NEMPET 2024
Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center
The Keynote Lecture:
"The Unexpected ways Freshwater Heterotrophs Use Light"
by Dr. Julie Maresca, of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
NEMPET 2023
Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center
The Keynote Lecture:
"A Frugal Lifestyle: Energy Conservation Mechanisms in Methanogenic Archaea"
by Dr. Geo Santiago Martinez, of the University of Connecticut.
NEMPET 2022
Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center
The Keynote Lecture:
“Adapting an Evolutionary Model Organism for Host-Microbe Interaction Studies: Diversity Matters”
by Dr. Kathryn Milligan-McClellan, of the University of Connecticut
NEMPET 2021
Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center
The Keynote Lecture:
“The Forest in Your Mouth: What Structure Tells Us About Function”
by Dr. Jessica Mark Welch, of the Marine Biological Laboratory
NEMPET 2019
Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center
The Keynote Lecture:
“The Microbiology of Climate Change: The Outsized Climate Impacts of Tiny Soil Microbes”
by Dr. Kristen DeAngelis, of the University of Massachusetts – Amherst
and
“Tasty [Beer] Innovations from Wasp Yeast: The Benefits of Academic and Industry Partnerships”
by Dr. Anne A. Madden, of Lachancea LLC.
NEMPET 2018
Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center
The Keynote Lecture:
“Shedding light on chemosynthetic symbioses:
Comparative genomics, transmission mode, and genome evolution”
by Prof. Colleen Cavanaugh, of Harvard University
NEMPET 2017
Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center
The Keynote Lecture:
“It’s Not Over til It’s Over: Perennial Threats to Science Education”
by Steven Mirsky, Author and Podcaster of Scientific American
NEMPET 2016
Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center
The Keynote Lecture:
“A Natural and Human History of Adirondack Waters”
by Dr. Daniel Kelting, Executive Director of Adirondack Watershed Institute at Paul Smith’s College
NEMPET 2015
Keynote
“Electromicrobiology: A New Paradigm for Microbial Physiology and Ecology”
by
Dr. Yuri Gorby
Associate Professor - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
6:00 p.m. DINNER
7:30 – 9:00 p.m. POSTER SESSION A SOCIAL: Following
Saturday 27 June
7:00 a.m. BREAKFAST
8:00 a.m. Predatory Bacteria, Not a Good Way to Kill a Mouse
Daniel Kadouri – Rutgers School of Dental Medicine
8:45 Social Features of an Archaeon: Biofilm Formation, Social Motility and Gene Transfer
Scott Chimileski, Michael Franklin, and Thane Papke – University of Connecticut
9:05 Succinate Mediated Catabolite Repression in Sinorhizobium meliloti
Muhammad Arif, Christina Mirarchi, and Catalina Arango – St. Joseph’s University
9:40 The 2001 Anthrax Attacks: the First BIG Microbial Forensics Case - Still Unsolved?
Nancy Connell – Rutgers NJ Medical School
10:15 Interval
10:25 From a Farm to Your Blood: Resistant Bacterial Infections Transmitted via the Medicinal Leech
Matthew Fullmer – University of Connecticut
11:00 Identification of SumO, a Novel Regulator of Serratia marcescens Biofilm Formation and Virulence
Robert M. Q. Shanks, N.A. Stella, K.M. Brothers, A. Passerini, M. Aston, J.E. Fender, and J. Callaghan – University of Pittsburgh
11:35 Pathogens and Parasites - Inactivation by Short-Chain Fatty Acids
Michael Labare – USMA-West Point
12:10 LUNCH
1:30 p.m. Microbial Field-Trip (Optional)
- A nature-walk focusing on microbial habitats and field marks.
6:00 p.m. DINNER
7:30 – 9:00 p.m. POSTER SESSION B SOCIAL: following
Sunday 28 June
7:30 a.m. BREAKFAST
8:30 a.m. Genetic Diversity of the Anaerobic Benzoyl-CoA Pathway
Abigail Porter – Rutgers University
9:05 The Interactions Between Mercury and Anaerobic Microorganisms: Complexation, Oxidation, Reduction and Methylation
Hiayan Hu, Baohua Gu, and Xinbin Feng – Rutgers University
9:40 The Microbial Community Associated with the Hops Plant, Humulus lupus, Revealed by Next Generation DNA Sequencing
Peter T. Benziger, M.E. Allen, S.J. Britton, A.J. Piefer, J.M. Balnis, and L. Grieneisen – Hartwick College
10:05 Interval
10:15 The Hfq-Dependent Magnesium-Responsive sRNA MgrR Regulates the Locus of Enterocyte Effacement Pathogenicity Island in Enteropathogenic E. coli
Shantanu Bhatt – St. Joseph’s University
10:45 The Iron-Responsive sRNA RyhB Represses the Locus of Enterocyte Effacement Pathogenicity Island in Enteropathogenic E. coli
Marisa Egan – St. Joseph’s University
11:20 The Structure and Function of Active Microbial Communities in the Shallow Subsurface and in Seafloor Biofilms at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
Ashley Grosche – Rutgers University
11:45 NEMPET business meeting
12:00 p.m. LUNCH; DEPARTURE