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Michigan Branch Spring 1998 Meeting
The Spring Meeting of the Michigan Branch of the American Society for
Microbiology was held on Saturday March 28, 1998 at the Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical
Research Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Five research lectures were given
including two by ASM Foundation Lecturers (Don Morrison and Vojo Deretic).
In addition, three students research posters were on display. The meeting
was organized by James Saunders and attended by over sixty participants.
In addition to the research presentations, the annual Branch business meeting
was held during the luncheon.
The Speakers:
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Brad Tait
Department of Chemistry
Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Discovery and Optimization of HIV Protease Inhibitors - Compounds
that treat HIV infections based on inhibiting HIV protease activity. |
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Fayth
Yoshimura
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit, Michigan
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Intrapatient Sequence Variation of the gag Gene of HIV-1
Plasma Virions - The illucidation of gag gene structure and
the implication in therapeutic strategies for gag gene targets. |
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ASMFoundation Lecturer
Donald A. Morrison
Laboratory for Molecular
Biology
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
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Streptococcal Competence for Genetic Transformation: Regulation
by Peptide Pheromones - The discovery and application of a small, stable,
inexpensive peptide pheromone that acts as a quorum sensing signal which
induces competence under a wide variety of conditions and in encapsulated
strains. |
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Nancy
Freitag
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit, Michigan
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Regulation of Listeria monocytogenes Virulence Gene Expression
Within Host Cells - A model system for studying how intracellular parasites
control the expression and function of gene products necessary for virulence. |
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ASM Foundation Lecturer
Vojo
Deretic
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Phagosome, rab Proteins
and Intracellular Trafficking - Models for microbial pathogenesis in
chronic respiratory infections. |
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