Tuesday, June 6, 2006

• 12:00 - 1:15 PM Registration Buchman Pavilion
• 1:15 - 1:30 Jack Harris Opening comments Bush Memorial Center
• 1:30 - 2:00 M. E. Dueker, and Raymond Sambrotto. Summer microbial populations in the lower Hudson River estuary and their relationship to dissolved organic nutrients
• 2:00 - 2:30 O. Roger Anderson. A Method for Estimating Volume-based Carbon Content of Amoeboid Protists and its Application to the Fractional Analysis of Carbon in Amoebae in Some Protistan Communities
• 2:30 - 3:00 Katharine Haberlandt and George McManus. Potential use of the oligotrich ciliate, Strombidium stylifer, as a food source for marine aquaculture
• 3:00 - 3:30 John J. Lee and Megan Cervasco. Species of Symbiodinium from soritid foraminifera
• 3:30 - 4:00 Break Buchman Pavilion
• 4:00 - 4:30 Visviki, I., Judge, M.L., and Mahony, J. High Arsenate Resistance in Dunaliella
• 4:30 - 5:00 David S. Domozych. A different view of the protistan extracellular matrix: its role in biofilms
• 5:00 - 6:00 President's Address D. Wayne Coats
  Microbial Controls of Chesapeake Bay Phytoplankton
• 6:00 - 9:00+ Dinner and Poster Session Multipurpose Room, Robison Athletic and Recreation Center

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

• 8:30 - 9:00 AM John C. Clamp. 18s rRNA Gene Sequences Reveal Diversity Within the Genus Zoothamnium (Ciliophora, Peritrichia)
• 9:00 - 9:30 C. Chantangsi, M.C. Strüder-Kypke, and D.H. Lynn. Barcoding Protists: A Trailblazing Study on a Ciliate Genus of Closely Related Species, Tetrahymena
• 9:30 - 10:00 Joe Salas-Marco, Hua Fan-Minogue, Adam K. Kallmeyer, Lawrence A. Klobutcher, Philip J. Farabaugh, and David M. Bedwell. Distinct Paths to Stop Codon Reassignment in the ciliates Tetrahymena thermophila and Euplotes octocarinatus.
• 10:00 - 10:30 Break Buchman Pavilion
• 10:30 - 11:00 Mary Ellen Jacobs, Leroi DeSouza, Haresha Samaranayake, K. W. Michael Siu and Lawrence A. Klobutcher. The Tetrahymena thermophila phagosome proteome
• 11:00 - 11:30 Ethan Fremen and Linda A. Hufnagel. Progress on a new web-accessible archiving system for cilioprotists of southern New England
• 11:30 - 12:00 William Reynolds. Voyages of Discovery: Science learning and living history
• 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break (a list of local restaurants is available)
• 1:30 - 2:00 PM H. Samaranayake and L. A. Klobutcher. A Tetrahymena thermophila TtVPS13A antisense ribosome mutant is impaired in phagocytosis and has a temperature -sensitive growth defect.
• 2:00 - 2:30 Guerra, C., Bell, A., Awan, A., Christensen, S.T. and Satir, P. Growth Control Signaling Pathways in Tetrahymena Cilia II
• 2:30 - 3:00 Aaron J Bell, Peter Satir, Gary W. Grimes (posthumously). Mirror-imaged doublets of Oxytricha fallax: implications for the development of left-right asymmetry
• 3:00 - 3:30 Megan Noyes, Spencer J. Greenwood, Denis H. Lynn. Chemotactic responses of two philasterine scuticociliates, endoparasites of different crustacean hosts
• 3:30 - 4:00 Break Buchman Pavilion
• 4:00 - 4:30 Andrea Habura, Susan T. Goldstein, Sarah Broderick, and Samuel S. Bowser. Hidden diversity of allogromiid foraminiferans in low-latitude environments.
• 4:30 - 5:00 Harris, J.K., Blair, J., Mastroianni, J., Hansen, A., Walker, S.E., Miller, M., and Bowser, S.S. In situ time-lapse observation of Antarctic foraminifera
• 5:00 - 6:00 Keynote Address, Laura Landweber
  Detangling scrambled genes
• 6:00 - 7:00 Keynote Reception Buchman Pavilion

Thursday, June 8, 2006

• 8:30 - 9:00 AM Daniela Brito, Irina Tikhonenko, Alexey Khodjakov, and Michael Koonce. Motile Microtubules in Dictyostelium
• 9:00 - 9:30 Avelina Espinosa, Adeline Ashmore, Chelsea Fitzsimmons-Diaz and Melissa Roberto. Identification of a novel bifunctional EhADH2-like enzyme in Entamoeba invadens
• 9:30 - 10:00 Rebecca C. MacLean, Leslie Y. Whiteman, and Francine Marciano-Cabral. Sequencing of a N. fowleri genomic DNA library and identification of a gene encoding a putative patatin-like serine hydrolase protein
• 10:00 - 10:30 Susan T Goldstein, Samuel S. Bowser, Andrea Habura, and Elizabeth A. Richardson. Fine structure and constructional themes of modern "Allogromiid" foraminifera: an overview.
• 10:30 - 11:00 Break Buchman Pavilion
• 11:00 - 11:30 A.Teal, J. Ennis, M. Marchewka, J. Hans, S. Madison-Antenucci, and J. Keithly. A New York State waterpark outbreak of human cryptosporidiosis
• 11:30 - 12:00 Mary Marchewka, Jennifer Hans, and Susan Madison-Antenucci. Using real time qRT-PCR to evaluate loss of RNA Editing Associated Protein-1 on editing
• 12:00 - 12:30 Janet Keithly, Vlasta Ctrnacta, Frantisek Stejskal, Jeffrey Ault, Karolyn Buttle, Carmen Mannella, and Susan Langreth. Novel Compartmentalization of Core Metabolism in Cryptosporidium parvum.
• 12:30 - 1:00 Ulrich, P.N. Marsh, A.G. and S.S. Bowser. Respiration of Antarctic benthic foraminifera - optical microplate respirometry and effects of oxygen limitation.