The ASM Lecturer for the 110th General Meeting is Stephen Quake, cochair of the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University's School of Engineering. Quake is a strong proponent of "lab-on-a-chip" technology, and has been exploring applications of it in functional genomics, genetic analysis, and protein design.  

In 2005, Marcio Rodrigues, a recently hired assistant professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, was awarded an international fellowship for Latin investigators from ASM to travel to the laboratory of Arturo Casadevall at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM), Bronx, N.Y., for three months to make monoclonal antibodies to fungal lipids.  

2009 Election Nominees National Offices

The Nominating Committee has submitted the following slate of candidates for the Society offices for the year 1 July 2010 through 30 June 2011.

Kadner Institute 2009: a Successful Program for Grads and Postdocs  

When, on the topic of reviewing grants, Michael Vasil, a microbiology professor at the University of Colorado (CU), Denver, states "The one word you cannot say is the ‘F' word," pockets of amused murmurs rise from the nearly 30 grads and postdocs seated in a large, stadium-style classroom at CU Boulder.

ASM Collaboration with the Japanese Society for Chemotherapy  

In 2006, on behalf of the Japanese Society of Clinical Microbiology (JSCM), Professor Jun Okada, as President of the JSCM Annual Meeting, invited ASM Past-President Stanley Maloy to the 17th Annual Meeting of JSCM in Yokohama, Japan.

Fall, the Time for Discovery and Renewal  

ASM and its 35 Branches offer Networking, Programming, Scientific Opportunities, and Outreach, the core components of membership value. This month's article highlights some new and evolving Branch opportunities.

A Note from the Archives Committee and Center for the History of Microbiology 

The ASM Membership Board, chaired by Toby K. Eisenstein, and the Archives Committee and Center for the History of Microbiology, chaired by Patricia Charache, gratefully acknowledge the ASM members who have donated to the Archives and Center for the History of Microbiology. The Committee would like to take this opportunity to share information about some of the resources made available through members' generosity. Donations contribute to a range of activities including (i) purchase of significant books pertaining to the history of microbiology, immunology, and associated infectious diseases; (ii) sorting, cataloguing, and providing access to historical materials that have been donated to the ASM Archives; (iii) development of the potential to record video interviews of giants of our disciplines; and (iv) consideration of approaches to make available to the membership opportunities to use the resources of the Archives to aid in increasing interest in microbiology, and as an assist to educators, students, and others interested in how our history has led to current knowledge and its promise for the future.