We are pleased to announce the 1999 Fall Michigan Branch ASM meeting. The conference will be held on Saturday, October 9, at Lansing Community College (LCC). The LCC campus is in downtown Lansing, just three blocks from the Capitol building. The general theme of the conference is "Microbial Ecology and Infectious Disease". We hope to show the emerging connections between traditional ecological / genomic studies and microbial pathogenesis. Two internationally known microbiologists (Raul Cano and Jim Tiedje) have already agreed to speak at the meeting.
Dr. Raul Cano of California Polytech in San Luis Obispo, CA will be our ASM Foundation speaker. He will talk on MOLECULAR ARCHAEOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. He has isolated DNA from ancient forms of tuberculosis bacteria and blood parasites and will explain how the study of ancient DNA and diseases could help in unraveling some of the problems regarding new and emerging diseases. Dr. Cano is well known in several fields; he is the first person to isolate bacteria from insects in amber and to culture them in the lab. He has also analyzed DNA from the Tyrolean Ice Man and other mummies and served as scientific advisor to Steven Spielberg for the movie Jurassic Park.
Dr. Jim Tiedje, Director of the Center for Microbial Ecology at MSU, has also agreed to be a speaker. Jim is well known to the microbiology community.
If you have comments or suggestions, email me at Ralph_Gorton@lansing.cc.mi.us
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