Coinfecting Viruses and Mycoplasmas Can Appear To Cooperate
Source: MicrobeMagazine | 5 Nov 2009 | 12:47 am
Very different kinds of pathogen-in this case, one a virus, the other a mycoplasma- can act as if cooperating when infecting cultured cells, with one augmenting the potency of the other, according to...
MTS38 - Jonathan Eisen - An Embarrassment of Genomes
Source: MicrobeWorld's Meet the Scientist Podcast | 4 Nov 2009 | 9:04 pm
Jonathan Eisen is a professor at the University of California, Davis Genome Center. Over the course of his career, he has pioneered new ways of sequencing microbial genomes and analyzing them. I talk...
Phagocyte-Pathogen Interactions
Source: MicrobeMagazine | 4 Nov 2009 | 7:47 pm
David G. Russell and Siamon Gordon (ed.). American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington, D.C., 610 p., $179.95.David G. Russell and Siamon Gordon have assembled a state-of-the-art and highly att...
MTS37 - Hazel Barton - Cave Dwellers
Source: MicrobeWorld's Meet the Scientist Podcast | 23 Oct 2009 | 3:04 pm
Hazel Barton is the Ashland Professor of Integrative Science at Northern Kentucky. She explores some of the world's most remote caves to study the remarkable diversity of microbes that thrive in their...
MTS36 - Dennis Bray - Living Computers
Source: MicrobeWorld's Meet the Scientist Podcast | 9 Oct 2009 | 1:04 pm
Dennis Bray is an active professor emeritus in both the Department of Physiology and Department of Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. He studies the behavior of microbes--how they "decide" w...
Assistant Professor—Bacterial Pathogenesis
Source: MicrobeMagazine | 6 Oct 2009 | 2:50 pm
A tenure-track Assistant Professor position is available at Kansas State University in the general area of bacterial pathogenesis or host-bacterial interactions.  Read more...
Tenure-Track Positions—Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor
Source: MicrobeMagazine | 6 Oct 2009 | 2:50 pm
The University of Michigan Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases seeks M.D., or M.D./Ph.D., candidates for tenure-track positions at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank...
ICAAC Posters2View
Source: 49th ICAAC | 29 Sep 2009 | 8:35 am
ICAAC Posters2View (http://www.call4posters.com/icaac)TMWe are excited about the ability to extend the Poster Sessions beyond the 49th ICAAC. All the posters' charts, graphs, images and text are now a...
MWV Episode 32 - Healthy Pet, Healthy You
Source: MicrobeWorld Video | 28 Sep 2009 | 2:00 pm
Animal, human and environmental health are inexorably intertwined. Diseases are making the jump from animals to humans and vice-versa at an increasing pace. The emergence of animal borne diseases such...
CE/CME Information
Source: 49th ICAAC | 21 Sep 2009 | 10:38 am
Claim your credit and print your Statement of Credit for participating in the 49th ICAAC.
49th ICAAC Full Conference Digital Library
Source: 49th ICAAC | 21 Sep 2009 | 10:21 am
Digital recordings from the 49th ICAAC sessions are now available for purchase. Please click here (http://www.siattend.com/Conference.aspx?cid=289 aid=66) for further details.
ICAAC ID Daily
Source: 49th ICAAC | 17 Sep 2009 | 11:55 am
ID Daily Day 3, September 14 (http://www.nxtbook.com/tristar/tristar/icaac_09day3/index.php#/) ID Daily Day 2, September 13 (http://www.nxtbook.com/tristar/tristar/icaac_09day2/index.php#/) ID Daily D...
MTS35 - Michael Cunliffe - The Ocean's Living Skin
Source: MicrobeWorld's Meet the Scientist Podcast | 11 Sep 2009 | 2:00 pm
Michael Cunliffe is a microbiologist in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Warwick in England. He studies the microbes that live in the thin layer of water at the very surface...
MWV Episode 31 - Tiny Conspiracies
Source: MicrobeWorld Video | 18 Aug 2009 | 1:04 pm
Bacteria communicate with chemical languages that allow them to synchronize their behavior and thereby act as multi-cellular organisms. This process, called quorum sensing, enables bacteria to do thin...
MWV Episode 30 - Biofuels in Puerto Rico
Source: MicrobeWorld Video | 30 Jun 2009 | 2:13 pm
Puerto Rico is widely known as the "La Isla del Encanto," which translated means "The Island of Enchantment." And while its beaches, tropical rain forest, and biolumescent bays are...
MWV Episode 29 - This Week in Virology Live in Philly
Source: MicrobeWorld Video | 27 May 2009 | 12:43 pm
MicrobeWorld Video presents episode 33 of This Week in Virology. Hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dick Despommier and guest Raul Andino recorded TWiV live at the ASM General Meeting in Philadelphi...
Claiming CE Credit
Source: GM 2010 | 19 May 2009 | 2:42 pm
If you still need to claim CE credits for activities at the 109th General Meeting, be sure to do so soon. For information on how to claim your credits, please click on "read more." Read more...
Post-Meeting Information
Source: GM 2010 | 19 May 2009 | 2:40 pm
Recordings of the sessions at the 109th General Meeting are available through Sound Images, our recording company. If you would like to purchase a copy of the full meeting or individual sessions, see...
Abstracts
Source: GM 2010 | 18 May 2009 | 6:38 pm
The abstract submission site is now open. Please make sure to review the abstract submission guidelines beforehand. Read more...
Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis: Infrequent Human Pathogen or Public Health Threat? (2008)
Source: AAM Colloquia Reports | 6 Dec 2008 | 4:58 am
View/Download this Report References- For more information, please see this list of works cited in the report....
The Fungal Kingdom: Diverse and Essential Roles in Earth's Ecosystem (2008)
Source: AAM Colloquia Reports | 5 Dec 2008 | 5:22 am
View/Download this Report References ABC Radio Broadcast Transcript Dr. Casadevall is interviewed by ABC Radio National, Australia. Prepared by...
Reconciling Microbial Systematics and Genomics (2007)
Source: AAM Colloquia Reports | 25 Sep 2008 | 6:09 am
(images/stories/documents/27.ASM-ReconcilingMSG-Final.pdf) Prepared by Merry Buckley and Richard J. Roberts. This report focuses on how until a decade ago, scientists categorized.
Probiotic Microbes: The Scientific Basis (2006)
Source: AAM Colloquia Reports | 25 Sep 2008 | 6:06 am
View/Download this Report with Graphics View/Download this Report Text Only References- For more information, please see this list of...