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October 12, 2002, University of Michigan-Flint |
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"Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases" |
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Speakers |
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Dr. Paul
Ewald, Professor of Biology at University
of Louisville, Louisville, KY, will speak
on "The
evolutionary control of virulence and antibiotic resistance
among diarrheal diseases: Darwin in the Land of Ooze".
Dr. Paul
Ewald obtained his B.Sc. in Biological Sciences from the University
of California-Irvine and his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington. His area of specialization for his doctoral research
was Ecology and Evolution. Dr. Ewald recently moved to Louisville after
a long tenure as Professor of Biology at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.
While at Amherst, he was the first recipient of the Geroge R. Burch Fellowship
in Theoretic Medicine and Affiliated Sciences.
Dr. Ewald’s research interests
in the evolution of infectious diseases include the evolutionary ecology
of parasitism, evolutionary medicine, pollination biology and agonistic
behavior. In 1994, he published a widely received book, Evolution
of Infectious Diseases ,which brought new attention to the study
of evolutionary medicine. More recently Dr. Ewald published Plague
Time: How Stealth Infections Cause Cancers, Heart Disease and other Deadly
Ailments for which an updated, second edition was recently released.
Dr. John
LiPuma, Associate Professor
of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan School of Medicine and Associate
Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public
Health in Ann Arbor will deliver a talk entitled "Phytonotic
infection: the Burkholderia cepacia story - from onion rot to lung
disease".
Dr. John
LiPuma is also the Director of the Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation Burkholderia cepacia Research Laboratory and
Repository at the University of Michigan. He received his B.A. from
Canisius College, Buffalo, NY and his M.D. from St. Louis University School
of Medicine. He completed his residency in Pediatrics and Infectious
Disease fellowship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. LiPuma
was a member
of the faculty at MCP/Hahnemann University, Philadelphia from 1986
to 1999 when he returned to the University of Michigan.
Dr. LiPuma’s
research in infectious diseases has focused on the molecular epidemiology
of Burkholderia cepacia for many years. He has used molecular
genetics to identify new genomovars within the Burkholderia cepacia complex, and to aid in associating Burkholderia species with cystic
fibrosis.
Dr. Duane
Newton, Assistant
Director of the Clinical Microbiology and Virology Laboratories at the
University of Michigan Medical Center, and a Clinical Assistant Professor
in the Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School,
will update us on "West
Nile and Other Mosquito-Borne Viruses in the U.S. and Michigan".
Dr. Newton is twice a graduate of the University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, receiving
his B.S. in Biology in 1988 as
well as his Ph.D. in Biology, with an emphasis in Microbiology and Immunology,
in 1993. His doctoral work focused on the role of Natural Killer
cells in murine innate resistance to bacterial infections cause by Pseudomonas
aeruginosa and Listeria monocytogenes. His post-graduate
work included a research fellowship at the University of Tennessee-Memphis
and VA Medical Center in Memphis, TN where he studied host and pathogen
factors affecting the severity of invasive Group A streptococcal infections
in humans. This was followed by an ASM-sponsored Clinical Microbiology
laboratory training fellowship at the University of Rochester Medical Center
in Rochester, NY. In 2000, Dr. Newton joined the Michigan Department
of Community Health in Lansing, MI as the manager of the Virology/Immunology Section in the Bureau of Laboratories, and in July 2002 began his current position at UM. His research interests include the development and improvement
of diagnostic tests for the detection and management of viral infections. |
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Agenda |
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REGISTRATION AND TALKS WILL BE IN THE WILLIAM S. WHITE BUILDING
8:15-9:15
Registration, Posters-Exhibits set-up, Continental Breakfast
9:15-9:30
Welcome and Opening remarks (Dr. Juan Mestas, UM-Flint Chancellor, and Dr. Judith Whittum-Hudson, President of MI-ASM)
9:30-10:30 Dr. Duane Newton - West Nile Virus
10:30-10:50
Coffee break / visit posters-exhibits
10:50-11:50 Dr. John LiPuma - the Burkholderia
cepacia story
11:50-1:15
Lunch and business meeting (vote on changes to constitution, prize giveaway), visit posters-exhibits
1:30-2:30 Dr.
Paul Ewald - Darwin in the Land of Ooze
2:30 - end
Informal talks with speakers, tour of UM-Flint gardens
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POSTER
PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
The
Michigan ASM encourages students (both undergrads and graduate students),
as well as faculty and other professional microbiologists, to present posters
at our fall and spring meetings. Ideally a poster presentation would relate
to the general theme of the conference, but that is not a criterion for
submission. If you would like to present a poster of your research at this
MI-ASM CONFERENCE, follow the guidelines below.
Students
who present a poster do not pay the conference registration fee
and
they also receive one year free membership in MI-ASM. STUDENT ENTRIES will
be judged by branch members and the winner of the "Best Student Poster"
will receive a framed certificate, a copy of Dr. Philipp Gerhardt's classic
text, and a free membership to the National ASM.
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Submit
your name, college or university you attend, department affiliation, the
full title of your poster, and a brief (200 words) abstract of its content
to the conference organizer. The deadline
for submitting abstracts for posting on this website is October 10. You
may submit abstracts after this date, but they may not be posted prior
to the conference.
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Use
a Times Roman 12-pt. font if possible.Type the title first then list the
authors (all capital letters; use an asterisk� to denote the person
delivering the poster), then list institutions and short addresses. You
may include e-mail addresses if you wish.
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Abbreviations
that are generally understood are acceptable.
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Underline
or italicize scientific names.
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Please
submit the above by email to: mailto:rgorton@lcc.edu�
Send the information within the body of the
e-mail message and not as an attached file.
You will receive electronic confirmation that your poster info arrived
safely from cyberspace! Your poster abstract will automatically be forwarded
to the Conference Organizer, Mary Ann Cardani (UM-Flint)
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If
there is sufficient time, we will post early submitted abstracts on this
meeting web site. All poster abstracts will be posted as part of the on-line
post-conference summary.
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If
you presented your poster at an ASM National Meeting or at another conference,
please note that in your abstract submission.
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Non-students may also
submit posters; simply follow the above guidelines.
The Michigan ASM wishes to thank the UM-Flint ANNUAL FUND for donating $250 toward student prizes at this conference.
CORPORATE
PARTNERS
We would like to thank all of
our corporate partners for providing financial support for the Michigan
ASM Branch.
The
following companies will have exhibits and representatives at the meeting:
Becton, Dickinson
and Company (BD)
DOT Scientific
Giangarlo
Scientific
Nalge/Nunc
International
�Sigma-Aldrich
A special
"thank you" to Becton, Dickinson (BD), for sponsoring
the Continental Breakfast. |
