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