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Mycoplasma Genetics
Greg Mahairas and Lee Hood (Institute of Systems Biology) - Sequencing of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae.
Elliot Lefkowitz (University of Alabama in Birmingham) - Anaylsis and annotation of mycoplasma genomic sequences
Dan Nettleton and Dan Nordman (Iowa State University) - analysis of microarray gene expression data
Tracy Nicholson (National Animal Disease Center) - development of swine microarrays for transcriptional gene profiling during infections
Kerry Gunning (Integrated DNA Tecnologies, Inc.) - development of swine arrays, enhanced hybridization conditions
Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
Eileen Thacker (Iowa State University) - Pathogenesis and vaccine development for Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, development of PCR diagnostic for M. hyopneumoniae, development of recombinant vaccines, modulation of swine immune responses to Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae antigens
Steve Djordjevic (New South Wales Agriculture) Role of surface proteins in pathogenesis, proteomics
Food Safety
Rob Edwards (Sand Diego State University) Genetic basis for persistence of Salmonella enteritidis in chicken ovarian tissues
Nancy Cornick and Greg Phillips (Iowa State University) - E. coli 0157:H7 persistence in ruminants
Joe Frank (University of Georgia) - Transcriptional profiling of Listeria monocytogenes during exposure to sanitizers using microarrays
Glenn Young (University of California, Davis) - Transcriptional profiling of Listeria monocytogenes during biofilm formation using microarrays
Arvind Bhagwat (USDA, Baltimore) - Transcriptional profiling of E. coli O157:H7 during exposure to sanitizers using microarrays
Molecular Vaccines
Mike Wannemuehler (Iowa State University) - Development of mycobacteria ESAT-6 for development of enhanced vaccines, development of single dose vaccine against Yersinia pestis
Balajii Narasimhan (Iowa State University) - Use of polyanhydrides in microspheres for single dose vaccines, development of single dose vaccine against Yersinia pestis
Quorum sensing
Alex Horswill (University of Iowa) and Matt Parsek (University of Washington) - Identification of the quorum sensing regulon in Yersinia pestis, AI-2 and AHL pathways