Program Committee
Meeting Chairs
Margaret McFall-Ngai, Chair of the Program Committee, Univ. of Wisconsin
Arturo Casadevall, Vice-Chair of the Program Committee, Albert Einstein Coll. of Med.
ASM Presidents
Jeffery F. Miller, ASM President, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Jo Handelsman, ASM President-Elect, Yale Univ.
David C. Hooper, ASM Past President, Massachusetts Gen. Hosp.
Divisional Group Representatives
Ellen Jo Baron, Divisional Group I Representative, Emerita, Stanford Univ. Med. Ctr; Cepheid
Virginia Miller, Divisional Group II Representative, Univ. of North Carolina – Sch. of Med.
Joy Doran Petersen, Divisional Group III Representative, Univ. of Georgia
Paul Babitzke, Divisional Group IV Representative, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Program Committee Members
Judith Armitage, Univ. of Oxford
Deshratn Asthana, Univ. of Miami
Neil Baker, The Ohio State Univ. (retired)
Michael Buchmeier, Univ. of California, Irvine
Sheldon Campbell, Yale Univ. Sch. of Med.
Sean Crosson, Univ. of Chicago
Francisco Diego-Gonzalez, Univ. of Minnesota
Vic DiRita, Univ. of Michigan Med. Sch.
Nicole Dubilier, MPI for Marine Microbiology
Jean-Marc Ghigo, Institut Pasteur
Joerg Graf, Univ. of Connecticut
Eduardo Groisman, Yale Univ. Sch. of Med.
Myles Jackson, Polytechnic Inst. of New York Univ.
Matthew Kane, National Science Foundation
Samuel I. Miller, Univ. of Washington
Peter Myler, SBRI and Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Karen Ottemann, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
Mike Pentella, Univ. of Iowa
John Perfect, Duke Univ. Med. Ctr.
Denise A. Pettit, Dept. of General Services
Connie Price, Univ. of Colorado
Lita Proctor, National Institutes of Health
Vincent Racaniello, Columbia Univ.
Ann Reid, American Society for Microbiology
Barbara Robinson-Dunn, William Beaumont Hosp.
Lucia Rothman-Denes, Univ. of Chicago
Thomas Schmidt, Michigan State Univ.
Ashley Shade, Yale Univ., Junior Advisory Group Representative
Michele Swanson, Univ. of Michigan Med. Sch.
Amy Cheng Vollmer, Swarthmore College
Stephen Zinder, Cornell Univ.