Fall 2001 Rocky Mountain Branch Meeting
Rocky Mountain Branch American Society for Microbiology
Metropolitan State College of Denver
October 20, 2001
9:00 Welcome: NC 1605
9:00 10:00 Laboratory Response to Bioterrorism. Dr. James Beebe, Department of Health, Colorado
10:00 - 10:15 Break - Visit the posters in NC 1325
10:20 - 10:40 Role of Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein 1 in the
Protective Response to Early Murine Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Andre Kipnis*, Ian M. Orme,, Andrea M. Cooper. Colorado State
University.
10:40 - 11:00 Detection of Salmonella spp. In Fecal Specimens
by Real-time PCR. P. Brett Kurowski*, Josie L. Traub-Dargatz, Paul
S.
Morley & Claudia Gentry-Weeks. Colorado State University.
11:00 11:20 Pseudomonas putida & Metal Stress: A Physiological
Study Duried M. Kassab* and Timberley M. Roane. University of
Colorado at Denver.
11:20 - 12:00 The Role of PET 100 in Cyt C Oxidase Assembly in Yeast. Cynthia A. Church. Metropolitan State College of Denver.
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch - Visit the posters in NC 1325
1:30 2:00 Business Meeting NC 1605. Students meet with Dr. Lipkin in NC 1325
2:00 - 2:30 Molecular Evolution of Orbiviruses. William C. Wilson.
Arthropod-Borne Animal Disease Research Lab, US
Department of Agriculture.
2:30 3:00 Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease of Deer Virus:
Nuisance or Menance to U.S. Livestock. James O. Mechum. Arthropod-Borne
Animal Disease Research Lab, US Department of Agriculture.
3:00 3:15 Break - Visit the posters in NC 1325
3:15 4:15 FOUNDATION TALK: Infectious and Immune Models
of Neuropsychiatric Dieases. W. Ian Lipkin, Columbia University
Posters: In NC 1325
Remediation of Cadmium and Lead Using Spent Brewers Yeast.
K. A. Atchison* and T. M. Roane.
University of Colorado at Denver.
The Effects of Pseudomonas putida on Cadmium and Lead Stressed Soil
Conditions. J. Garrett McBride* and T. M. Roane.
University of Colorado at Denver.
Differential Expression of OmpAth in Mycobacterium avium Morphotypes.
Kenneth Hamner*, Andrea Cooper, Ben Espinoza,
Philip Draper, Aaaron Hoefer. Colorado State University.
Putative Candidate Bacterial Division BD: Wide Distribution in
Soil and Other Environments. Daniel L. Mummey* and Peter D. Stahl.
Department of Renewable Resources, University of Wyoming.
* means presenter