CSM Annual Conference 2013 Poster

CSM 2013 Program (PDF)

 
Keynote speakers:

1. From Systems to Structure: Bridging Networks and Mechanism
   Nevan Krogan, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
    
2. Global mapping of molecular interaction networks in microbes (and beyond)
   Andrew Emili, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Symposia:

Symposium I: Emerging issues and methods for understanding and managing human health risks from bacteria
Chairs: Tyler Avis, Carleton University & Ed Topp, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

1. Producing food while protecting water quality
   Ed Topp, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, ON
    
2. Merging sanitary surveys with microbial risk assessment for improved recreational water management.
   Nick Ashbolt, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    
3. Interactions of human pathogens with protists
   William Gaze, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, UK
    
4. Managing soil microbial communities and reconstructing genomes from complex metagenomes
   Pascal Simonet, University of Lyon, France

Symposium II: Genomics, Systems Biology and Evolution of Microorganisms
Chairs: Alex Wong, Carleton University & Dele Ogunremi, Catherine Carrillo, Canadian Food Inspection Agency

1. It takes guts to sequence an intestinal microbiome
   Ken Dewar, McGill University, Montreal, QC
    
2. Selfish elements and self-defense in the enterococci
   Kelli Palmer, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
    
3. Phylogenomic analysis of DNA strand exchange machinery reveals cryptic meiosis in unicellular eukaryotes.
   Arthur Pightling, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON
    
4. Untangling the web of bacterial genealogies with population genomics
   Margaret Riley, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
    
5. Protein interaction networks in bacteria and phage
   Peter Uetz, Virginia Commonwealth University

Symposium III: Host-Pathogen Interaction
Chair: Subash Sad, Ottawa University

1. Sensing and Eradicating Pathogens in the Intestine 
   Gabriel Nunez, University of Michigan, USA
    
2. Manipulation of membrane transport by Legionella pneumophila 
   Craig Roy, Yale University, USA
    
3. Inflammasome regulation in immunity and cancer 
   Maya Saleh, McGill University, Montreal, QC
    
4. Nod proteins in inflammation and autophagy 
   Dana Philpott, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
    
5. How to control phagosomal pathogens 
   Subash Sad, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON 

Symposium IV: Molecular Genetics
Chairs: Thien-Fah Mah, Ottawa University, John Vierula, Carleton University

1. Iron homeostasis and oxidative stress in Campylobacter jejuni
   Alain Stintzi, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
    
2. Stress responses as determinants of antimicrobial resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
   Keith Poole, Queens University, Kingston, ON
    
3. P1 plasmid partition: surfing on the bacterial chromosome
   Barbara Funnell, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
    
4. Consequences of phenotypic variation in Escherichia coli for pathogenesis and environmental adaptation
   Herb Schellhorn, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
    
5. Novel Riboswitch Ligand Analogs as Selective Inhibitors of Guanine-Related Metabolic Pathways
   Daniel Lafontaine, University of Sherbrooke, QC

Symposium V: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Chair: Tyler Avis, Carleton University

1. Current Status of the Control of Foodborne Viruses
   Rocío Morales , Guelph University, Guelph, ON
    
2. Living where you’re not supposed to: a novel Fe redox cycling microbial consortium from aerobic freshwaters
   Lesley Warren, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
    
3. Cryomicrobiology: searching for the low temperature limits of microbial life and its relevance to astrobiology
   Lyle Whyte, McGill University, Montreal, QC
    
4. Single Stranded RNA Bacteriophages: Useful Tools in Microbial Source Tracking Analysis
   Lawrence Goodridge, Colorado State University, USA

Symposium VI: Genomics, Systems Biology and Evolution of Microorganisms II 
Chairs: Alex Wong, Carleton University & Dele Ogunremi, Catherine Carrillo, Canadian Food Inspection Agency

1. Toward a Comprehensive Epistatic Interaction Map of Escherichia coli
   Mohan Babu, University of Regina, SK
    
2. Global linkage map in S. cerevisiae connects meiotic centromere function to chromosome size
   Anastasia Baryshnikova, Princeton University, NJ, USA
    
3. Pch2 is a hexameric ring ATPase that remodels the meiotic chromosome axis protein Hop1
   Eric Alani, Cornell University, NY, USA
    
4. Antibiotic tolerance in P. aeruginosa: on starvation responses and oxidative stress
   Dao Nguyen, McGill University, Montreal, QC