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January 25 - 26, 2008

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Poster Instructions

(Tentative - Will be updated as soon as details become available)

THE PROGRAM
2008 Topics:

Insects and Humans
and
Approaches to Studying Antibiotic Resistance and Cancer


All sessions will be held in Room KL of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on the UGA campus.


Friday 25 January 2008

12:00 pm  Registration at the Registration Desk Exhibitors and Posters in Lobby
1:30 pm  SOTAB 2008 Welcome. Dr. Ron Matson, Kennesaw State University
1:40 pm  "Insects & Humans: Recent Advances in Entomology " - Dr. Judy Awong-Taylor, Session Chair, Armstrong Atlantic State University
1:45 pm "The Insect Immune System: Implications for Disease Transmission and Pathogenic Associations" -  Mike Strand, UGA
2:45 pm "Coffee Break/Exhibitors and Posters - Lobby
3:15 pm "Colony Collapse of Honey Bees"  - Diana Cox-Foster, Penn State
4:15 pm Discussion
5:00 pm  Posters & Attitude Adjustment
6:30 pm  Dinner - Banquet Area
7:30 pm "What's in a Fly: Insights into Biodiversity and Blood-Feeding" - Peter Adler, Clemson Univ.
8:30 pm  Libations and Camaraderie

Saturday 26 January 2008

7:30 am  Breakfast - Banquet Area
8:30 am "Approaches to Studying Antibiotic Resistance and Cancer " -  Tom Campbell or Shane Webb, Session Chair, NGCSU
8:35 am "Antimicrobial Resistance: New Roles for Recombination and Selection"  - Miriam Barlow, University of California, Merced
9:35 am  Coffee Break
10:00 am "Bioengineering of Antibiotic & Anticancer Drugs "-  Wendy Kelly, Ga Tech
11:00 am  Discussion
11:30 am  Concluding Remarks, Evaluation, Next Year's Program, Adjournment