OVERVIEW OF PHAGE MEETINGS 2009:
The Scientific Committee on Ocean Research (SCOR) Viral Ecology Working Group meeting – May 14-16 2009 – University of Delaware
http://scor-viral-ecology.dbi.udel.edu/
2009 Evergreen International Phage Biology Meeting – Aug. 9-14 2009 – Olympia, WA
2009 phage and viral assembly meeting – Annecy (French Alps) September 23-28, 2009
website: phagevirusassembly2009.cnrs-gif.fr. Annecy is located 130 km from Lyon and 50 km from Geneva (Switzerland).
OTHER MEETINGS OF PHAGE INTEREST:
2009 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages, Madison, Wisconsin, Aug. 4-9 http://www.union.wisc.edu/phages/index.html
One session on Bacteriophage Biology; there are also likely to be talks of general phage interest interspersed among the rest of the sessions, which include DNA Replication, Recombination, and Transposition; Mechanism and Regulation of Transcription; Posttranscriptional Regulation and Small RNAs; Mechanism and Regulation of Translation; Global Regulation and Stress Response; Cell Signaling and Cell-Cell Interactions; Cell Biology and Development; Bacterial Pathogenesis; Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Proteomics; Bacterial Metabolism and Physiology; Bacterial Cell Surfaces
ASM GENERAL MEETING, PHILADELPHIA MAY 17- 21 2009
Monday 5/18 – 8:15-10:45 AM – O17M: Single Molecule and Single Cell Dynamics. Conveners: Misha Kashlev; Sankar Adhya.
I. Golding: Phage Lambda Life Cycle: View from a Single Cell
M. Wang: Cornell: TBD
T. Strick: CNRS, Paris: Single Molecule Analysis of Transcription Through the Nucleosomes
L. Finzi, Emory: Single Molecule Analysis of Stability of Lambda DNA Loop in vitro
M. Kashlev, NCI/FCRF: Real Time and Single Molecule Monitoring of Release of Sigma-70 Subunit from RNA Polymerase During Promoter Escape
201M: Tues. 2:30-5 PM Phage & Pathogenic Bacteria: Involvement of Phage in Disease and Therapy– Conveners: D. I. Friedman and Ry Young
J. F. Miller: Diversity-generating retroelements in phage and bacterial genomes
Ry Young: Fatal Wound: Holes that release toxin
M. Waldor, Tufts: Mobile Antibiotic Resistance Elements Promote their own diversity
J. Penades: Phage Requirements for Induction and transfer of S. aureus pathogenicity islands
D. Friedman: Prophage induction and pathogenicity of Enterohemorrhagic E. coli
309M: Wed. 2:30-5 The 3 R’s: Recombination, Replication and Recombineering – convener: K. C. Murphy
M.Williams: Modulation of T4 gene 32 protein DNA binding on single DNA molecules by uvsY
S. White: Structural and functional studies on the phage T4 uvsWXY recombination system
J. Peters: A mechanism for transposition directed into DNAs undergoing lagging strand replication
G. Hatfull: Mycobacterial recombineering
K. Murphy: Studies on the mechanism of lambda Red recombineering
The 2009 Bacteriophage Lab