joel Griffitts BYU
“Two-component signaling in symbiosis”
11:15-11:45 John S. Parkinson, University of Utah
“How a Bacterial Chemoreceptor Works”
11:45-12:00 Taylor Oberg, Utah State University
“Physiological Stress Responses to Hydrogen Peroxide in Bifidobacterium animalis ssp. lactis”
12:00-12:15 Natalie Weber, Weber State University
“Optimization of Medium M9 for Escherichia coli”
12:15-1:30 ---- Lunch and poster presentations
1:30-3:00 ---- Concurrent sessions
Session C: Infection and Immunity, David Erickson, convener
1:30-2:00 Matthew Mulvey, University of Utah
“Uropathogenic Escherichia coli: Dealing and Reeling with Nitrosative Stress”
2:00-2:30 Yongsheng Ma, Idaho State University
“Virulence Factors and Their Regulation in Streptococcus pyogenes”
2:30-2:45 Britni Arlian, College of Idaho
“Construction and characterization of an IsdA-cholera toxin A2/B chimera for use as a potential
intranasal Staphylococcus aureus vaccine”
2:45-3:00 Lauren Zagieboylo, Brigham Young University
“IgA ASC Accumulation to the Lactating Mammary Gland is Dependent on VCAM-1 and a4
Integrins”
Session D: Applied and Environmental Microbiology (Don Breakwell, convener)
1:30-2:00 Frank Roberto, Idaho National Laboratories
“Host and viral population dynamics and diversity within acidic Yellowstone hot spring environments”
2:00-2:15 Danielle Criddle, Utah State University
“The Methylation of Mercury by Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in the Great Salt Lake”
2:15-2:30 Blake Dahl, Weber State University
“Molecular Characterization of Halophilic Bacteriophages Isolated from the Great Salt Lake”
2:30-2:45 Matthew Crook, BYU
“Identification of a Phage Receptor in the Soil Bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti”
2:45-3:00 Derek Bunch, Weber State
“Effects of Salt Concentration on the Growth of Bacteriophage isolated from the Great Salt Lake, UT”
3:00-3:15 ---- Break
3:15-3:45 --- Student awards, Business meeting
No comments:
Post a Comment