**** SUNDAY MAY 23, 2004 ****

001 $ 10.00 Opening Session - ASM Lecture - Toxins, Membranes & Bacterial Pathogenesis

**** MONDAY MAY 24, 2004 ****

002 $ 10.00 Reimbursement & Compliance Issues for the Clinical Lab
003 $ 10.00 Practical Guidelines for Testing & Working Up of Respiratory & CSF Specimens
004 $ 10.00 Practical Tips About How to Handle Respiratory Cultures in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis, i.e., CF Microbiology
005 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Export of Folded Proteins by the Twin-Arginine (Tat) Protein Translocation Pathway
006 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Dendritic Cells & Pathogens - Crossing Enemy Lines
008 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Evaluating the Species Concept in the Genomic Era
009 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Flagella, Motility & Infection
010 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing - Critical Issues for 2004
011 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Clinical/Diagnostics Updates in Mycology
012 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Chemoreceptors for Chemotaxis - Structure, Function, Evolution
013 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Dynamic Macromolecular Complexes of the Bacterial Cell
014 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Novel Protein Domains in Microbial Signal Transduction - From Genomics to Biology
015 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) The Community Connection - Community Reservoirs & Surveillance for Potential Pathogens
016 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) The Life & Times of Listeria monocytogenes - A Ubiquitous Human & Animal Pathogen
017* $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Viral Subversion of Host Cell Proliferation Control - *No E.Fanning
018* $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) The Molecular Virology of SARS - *No M.Denison
019 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Immune Evasion by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
020 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Microbiology in the 21st Century - Where Are We & Where Are We Going?
021 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Career Development Forum
022* $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Addressing the Issue of Antibiotic Resistant Foodborne Bacteria Through The Application of Risk Assessment - *No J.Punderson
055 $ 10.00 Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievements Award - Unity & Diversity in Lysogeny
058 $ 10.00 The Carski Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award - Cell Phones, CNN, TiVo & Teaching: Educational Challenges in These Digital Times
059 $ 10.00 The Promega Biotechnology Research Award - Vancomycin: Action, Origin, Resistance - the Evolving Study of a Natural Product Antibiotic
092 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) The Periplasm
093 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Microbial Population Genomics & Ecology
094* $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Immunity in Polymicrobial Infections - *No M.Oldstone
095 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Programmed Death & Survival in Microorganisms
096 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Organelles
097 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Interactions Between Microbial Pathogens & the Phagocyte
098 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Microbiology of Travel Medicine
099* $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Beyond Genomics in Mycology - *No T.Roemer
100 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Diverse Mechanisms Regulating Translation
101 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Environmental Sensing in Host-Microbe Interactions
102 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Motility Without Flagella
103 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) EPS - Where Are We Now & Where Would We Like To Be?
104 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Host Defense/Viral Offense
105 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Physiology & Ecology of the Environmental Mycobacteria
106 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) The Microbiology of Animal Bite Wounds
107 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Microbial Triggers of Chronic Human Illness
108 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Getting the Work Done! Clinical Microbiology Workforce Issues
109 $ 10.00 President Address - Cytomegalovirus Triggers & Then Blocks an Innate Immune Response

**** TUESDAY MAY 25, 2004 ****

110 $ 10.00 Practical Schemes for Work Up of Sputum & Wound Cultures
111 $ 10.00 Curiosity Saved This Cat - Easy Ways to Query Your LIS Microbiology Database
112 $ 10.00 Diagnostic Parasitology & Quality Patient Care - On Site vs. Sendouts
113 $ 10.00 Update on NCCLS Vet. Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Tables
114 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Molecular Motors
115 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Biodegradation & Biotransformation
116 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Bridging Innate & Adaptive Immunity - The Role of Toll-Like Receptors
117 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Practical Application of DNA Sequencing in the Clinical Lab
118 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Bugs at the Human-Animal Interface
119 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Communication Between Clinical Microbiologists & Clinicians - Do They Have What They Need?
120 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Type IV Fimbriae & Type II Protein Secretion Systems: Structure, Function, & Biogenesis
122 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Post-Genomic Approaches to Studying Transcriptional Regulation
123 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Exploring the Bacterial Subspecies: Clinical, Ecological, Evolutionary & Taxonomic Implications
124 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Acid & Base Stress - Genes, Genome & Proteome
125 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Microbial Life in the Deepest Regions of the Earth's Biosphere
126 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) The Making of Metabolic Modules: The Evolutionary Perspective
127 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis - An Emerging Danger?
128 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Considerations for Development of Vaccines
129 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Emerging Infectious Diseases - 2004
130 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Participate Today, Learn for Tomorrow - Women in Clinical Trials
131 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Career Preparation in Microbiology - Issues & Answers
162 $ 10.00 The Procter & Gamble Award in Applied & Environmental Microbiology - GEO-omics: Merging Systems Biology & Environmental Genomics with Geochemistry to Model the Activity of Geobacteria
164 $ 10.00 International Perspectives on Taxonomy - Where We Came From & What Next?
165 $ 10.00 USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award - Cultural Experiences of Thinking Like a Microbe
166 $ 10.00 The Eli Lilly & Co. Research Award - Crystallographic Studies of Catalytic RNA Function
201* $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Type III Secretory Systems & Flagella: A Tribute to Robert Macnab - *No J.Galan
202* $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) New Insights Into Starvation & Stationary Phase - *No K.Gerdes
203 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) The Making of Metabolic Modules - The Genomic Perspective
204 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Antimicrobial Resistance Mediated by Efflux Pumps
205 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Case Presentations in Clinical Microbiology
206 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Regulation by RNA in Pathogenic & Non-Pathogenic Bacteria
207 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Antimicrobial Peptides & Innate Immunity to Bacterial Infection
208 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Mycoplasma Infection & Host Immune Response
209 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Sensory Taxis & Quorum Sensing - Microbial Interaction with Their Environment & Each Other
210 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Globalization of Fungal Secondary Metabolite Research
211 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Multispecies Biofilms in Nature: Composition, Organization & Interactionswithin Microbial Mats & Dental Plaque
212 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Stable Isotope Probing - Linking Natural Community Diversity with Function
213 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) as a Regulator for Apoptosis
214 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Crossing the Species Barrier - Diseases Transmitted from Animals to Humans
215 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) The Role of Microbiology Research & Training in Addressing Health Disparities
216 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Innovations in Education - Using the Web to Improve Your Teaching

**** WEDNESDAY MAY 26, 2004 ****

217 $ 10.00 Practical Guidelines for Testing & Working Up of Stool & Urine Specimens
218 $ 10.00 Practical Guidelines in Virology - From Culture to Serology to Molecular
219 $ 10.00 S. aureus & Antibiotic Resistance in the Community & in the Hospital: Epidemiology, Detection & Significance
220 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Subcellular Organization in Bacteria
221 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) The Pathogenesis of Persistence
222 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Human Innate Immunity from a Bacterial Point of View
223 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Medical Microbiology - Quality Cost & Clinical Relevance - 30 Years Later & Still Going Strong
224 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Animal Models of Infectious Disease
225 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Functional Consequences of Host Recognition of Fungi
226 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Microbial Redox Biology: Metals & Microbes
228 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Microbial Responses to Microgravity & Other Low Shear Environments: Global Environmental Regulatory Signals Affecting Microbial Physiology & Pathogenesis
229 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Genomics of Lactic Acid Bacteria
230 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Biocide & Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria - Policies & Issues: Where Do We Go from Here?
231 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: New Methods & Applications
232 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Globalizing the Microbiology Curriculum
233 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Global Health Challenges - The Critical Role For Laboratories
234 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Multidisciplinary Considerations for Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring
235 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Infectious Disease: The Microbiology of Misery, Metaphor & Mayhem
266 $ 10.00 History of Microbiology Lecture - Contemplating Consumption: A Bedside History of Tuberculosis
292* $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) When Extreme is Normal - *No C.Cary
293 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) New Concepts in the Adherence of Bacterial Pathogens
294 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Biocide & Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria - An Update
296 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Structural Biology of Drug Resistance Proteins
297 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Portals & Pathways: How Bacterial Virulence Factors Enter Human Cells
298 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Mycobacteriology 2004 - What Labs are Doing Now & Where They are Headed
299* $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Adaptive Immunity to Fungi - *No L.Pirofski
300 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Making the Most of A Small Genome: Multifunctional Proteins in Bacteria
302 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) The Ecology of Microbial Symbiosis - Its Not All About You
303* $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Recent Advances in Bioprocess Development - *No G. Stephanopoulos
304 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Development & Utilization of Microbial Models for Predicting the Fate of Foodborne Pathogens in Foods
305 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Using Microbiology to Teach Students about Science & Modern Life
306 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Molecular Tools for Public Health - Current Status & Future Trends
307 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Preharvest Food Safety & Security
309 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) President's Forum - Aging in Microbes, Worms & Mammals-Common Mechanisms... & Solutions

**** THURSDAY MAY 27, 2004 ****

310 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Understanding Immunology - From Precursor Cells to Effective Vaccines
311 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Emerging Problems of Antimicrobial Resistence
312 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Phospholipids & Phopholipases in Host-Pathogen Confrontations
313 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Update on Viral Diagnostics - Traditional to "Real Time"
314 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Host-Interactions of Gram-Negative Anaerobes
316 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Protein Folding & Degradation - Two Sides of the Same Coin
317 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) New Insight Into the Ecology & Physiology of Syntrohic Associations in Anaerobic Ecosystems
318 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Heart & Soul: Combining Structural Genetic & Biochemical Analyses of Phage & Viral Nanomachines
319 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Microbial Autotrophy: Biogeochemical, Ecological & Evolutionary Implications
320 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Advances in Understanding Microbial Exposure & Risk of Drinking Water
321 $ 20.00 (2 Tapes) Emerging Technologies for Investigation of Microbial Genomes & Communities