Division Lectures at asm2012 have been incorporated into sessions within the meeting's scientific program, unless otherwise noted. Below are details on each Division's Lecture, as well as information on the session containing the lecture.
Division A
Novel Cell Surface and Cell-Cell Interaction Targets for Antimicrobial Therapeutics
Tuesday, June 19 | 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
BONNIE BASSLER; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Division B
What's for Dinner? Connecting Bacterial Metabolism with Host Interaction
Sunday, June 17 | 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
VICTOR J. DIRITA; University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
Division C
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications of Novel Mechanisms of Resistance
Monday, June 18 | 8:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
PATRICE COURVALIN; Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Division D
Microbes Trigger and Shape Immunity
Monday, June 18 | 8:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
JEFF WEISER; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Division E
Phagocytes: Heroes and Victims of Infections
Monday, June 18 | 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
DANIEL PORTNOY; University of California, Berkeley, CA
Division F
New Insights into Fungal Pathogenesis
Sunday, June 17 | 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
JIM KRONSTAD; The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Division G
New Biological Questions Brought by Species Pangenomes
Monday, June 18 | 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
CHRISTINE CITTI; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Toulouse, France
Division H
All’s Well that Ends and Mends Well: Maintenance of Genomic Integrity
Tuesday, June 19 | 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
VICKI LUNDBLAD; Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA
Division I
The Microbiome of Nature’s Vampires: Roles in Health and Disease
Monday, June 18 | 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
CLAY FUQUA; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Division J
Sculpting the Bacterial Cell
Sunday, June 17 | 8:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
WILLIAM MARGOLIN; University of Texas Medical School-Houston, Houston, TX
Division K
Expanding the Metabolic Blueprint
Monday, June 18 | 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
JOSEPH KRZYCKI; Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Division L
Complications and Implications of New Technologies for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
Tuesday, June 19 | 8:15 a.m. – 10:45 p.m.
DAN DIEKEMA; University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
Division M
Division M Lecture will be held during the Division M Business Meeting
Sunday, June 17 | 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Michael Feiss; University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Division N
Patterns and Maintenance of Microbial Diversity
Tuesday, June 19 | 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
MARTIN POLZ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Division O
Microbial Glycobiology and Glycobiotechnology
Tuesday, June 19 | 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
DOUGLAS S. CLARK; University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Division P
Division P Lecture will be held during the Division P Business Meeting
Monday, June 18 | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
DAVID ACHESON; Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD
Division Q
Who’s Doing What in Microbial Communities
Sunday, June 17 | 8:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
JONATHAN ZEHR; University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa, Cruz, CA
Division R
Symbiosis as a Driver of Ecology and Evolution
Sunday, June 17 | 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
CAMERON CURRIE; University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Division S
Parallels in Innate Immune Responses to Bacterial and Viral Infections
Monday, June 18 | 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
LOU LAIMINS; Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Division T
Parallels in Innate Immune Responses to Bacterial and Viral Infections
Monday, June 18 | 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
JOHN PATTON; National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD
Division U
Real-time Analysis of Host-Pathogen Interactions
Tuesday, June 19 |3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
JOANNE FLYNN; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
Division V
Immunological Tools and Biomarkers for Infectious Diseases
Monday, June 18 | 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
BRUCE RABIN; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Division W
New Data Shed New Light on Old Questions
Sunday, June 17 | 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
LILLIAM CASILLAS-MARTINEZ; University of Puerto Rico, Humacao, Puerto Rico
Division X
Ecology and Evolution of Unicellular Eukaryotes
Monday, June 18 | 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
LAURA KATZ; Smith College, Northampton, MA
Division Y
New Insights in Global Surveillance of Current and Emerging Infectious Diseases
Sunday, June 17 | 8:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
ROY ANDERSON; Imperial College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Division Z
One Health: Humans, Animals and the Environment
Monday, June 18 | 8:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
PATRICIA CONRAD; University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
Division AA
Immunological Tools and Biomarkers for Infectious Diseases
Tuesday, June 19 | 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
PATRICK DUFFY; National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD
