NEMPET 2024

Meeting Schedule

June 21, 2024 - June 23, 2024

Minnowbrook Lodge - Blue Mountain Lake, New York

Keynote

“The Unexpected Ways Freshwater Heterotrophs Use Light”  

by 

Dr. Julie Maresca 

SUNY-ESF 


Laboratory Evolution of a Bacillus cereus Environmental Isolate Under Conditions Simulating a Multi-Metal Contaminated Site

  • Jennifer L. Goff, Lauren M. Lui, Yan Chen, Torben N. Nielsen, Elizabeth G. Szink, Adeeba A. Fatima, Konnor L. Durrence, Farris L. Poole II, Christophe j Petzold, Adam P. Arkin, and Michael W. W. Adams — SUNY ESF

Dust Gardens: S. Maria Elliott and Microbiology Education in the Home Economics Movement

  • Craig Phelps and Betul Yildiz — Rutgers University

The Role of Biofilm Bacteria in the Progression of Atherosclerosis

  • Mercy Olorunshola and David Davies — Binghamton University

Do Microbes Matter? When and How we can use Microbial Traits in Models of Ecosystem Processes

  • Hannah Holland-Moritz — University of New Hampshire

The Diversity and Metabolic Strategies of Extremophilic Amoebae

  • Beryl Rappaport and Angela Oliverio — Syracuse University

The Diversity and Functions of DNA Viruses in Sourdough Starters

  • Ethus Woon Avery, Nimshika Senewiratne, Angela Oliverio, and Sarah K. Lucas — Syracuse University

Cool Microbes in Arctic Tundra Soils

  • Max Haggblom — Rutgers University

Regulation of Fungal Development by the Neurospora crassa Transcription Factor fsd-1

  • Elizabeth Hutchison, Jessica Dawson, and Leila Doerer — SUNY Geneseo

Why So Blue: Exploring the Regulation and Function of the Pigment Indigoidine in Vogesella indigofera

  • Peter Newell — SUNY Oswego

Transposon Mutagenesis and Common Phenotypes Exhibited by Tn mutants of Legionella micdadei, an Occasional Human Pathogen

  • Bradley Blake, Mamadou Saliou Diallo, and Christa Chatfield — SUNY Cortland

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