Confirmed Speakers

MRSA Infections:

-Manuel Mah (U of Calgary) Motivational forces in hand hygiene
-Michael Mulvey (PHAC Labs, Winnipeg) Epidemiology of MRSA in Canada
-Martin McGavin (U of Toronto) S. aureus pathogenesis: host colonization
-David Heinrichs (U of Western Ontario) S. aureus pathogenesis: survival in host
-John Conly (U of Calgary) Community acquired MRSA
-Andy Simor (Sunnybrook/ U of Toronto) Challenge of MRSA to infection control


Mobile genetics elements:

-Laura Frost (Uof Alberta) Conjugation of F plasmid
-Barbara Funnell (U of Toronto) Plasmid partition
-Andrew Lang (Memorial)  Phage-like gene transfer elements
-Vincent Burrus (Sherbrooke) Conjugative integrative elements.
-Benoit Cousineau (McGill) Mobile introns
-David Haniford (U Western Ontario) Tn10 transposition

Agricultural microbiology

-Chris Yost (Univ. of Regina) Contaminated food or water related problems
-Larry Kawkchuk (AAFC, Lethbridge) Plant Pathology - Viruses
-Rick Holley (Univ. of Manitoba)  Meat Microbiology
-Doug Inglis (AAFC, Lethbridge) Campylobacter, Farm to fork Food Safety
-Cheryl Patten (UNB) PGPRs
- Mike Bidochka (Brock University)  Fungal biocontrol of insects

Bacterial secretion and membrane proteins

-Russell Bishop (McMaster) Structure and function of an outer membrane sensory transducer
-Samantha Gruenheid (McGill) Type III secretion systems and the gut interactions
-Christian Baron (U de Montréal) type IV secretion systems
-Franck Duong (UBC) Sec channel structure/function
-Ken Jarrell (Queens) Archaeal signal peptidase
-Natalie Strynadka (UBC) Type III secretion structural biology