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- Images from the Fall 2006 Meeting
- at Lansing Community College Mi-TEC
West Campus

Poster Hallway in
the Michigan TEC Facility

Guest Speakers
for the Biofilms Meeting

- Dr. Larry Shimkets (University of Georgia, Athens)
- Alien genes and a novel sensory
transduction system required for biofilm formation, chemotaxis,
- and fruiting body development in Myxococcus xanthu.

- Dr. Marvin Whiteley (The University of Texas at Austin)
- "Bacteria Speech Bubbles"

- Dr. Chuanwu Xi
(University of Michigan School of Public Health)
- "Exploring biofilms with molecular,
imaging and nano-technology"
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The MTU Student
Chapter - still able to smile after all that driving!
Graduate and
Undergraduate Poster Winners
- Tyler S. Buit (Calvin College)
- Biofilm Formation in Unstable and
Stable Small Colony Variants of Staphylococcus aureus

- Sijana Dzinic (Wayne State University)
- shown here with her husband
- Differences in Chemotaxis Genes, Tar
and Tsr, in Escherichia coli Isolated
from Different Hosts

- Sheenu Mittal (Michigan State University)
- Regulation of the
C-signal-dependent promoters, Omega4400 and Omega4499, during Myxococcus xanthus development
- Random Views from the Meeting








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