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2006 FALL MEETING of the MICHIGAN BRANCH of the AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY
 
Saturday,  October 7
 
On the West Campus of Lansing Community College, in the M-TEC facility
(Michigan Technical Education Center).
TO VIEW PHOTOS FROM THIS MEETING, click here

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"Biofilms ~ We are All in this Together"

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Dr. Dennis Cvitkovitch
University of Toronto
Dentistry/Microbiology Dept.
Ontario, Canada
Dr. Lawrence Shimkets
University of Georgia
Department of Microbiology
Athens, Georgia
Dr. Marvin Whiteley
The University of Texas at Austin
Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Austin, Texas

 

To learn more about biofilms, check out these websites.

Post-meeting UPDATE: On Friday, the day before the meeting, Dr. Dennis Cvitkovitch became ill and was unable to speak at the conference. We are pleased that Dr. Chuanwu (Wu) Xi from the University of Michigan School of Public Health was able to step in at the last moment and deliver the afternoon talk. The title of his talk was "Exploring biofilms with molecular, imaging and nano-technology". Dr. Xi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Services at the University of Michigan. To view Dr. Xi's bio, click here. His email is: cxi@umich.edu
 

Fall 06  (Lansing C.C.) –  "Biofilms ~ We are All in this Together"

  • Lawrence Shimkets - "Alien Genes and a Novel Sensory Transduction System Required for Biofilm Formation, Chemotaxis, and Fruiting Body Development in Myxococcus xanthus." 
  • Marvin Whiteley - "Bacterial Speech Bubbles." 
  • Chuanwu Xi - " Exploring biofilms with molecular, imaging and nano-technology." 
 
 
 
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Last updated: August 15, 2017