Keynote
““It’s Not Over til It’s Over: Perennial Threats to Science Education”
by
Steven Mirsky
Author and Podcaster – Scientific American
MEETING SCHEDULE
June 23, 2017
6:00 pm: Dinner
7:30 -9:00 pm: Poster Session A*
Followed by Social
June 24, 2017
7:30-8:30 am: Breakfast
8:30 am: Closing the Gap Between Under-Resourced and Fully Resourced Students
Kelly Cowan – Miami University
9:25 am: The Amazing Simplicity of the Hops Flower Microbiome
Jeffrey Werner, ME Allen, N Cole, AJ Peifer, SJ Britton, PT Benziger – SUNY Cortland
10:00 am: Interval
10:15 am: Comparing Model Systems: Examining Effect of Violacein on Chytrid and C. elegans
Abby Soussan, Sofia Konstantine, and Brooke Jude – Bard College
10:50 am: Bacteria Blowing Corneal Epithelial Cell Bubbles with GumB
Robert M. Q. Shanks, Angelina Passerini, Kimberly M. Brothers, Nicholas A. Stella, Jake Callaghan – University of Pittsburgh
11:25 am: A Photographic Exploration of Microbial Life in the Forest
Scott Chimileski – Harvard Medical School
11:55 am: Group Photo
12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm: Microbe Walk (Optional)
A nature-walk focusing on microbial habitats and field marks
6:00 pm: Dinner
7:30-9:00pm: Poster Session B**
Followed by Social
June 25, 2017
7:30-8:30 am: Breakfast
8:45 am: Dissecting Robustness and Resilience in a Model Bacterial Community from the International Space Station
Alex Thompson, Andrea Foote, and Matthew Wargo – University of Vermont
9:20 am: To Prey or not to Prey: Isolating Factors Involved in Predation
Carlos Garcia, Daniel Kadouri, and Robert Shanks – Rutgers University
9:55 am: Interval
10:10 am: Screening a Pharmaceutical Library to Identify Novel Anti-Fungal Compounds: A Repurposing Approach
Charlotte Berkes, Maxx Lawson, and Dennis Trinh – Merrimack College
10:30 am: Untangling Metabolic Cooperation: Investigating Synergistic Growth of Acetobacter and Lactobacillus Bacteria in Co-culture
Andrew Sommer and Peter Newell – SUNY Oswego
10:55 am: The Origins of Microbiology Education in the United States: Brooklyn's Hoagland Laboratory
Michael J. Hanophy – St. Joseph’s College
11:30 am: NEMPET business meeting
12:00- 1:00 pm: Lunch and Departure
POSTER SESSION A*
Pulsatile Aggregation Linked to Shifts in Reversal Frequency in Myxococcus xanthus
Jessica A. Comstock, Fatmagül Bahar, and Roy D. Welch – Syracuse University
Viral and Microbial Communities of Winogradsky Columns
David Esteban – Vassar College
Disinfection of the Canine Pathogen Staphylococcus pseudintermedius with Butanoic Acid
Madison Crumb, Jacob Fitzgerald, Michael Nguyen, George Kennedy, Michael Butkus, Jeff Starke, Dwight D. Bowman, and Michael Labare – United States Military Academy
Using a Simple Closed Chamber System to Evaluate the Effect of Different Ambient O2 Levels on Antibiotic Sensitivity and Predation
Shilpi Gupta, Nozrin Laskar, Aimy Tran, and Daniel E. Kadouri – Rutgers University
Using LC-MS/MS Proteomics to Investigate Hexanoic Acid Production from a Diverse Microbial Community Exhibiting a Reverse Beta Oxidation Pathway
Jeffrey Werner and Kristen Kircher – SUNY Cortland
Development of 3D Printed iChips for Culturing Bacteria from Winogradsky Column Sediment
David Esteban and Ellena Nador – Vassar College
Inhibition of JC Polyomavirus Infection by Antiviral Compounds
Tashania Treasure and Christian Nelson – SUNY Cortland
Effect of Trophic Status on Syntrophic Propionate Degradation
Spencer Roth, Mark Hines, Lin Zhang, Jeffra Schaefer, and Tamar Barkay – Rutgers University
POSTER SESSION B**
Practical Prevention: Developing Methods to Lower Burden of Vibrio cholera
Alexis Akingbade, Philippine Alba, Cassandra Savino, Elizabeth Osborne-Schwartz, Francesca Di Rienzo, and Brooke A. Jude – Bard College
The Investigation of the Operational Parameters of a Household-Scale Slow Sand Filter
Nathalia Benavides, Jimmy Daniels, Evan Guerin, and Catalina Arango – St. Joseph’s University
Xylose-Inducible Promoter Tools for Pseudomonas Species Demonstrate a Role for Type II Secretion Protein XcpQ in Modulation of Human Corneal Epithelial Cell Migration
Jake D. Callaghan, Kimberly M. Brothers, and Robert M.Q. Shanks – University of Pittsburgh
Taxonomy of a Spirosoma-like Bacterial Isolate #209 from Cortland, NY Tap Water
Ayomide Ola, Brittany Aragona, and Christa H. Chatfield – SUNY Cortland
The Hfq-Dependent Small Regulatory RNAs OmrA and OmrB Indirectly Repress Transcription from the Locus of Enterocyte Effacement of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
Sarah Muche, Jihad El-Fenej, Wenlan Yu, Brianna Amos, Thomas Buerkert, Michael Riga, Tressa Hunter, and Shantanu Bhatt – St. Joseph’s University
Investigating Ara-C type Regulation of the agp-melA operon in Sinorhizobium meliloti
Vincent Pepe, Joseph Johnson, Christina Mirarchi, Leona Ryder, Dan Doyle, Muhammad Arif, Lucie Ngaba, and Catalina Arango – St. Joseph’s University
iGEM and Microbiology Education
J. Kenneth Wickiser and Jason Barnhill – United States Military Academy