THEOBALD
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Welcome to the 2007-2008 Meeting Year Thursday, October 4, 2007
Soil Microbiology:
Speaker:
Cindy H. Nakatsu,
Purdue University,
Department of Agronomy Waksman’s research demonstrated the medical and biotechnological significance of soil microorganisms. Soils are one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on this planet. Yet traditional microbiological approaches have often limited our abilities to characterize and understand this fraction of the ecosystem. With the adaptation of molecular biological approaches to study soil systems and improvements on soil cultivation techniques, great advances are now being made in soil microbiology. Speaker Biography: Cindy H. Nakatsu is currently a Professor of Agronomy, University Faculty Research Scholar, and member of the Life Sciences program (PULSe) at Purdue University. She joined the faculty in 1995, after she was a postdoctoral fellow at Michigan State University’s Center for Microbial Ecology. She received her Ph.D. in 1993 from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and her M.S. and B.S. degrees from the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. As a microbial ecologist, she uses both basic and molecular biology techniques to gain a better understanding of the adaptation of environmental microorganisms to perturbed ecosystems. Perturbed ecosystems of particular interest are metal and/or hydrocarbon contaminated sites, stream and lake waters exposed to urban and rural inputs, fecal matter, and agricultural fields subjected to different agronomic practices. Analyses of microbial responses to perturbations range from determining changes in microbial community and population structure to changes in phylogenetic diversity to evolution or acquisition of novel functional traits. Fall three-speaker meeting:
Joint Meeting of the Theobald Smith Society and the Society of Industrial Microbiology Wednesday April 9, 2008 Student Union Building (SUB) Auditorium(Room129 on first Floor) New Jersey City University 2039 JFK Boulevard Jersey City, NJ 07305 (See map for location) Scott C. Kachlany, Assistant Professor of Oral Biology and Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey "A bacterial toxin as a therapy for hematologic malignancies" (Abstract)
Meeting in Miniature:April or May Waksman Award and Meeting in Miniature June
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