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More about asm2012 and San Francisco
May 2012
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(Photos of sights and destinations in San Francisco appear after the list of Division Lectures
below)
Award lectures SAN FRANCISCO—Most of the award lectures at
asm2012 have been incorporated into sessions within the meeting's scientific
program, instead of being
separated out into their own program. Sunday, June
17 bioMérieux Sonnenwirth Award for Leadership in
Clinical Microbiology
"Best Practices
Antimicrobial Susceptibility
Testing: An Update from CLSI"
Carski Foundation Distinguished
Undergraduate
Teaching Award
"New Data Shed New Light on Old Questions"
GlaxoSmithKline International Member of the Year
Award
"Avoidance and Subversion of Host Cell Defenses by
Intracellular Pathogens"
TREK Diagnostic ABMM/ABMLI Professional
Recognition Award
"QUIZ BUSTERS: So You THINK
You Know Microbiology!
An Interactive Quiz"
USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award
"Who's Doing What in Microbial Communities"
Monday, June 18 BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology
"Diagnostic and Therapeutic
Implications of Novel
Mechanisms of Resistance"
Eli Lilly
and Company Research Award
"Microbes Trigger and Shape Immunity"
Maurice Hilleman/Merck Award
"One Health: Humans, Animals
and the Environment"
Procter & Gamble Award in Applied
and
Environmental Microbiology
"Biogeochemical Cycling: Past, Present and Future"
D.C. White Research and Mentoring Award
"Small Words, Big Impact: Intercellular
Communication Among Bacteria"
Gen-Probe Joseph Public Health Award
"The Continuing Plague of Foodborne-associated
Outbreaks"
Promega Biotechnology Research Award
"Expanding the Metabolic Blueprint"
Tuesday,
June 19
Abbott - ASM Lifetime Achievement Award
"Screening and
Surveillance for Antibiotic
Resistance: Global, Local and Bedside Considerations"
Abbott Award in Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology
"Immunological Tools and
Biomarkers for Infectious
Diseases"
Division
lectures
SAN FRANCISCO—Most of the division lectures at asm2012 have been
incorporated into sessions
within the meeting's scientific program, instead of
being separated out into their own program. Division A "Novel Cell Surface and Cell-Cell Interaction
Targets for Antimicrobial Therapeutics" Division B "What's for Dinner? Connecting Bacterial
Metabolism with Host
Interaction" Division C "Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications
of Novel
Mechanisms of Resistance" Division D "Microbes Trigger
and Shape Immunity" Division E "Phagocytes: Heroes and Victims of
Infections" Division F "New Insights into Fungal Pathogenesis"
Division G "New Biological Questions Brought by Species
Pangenomes" Division H "All's Well that Ends and Mends Well:
Maintenance
of Genomic Integrity" Division I "The Microbiome of
Nature's Vampires: Roles in
Health and Disease" Division J
"Sculpting the Bacterial Cell" Division K "Expanding the
Metabolic Blueprint" Division L "Complications and Implications of
New
Technologies for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases" Division M (The Division M lecture will be held during the
Division M business meeting) Division N "Patterns and Maintenance of Microbial Diversity" Division O "Microbial Glycobiology and Glycobiotechnology" Division P (The Division P lecture will be held during the
Division P business meeting) Division Q "Who's Doing What in Microbial Communities" Division R "Symbiosis as a Driver of Ecology and Evolution" Division S "Parallels in Innate Immune Responses to Bacterial
and Viral Infections" Division T "Parallels in Innate Immune Responses to Bacterial
and Viral Infections
" Division U "Real-time Analysis of Host-Pathogen Interactions"
Division V "Immunological Tools and Biomarkers for Infectious
Diseases" Division W "New Data Shed New Light on Old Questions"
Division X "Ecology and Evolution of Unicellular Eukaryotes" Division Y "New Insights in Global Surveillance of Current
and
Emerging Infectious Diseases" Division Z "One Health: Humans,
Animals and the Environment" Division AA
"Immunological Tools and Biomarkers for Infectious
Diseases"
SIGHTS OF SAN
FRANCISCO
![]() The
convention center playing host to asm2012 in
San Francisco is the city's flagship Moscone Center. The June 15 to 19 meeting
will take place at Moscone
North and Moscone South, both of which are pictured
here at night. CREDIT: Moscone Center ![]() The 1.7-mile long Golden Gate Bridge is the only
highway connecting San Francisco directly with Marin County. It took more than
four years—
over 25,000,000 man hours in total—to build the Golden Gate Bridge
in the 1930s; it officially opened to vehicles on May 28, 1937. The bridge's
two
tapered towers, which were sculpted in the Art Deco style of the 1930s,
were once the tallest bridge towers ever built, soaring 65 stories above San
Francisco Bay; also, when the Golden Gate Bridge was built it was the longest
suspension bridge in the world, and the 746-foot suspension towers were
higher
than any construction west of New York. More than 40 million vehicles cross the
Golden Gate Bridge annually. CREDIT: San Francisco Travel
Association photo by
Phillip H. Coblentz ![]() Alcatraz Island was home to the
infamous maximum-security
prison that once held, among others, Al Capone and Robert
Stroud, who was known as the Birdman of Alcatraz. Visitors can
ferry
over to the island to partake of cellhouse tours and get spectacular views of
the San Francisco skyline. Alcatraz Island, like Angel Island in
the San
Francisco Bay, also once served as a military post. CREDIT: San Francisco Travel Association photo by P.
Fuszard ![]() San Francisco's cable cars reportedly comprise the
nation's only moving national historical landmark, running on
nine miles of
track along three of their original routes at speeds of around 9.5 miles per
hour. An average of 13 million people travel on the cable
car each year, and
this unique and nostalgic mode of transportation is popular not just with
tourists but also locals who need to get around San
Francisco but don't
necessarily want to do it on foot, especially when steep inclines must be
traversed—a frequent situation in the this hilly city.
CREDIT: San Francisco Travel Association photo by
Phillip H. Coblentz ![]() San Francisco's Chinatown is one
of the largest such
communities in the United States. The intersection of Grant Avenue and Bush
Street is considered the front door to this bustling
and part of the city, and
there can be found a dragon-crested gate that was a 1969 gift from China. CREDIT: San Francisco Travel Association photo by
Sandor
Balantoni ![]() If you like seafood—both the
taste and the
pervasive smell of it—San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf is a great place for a
snack or a meal, offering a variety of fresh seafood
that is typically ready for
a to-go order. The Dungeness crab at Fisherman's Wharf is one of the main
attractions; a San Francisco favorite, this
creature reportedly accounts for
about 99 percent of the crab catch in the Pacific Ocean. Various tourist spots,
shops and eateries are also found near
the wharf. CREDIT: San Francisco Travel Association photo by Jerry
Lee Hayes ![]() Lavender
agapanthuses complement the facility in
San Francisco's massive Golden Gate Park that some call the park's "glorious
Victorian vase" but is
officially named the Conservatory of Flowers. Said to be
the oldest public growing house in California, the conservatory was shipped
from London to San
Francisco in 1875 and is the oldest structure in Golden Gate
Park. CREDIT: San Francisco Travel Association photo by Carol
Simowitz ![]() The tightly packed Victorian-style homes of San
Francisco, often painted in bright or non-traditional
house hues, are a
signature image for many when they think of the city, and some 14,000
Victorian-era homes remain in San Francisco despite 514 blocks
of the city
going up in flames following the 1906 earthquake. Alamo Square is a good place
to see the Victorian homes of Postcard Row, a portion of
which is pictures
here, with the skyline of San Francisco in the background. Victorian houses in
San Francisco are often called Painted Ladies. CREDIT:
San Francisco Travel Association photo by Christine
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