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14th annual Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference 2007

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14th Annual Midwest Microbial

Pathogenesis Conference

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Friday	September 28th, 2007
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.	Registration Chicago City Centre Hotel & Sports Club
6:00 p.m.	Reception & Dinner
8:00 p.m.	OPENING ADDRESS Alison Weiss, University of Cincinnati 2006 MMPC Organizer “Shiga toxin: Out, In and In between”
Saturday	September 29th, 2007
7:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast Atrium, Lurie Medical Research Bldg. Northwestern Univ., Chicago Campus
8:00 a.m.	SESSION I: Bacterial Interactions at Mucosal Surfaces Hughes Auditorium, Lurie Medical Research Bldg.
8:05 a.m.	Harry Mobley, University of Michigan “Defining Extraintestinal Pathogenic E. coli: A View From All Angles”
8:35 a.m.	Jennifer Edwards, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital “Nitric oxide promotes Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection of primary cervical epithelial cells
9:05 a.m.	Eric Skaar, Vanderbilt University “Heme metabolism in Staphylococcus aureus: "Staph smells blood"”
9:35 a.m.	BREAK
9:55 a.m.	SESSION II: Model Systems Hughes Auditorium, Lurie Medical Research Bldg.
10:00 a.m.	John Kirby, University of Iowa “Chemosensory Regulation of Biofilm Formation in Myxococcus xanthus”
10:30 a.m.	Patrick Viollier, Case Western University “Spatio-temporal control of the Caulobacter crescentus asymmetric cell division cycle”
11:00 a.m.	Poster Talk, TBA
11:15 a.m.	POSTER SESSION I Atrium, Lurie Medical Research Bldg.
12:45 p.m.	Lunch Break
2:00 p.m.	SESSION III: Cellular Signaling Hughes Auditorium, Lurie Medical Research Bldg.
2:05 p.m.	Steven Blanke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “Remodeling the Host: Cellular and Tissue Modulation by Pathogenic Microorganisms”
2:35 p.m.	Juan Martinez, University of Chicago “Characterization of OmpB and Ku70 interactions during Rickettsia conorii infection of host cells”
3:05 p.m.	Zhao-Qing Luo, Purdue University “Making a living in a hostile environment: Lessons from Legionella pneumophila”
3:35 p.m.	Poster Talk, TBA
3:50 p.m.	Poster Talk, TBA
4:05 p.m.	POSTER SESSION II Atrium, Lurie Medical Research Bldg
6:00 p.m.	Free Evening
Sunday	September 30th, 2007
7:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast Atrium, Lurie Medical Research Bldg
8:00 a.m.	SESSION IV: Intracellular Pathogens Hughes Auditorium, Lurie Medical Research Bldg.
8:05 a.m.	Nancy Freitag, University of Illinois, Chicago “From soil to cytosol: how Listeria monocytogenes mediates the switch from environmental bacterium to human pathogen”
8:35 a.m.	Joanne Turner, The Ohio State University “What can aging teach us about immunity to infection with M. tuberculosis?”
9:05 a.m.	Rey Carabeo, University of Louisville “Chlamydia attachment and invasion”
9:35 a.m.	Poster Talk, TBA
9:50 a.m.	Poster Talk, TBA
10:05 a.m.	BREAK
10:30 a.m.	Announcements
10:45 a.m.	KEYNOTE ADDRESS Jeff F. Miller, University of California, Los Angeles “Engineering Diversity for Parasite-Host Interactions”
11:45 a.m.	Closing Remarks