microbial sciences symposium 2006

Saturday, April 29th, 2006
Science Center, Lecture Hall C
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

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Opening Remarks and Welcome 8:45-9:00

Session I -9:00-10:20

"Last Chance To Know? Building A Biogeography Of The Invasive Death
Cap Mushroom Amanita phalloides "
Anne Pringle
Harvard University

"Signals, Antibiotics, And Toxins: Sorting Out The Chemical Soup Of
Microbial Communities"
Jo Handelsman
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Coffee Break 10:20-10:40

Session II - 10:40-12:00

“Biofilms: When Bacteria End Their Nomadic Existence and Become Multicellular”
Roberto Kolter
Harvard Medical School

"How does Caulobacter grow?"
Christine Jacobs-Wagner
Yale University

Lunch 12:00-2:00

Session III - 2:00-3:20

"Malaria: Genetic Diversity, Disease, and Antibiotic Resistance"
Dyann Wirth
Harvard School of Public Health

“Ants, Agriculture, and Antibiotics: Microbial Ecology of an Ancient Quadripartite Symbiosis”
Cameron Currie
University of Madison, Wisconsin

Coffee Break 3:20-3:40

Session IV -  3:40-5:00

"Microbial Communities of Cold Seep Ecosystems"
Antje Boetius
International University Bremen
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Bremen, Germany

"Looking for Life on Mars and Other Habitable Zones"
Gary Ruvkun
Harvard Medical School

Closing Remarks

Reception

Symposium Poster

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