Jonathan Eisen
Updated storify of #ASM2012 session on The Great Indoors: Recent Advances in Ecology of Built Environments http://sfy.co/b0II#microbenet
Diana Shuman
My ASM group, 15 and 16 year olds doing HIV research. #asm2012#soproud http://instagr.am/p/MH36xwOgSo/
Laura Okagaki 
Justin Topp
"synthetic" chloroplasts... heard about this at #ASM2012 and am highly intrigued...http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018877
Educated Microbe
Haha! MT @Erika_Check: Bacteria "invented everything; they probably invented animals and plants as a place to hang out." Rosenberg #asm2012
Adam Spaulding
Up since 3 am PST, finally back home, sitting in lab grant writing and setting up cultures. #catchingup #asm2012 #microbiologistforlife
Ed Yong 
ChristineBrandt
“@phylogenomics: Ross says the bottled water she has surveyed has 100x as many microbes as tap water #asm2012” OH DEAR GOD.
Patrik D'haeseleer
Nice article by @edyong209 on this too:http://www.nature.com/news/gut-microbial-enterotypes-become-less-clear-cut-1.10276 RT @kristenobacter @surt_lab Is the HMP lack of enterotypes published? #asm2012
Nature Rev Microbiol
Conf marathon day 12. At Logan airport ready to head back to the UK & work. #GRChostpara and #asm2012 were great but#timetogohome
Mirik Smit
Ppl STILL buy marketing-water? RT @phylogenomics: Ross says the bottled water she surveyed has 100x as many microbes as tap water#asm2012
James Redfern 
Sponch
Need to actually get my blog up and running with first entry summarizing my time at #ASM2012 have a tumblr but is there a better choice?
AMS, LLC
UNT/AMS collaboration identifies previously unknown bacterial group related to #phosphate removing #bacteria http://goo.gl/spVUC#asm2012
Daphne Zohar
Lots of comments on NPR's show on the human microbiome "Your Inner Ecosystem" http://bit.ly/M5SMDi #ASM2012 cc @bernat_olle
Mark Holmes
This caption is so perfect haha. #notinthekitchen #asm2012#microbiologyresearch http://pic.twitter.com/miRDLm8w
Vanessa Heba 
ashish 
Sven Meys
RT @phylogenomics: Ross says the bottled water she has surveyed has 100x as many microbes as tap water #asm2012
MO BIO Laboratories
Thanks everyone who stopped by our booth at #asm2012 we enjoyed meeting you and learning about your research! See you next year!
Kausik Datta
Yo tweeple who attended #ASM2012 Q: Is it me / was participation of African American women (grad student/postdoc) really low this time? 1/2
Idaho Technology
We had a great time at #ASM2012 hope you did too! If you missed any IdahoTech posters you can find them all here:http://www.idahotech.com/Support/posters.html
APHL,Michelle Forman
APHL staff @chrisnmangal, @sikhasingh & Sarah Muir-Paulik present on public health lab activities at #ASM2012http://pic.twitter.com/vkKSkdxB
Davi Muammar
and we're still alive “@sciam “@phylogenomics Ross says the bottled water she has surveyed has 100x as many microbes as tap water#asm2012””
Michelle Leavitt
Ewww! RT @phylogenomics: Ross says the bottled water she has surveyed has 100x as many microbes as tap water #asm2012
Edmond Byrnes, PhD 
Labguru
More winners from #asm2012: David Gambarzada, Chih-Ying Chen, Stacy Townsend-Great meeting U all. Congrats! Njoy &#domorescience w @Labguru
Lisa Crossman
Great to hear so much about #asm2012, almost like being there, maybe next year
GenomeWeb Daily Scan
But enough about the weather. Here’s what Daily Scan took from final day of #ASM2012: #H5N1, genomics in public healthhttp://bit.ly/MhTKxz
When it comes to the microbiome, we need to stop being microbial racists. It's time to include fungi in your analyses. -aks #asm2012
Norrine Thompson, Angelica Ruiz-Font: Great meeting U #asm2012! Congrats on winning our gift card. Njoy it & #domorescience w/@Labguru :)
Dirk Hanson
RT @phylogenomics: Ross says the bottled water she has surveyed has 100x as many microbes as tap water #asm2012
David Ojcius
LA Times: Dust in homes with dogs may lower risk of infection linked to asthma http://lat.ms/M4DIpD #asm2012
CK
Great to have met tweeps @aetiology @cavescience@markowenmartin @ryneches @_zoonotica_ in person during#asm2012, look forward 2 next time!
GE Cell Biology
Really pretty RT@artologica New Painting: Cell Division 23 in Blue & Green http://etsy.me/NiUUJy #asm2012
Niraj Makadiya 
Mark O. Martin
Thanks also to @DrChrisKellogg, @aetiology, @NatureRevMicro,@phylogenomics, and @PMOrwin for being so pleasant. I was nervous. #asm2012
Rachel Nygaard 
Michele Banks
New Painting: Cell Division 23 in Blue & Greenhttps://www.etsy.com/listing/102553884/cell-division-23-blue-and-green #asm2012
Allen Henderson
Another yuck inspiring tweet string from #ASM2012: Salads have 100M bacteria/g, mostly from manure http://bit.ly/MtqQrR ht@aetiology
Amy Rogers
Boarding flight home from #asm2012? Quick, get free microbiology thriller PETROPLAGUE to readhttp://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/american-society-for-microbiology-attendees-want-a-free-petroplague-ebook-asm-asmcue-2012/
I love being able to attend #ASM2012 virtually: "Bacteria invented animals as a place to hang out" http://bit.ly/MtqQrR HT@erika_check
Dale Yuzuki
Take note! RT @illumina: NGS for outbreaks & public health symposium is srsly standing room only #biggerroomnexttime#asm2012
Larry Lynam 
supriya khedkar
Wonderful Poster! RT @michaelbarton Higher resolution image of my#ASM2012 poster: http://pic.twitter.com/mbVl3kle
Cameron Thrash 
SpringerMicrobiology
Agree! RT @phthisisdx: Had a wonderful time at #asm2012!
Just getting ready to board the Virgin America red-eye flight 2 Ft Lauderdale & I feel like one of those Zombie ants we saw today.#asm2012
Illumina
Following #asm2012? Get day by day highlights from our Live at ASM blog: http://bit.ly/NKMc7Y #keepingitreal
Phthisis Diagnostics
Had a wonderful time at #asm2012!
Andreu Raig
Cal netejar l'amanida? RT @aetiology: Levy: in salad, 100M bacteria per gram, mostly from manure. #asm2012”
Jon Badalamenti
Back in phx. Great to finally meet the UMN crew @wanderingbond@bacteriality @TheMicrobeCOLL at #asm2012
Thanks @asmicrobiology for a great meeting #asm2012
Larry Aaronson
Last night in San Francisco with #BestResearchStudentsEver. 3 successful posters at #asm2012! #UticaCollege representing!
Science Stream 
Josh Rosenau
VIRUSES! These are the photos that a peer reviewer rejected because he was sure they were photoshopped #asm2012 :http://1.usa.gov/NOkSWt
9,858 total, 6,682,scientists RT @LizNeeley Anyone have final number or estimate for #asm2012 attendance?
dr leigh
cool to see #asm2012 trending- way to go, microbiolotwitts!
kristindownie 
MIDI 
Hazel Barton
Only 15% #asm2012 session 232 like the way ASM picks sessions/topics for the GM.
91% #asm2012 session 232 attendees want to see ASM continue to experiment with social media
88% attendees at #asm2012 symposium 232 think ASM should use social media to develop sessions
Michael Barton
I noticed a large amount of microbiome research at #ASM2012compared with last year.
Higher resolution image of my #ASM2012 poster:http://pic.twitter.com/fgyHvK6Z
Judy Stone
Thx, @aetiology for great tweets from #asm2012. Love hearing about new bugs, discoveries. Wish I could learn to live tweet (and many other)
Had a lot of fun at my first ASM mtg #asm2012 but i'm ready for it to be over and get home. So much to do in lab!
Baker: know position of ClpXP on substrate sequence. AA composition and folding E vs transloc'n rate. Sequence dependence unclear. #asm2012
Thanks for a great #asm2012 Safe travels & see you all in Denver for#asm2013 http://pic.twitter.com/jwBsBeX1
Baker: find long dwell times=unfolding substrate; rapid elong=translocation on unfolded polypeptide. Can meas. translocation rate #asm2012
Baker: have system to measure single molecule activity.Optically trap beads tethered to protease and substrate. Meas. displacement#asm2012
Tania Baker: ClpXP is multisubunit chambered bacterial protease. post-translational control of signaling proteins; quality control#asm2012
Belfort: inteins=self-splicing enz; free cysteine req. for hydrolysis. If cys at -3 position->ox disufide->inactive. Reduce->active #asm2012
Belfort: protein @ TI intron: cysteines coord. zinc->active intron. Oxidizing conditions-> disulfides -> No Zn ->inactive. Elegant.#asm2012
Marlene Belfort: fascinating talk on stress-responsive intron and intein regulators of bacteria. Type I and II both responsive.#asm2012
Tara C. Smith
BARTing it to the airport. #asm2012 was great but exhausting! Good to meet so many tweeps.
Rebecca Weinberg
A Yersinia pestis upon the houses of poster tube thieves! #asm2012
Lisa Gorski
Martin: microbes are the 99.9999%. They occupy us! Why not the Freshman biology curriculum? @markowenmartin #asm2012
Burkhardt: deletion of ~50 genes upreg in cold. Speculative mechanism: coli degrades mRNAs soaking up (inactive) ribosomes#asm2012
David Burkhardt: characterize bacteria cold shock response w/ ribosome footprinting. Sees limited # genes up at 10C #asm2012
“@_zoonotica_: Had an absolutely fab conference at #asm2012 Now to source the funding so I can get to the next one...” --Amen!
How true. RT @aetiology: Levy discussing #antibiotics as societal & ecological drugs--you take them, they affect everyone #asm2012
jimhu 
Zoonotica
Had an absolutely fab conference at #asm2012 Now to source the funding so I can get to the next one...
Immuno-Mycologics
Enjoying dinner after a great #asm2012. Thanks everyone for stopping by the booth! See you at #AIDS2012http://pic.twitter.com/C5PNzzUO
And #asm2012 is over.
Rene Kratz
ESCRT proteins found in Archaea involved in viral egress; similar function also seen in Eukarya #ASM2012
Dead cells (bacteria) inside apoptotic dead cells (Macs) inside cells.#NotAnotherEicosanoid #asm2012
Seriously! RT @renekratz: #socool Tomography showing viral pyramids pushing up through the membrane of Infected cell#ASM2012
Pyramids form from ESCRT proteins, previously only known in eukaryotes. Help virus export elsewhere (e.g., Ebola) #asm2012
RT @JoshRosenau: These electron microscope shots are awesome. One reviewer accused them of photoshopping it. Straight lines.#asm2012
These electron microscope shots are awesome. One reviewer accused them of photoshopping it. Straight lines. #asm2012
Does macrophage eating other apoptotic macs protect host in tuberculosis? Blocking it increases CFU #NotAnotherEicosanoid#asm2012
This Yosemite virus forms 7-sided pyramids on cell surfaces, which burst and let virus out. Only such pyramids known in viruses.#asm2012
César Cuadra
RT @bacteriality: #asm2012 I would argue that Cyanobacteria have had the greatest impact on human health. #breathingoxygenisgood
Lisa Williams
And so #asm2012 is done, been a great meeting, had a fab time in#SanFrancisco
"How do you assemble a virus with a membrane on the inside?" (of the capsid) #ASM2012
Significant homology to eukaryotic RNA viruses in binding regions, none outside. #asm2012
RT @JoshRosenau: No known RNA viruses in Archaea. Until researchers started poking around hot springs in Yellowstone.#asm2012
Enjoyed the your topics, your voice, your choice session at#asm2012 a nice mix of talks and def something that should happen at future mtgs
Gaurav Arora
No known RNA viruses in Archaea. Until researchers started poking around hot springs in Yellowstone. #asm2012
5 RNA viruses of bacteria have been identified #Ididnotknowthat#ASM2012
Sam Behar discusses macs dying via necrosis and apoptosis in tuberculosis #NotAnotherEicosanoid #asm2012
Ruchira S. Datta
Like all good things, #ASM2012 event in San Francisco comes to a close! Great meeting, great presentations, info overload! /@ASMicrobiology
Get’em while they’re young RT @aetiology: Next up:@markowenmartin on microbiology early in the undergrad curriculum #asm2012
In search of archael viruses in Yellowstone #ASM2012
Thomas Sharpton
Putting accurate science in science fiction thriller novels is a form of public engagement #asm2012http://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/american-society-for-microbiology-attendees-want-a-free-petroplague-ebook-asm-asmcue-2012/
"Brute-force" pathogens vs "stealth" pathogens - gd descriptive terms #asm2012
Repeatability is uncanny. All lineages became virus-resistant via mutations in same gene: p=10^-22, incredibly unlikely by chance.#asm2012
Viruses in S ocean survive by being temperate so they can hide out when bacteria are low and by having cold adapted genes#ASM2012
Matthew Francis 
Thermo Scientific
Had so much fun @ASMicrobiology #ASM2012 event in#SanFrancisco! Great meeting everyone & looking forward to the next event!
Any #asm2012 profs use microbiology fiction in the classroom? Try PETROPLAGUE thriller for freehttp://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/american-society-for-microbiology-attendees-want-a-free-petroplague-ebook-asm-asmcue-2012/
And what makes evolution unpredictable? #asm2012
Elizabeth Perry, U Oregon, talking about repeatability of evolution in bacteria/phage systems. What makes evolution repeatable?#asm2012
Holly Bik
When I hear CRISPRs I always get hungry RT @tjsharpton David Paez-Espino - Time Series Metagenomics of CRISPRshttp://ff.im/Z2aNa #asm2012
“@_zoonotica_: Is v impressive that can predict in such detail what ancestral bacteria shd have been like. #asm2012” --yup. 79% is amazing!
Is v impressive that can predict in such detail what ancestral bacteria shd have been like. #asm2012
Not a surprising outcome, @carlzimmer hinted at that a year or so ago. But nice t see the research proceeding. #asm2012
Blount sez Cit+ lineage in the Lenski long term evolution experiment is an incipient species, and a model organism for speciation.#asm2012
Hm, coauthors should maybe discuss their talks. Same story/slides of Lujo virus as I saw yesterday #asm2012
For imaging people: you can quantify lots of things on images including colocalization and movement. Plz use more than "lots of"!#asm2012
Comparison of genomic data reveals 3 virulence factors unique to deadly strains of Y pestis #ASM2012
up soon: Tania Baker, a long time science hero of mine (protein degradation). First time I will have heard her talk. woo hoo!#asm2012
"All models are wrong but some are useful" #ASM2012
Amer. Soc. Micro.
Bruce Rabin is the last award lecturer of #asm2012. Hear his talk at 5 pm PT in the Esplanade Ballroom 309 ^lg
Yersinia pestis extracted from teeth and sequenced - paper also covered in #microtwjc week 2 I think.http://microtwjc.wordpress.com #asm2012
Genome sequence of Y pestis extracted from teeth of plague victims compared to extant strains #ASM2012
Jasmine Clark: nice images of env and gag transport and colocalization #asm2012
No, just following the tweets. ASV is next month :) RT @LOkagaki:@RachelNygaard you at #asm2012 too? I wish there was a participants list.
Yersinia pestis infection pictures - v grim hadn't realised still so common and still sometimes fatal #asm2012
Jeff Gralnick
Thanks to all my microTweeple for the support; appreciate your coming to the talk. Hope you liked it; I believe in the topic! #asm2012
Psi Wavefunction
Debbie Lindell - Phages are a Selective Force Driving Cyanobacterial Genome Diversification #ASM2012http://ff.im/Z284m
Daniel Oerther
Rolla Daily News reports Missouri S&T researchers say tree oil may combat #obesity #diabetes http://shar.es/scIQM #asm2012 #li
excellent question “@_zoonotica_: Microbes are the 99.9999% - why aren't they a bigger part of biology syllabus? #asm2012
E. coli K12 -- 2300 reactions 1200 metabolites #ASM2012
Dedication! MT @bacteriality #asm2012 Think @markowenmartin has a giant microbe on his lapel (I KNOW he has v small ones) /@DrChrisKellogg
Just saw @markowenmartin talk about trying to teach Freshmen to become microbial literate. Great talk! #asm2012
Make sure you get some virologists in on this! RT @bacteriality:#asm2012 @ASMicrobiology @Typhi we (cont) http://tl.gd/hu42rg
Switching over to different session. Thomas Briese on Microbe hunting #asm2012
RT @_zoonotica_: Microbes are the 99.9999% - why aren't they a bigger part of biology syllabus? #asm2012
He does, Helicobacter RT @bacteriality #asm2012 I think@markowenmartin has a giant microbe on his lapel (I KNOW he has very small ones).
Microbes are the 99.9999% - why aren't they a bigger part of biology syllabus? #asm2012
Ian Glomsky: tracking neutrophils during anthrax infection using Cre-lox system. Nice use of the technology. #asm2012
I would buy it! "@bacteriality: #asm2012 @markowenmartin please write that book!! 'Do sweat the small stuff'"
You do realise that plankton are...eukaryotes! RT @phylogenomicsGo plankton #exploratorium #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/h56bIyRz
“@bacteriality: #asm2012 comic sans acceptable in a talk where The Fonz's quoted” -grt catch! I was so engrossed in the talk, didn't notice!
RT @aetiology: Martin: has students "fisk" GRE biology review for errors for extra credit #asm2012 I've had students blog errata for txtbks
Paul Orwin
"fisk" is a blog term I was not expecting to hear in an asm talk#asm2012 mainstreaming the blogosphere
Martin: has students "fisk" GRE biology review for errors for extra credit #asm2012
The great plating anomaly! #asm2012
Another lignocellulose degrader - job for JGI! RT @phylogenomicstime for a banana slug microbiome project? #exploratorium#asm2012
DNLee
Intro students to qs, biofilms, generate hypotheses #asm2012
Reovirus is the way to go! RT @scopedbylarry: #asm2012 VSV may be a prime candidate for cancer (cont) http://tl.gd/hu408j
Martin: also need to introduce more math analyses into what students are doing #asm2012
Zev Kronenberg
The room is packed in this #asm2012 session on experimental evolution. Such neat research.
Martin: discuss importance of biofilms, center for biofilm engineering for lots of examples #asm2012
All biofilm talks must have that image! #asm2012
Hothouse flowers a big problem good example to intrigue students#asm2012
Kids who go to university of puget sound get a pretty great education! #asm2012
Martin: piece on "Small Things Considered" re course, "Preaching to a Prokaryotic Choir" #asm2012http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2011/06/preaching-to-a-prokaryotic-choir.html
Thanks! RT @bacteriality: #asm2012 @markowenmartinhttp://www.microbemagazine.org/index.php/12-2009-animalcules-and-forum/1109-paradigm-shifts-paradigm-drifts link to article Mark chatted about from Microbe
Martin: students use art & other media to do micro projects, increases learning and literacy #asm2012
Generalist viruses able to shift and grow in other hosts. #asm2012
Talking about his students and what they do. Very cool! #asm2012
Michael Metzker: Viral metagenomics using Illumina platform can detect pfu of <0.1 #asm2012
“@eperlste: @kausikdatta22 @aetiology here's a Storify tutorial:http://storify.com/tour #asm2012” -muchas gracias!
Fluctuating environments favors generalist viruses. Homogeneity favors specialists. #asm2012
Paradigm shifts, paradigm drifts key article by elio schaechter some key ideas and cool new topics, tech #asm2012
Um, NO. Polio is NOT extinct! http://www.cdc.gov/polio/updates/ RT@michaelbarton: Small pox, polio and rinderpest all extinct in the wild. #asm2012
Schaechter article in Microbe on paradigm shifts vol4no9 538 MM recommends #ASM2012
I want some! "@aetiology: Martin: mundane but effective: buttons and t shirts, slogan candy ("microbes rule"). #asm2012"
“@bacteriality: #asm2012 @markowenmartin on pain medication, promises an interesting seminar” -dunno abt the disclaimer; indeed interesting
Martin: recommends Elio Schaecter paper, Microbe November 2009 "Paradigm Shifts, Paradigm Drifts" #asm2012
Rosie Alegado
Martin Polz: how much microbial diversity do we really need to consider? how do we define a bacterial population? #ASM2012
Viruses often face environmental change. Adapt, wait it out or piggy back. #asm2012
Appeal to the unusual and new get them excited with slogans. PR is important! #asm2012
Martin: mundane but effective: buttons and t shirts, slogan candy ("microbes rule"). #asm2012
Martin: notes many areas these topics could be introduced early in bio curriculum #asm2012
“@aetiology: Next up: @markowenmartin on microbiology early in the undergrad curriculum #asm2012” - v engaging already; interesting video
Small pox, polio and rinderpest all extinct in the wild. #asm2012
Martin: video, no one knows what biofilm or quorum sensing are.#asm2012
Martin: video asking 1st yr students questions re micro, what is bacteria, what is archean, are bacteria good or bad, mixed results#asm2012
How do viruses avoid extinction? #asm2012
"If microbial supremacy is wrong, I dont want to be right" MM#ASM2012
Multimedia! First student answer violated Pace's law, rest go downhill. #asm2012
My only undergrad microbiol was clin stuff in vet degree - I think I may be one of the students @markowenmartin is talking about!#asm2012
No love for the micro from other areas of bio. I can relate to this as only micro on fac of 13 #asm2012
"@_zoonotica_: Proud member of the microbial choir! #asm2012" me too :)
Proud member of the microbial choir! #asm2012
Sure does. MT @kristenobacter contradict Peer Bork 2011 nature paper? #asm2012 Rob Knight: no evidence for discrete enterotypes#microbiome
Starts off on a good note - he may be high on painkillers #asm2012
Martin: Only micro his students get is as seniors #asm2012
Guy Shani
Home from #ASM2012... Exhausting but a great time
Atmospheric microbes primarilybmaking membrane transporters and catabolic enzymes #ASM2012
OH at #asm2012 - some of the deep tag sequencing projects are actually starting to return the same exact sequence twice.
Wyndham Lathem
A great family tree! Thanks for sharing. RT @A_Hryckowian: a surprise meeting with Dr. Stan Falkow #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/1Y1FYtzu
Next up: @markowenmartin on microbiology early in the undergrad curriculum #asm2012
Atmospheric microbes dominated by Acinetobacter #ASM2012
Jorg Vogel: describes novel mechanism by which bacteria regulate mRNA expression using small RNAs. in sugar pathway reg'n.#asm2012
.@mykophile You'll dig this talk: R. Mueller - the impacts of deforestation on soil fungi #ASM2012 (via http://ff.im/Z1Z9s)
NGS for outbreaks & public health symposium is srsly standing room only #biggerroomnexttime #asm2012
Kevin Scott Wilson
Lively talk by Bassler (past ASM president) using quorum sensing molecules as anti- infective drugs #asm2012
Talk on both shotgun and tag metagenomic analysis of environment is nice comparison of different aspects. #asm2012
Steven Tucker, MD
Hell yeah! RT@NatureRevMicro: @sridharrg @moorejh didn't you know? Microbiologists are the new rock stars! #asm2012
Stanley Maloy
Comparison of DNA and RNA of atmospheric communities dont differ -- "everybody there is active" #ASM2012
Next up @markowenmartin to tell us how to teach proper micro in introbio! Very impt topic IMHO #asm2012
Besseler talk on quorum sensing was great. Not a biochemist myself but she was very engaging speaker. #asm2012
DH: "molecular Esperanto" would let everyone talk about NGS in the same language :-) #asm2012
RM: Level a forest to increase fungal soil diversity. #ASM2012
Ethan Perlstein
DH: genomics for early warning outbreak detection on a global scale must be standardized- lessons from PulseNet. #asm2012
DH: bench top sequencing machines make genomic epidemiology technically feasible for small & med labs #asm2012
David Baltrus
Back to the lab...Thank you #asm2012 tweeters for a great meeting!
Alright, a fungi talk! #ASM2012
Rebecca Mueller - Forests, farms and fungi: the impacts of deforestation on soil fungi #ASM2012 http://ff.im/Z1Z9s
Dag Harmsen discussing insights gleaned from German EHEC O104:H4 and Dutch Klebsiella outbreak #WGS studieshttp://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/proof-principle-established-researchers-investigate-klebsiella-outbreak #ASM2012
Microbes in S Pac gyre form Mn-nodules, microbes cluster around nodules b/c nodules help with access to carbon #ASM2012
CA: "...so we can reject the hypothesis that everything is everywhere". More evidence against #baasbecking #ASM2012
Microbes that live within the S Pacific gyre face very low nutrient (carbon) environment #ASM2012
+1 RT @_LisaKWilliams_ Interesting and excellent talk from Emma Trantham about public engagement #asm2012
New Delhi Restaurant
What's for dinner after #asm2012? Your badge unlocks a 10% food discount at SF's best Indian cuisine http://bit.ly/NewDelhiSFm Near Moscone
Serving Science
New #ThermoScientific product on display at #ASM2012 booth 1015: PikoReal Real-Time PCR System @ASMicrobiologyhttp://ow.ly/bGmIH
Finally catching some #virology tweets at asm RT @scopedbylarry:#asm2012 there are over 4 million Americans living in dengue risk areas.
EMD Millipore Bio
Thanks for making #ASM2012 such a great time! See you next year!http://bit.ly/Kfebny http://pic.twitter.com/AhkZAKiV
JF: Argues that some systems are too complex to be studied in pure culture, "We can't get cultures to do this" #ASM2012
AK
Attn @artologica: RT @marynmck: just reminding people that@aetiology is tweeting all kinds of cool disease-geekness from#asm2012
Interesting and excellent talk from Emma Trantham about public engagement #asm2012
/waves RT @kausikdatta22 I think I spy @aetiology furiously tapping away live tweeting an interesting talk at #ASM2012 #Envy her abilities!
Some hits from acid salt lakes similar to known extremophiles#ASM2012
JF discusses the interspecies relationships of SAR11 #ASM2012
Trantham: Microbiology artwork as outreachhttp://normalflora.co.uk/ #asm2012
DNA sequencing from acid salt lakes in W. Australia shows many novel bacterial species, heavily alpha and beta proteos #ASM2012
I think I spy @aetiology furiously tapping away live tweeting an interesting talk at #ASM2012 #Envy her abilities!
.@DrJCThrash @ryneches see Jed Furhman - Temporal patterns of microbes #ASM2012 (via http://ff.im/Z1Q3h)
Outbreaks: PG: whole-genome #sequencing the ultimate diagnostic & subtyping tool #ASM2012
Trantham: Soc for General Micro has play on MRSA, includes Q&A:http://www.sgm.ac.uk/news/videoportal.cfm #asm2012
Russell Neches
Jed Fuhrman speaks about the invisible hand that guides temporal changes in microbial diversity #ASM2012
Emma Trantham is making me think that I should do some public engagement sounds like fun #asm2012
Outbreaks: Peter Gerner-Smidt:in the future, look @ pathogens based on virulence profile/subtype rather than genus/species/genotype #ASM2012
Trantham: plugging http://lookslikescience.tumblr.com/ as informal science engagement #asm2012
Michael Tomasson
Could your microbiome communicate with aliens from other worlds?@bykriscampbell #asm2012 #notAsm2012
Talk on Public Engagement at #ASM2012 nice to hear a british accent! Long live public engagement
Por eso es q no me gustan las ensaladas! RT @aetiology: Levy: in salad, 100M bacteria per gram, mostly from manure. #asm2012
Randomly bumped into two people from grad school days roaming the expo hall! Small world. #asm2012 #conferencecrashing
Trantham: describing the "deficit model" of science comm--fill brains with info. Vs dialogue model--discussion w public #asm2012
Salt lakes in w. Australia very dynamic, dramatic changes in pH, depth, and salinity #ASM2012
Trantham - public engagement is fun #asm2012
It's been a great meeting this year! Missed having you at it.#ASM2012 @mykophile
Trantham: Why engage--dispel misconceptions, encourage next generation, recruit subjects, provide info, taxpayer funding, it's fun#asm2012
sita ismangil
RT @drisis: I hate that I now know this #AutoclaveEverything RT@aetiology: Levy: in salad, 100M bacteria/ gr, mostly from manure.#asm2012
Kabir Peay
Sad to be missing #ASM2012 - so close but yet so far away.
An experiment in collaborative filtering at #asm2012 -- a session designed by participants via online proposals and online voting
Now up: Emma Trantham on public engagement in the 21st century#asm2012
Jed Furhman - Temporal patterns of microbes #ASM2012http://ff.im/Z1Q3h
Sam Diaz-Munoz 
Vivian Cheng
Eating "probiotic" chocolate wishing one of you biome-types would engineer chocolate with gut microbes that will make me leaner#ASM2012
Damn! Missed Kevin Foster's talk, but finally got to meet and have a chat with him #niceguy #academic #rolemodel #badass #ASM2012
The Baker Company
Exhibit hall is now closed. Thanks for a great conference, everyone! Safe travels home! #asm2012
Andrew Hryckowian 
Monica Hernandez
“@drisis:I hate that I now know this #AutoclaveEverything RT@aetiology: Levy:in salad,100M bacteria per gram, mostly from manure. #asm2012”
So torn between the "Limits" and "Your Choices" sessions.... How to choose? #ASM2012
Fab day at #asm2012 and won a kindle touch thanks to cell press#alwayswantedone looking 4ward to the your choice talks join us in RM 305
SfAMicrobiology
Great news : ) RT @Markusmicrobius: Having busy time at#asm2012 signing up loads of new members including some very prestigious scientists
Is there any place online where I can see the posters presented at#asm2012
timis8@yahoo.com
"@phylogenomics: Ooh - time for a banana slug microbiome project?#exploratorium #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/WJCIEl6O". Fun!
Ooh - time for a banana slug microbiome project? #exploratorium#asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/zPOPymmZ
I'm crashing #asm2012, and I've already said hello to someone who's talk tweets I was following. Twitter works, people!
Big line at #asm2012 earlier today to get in to Stuart Levy's talk on Antimicrobial resistance http://pic.twitter.com/ZpMM71jL
Erick Matsen
Larry Forney (U Idaho): vaginal microbiota in health and disease#asm2012 http://ff.im/Z1GpE
Janet Jansson (LBNL): Impact of perturbations on the human gut microbiome #asm2012 http://ff.im/Z1GmC
Chr. Rune Stensvold
Proctor: Human Health and Microbial Ecology coming together with the Human Microbiome Project #asm2012
I don't know. I was told 4PM but it looks like I am last now? We shall see. #psychingup #asm2012 #preachingtochoirhttp://pic.twitter.com/03V4qGef
Chris Mangal
APHL staff, Chris Mangal, Sikha Singh&Sarah Muir-Paulik, present on public health lab activities at ASM. #ASM2012 #APHLhttp://pic.twitter.com/AF9S6Bxu
Nina Sandlin 
olin silander
and the results of the popularity contest at #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/tV2NXMDY
Rick Bushman (Penn): Dynamics of the human gut virome#asm2012 http://ff.im/Z1EBi
more from #asm2012: power tweetershttp://pic.twitter.com/kpDdruvR
Forgot to note earlier that I'm wearing my Twitter necklace today by@blendcreations. #asm2012 #nerd http://pic.twitter.com/Un6WSoUR
Last chance to see the most stable anaerobic workstation with the super cute name! The Bugbox is at booth 1534 until 2:45 pm!#asm2012
Did everyone check out the IdahoTech booth at #ASM2012 ? Tweet a pic of your b. pertussis magnet if you snagged one!http://pic.twitter.com/0w61LkwR
Get highlights from #asm2012 and up to the minute news from Twitter with our Live at ASM coverage: http://bit.ly/NKMc7Y
Microbes represented well at the SF exploratorium - brief escape from #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/FnUw5EV8
mary williams
Jeff Chen #ASM2012 Raymond W. Sarber Award Undergraduate Laureate - WOW Bravo http://bit.ly/N5MKRd
Only half of the mini #MiSeq prizes have been claimed. Did anyone get this one? One hour left! #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/mjw2D3U5
Kamoun Lab @ TSL
Rob Knight #asm2012 What is the impact of the loss in the Western World of parasitic eukaryotes that we have co-evolved with on#microbiome
Sue Pearson
This will please you @sciencebase. RT @moorejh: A scientific conference, #ASM2012, trending on #Twitter.
Poster time! Listeria biofilms. #3063 #asm2012
iGEM Cinvestav
Presenting our poster in #asm2012
Juliana Mastronunzio 
KPL, Inc.
Hey #ASM2012 attendees. Check out our specific polyclonal STEC Antibodies. http://bit.ly/LxTE6f
Woohoo - I get a ribbon #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/cF425z77
Any #asm2012 tweets interested in meeting up tonight?
Proctor: Microbiomes biobanked from cancer patients and readministered after chemotherapeutic treatment enables faster recovery. #asm2012
Interesting conversations coming out of dual use research panel — will blog. Stay tuned. #ASM2012
Dariel Burdass
“@h_lapp: Huttenhower: linking microbiome to function. #asm2012.http://bit.ly/LXnVqO^gm” could this research lead to personalised medicine
Gail Teitzel
I'm at the Cell Press booth (1211) until 2, come by and chat if you're in the area #asm2012
John Corliss
Attending #asm2012 this afternoon in San Francisco
Dawei Lin
Thanks ASM Live that allowed me to watch & interact with#asm2012 from a couch at @exploratorium It is a great idea.
Kristina Campbell
We get most of our fat cells before we're 5 years old. Could perturbed microbiome in early life "program" obesity later in life?#asm2012
Kayla Miller
FREE for #asm2012: microbiology thriller novel Petroplague. Click to request yours & enjoy on flight homehttp://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/american-society-for-microbiology-attendees-want-a-free-petroplague-ebook-asm-asmcue-2012/
YK now discussing safety/security features of BSL3, BSL4 facilities. So cool! #ASM2012
In future, it's possible that a course of antibiotics could be paired with probiotics. #asm2012
Hopefully we'll soon see consensus on microbiome biomarkers - which are causative and which are protective? #asm2012
Again, Ecology is stressed in the microbiome conversations (this time by Elizabeth Costello) #ASM2012
Adelaide Ungerer
Could antibiotic use in meat production contribute to obesity epidemic observed human population ? #asm2012
Last chance for Clin Micro mentoring today @ 1pm in the #asm2012CM Lounge (112) - come chat with Patricia Cernoch and Dr. K. Johnson! ^tg
Re: therapeutic approaches for the #microbiome, Lactobacillus and Bifidobacteria are the tip of the iceberg. #asm2012
Stanford prof says we're still finding out about how the #microbiomechanges early in life. First 2 yrs seem to be important. #asm2012
Check out this link from the NIH on the Human zmicrbiomehttp://www.nih.gov/news/health/jun2012/nhgri-13.htm #asm2012
Watching this great live chat on the human #microbiome. Academics warn about #antibiotic effects. #asm2012 http://ow.ly/bGH9X
Your bugs will love our Bugbox! The most stable anaerobic conditions and precise temp & humidity control. See it at booth 1534.#asm2012
Laura Cox: Interplay between host anatomy + physiology and microbes #asm2012 #microbiome
Laura Cox: Increased environmental use of antibiotics throughout the latest decades may be causing the obesity epidemic #asm2012#microbiome
Inst Genome Sciences
Live in 10 min: Latest News fr Human #Microbiome Project -http://www.microbeworld.org/asmlive #asm2012 via @MicrobeWorld#genomics
Wow. That was a busy poster session. Great questions and even some lively debate #asm2012
Becca Satterwhite
Overheard at #asm2012: "This is the future! This is the FUTURE!"
Aled Roberts
Last day of #asm2012, don't forget to visit us-booth 1625. Last chance to meet, learn about @Labguru #researchmanagement tool & get a gift
Phil Aldridge
The Brits at #asm2012 seem to all be clustered around the carvery for some reason - apparently there is some sort of football match on...
Human #Microbiome Project #ASM2012 RT @iGenomics: #HMPachievements: Let people know bacteria are not all bad. They are part of human life.
Live in 10 Min - #ASM2012 Live – Antibiotic Exposure, The Microbiome & Obesity - Watch http://www.microbeworld.org/asmlivevia @MicrobeWorld
MO: "The one agent that once it's out the door it's gone is influenza. ... There is no room for error." #ASM2012
Dual use research: MO: "Influenza is the one [accidental release] that scares the hell out of me." #ASM2012
Kristen DeAngelis
Bonnie Bassler at American Academy of Microbiology mtg announcing "Microbes ca save the world" campaignhttp://pic.twitter.com/M1UvLsJ7 #asm2012
Bonnie Bassler says the AAM is going to take a more prominent role in public discussion of microbiology #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/6vMsb0Ud
Vaccine production for H1N1 flu was too little too late. Flu already burning out by time vac ready #asm2012
My question sent online was used as a wrap-up one for HMP Latest News session. What are the biggest achievements for the project?#asm2012
& the unrestricted publication of methods & results #ASM2012 2/2
At the American Academy of Microbiology luncheon Sitting at table w/ many #ucdavis folks #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/29z2oDsn
Biocompare
may never eat salad again MT @drisis:hate that I now know this RT@aetiology:Levy:in salad 100M bacteria per gram,mostly from manure #asm2012
A centrifuge signed by the cart of CSI miami. Not impressive.#asm2012
Time to start following #microtwjc #asm2012
Dual use research: Nancy Cox: "public health pandemic risk assessment is limited to current knowledge" #ASM2012
In responce to putting Pseudomonas on wounds #Asm2012 That could do more bad than good, no? Considering its a surface wound pathogen.
Thanks to #Asm2012 live for answering my question! Phage will be more important the more the microbiome project probes!
Um, whales can get influenza? #asm2012
Dual use research: LE: just because experiments are 'of concern' doesn't mean we shouldn't do them. Precautionary measures key#ASM2012
More restaurant and entertainment discounts here:http://ow.ly/bGjXz just show your @ASMicrobiology conf badge and enjoy. #ASM2012
Recursive Tuesday: a tweet showing Jon Eisen tweeting! #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/HMMaUL79
And so is your salad RT @JoanStrassmann #asm2012 Summary. Don't eat anything, don't touch anything. Your hotel room is feces contaminated.
Joan E. Strassmann 
Dr. Isis
I hate that I now know this #AutoclaveEverything RT @aetiology: Levy: in salad, 100M bacteria per gram, mostly from manure.#asm2012
20 min until #microtwjc discussing EHEC paper - now to find somewhere at #asm2012 to settle down and get paper out.
Dual use research: LE: process is flawed — bottleneck @ publication stage, after research already approved, funded, done & reviewed#ASM2012
Sanofi US
RT @bioworld: Just in time for #BIO2012: #ASM2012 study on bacteria in hotel rooms. Stay away from that TV remote!http://ow.ly/bEnm0
Dual use research: journal editors as gatekeepers of potentially problematic papers pre-publication (LE) #ASM2012
Ryan Huber
Dual use research: 2003 statement from major journals "recognized major change in attitudes about science publication" (LE) #ASM2012
But our microbes may make us RT @JoanStrassmann: #asm2012Don't eat anything, don't touch anything. Your hotel room is feces contaminated.
Are you at #asm2012 ? Stop by booth 1616 & enter to win Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. Pick up some free samples of our DNA & RNA kits too!
Zymo Research
Last day to visit us at Booth 1131 for free samples and giveaways!#asm2012
Lynn Enquist took helm at Journal of Virology in 2002: "a time of heightened concern about biological research," he says #ASM2012
One eye on #Microtwjc , the other on #Asm2012 live and some how another on the #England game (although this can take the back foot for now)
The smaller the organism, the more diverse & abundant. Most viruses being sequenced have no known homologs. How to characterize? #ASM2012
And another winner! Mini #MiSeq hunt #asm2012 come on, there are 28 more! http://pic.twitter.com/VIR7T4h8
that's not including the sprouts! I may be off all salad: “@aetiology: Levy: in salad, 100M bacteria per gram, mostly from manure.#asm2012”
Found a sunny spot to warm up in after freezing conference rooms#ASM2012
MicrobeWorld
Live in 10 min – The Latest News from the Human Microbiome Project - Watch here - http://www.microbeworld.org/asmlive#asm2012
That is Awesome! #Congratulations @_zoonotica_: Just won a kindle thanks to the lovely ppl at cellpress! #bonus #asm2012
45 Mins until the 4th #Microtwjc Microbiologists Assemble!#Microbiology #Asm2012 #Phdchat #E.coli @SocGenMicro@NatureRevMicro
Kelly Gull
Headed home after great #asmcue & #asm2012 mtgs. Been here for a week so will have to adjust to EST! Bye to my view!http://pic.twitter.com/dRPG1Sn7
Epicentre Bio
last day for special giveaway at booth 1617 twitter promo #asm2012
Lyndsay
Getting ready for session on recent H5N1 research controversy, controversy in science is fascinating, always makes you think#ASM2012
New #ThermoScientific Barnstead LabTower EDI system combines purification w EDI technology & storage http://ow.ly/bGj33#ASM2012
Ranjan Dey
Hungry? I'm pleased to offer #asm2012 attendees 10% food discount at my New Delhi Restaurant. http://bit.ly/NewDelhiSFm Just show your badge
Karen Grepin
Could you have tweeted this before lunch not after? RT @aetiology: Levy: in salad, 100M bacteria per gram, mostly from manure.#asm2012
My #asm2012 poster is up in this session: 2645.http://pic.twitter.com/TzVNGC0w
Exhibit hall is open again! Demo the Ruskinn Bugbox at booth 1534 before you go. #asm2012
Levy: Make peace, not battle, with bacteria #asm2012
Prof Mark Fielder
Having busy time at #asm2012 signing up loads of new members including some very prestigious scientists welcome to you all!
Found me yet? #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/ekETAmUi
Jason Chin
People seem washing hands more carefully in bath room #ASM2012
Elizabeth R. Moore
My faith in society is rewarded with #asm2012 trending....the fact that it's trending with Alec Baldwin, well nothing's perfect!
Graham Hatfull's phage-hunter students name the viruses things like Patience, Predator, Konstantine; reminds me of hedgehog genes#asm2012
Kaitlin
So it's the last day, and the exhibit hall is crazy, but here's my poster number (2194), come visit maybe? #asm2012 #shamelessplug
Fab! RT @Profmicro: #asm2012 is trending. This is an international meeting of microbiologists. (I am following via tweets this year)
KF: p aeruginosa only produces secreted rhamnolipids when there is excess carbon...when it's not costly #asm2012
Varaldi: phylogenetic analysis suggests Hytrosaviridae (near NUdiviridae and Baculoviridae). #asm2012
Sarah Zhang
Hah! RT @jung_gt: Except Archaea RT: @Erika_Check: Bacteria "invented everything...." Eugene Rosenberg, Tel Aviv U #asm2012
Marie Pezzlo & Dr. Nachamkin will be here in the #asm2012 Clin Micro Lounge (112) at 11am for Clin Micro Mentoring. Stop in - say hello! ^tg
Varaldi: concludes that viruses major players in behavior of host (insects, maybe more broadly?). NGS to survey breadth in flies#asm2012
With all these Metagenomics approaches, will there be a new field “micro-ecology”? #ASM2012
Steven Hecht
Julian Varaldi: parasitoid wasp driven by virus to superparasitism. Benefits virus > wasp. Transcriptional profiling for mechanism#asm2012
Tina M Cairns
File this under "things I didn't really need to know." :-P mT@aetiology In salad, 100M bacteria per gram, mostly from manure.#asm2012
65 genes different in virus-infected wasps; 3 looked at so far involved in neurotransmission #ASM2012
Questions about human #microbiome project? Ask via twitter tag#asm2012 during ASM Live at 11:30 PDT today via @Typhi
Foster: You can generate strong selection dependent upon social structure #ASM2012
Need reading material for your flight home from #asm2012? Last day to pick up a copy of your favorite @ASMicrobiology journal Booth 1308 ^nr
Rob Walker
If you have an interest in Burkholderia , come say hello to me at poster 2477. Rob #asm2012
Levy: in salad, 100M bacteria per gram, mostly from manure.#asm2012
Tree oil may combat #obesity #diabetes @Jerusalem Posthttp://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=274416 #asm2012
Levy: 80% of antibiotics by weight given to animals for growth promotion. Enters into soils, streams, wildlife, people #asm2012
Spontaneous hypermucoid mutant. Spreads in colony, outcompetes, but not in liquid or in "mushed" colony #asm2012
Levy: 1976 study looked at resistance. Found resistant bacteria in farm families & neighbors after using tet in chicken feed. #asm2012
NatureRevGastroHep
RT @tjsharpton: I love the story of fecal transplants treating chronic#diarrhea. Does that make me weird? #asm2012
Graham Hatfull: if genomes are pervasively mosaic, how should we present their taxonomy? Uses dotplot of nucleotide seq similarity#asm2012
Daniel Dominguez
Spatial patterns emerge without evol pressure #asm2012 in colonies
Hughes: able to preserve ant brains. Transcriptional profiling control vs. infected brains. Testing on generalist insect parasites #asm2012
Levy discussing antibiotics as societal & ecological drugs--you take them, they affect everyone #asm2012
bioMérieux SA
Thx to everyone who visited our booth at #asm2012. We love meeting our customers face-to-face!
Jumping to Stuart Levy talk on antibiotics #asm2012 Freezing....
Chk out #ThermoScientific lightweight performance from Fiberlite carbon fiber centrifuge rotors at booth 1015 http://ow.ly/bGiW5#ASM2012
90 minutes until #microtwjc #asm2012 reading paper again during commute home
Hughes: histology-are fungi inducing lockjaw-type condition in dying leaf-biting ants? Says fungal family also ergotamine source.#asm2012
s10dem
"@Erika_Check: Bacteria "invented everything; they probably invented animals and plants as a place to hang out." Eugene Rosenberg, #asm2012"
S phenotype of wasp correlates with viral infection #ASM2012
Graham Hatfull: Fall semester = phage isolation, DNA extraction, sequencing; Spring = bioinformatics http://WWW.phagesdb.org#asm2012
Well mixed structure makes evol cheating easier, spatial segregation gives cooperators advantage #asm2012
Asimov: "The solar system consists of Jupiter, + debris." Me: the biosphere consists of microbes, + contaminants. #asm2012#microrulz
Q & A session from microbiome #asm2012 http://ff.im/Z0Tmx
Foster: family life is key to cooperative behavior. Giving him props for showing a really awkward family photo #ASM2012
Parasitoid wasps of Drosophila that lay multiple eggs per larva (S phenotype) maternally transmitted #ASM2012
Graham Hatfull: phages discovery & genomics = platform for research & education #asm2012
Foster plays to crowd with baby polar bear picture. #asm2012
Hughes: ant-infecting fungi drive amazingly precise behavior. Ants die facing N and W, at specific height, at noon. #asm2012
Kevin foster. From Oxford spatial structure and cooperation#asm2012
Kevin Foster on bacterial social interactions #asm2012
Kevin Foster: It matters who you meet - Spatial structure and evolution of microbial cooperation #ASM2012
Seems amazing that there would *not* be. RT @tjsharpton LF: change in vaginal community during menstruation for some women, not all #asm2012
Hughes: ...out swims impossibly huge worm that drove cricket to drown self. If cricket eaten by frog, worm can escape stomach.#asm2012
Graham Hatfull: Genome-by-genome comparative analysis of phages reveals high diversity & genetic mosaicism #asm2012
Silver: photosynthetic zebra fish, transfected with cyanobacteria, but can't live on sunlight alone #asm2012
David Hughes: parasitic fungi driving insect behavior. Video: dramatic example, worm-infected cricket jumps into water at night#asm2012
LF: there is change in vaginal community composition during menstruation for some women, but not all #asm2012
Jumping sesssions again! now @ the interorganisms interactions session #ASM2012
Delwart: salivirus--detection assoc with unexplained diarrhea in Nepal in case/control study, similar study in China #asm2012
Drosophila has two habitats: decaying fruit and vials in labs all over the world #ASM2012
Graham Hatfull: exploration & exploitation of mycobacteriophages#asm2012
I love that Marraffini used pneumococcal capsule switching as model for testing CRISPR defense against acquiring virulence factor!#asm2012
Delwart: cardioviruses. Mostly animal viruses but 80% adults seropositive #asm2012
Maraffini: strep + CRISPR targeting capsule prevents capsule transformation and mouse death in repeat of Griffith 1928 #asm2012
Studnts (all latinos) came 2 poster asked me about research, thn asked advice on gradschl. #rolemodels #diversitymatters #ASM2012@CienciaPR
L maraffini: engineered strep with CRISPR targeting capsule. Repeated Griffiths 1928 mouse exp showing natural transformation#asm2012
Speak for yourself, I'm an ECOSYSTEM. MT @markowenmartin@bacteriality The Small Masters own the biosphere; we are contaminants. #asm2012
Pamela Silver: attempted to make photosynethic fish. "The interesitng thing is that nothing happened" #ASM2012
RT @markowenmartin: @bacteriality Preach it loud. Preach it proud! The Small Masters own the biosphere; we are contaminants.#asm2012
Lori L.
Want! RT @aetiology Ooooo http://amzn.to/NMSC7U RT @renekratzHost manipulation by parasites new book oxford press #ASM2012
"In conclusion... there really aren't any." Nice. #ASM2012
Larry Forney talks about vaginal microbiota #asm2012
Delwart: are bocaviruses pathogens? Boca1 seems to be. Some respiratory, some enteric #asm2012
Jean-Michel Claverie: Megavirus chilensis now largest known virus; 200 nm, genome 1.25 megabases, natural host not yet identifed#asm2012
Delwart: human bocavirus first discovered in 2005. Boca2 and more found by deep sequencing & consensus pcr. #asm2012
Jansson #asm2012 - C. difficle therapy via fecal transplantation = restored healthy gut microbiome, resolved microbiome perturbation
Chk out #ThermoScientific Sensititre AIM #ASM2012, doses most 96-well plates, eliminating skipped & repeats http://ow.ly/bGihk
Delwart: unsure if Parv4 is a pathogen. A few studies suggest it might be but mostly anecdotal. #asm2012
I love the story of fecal transplants treating chronic diarrhea. Does that make me weird? #asm2012
Hilary Lappin-Scott
Heidi Kong: Skin studies: increase in Staphyl species = decrease in microbial diversity = increase in skin disease dermatitis. #asm2012
Fungi get in between muscle cells of ants, lower mitochondria, atrophy muscle, ants bite leaves cant let go #ASM2012
Janet Jansson discussing fecal transplants for Cdiff infections at#asm2012
Baltrus: Costs of HGT may b widespread. Imp 2 better understand of evol dynamics; harness costs to treat bact infect #grantsmart#ASM2012
Delwart: Parv4 mainly in blood exposed subjects (hemophiliacs, IV drug users)--blood transmitted? #asm2012
Crones disease shows dramatic decrease in specific beneficial (buterate producing) bacteria - Jansson #asm2012
Delwart: first ID of parv4 in plasma from regular sequencing; related to B19 and human bocavirus #asm2012
Just did a career mentoring breakfast at #asm2012 and met some very bright students interested in gov't microbiology careers
Janet Jansson #asm2012 - antibiotic therapy has long term impact on gut microbes
Delwart: parvoviruses: small viruses, environmentally resistant, common in cats, dogs, pigs #asm2012
Giant mimi virus = "food poisoning" for amoeba. Particles big enough to eat & "taste like bacteria bc of hairy stuff on outside" #asm2012
JJ: After antibiotic treatment, one clone of Bacteroides dominates gut for prolonged time #asm2012
Delwart: "nonstop shedding" of enteric viruses in healthy infants, sometimes for long periods of time #asm2012
3-5.30pm... MT @markowenmartin: Room 305 is huge. Hope enough people show up so it looks ok(wd hate to see just 1st row occupied).#asm2012
Award winner Stuart Levy’s lecture,“Predicting the Future for Antibiotics” is in the Esplanade Ballroom 306 at 10:15 am PT#asm2012 ^lg
Nick Loman
Reading all the exciting #asm2012 tweets is ruining my relaxing holiday… #mustleaveiphoneathomenexttime
Lydia Hancik
Check out poster 2417- Impact of Antibiotics on the Protein Profile of Outer Membrane Vesicles by Resistant Strains of Klebsiella#ASM2012
Dare I say, David Hughes is nailing his zombie ant talk. Cool/gross videos? Check. Humor? Check. Complexity of behavior? Check.#ASM2012
Room 305 is huge. Hope enough people show up so it looks okay (would hate to see just the first row occupied). #ASM2012
Biomol-Informatics
Following #ASM2012
Delwart: 23 of 87 known viral families infect humans #asm2012
Manipulation of ant by fungus very specific: ant species, leaf position, time of day that ants bite #ASM2012
Applied Biosystems
Visit our poster (2614) at #asm2012 - Detection of microbial DNA in spiked drinking water samples by nanofluidic qPCR, Starts in 60 min.
agreed! Hated to leave to head for parvovirus“@runforsushi: Mind is completely blown after just 2 minutes of the zombie ants talk.#asm2012”
Ooooo http://amzn.to/NMSC7U RT @renekratz Host manipulation by parasites new book oxford press #ASM2012
AK: skin disease correlates with bacterial diversity #asm2012
Erika Check Hayden
David Hughes, Penn State opens talk on zombie ants w/ref to parasitic hairworms and cricket suicide http://nyti.ms/Mq34wY#asm2012
Roossinck: persistent viruses can move from 1 kingdom to another (eg frm fungi to plants). Talk about getting around biologically!#asm2012
Richard Sever
ASM Live Broadcast 11:30 PDT. Ask questions about the human microbiome project via twitter tag #asm2012 http://bit.ly/NIaNdH via@Typhi
MT @bacteriality #asm2012 M. Chang: n-butanol as gasoline in the next ~10 years. Or now in novel PETROPLAGUEhttp://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/american-society-for-microbiology-attendees-want-a-free-petroplague-ebook-asm-asmcue-2012/
Worms make crickets commit suicide, wasps make caterpillars guard their cocoons #ASM2012
Tyler Carlson
Zombie ants at #asm2012
Heidi Kong discusses skin microbiome and dermatitis #asm2012
Next up, Eric Delwart on emerging parvoviruses #asm2012
Host manipulation by parasites new book oxford press #ASM2012
Mind is completely blown after just 2 minutes of the zombie ants talk.#asm2012
Roossinck: Panic grass survives heat bc of fungal infection, but fungi only protects if hosting persistent virus #asm2012
Questions about human microbiome project? Ask via twitter tag#asm2012 during ASM Live at 11:30 PDT today.
Roossinck: plant adaptation to extreme thermal environments via viruses. #asm2012
David Gergen
Met with microbiologists, bioMerieux at #asm2012. Good folks. Clear health pros can't depend on DC to fix system, must do on own.
Rasko: in EHEC, treatment w/antibiotics => upregulate shiga toxin (bad). See the same with O104--responsible for increased deaths?#asm2012
Tweets from animal behavior session motivated me to jump here#ASM2012
Oh noez - someone smuggeld in teh kamera! MT @phylogenomics@tjsharpton - larger than life #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/xskh1Qxc
Zombie ants!!!! #asm2012
Heijtx: question - GF mice less able to get nutrients from food. Is increased activity simply hunger? A: controlling for, still see#asm2012
Aha! RT @MicrobioEduGuy: RT @phylogenomics: Ross says the bottled water she has surveyed has 100x as many microbes as tap water #asm2012
At #asm2012 @tjsharpton thanks Ye HMP for providing data to "biological analysis vultures" like himself to scavenge the carcasses of data
Rasko: core chromosomes conserved in all O104 isolates, but variation in plasmids #asm2012
Hey #asm2012 attendees. 50% off our new high sensitivity chemi kits! http://bit.ly/MKBzMU
Erwinia protein destroys tons of RNA from phage. -George Salmond#asm2012
Heijtz: questioner: mother's milk factors stim neuro development and bacterial growth. Control for this? A: not sure how to yet. #asm2012
Roossinck: viruses transferred between fungal tissue and plant tissue #asm2012
Gut microbiomes can influence brain development in germ free mice, increased txtion of genes associated with some brain disorders. #asm2012
TS: multiple data types important when validating novelty- & more novel orgs at low abundance are awaiting discovery #asm2012
There is @tjsharpton - larger than life talking about things smaller than small #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/BZbDlOSU
Jumping to Synthetic biology session! #ASM2012
Rasko: In banks other O104 isolates ID'd from Africa #asm2012
Heitjz: transcriptional profiling. >=2X fold changes in genes associated with neuro devel. disorder (schizophrenia). Following up#asm2012
. @tjsharpton is a team player. Making up time. #asm2012
TS: Barnesiela is a novel genus as abundant in the healthy human gut as E coli #asm2012
Beth Boudreau
It seems that gut microbia has an effect on autism. #fascinating#asm2012
GS: Erwinia Type 3 toxin is trimer of ToxN protein held together by toxI RNA #asm2012
TS: most abundant novel OTU looks like a Barnesiella species.#asm2012
Rasko: wiki & blog put together by groups around world with data, crowdsourced and edited/analyzed #asm2012
Rochellys Heijtz: how does gut microbiome affect mammal behavior, brain development? Yes-germ free mice more social, phys. active#asm2012
. @tjsharpton gets extra credit for saying "dovetails" #asm2012
In germ free mice, autism/schizophrenia genes differentially regulated. Do we need microbes to develop 'normal' brains?#asm2012
Rasko: test case for how genomics could be integrated into public health system. Sequenced in hrs, tests developed in days #asm2012
It would appear that everyone is in to the zombie ants. We just had a "day of the dead" influx into the room... #ASM2012
TS: so who are the novel bugs? Firmicutes, Bacteriodetes mostly.#asm2012
Looks like zombie ant lecture will be full #asm2012
TS: Putative novel 16s seq diversity can be overestimated without validation #asm2012
TS: without the validation process, novelty is vastly overestimated.#asm2012
Jung Choi
Except Archaea RT: @Erika_Check: Bacteria "invented everything...." Eugene Rosenberg, Tel Aviv U #asm2012
GS: phage protection through toxin-antitoxin system #ASM2012
Rasko: genomic sequencing showed mix of EHEC & EAEC characteristics. "hybrid" #asm2012
I think @tjsharpton looks very official with the beard. #asm2012
Roossinck: persistent viruses account for > 50% viruses in crop plants; understudied bc not causing disease; vertically transmitted#asm2012
Heijtz: microbiota in 3rd trimester of mothers may be critical period for setting up neuro behaviors in progeny (at least in mice)#ASM2012
Rasko: Progression to HUS in other EHEC outbreaks 1-16%. Germany 24%, 50 deaths. Also unusual. #asm2012
TS: multiple sequencing platforms used to mutually assess quality of reads #asm2012
TS: mining 454 sequences for novel 16S, validating with pool of mapped illumina reads #asm2012
George Salmond: cryptic Erwinia plasmid protects against infection by numerous phage #asm2012
Rasko: EHEC usually hits kids; 2011 sproutbreak mostly people 20-40 years, women more than men, unique epi #asm2012
Tom Sharpton: HMP used Illumina & 454 sequencing to sequence gut microbiota #asm2012
Rasko: so question, why did O104 cause so many cases when prev EAEC stx+ strains didn't? #asm2012
Marilyn Roossinck: persistent aka chronic viruses in plants & fungi; mostly RNA viruses #asm2012
Rasko: A few previous reports in lit of EAEC producing shiga toxin (hallmark of EHEC) but seems rare, small # of cases #asm2012
Maryn McKenna
just reminding people that @aetiology is tweeting all kinds of cool disease-geekness from #asm2012
Michael Müller
Very valuable RT @phylogenomics: Re #asm2012 I have compiled the recent human #microbiome papers & news stories herehttp://bit.ly/KxtSOH
Tour #SanFrancisco in a restored VW Bugster Experience convertible! Show #ASM2012 badge for a discounthttp://ow.ly/bGmeP
Heijtz: Germ free mice have different turnover of serotonin & dopamine; also changes in anxiety related gene expression#ASM2012
Check out our fluid handling broad flow performance range at#ThermoScientific booth 1015 http://ow.ly/bGhYv #ASM2012
Rasko: EAEC described in 1983, contains large virulence plasmid in most isolates--diverse and "different flavors" of EAEC #asm2012
Rasko: EHEC (enterohemorrhagic E coli) & EAEC (enteroaggregative E coli) --O104 is a merger of the two types, backbone EAEC#asm2012
Heijtz: germ free mice also seem to have lower anxiety, and higher sociability #ASM2012
Final day of Clinical Microbiology Mentoring sessions! Stop by the#asm2012 Clin Micro Lounge (room 112) at 11am and 1pm today! ^tg
Heijtz: germ free mice display increased spontaneous motor activity#ASM2012
RB: comparing viral metagenomic functions to bacteria reveals their parasitic nature. #asm2012
Totally appreciating all the #asm2012 tweets. I'm sad that I'm not there!!
Next up: David Rasko on E. coli O104 #asm2012
Re #asm2012 I have compiled the recent human #microbiomepapers & news stories herehttp://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2012/06/human-microbiome-project-hmp-new-papers.html?m=1
Anne Pumfery
enjoying getting updates on virus research at #asm2012 from@DrChrisKellogg
RB enriches for viral particles and then sequences to study our gut virome #asm2012
Fair: Transmission of virus? Postulates tick vector; no livestock or wild animal die-offs in area to suggest epidemic there #asm2012
Heijtz: children along autism spectrum have correlative GI problems & abnormal microbiota #ASM2012
Does the abnormal gut flora attribute to the symptoms of autism?#asm2012
RT @DrJCThrash: FB: 10^10 - 10^11 viruses per gram of human stool. Overwhelmingly phage. #asm2012
Heijtz: microbial pathogen infects can increase risk for neurodevelopment disorders #ASM2012
Peggy Cotter on competition systems in Burkholderia... these genes control biofilm formation too. So cool. #asm2012
Fair: Not able to grow virus, but found patient & contacts had antibodies against viral protein #asm2012
Rochellys Diaz Heijtz: impact of commensal gut microbiota on brain development #ASM2012
FB: 10^10 - 10^11 viruses per gram of human stool. Overwhelmingly phage. #asm2012
Fair: sample sent to US for deep sequencing. Sequence from novel rhabdovirus discovered, dubbed Mangala virus. #asm2012
Frederic Bushman, dynamics of the human gut virome #asm2012
Rick Bushman talks about dynamics of human gut virome #asm2012
Your microbiome may be influencing YOUR mating behavior. didn't think your bugs could control you like that, did you? #asm2012
Bacteria "invented everything; they probably invented animals and plants as a place to hang out." Eugene Rosenberg, Tel Aviv U#asm2012
Fair: 2 patients died, no samples taken. 3rd patient had samples taken. No epi connection btwn patients but lived in same village#asm2012
RT @tylerscarlson: Bacteria in gut of flies influenced mating choice!#asm2012
Fair: Outbreak 2009, 3 cases of hemorrhagic fever in DRC; tested for known HF viruses but were negative #asm2012
It’s poster day at ASM! Stop by poster 2294 at 10:45 am and 2708 & 2867 at 1 pm. It’s some good stuff, trust me. #ASM2012
With all these human microbiome talks, we're going to see probiotics for more than just digestive health sooner than later... #ASM2012
Rosenberg: need to change how we teach biology; it's not possible to understand 'higher' organisms without considering microbiota#ASM2012
Fair: Before their study, arenaviruses, bunyaviruses, flaviviruses, filoviruses only groups known to cause hemorrhagic fever #asm2012
RT @DrChrisKellogg: Villareal: the world is and always has been viral; horizontal gene transfer by viruses 'edits' tree of life #asm2012
Trying to see @tjsharpton's talk but the overflow but he's so popular I have to go to the overflow room #asm2012
Bacteria in gut of flies influenced mating choice! #asm2012
Villareal: the world is and always has been viral; horizontal gene transfer by viruses 'edits' tree of life #asm2012
AE et al are generating genomes from these taxa #asm2012
William Wade
Fair: examining hunters in Africa to look or novel viruses. Lots of exposure to blood/body fluids etc #asm2012
AE this leads to the 'most wanted genomes' #ASM2012
AE: The HMP generated genomes recruit most of the microbiome data, but some reads don't have a nearby genomic home #asm2012
How is the ref collection so far? Relatively large amount of seq data can't be mapped to current ref set #asm2012
Next up, Joseph Fair talking about a new rhabdovirus causing hemorrhagic fever in Africa #asm2012
Villareal: viruses are natural editors of host code #asm2012
Jeroen Langereis
Last day on the #asm2012
Wow. The JMP has sequenced most of the available human associated microbial genomes #asm2012
Zebrafinch
Biology / disease fans (well, u know what I mean) : @aetiology is tweeting from #asm2012 -- Take a look at http://gm.asm.org
RT @PatrikD #ASM2012 On-the-fly exploration of multidimensional data during Knight's #HMP talk using KiNGhttp://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/software/king.php
Virus phylogeny makes a "ghost image" of tree of life #ASM2012
Rosenberg... hologenome as unit of selection. Yet another "layer" to evolution. #ASM2012
Create complete reference for hmp. 100 most wanted for ref collection. #asm2012
AE discusses the importance of generating reference genomes to understand community function #asm2012
Rosenberg argues that social behavior like kissing and hugging has evolved to promote transfer of beneficial microbes #ASM2012
Adding, I've met a lot of wonderful people in science so I consider that very high praise. #asm2012
Ashlee Earl discusses the most wanted bacteria in the human Microbiome #asm2012
Chiu: handlers of baboons (had outbreak of AdV) developed antibodies to primate adenovirus #asm2012
Be sure to stop by bioMérieux booth 1301 at #asm2012 for a personal tour through The Microbiology Pathway!
Luis Villareal: viral ancestors to antiviral systems; starts w lytic & lysogenic phages #asm2012
The Japanese: can digest agar due to Hologenome, too bad many of us can't digest ethanol. #asm2012
Next up Ashlee Earl. One of the nicest people I've ever met in science! #asm2012
Ashlee Earl (Broad Inst): The "most wanted" bacteria from human microbiome. #asm2012 http://ff.im/Z0ydW
Missed most of this talk on zoonotic adenoviruses but it's fascinating#asm2012
One cool thing about hmp project- massively collaborative#asm2012
Rosenberg: HGT between bacteria found on sushi & Japanese population endowed this ethnic group with the ability to digest agar#ASM2012
Not sure why Rosenberg's holobiont theory only applies to plants and animals #ASM2012
RT @algoriphagus: Rosenberg: coral bleaching was shown to be caused by Vibrio shiloi infection (satisfying Koch's postulates)#ASM2012
Interesting thought: are our commensal microbes helping I keep us warm? Talk by Eugene Rosenberg #asm2012
Works well on assembled metagenome too? RT @tjsharpton H: uses metaphlan to characterize taxonomic composition of metagenomic data #asm2012
More Microbial Genomes at #asm2012: The second full day was chock-full of 'omics-related research http://bit.ly/Lzfnrj
microbiology tweeps #asm2012 anyone got experience using iphone style apps for counting colonies or this type of app for Mac's/PCs please?
I welcome our viral overlords and readily acknowledge their genetic and numerical supremacy #asm2012
CH identifies some functional differences between body sites#asm2012
Viruses have infiltrated the presentation system, causing technical difficulties in virus session #asm2012
CH: uses metaphlan to characterize taxonomic composition of metagenomic data #asm2012
Rosenberg: recovery of corals could be due to an epidemic of beneficial bacteria that kill V. shiloi #ASM2012
Rosenberg: coral bleaching was shown to be caused by Vibrio shiloi infection (satisfying Koch's postulates) #ASM2012
RT @DrChrisKellogg: Suttle: no viruses = lose most genetic and biological diversity on earth #asm2012
Corals have an adaptive immune system #learnsomethingnew#asm2012
Huttenhower: linking microbiome to function. #asm2012. Live now on http://bit.ly/LXnVqO^gm
Last day of #ASM2012 don't miss the Idaho Tech booth 514! Check out the FilmArray and grab the next bug magnet for your collection!
Curtis Huttenhower talks about species, strains, and functional roles in microbiome #asm2012
Curtis Huttenhower (Harvard): Identifying species, strains, and functional roles in the microbiome #asm2012 http://ff.im/Z0uFw
At hmp update session. Graphical display tech to show these data is stunning #asm2012
Eugene Rosenberg: Hologenome Concept #ASM2012
Talk by Kevin Theis: hyena scent gland bacteria are group specific and contribute to scent variations in each group. #asm2012
Suttle: CroV = giant virus that is parasitized by smaller virus (related to transposons) #asm2012
Marine viruses enhance phytoplankton growth by freeing up ammonia via lysis of bacterial cells. Driver of global chemical cycles#ASM2012
RK wows us with a beautiful visualization of how infant microbiota changes to adult over time. #asm2012
Vast majority of marine viruses not yet known (no known homologs)#ASM2012
Mogous: look for type 6 effectors with heuristic search for characteristics lik # presence of immunity proten neighboring effector #asm2012
Viruses essential to nitrogen cycling: with viruses more ammonia better phytoplankton growth #ASM2012
Shane Hendricks
Pathogen Discovery: Linking a Novel Microbe to Human Disease#ASM2012
RK: discusses whether enterotypes exist in the human gut. Sees gradient of types, not clusters. #asm2012
Bioremediation runs amok in microbiology thriller PETROPLAGUE.#asm2012 folks ask for free ebook herehttp://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/american-society-for-microbiology-attendees-want-a-free-petroplague-ebook-asm-asmcue-2012/
Watch the complimentary live stream of the Human Microbiome Project session from #asm2012 now! http://bit.ly/LXnVqO ^gm
Phytoplankton (Synechococcus) grow faster when viruses are present #ASM2012
Theis: bacterial community composition of hyena scent pouches vary between clans, supporting group-specific chemical recognition#asm2012
Suttle: took 20 yrs to publish bc he didn't believe it - viruses enhance phytoplankton growth rate #asm2012
Major goal is to integrate healthy microbiome data with more diverse host samples #asm2012
Tommie Hata
RK: microbiome taxonomic diversity changes across the body and across patients #asm2012
Theis: 16S survey of hyena butter reveal 78 genera composed of Firmicutes, Acintobacteria, Bacteroidetes that produce SCFAs#asm2012
Why care re:viruses? They lyse 20% of ocean biomass per day#ASM2012
Rob Knight discusses HMP healthy cohort microbiome characterization study #asm2012
Suttle: 10 ^30 viruses in the ocean. Says number makes national deficit look trivial #asm2012
Suttle: 10 million viruses per drop of seawater. So when you swim you swallow more viruses than people in the United States#asm2012
By the numbers, viruses dominate in the ocean #ASM2012
Theis: scent marking by hyenas is known as "hyena butter"#asm2012
Suttle: 90% by weight of living organisms in the ocean are microbial. Marine viral carbon ~ = 75 million blue whales #asm2012
P aeruginosa Tse1 cleaves only crosslinked peptitiglycan. Only cleaves donor peptide strand #asm2012
Theis: if fermentative hypothesis is true, animal scent glands should harbor odor-producing bacteria #asm2012
Good reminder: for billions of years the biosphere was bacteria, archaea, and viruses #ASM2012
Morning, #asm2012 tweeps. I have a power strip on the right side of 305. Plenty of room.
Suttle: no viruses = lose most genetic and biological diversity on earth #asm2012
Lita Proctor introduces the Human Microbiome Project (HMP)#asm2012
Mogous: type 6 effectors target bacterial cell walls #asm2012
Lita Proctor (NIH): A brief overview of the human microbiome project#asm2012 http://ff.im/Z0oBe
Theis: scent making odors are products of bacterial metabolism (=fermentation hypothesis) #asm2012
Curtis Suttle: viruses in the sea, drivers of global processes and pool of unrealized diversity #asm2012
How Microbes Affect Animal Behavior: Kevin Theis #asm2012
Up first on the last day: Joseph Mogous. Type 6 effectors #asm2012
Sara Vetter
Using NGS in public health, more microbiomes, a talk by Mike O, I'm very excited for this last day! #asm2012
At #asm2012 waiting for session "imagine a world without viruses". I don't want to...what would I teach in the fall if no virology course?
Starting day by going back to my scientific roots; in the "Imagine a world without viruses" session #asm2012
one nice thing about the Moscone center: dance music in the bathroom #asm2012
DrBug
Thank you ASM for a great meeting in San Francisco #ASM2012
Special Issue Mycopathologia on Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis. Free Access until 30 June http://ow.ly/bGaFb #ISHAM2012#ASM2012
Anne Lamsa
Last day of #asm2012! Only a few more days until I'm back in SoCal#imisssleepinginmyownbed
Last day of #asm2012! What will you miss the most?
DNASTAR
It's the last day of #asm2012 ! Don't miss talking to DNASTAR's Katie and Stephanie at booth 1518 from 10:45 - 2:45.
Ion Torrent
Getting set to put up my poster for the day. Board 3057. Great meeting. Very tired but very excited. #asm2012
Good Morning! Open access good virology article in JBChttp://www.jbc.org/content/early/2012/06/14/jbc.M112.374694.long#asm2012 #OAVirol #virology #Openaccess
Today is showtime for me! AV not perfect, but will put on my Microbial Proselytizer clothes & preach it...to the microbial choir!#asm2012
Seth Bordenstein
Could ASM sponsor a BIG YEAR competition? Instead of most birds discovered, most microbes! Winner crowned at #asm2012http://twy.la/LBMxoL
New England Biolabs
Meet our blue-footed booby at #ASM2012 booth 723 and ask for a sample of RE-Mix restriction enzyme master mixeshttp://ow.ly/i/HUyK
JoVE
Our editor Charlotte Sage is at #asm2012 for the last day of the conference. Need her info? http://ow.ly/bFZPR http://ow.ly/i/HUwE
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Our editor Charlotte Sage is at #asm2012 for the last day of the conference. Need her info? http://ow.ly/bFZH1 http://ow.ly/i/HUwE
Looking forward to zombie ants today. I've seen a short version of this talk and it's fascinating! #asm2012
Final Day in San Francisco at ASM Annual Meeting,come visit MIDI at booth number 1036. #ASM2012
Steve Diggle
Heading over to #ASM2012 early to get set up for my talk later this morning. Should be a fun last day!
Abdolreza Delphi
RT @Microbiology_WB: Commensal bacteria help fight viruseshttp://goo.gl/SMGws [article] #microbiology #ASM2012
Thomas Ducey
Q: Why did I come to #asm2012? A: For talks like Rob Knight's (U. Colorado).
The Tree of Life: Quick summary of session at #ASM2012 on “The Great Indoors” #microBEnet http://goo.gl/fb/6a1Dw
New #microBEnet blog post:: Quick summary of session at#ASM2012 on "The Great Indoors"http://www.microbe.net/2012/06/19/quick-summary-of-session-at-asm2012-on-the-great-indoors/
S. Strycharz-Glaven
Thanks for all the tweeting from #asm2012. I feel like I am there. Makes me feel bad that I'm not there. Why am I not there?
Phil Ashton 
Microbiology News
RT @onryansmind:@Labguru #researchmanagement web app got top rating in GEN's Best of Web column! CU #ASM2012 booth 1625http://bit.ly/M5kOA3
Orin Levine
Dad I am raising a glass in your honor from a Cambridge bar called Miracle of Science #asm2012
David Harris
Autocorrect is getting a workout on a lot of phones at #asm2012. iPhones don't know many microbes...
Crazy! RT @JoanStrassmann: RT @tjsharpton: Lu Zhang: 28.9 million pounds of antibiotics are consumed by animals in the US annually#ASM2012
Congrats to my dad Prof Myron Levine for winning prestigious@ASMicrobiology Hilleman award 4 #vaccine research #asm2012
that is just crazy!: “@tjsharpton: Lu Zhang: 28.9 million pounds of antibiotics are consumed by animals in the US annually #ASM2012”
RT @DailyScan: EC: Sampling infant dorsal tongue, retroauricular crease, and feces = "drool, dandruff, and dirty diaper microbiome"#ASM2012
Dictyostelium discoideum has agriculture, meets conditions of domestication, prudence, defense, across generation transmission#ASM2012
Daniel Bond
Did you catch that last slide of syntrophic electron transfer? Geobacter literally taking crap from Shewanella. #asm2012
Lu Zhang: 28.9 million pounds of antibiotics are consumed by animals in the US annually #ASM2012
Change kin specificity by allelic replacement. Props for nice expt design! #asm2012
Found high levels in TraA in soil isolates and kin groups have similar sequences in Myxococcus. Green beard Darshan Pathak#ASM2012
Looked at environmental isolates and found clear kin recognition groups according to this gene in Myxococcus xanthus Darshan Pathak #ASM2012
Kin recognition. Reminds me of proteus swarm recognition factors#asm2012
Vaginal baby lots of bacteroides from birth, two c-section babies bacteroides dont develop until 1 year #ASM2012
Plos genetics 2012 8:e1002626 TraA and B determine transfer#asm2012
Gene for Myxococcus kin recognition is on cell surface, adhesion, over express and over stick. interesting gene. Darshan Pathak#ASM2012
DocBeerio
Indoors, we shed about 10 million bacteria per person per hour, according to Preccia #ASM2012
Use cherry and GFP to look at kin recognition in Myxococcus genes are TraA and TraB genes Darshan Pathak #ASM2012
Question, could this be common in biofilms? #asm2012
Cool construct w mcherry in outer membrane, gfp in cytoplasm. Fusion and transfer of om components in biofilms! #asm2012
Nice reporter called Cherry on membrane, and GFP inside other cell, shows membrane fusion between diff. cells. Darshan Pathak#ASM2012
Next myxobacteria. They are awesome. Lots of crazy multicellularity. Fruiting bodies, predation. Thanks Marty Dworkin! #asm2012
Myxobacteria social and cooperative, build huge fruiting bodies, social whole life, group predation, group fruit. Darshan Pathak#ASM2012
EC: Sampling infant dorsal tongue swab, retroauricular crease swab, and feces = "drool, danruff, and dirty diaper microbiome" #ASM2012
RT @emergentnexus: good question! @JoanStrassmann @renekratzWho would be your other two candidates? #ASM2012
Now take away fumarate use gold electrode. Measure current on electrode only from coculture! Very cool #asm2012
Cool tool, on the elctrode, but what is it telling us? Co-culture, make dependent, but what then? Aunica Kane #asm2012
Elizabeth Costello investigating post-natal development of oral, gut, and skin microbiomes #ASM2012
Make shewanella unable to respire w fumarate for TEA. Obligate coculture -manufactured syntrophy! #asm2012
Campylobacter up now - personally my favourite foodborne illness causing bacteria #asm2012
Onto campy with Collette Fitzgerald #asm2012
Brown: FDA used metagenomics, found Salmonella-killing bacteria on CA tomatoes; now using bacteria to control Salmonella on VA toms #asm2012
Shewanella uses glycerol, geobacter cannot. Geobacter uses acetate from shewanella. Commensalism #asm2012
Now providing the sample of my worn socks for the study of microbial diversity and ecology ;) #asm2012 anybody interested?
Laser pointers are so distracting. We can read better if they don't stir the slides with their annoying dot. Aunica Kane #asm2012
How often are the systems with great engineering also collaborating with clear theoreticians? Aunica Kane #asm2012
QS/DS tweets really sparking my curiosity. Need to investigate this controversy. #ASM2012
Shewanella & Geobactor co culture one benefits, one neutral, both gain, or both gain plus on a surface Aunica Kane #asm2012
Eric Brown: 'Salmonella outbreaks associated with tomatoes on east coast USA but not west coast'. Amazing. #asm2012
Eric brown- culture methods will always be important #asm2012
"Culturing methods are always going to be important" #asm2012
Engineered cocultures commensal, obligate, obligate on electrode#asm2012
Gralnick lab, co culture Shewanella and Geobacter engineering. Track electrons moving across cell membrane to see coop Aunica Kane #asm2012
Extracellular electron transport! Bioreactor with an electrode, measure current. Cooperation? #asm2012
RT @JoanStrassmann: QS important to keep expensive things to be released only when others around. Stuart West #asm2012
Award winner Bernhard Palsson’s lecture “Microbial Metabolic Systems Biology” is in the Esplanade Ballroom 310 at 5 pm PT#asm2012 ^lg
Brown: FDA moving into metagenomics but diversity of microbial cmnities on produce is big challenge to food safety investigations#asm2012
Interesting Q: could 3rd trimester microbiota be beneficial shift to inoculate newborns so they have rapid growth? #ASM2012
On subject of pan-genomes I think this is an excellent article:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/12/32 #asm2012
Would like a microbial pathogenesis of the pulmonary environment book please! #asm2012 @ASMicrobiology
Question came up: how do we know if some thing is an ortholog? Pretty tricky I think without detailed analysis. #asm2012
Personal vs. group benefits misleading bec. of relatedness, QS and DS not different, question is it social? need empiri Stuart West#asm2012
More quest, diffusion rate matter? freq depend? Cheaters in nature? exploit fr medical intervention, but is it natural?Stuart West#asm2012
Great changes in gut microbiota in children 0-2. Similar rates across cultures #ASM2012
Manipulate cell density & quorum sensing independently for group size role. There is a bigger effect at high density Stuart West#asm2012
Citti: the more we sequence, the more we learn. Pangenome studies change paradigms #asm2012
Second most fundamental question is whether group size matters for producing exofactors, hardly tested. Darch 2012 PNAS Stuart West#asm2012
Transplant gut microbes from 3rd trimester women to mice, mice get fat #ASM2012
Social trait QS DS only tested in 2 species Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Streptococcus pneumoniae, should be natural envts. Stuart West #asm2012
Rob Knight now discussing changes in gut microbial community composition between pregnancy trimesters 1 and 3 #ASM2012
Third trimester women have unique gut microbiota #ASM2012
Christine Citti: ICE ICE baby! A new integrative conjugal element in mycoplasmas may save it from evolutionary dead end. #asm2012
How important it is to think carefully about the right question, do careful experiments, borrowing from other fields Stuart West#asm2012
Using gut microbiota sequence scientists can predict with 90% accuracy whether person is lean or obese #ASM2012
FDA's Brown: whole-genome sequencing is "elephant gun" in characterizing food-borne outbreaks; has some uses but still "pricey" #asm2012
True big question is about whether a trait is social, exper. is do, don't grow separately, grow together, Pseud aerugin Stuart West#asm2012
CC: large chromosomal regions can get acquired, up to 90kb, in some cases without the ICE #asm2012
Please, empiricists, don't try to do experiments between diffusion and quorum sensing, because it won't work. too simil Stuart West#asm2012
QS social, needs >2 cells, diffusion, direct benefits, small groups benefit both quorum and diffusion, so these similar Stuart West#asm2012
QS is a social trait, so how it impacts relatives matters. With diffusion shares a lot of benefits with quorum sensing Stuart West #asm2012
Overlap between qs and ds is substantial #asm2012#cantweallgetalong
Liz Ditz
RT @aetiology: Wachsmuth: reminder, worldwide 1.8M children /year die of diarrheal disease, many of them food/water borne#asm2012
CC: how is HGT happening? Conjugation by integrative conjugation element #asm2012
Comparing group and personal benefit is confusing, need to depend on genetic relatedness, big confusion in microbiology Stuart West#asm2012
RT @_zoonotica_: Turtle apocalypse(!) - salmonella cases from pets#asm2012
RT @scopedbylarry: #asm2012 I am with Besser on this. I no longer eat sprouts. Too many other things I enjoy more. Not worth the risk to me.
454sequencing at $12k = Sanger at 4 million -Rob Knight #asm2012
"Cultures are important" eric brown #asm2012
according to @scopedbylarry: #asm2012 sprouts keep popping up as the culprit in food outbreaks. Liz: avoid them
Hard to ask how much siderophore or elastace to produce on own bec. need to include kin. If rel is one, then no confli Stuart West#asm2012
CC: two of these seven showed 18% of genes were horizontally transferred with another myco group. #asm2012
RT @aetiology: Besser: always new vehicles for outbreaks: spinach, carrot juice, hazelnuts, peanut butter & more 2006-11 #asm2012
mT @aetiology: (2/2) Besser: but put in prevention measures to prevent future outbreaks #asm2012
mT @aetiology: (1/2) Besser: reasons to detect outbreak: not only limit ongoing illness, but #asm2012
Hamilton's inclusive fitness is what is maximized, and it is the direct and indirect that matters. For bacteria? Stuart West #asm2012
RT @aetiology: Besser: Of 10 largest outbreaks, 7 probably wouldn't have been detected w/o current surveillance techniques #asm2012
Inclusive fitness! Kin and group selection! More controversy#asm2012
Sat with DC White's wife Sandy for award lecture - remarkable lady keeping alive his work. Note to husband, please do same for me.#asm2012
RT @aetiology Besser: Every year 1 in 6 Americans (48M) get sick and 3000 die of foodborne illness $77B/year cost. #asm2012
CC: Looking at ruminant mycos specifically, still a low core- 201 genes, with 7 sequenced genomes down to 11 new genes per genome. #asm2012
Subset to examine rumen mycoplasma genomes. #asm2012
QS not for good of group, DS not for self. Remember why organisms appear designed? Solved by Darwin. Remember kin sel. Stuart West#asm2012
Phylogenetic analysis of gut microbiota of different animals shows clear differences by diet (-vory) #ASM2012
RT @Erika_Check: CDC's Besser: sprout safety has improved but "I still don't eat sprouts" #asm2012
ynancy
All these #ASM2012 tweets make me wish I were physically attending the meeting.
Are QS and diffusion really competing hypotheses? No,confusing, based on error of understanding nat sel. Stuart West #asm2012
Lots of people at the foodborne associated outbreak session - its nice to see this topic can still draw in a crowd #asm2012
Competing hypotheses? Or false dichotomy based on misconception about nat sel, confuses the issue #asm2012 n.b. I think he's right
Salmonella is not just chickens: reptiles, pistachios ... #asm2012
Analysis of Mycoplasma core/pan genome. Using 59 genomes.#asm2012
Is Rosie Redfield right? Is QS all about self, just how fast the flow in envt is? Competing hypothesis Stuart West #asm2012
CC: 125 orthologous clusters shared among all, very large open pan-genome. #asm2012
Rosie Redfield suggested diffusion sensing rather than qs #asm2012
QS important to keep expensive things to be released only when others around. Stuart West #asm2012
Quorum sensing, bacteria release small molecules, then uptake results in increased production and other things released Stuart West #asm2012
CDC's Besser: We're in baby chick "apocalypse;" backyard poultry-keeping leading to Salmonella infections linked to chick/duck eggs#asm2012
Otto Cordero: concludes that yes, although mechanisms will of course differ from animals. Nice work, probably in Science this year#asm2012
CC: 20 more coming. Three total phylogenetic groups represented.#asm2012
Here are why questions, not how questions, evolved reasons, Tinbergen, black headed gull example, the brilliant Stuart West#asm2012
Good to know: scientists who know food safety dont eat sprouts.#ASM2012
Why questions - survival value vs how questions #asm2012
Besser: field is moving away from culture & to genomics. 82% of GI disease from unknown cause, genomics can help ID #asm2012
CC: 39 available genomes. #asm2012
Otto Cordero: can related but distinct bacteria act as socially cohesive populations given dispersal and horizontal gene transfer?#asm2012
Culture independent methods will have an effect on outbreak investigations, typing methods need cultures #asm2012
CC: Mycoplasmas have evolved through gene loss- very small low GC genomes. Originally no evidence for HGT #asm2012
Rob Knight is telling a great story about the study of the human microbiome #ASM2012
Even "core" microbes vary by orders of magnitude in abundance in different people #ASM2012
Next up qs diffusion talk Stuart west #asm2012 #controversies
Giving mice subtherapeutic antibiotics or high fat diet perturbs microbiota and increases adiposity- Laura Cox #asm2012
Is competence an epiphenomenon? Signs point to "yes" #asm2012no one wants to admit it?
MT @carlzimmer Invisible Residents -A diagram of the microbes that live inside of us, from my story in NYTimes http://nyti.ms/LXrFua#asm2012
Christine Citti is next on the pangenome of mycoplasmas #asm2012
"@scopedbylarry: #asm2012 As Besser talks I am more and more impressed with PulseNet. Imagine where we would be in food safety without it."
First 4 weeks of life critical sensitivity for development of gut community #ASM2012
Bacterial populations can act as ecological and social units, lots of diversity, variability in behavior Otto Cordero #asm2012
Zara Summers
O.X. Cordero: cosmopolitan peptide from Vibrio ordalii... 'what the hell just happened?' #ASM2012
Bridget Barker
CDC's Besser: sprout safety has improved but "I still don't eat sprouts" #asm2012
JD: need to isolate more species to get more new products.#asm2012
Low dose antibiotics (STAT) change gut microbiota in mice, cause weight gain. Cecal transplant exp show its the microbes. #ASM2012
CDC's Besser: food-borne illness sickens 1 in 6 Americans @ cost of $77.7 bln/yr #asm2012
JD: big jump in new classes when you get past the species cutoff for Streptomyces #asm2012
Quorum sensing and chitin required for v. cholerae competence gene expression. Cool model for HGT in envt. #asm2012
Vibrio ordalii V. crassostrea V tasmaniensis killing molecules are in polyketide synthases, Otto Cordero #asm2012
Pete Greenberg, DC White awardee lecture: research of Diggle's group being shown much respect here. #asm2012
Vibrio ordalii, killing biased to other pops. within pop resistance. Killing phenotype variable, mult. substances used Otto Cordero#asm2012
Cytidine represses chitin induced competence in CytR dependent manner #asm2012 not sure this says both hgt and nucleoside met matter
Mechanisms for antagonism, one pop, inc. resol, look at phenotypes to get at genetic mechanisms. still bacteriocins Otto Cordero#asm2012
JD: clustering genes to try and pull out unique classes of antibiotic production genes from 231 genomes #asm2012
Building rarefaction curves with gene clusters. Extremely steep!#asm2012
Besser: "turtle apocalypse" --illegal but can buy them on net. Baby chicks, reptiles, feeder mice, petting zoos assoc w outbreaks#asm2012
Turtle apocalypse(!) - salmonella cases from pets #asm2012
There is an interaction threshold distance matches the antagonism boundary also. Pops not clonal, so more interesting. Otto Cordero#asm2012
Discussing finding NRPS gene clusters across 231 genomes. I like talks with large data sets. #asm2012
Model repressing a repressor to activate with CytR. Crp epistasis supports model #asm2012
Holy crap. MT @kausikdatta22 #ASM2012 public restroom surfaces heavily contaminated w hardy bacteria, virus -reqd 20m of 10% bleach 2clean
Vibrio killing network = looks like hair ball #ASM2012
6 genes, then interact network, looks like a hairball Prob of killing inc. with certain distance conflict boundary Otto Cordero #asm2012
Besser: always new vehicles for outbreaks: spinach, carrot juice, hazelnuts, peanut butter & more 2006-11 #asm2012
Nice talk in pan genome session on identifying functional gene clusters. #asm2012
Industries have had to change following pulse net triggered outbreaks- a great start to reduce foodborne illness #asm2012
CytR is a crp dependent anti activator, neg regulator in e. coli. Strong aa level conserv, func. complement #asm2012
Vibrio, look at interact in lab, killer and sensitive, 185 strains 35000 potential interactions hypoth network Otto Cordero #asm2012
JD: genomes can give a starting point for physiological tests to produce new products. #asm2012
Besser: reasons to detect outbreak: not only limit ongoing illness, but but in prevention measures to prevent future outbreaks #asm2012
So tiny! RT @michaelbarton Holding a 454 chip. Interesting to see where our sequence comes from. #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/CIX2Niuy
Vibrio and pop structure from Plum island 1000 strains Hsp60 Hunt et al Science 2008 Otto Cordero #asm2012
CytR is a pos reg of competence #asm2012
Can bacteria have social population structure? Baas Becking's all everywhere but envt. selects. What about pop strctureOtto Cordero#asm2012
Nigel Brown
Great stuff happening at #asm2012. Wish I was there.
James Doroghazi U of Illinois, discussing ways to find novel antibiotics with more genome sequences #asm2012
foodsafetynews
RT @aetiology: Besser: Of 10 largest outbreaks, 7 probably wouldn't have been detected w/o current surveillance techniques #asm2012
You had me at meerkat. #ASM2012
Old fashioned tpn insertion screen loss of luciferase #asm2012#oldschool
MIchi Taga: corrinoid exchanged (same family of compounds as cobalamin = vitamin B12) among bacteria in polymicrobial populations #asm2012
Germ-free mice given microbes from ob/ob mice gain weight faster than those given microbes from wt mice #ASM2012
Wow that's alot! RT @aetiology Besser: Every year 1 in 6 Americans (48M) get sick and 3000 die of foodborne illness $77B/year cost.#asm2012
Grow biofilms on autoclaved crabshell transformation expt#asm2012
Quick plug for any1 still around@ #asm2012 tom:3-5.30pm Rm305"Your Topics,Your Voice,Your Choice"Not that I'm biased in any way of course ;)
“@aetiology: Wachsmuth: Foodborne outbreaks 2010-12, sprouts major culprit. "We haven't learned." #asm2012” --do we ever? Sigh.
Chitin and qs induce dna uptake. Biosensor to test for autoinducer requirement #asm2012
RT @aetiology: Besser: Every year 1 in 6 Americans (48M) get sick and 3000 die of foodborne illness. $77B/year cost. #asm2012
Laura Cox - Early life microbiota shapes adult body composition#ASM2012 http://ff.im/YXoxy
What do you mean shared biological process in a microbial community? What is in it for the producer to share? Accident? Michi Taga #asm2012
ME: strains from outbreaks became virulent due to phage insertion of new genes. #asm2012
Not mutually exclusive. This argument before in bacillus competence#asm2012
Besser: Every year 1 in 6 Americans (48M) get sick and 3000 die of foodborne illness. $77B/year cost. #asm2012
Why do cells give up corrinoids if expensive to make? How cells use them once they take it up different question Michi Taga #asm2012
ME: "mobilome" is made up of genomic pieces moved about by phage. #asm2012
Besser: sushi "I'm pretty sure none of us wuld have been eating ground tuna from India had we known it was ground tuna from India"#asm2012
Mark Eppinger of U Maryland Med- Using high throughput sequencing for SNP discovery in EC0157:H7 #asm2012
Treponema primitia in termite gut Jared Leadbetter gave it to them. Michi Taga #asm2012
Besser: PulseNet has been able to detect multi-state outbreaks, may have been missed pre-1996 #asm2012
re: last tweet: 228 E. coli O157:H7 #ASM2012
Brian hammer from Georgia tech hgt in vibrio on chitin surfaces#asm2012
Becky Riffkin
It's quieting down at #asm2012 @ac_at_work and I are lonely in booth 1306
ME: looking at SNPs, building trees with the variations, mapping phenotypes on top. #asm2012
Besser: Of 10 largest outbreaks, 7 probably wouldn't have been detected w/o current surveillance techniques #asm2012
Toby Kiers: note that hoarding phosphate as host-inaccessible polyphosphate drives up its value and gives adv. vs. other fungi#asm2012
How do they share the corrinoids? Wait, why do they want to? Are they stealing it? Cooperation without benefit unlikely Michi Taga#asm2012
MacVector Inc.
Hungry? Pickup some M&M's on booth 936 and learn about MacVector 12.6 too. #ASM2012
Dude, the medical folks get soooo many genomes.#wishihadahundredsar11 #asm2012
Mark Eppinger RT @DrJCThrash: ME: looking at genome plasticity in 228 strains! Many are from human outbreaks. #asm2012
Diff. microbes prod. diff. corinoids diff structure, diff quant, tons in termite gut Michi Taga #asm2012
Toby Kiers: Plants obviously can "offer" fixed carbon. associated fungi take 2 diff strategies. Freer sharing and nutrient hoarding#asm2012
ME: looking at genome plasticity in 228 strains! Many are from human outbreaks. #asm2012
Cool! Inoculate germ-free mice with human gut microbiota to create exp system. #ASM2012
Really sorry to have missed phage history session; appreciated the tweets by @aetiology #asm2012
Toby Kiers; Power Struggles in the rhizosphere. root fungi and host plants enact strategies that prevent "enslavement" of either.#asm2012
Corrinoid exchange as a model for moleuclar interactions in microbial communities some use those produced by others B12 Michi Taga #asm2012
Mark Eppinger, Univ of Maryland School of Medicine, E. coli O157:H7 #asm2012
Wachsmuth: German risk assessment: no good way to eliminate any bacterial pathogen from seeds to sprouts. #asm2012
Human virome dominated by bacteriophages; strain stability and high prophage suggests temperate lifestyle in gut #ASM2012
Poster is done, that was fun. Now on to what species pan genomes#asm2012
Really enjoying meeting everyone this week! Exhibit hall closes in a half hour. See you tomorrow! #asm2012
Wachsmuth: Foodborne outbreaks 2010-12, sprouts major culprit. "We haven't learned." #asm2012
What is the benefit of hoarding? Fungus stores P and then gets more C from the plants Toby Kiers #asm2012
Reduce run-times w higher G-forces w #ThermoScientificlightweight carbon fiber centrifuge rotors http://ow.ly/bDIqL#ASM2012 booth 1015
Could we breed symbionts that give more more P for C and help feed the world? Toby Kiers #asm2012
If you knit while you are "listening" to a talk, the sweater will be too small, and you'll hear nothing. #asm2012
Alejandro Reyes - A Gnotobiotic Mouse Model for Characterizing Phage Bacterial Host Dynamics in the Human Gut #ASM2012http://ff.im/YXlBi
Mutualisms generally have one partner in control, but not always, can have economic markets also. Toby Kiers #asm2012
plot of twitter activity at #asm2012. R with twitteR.http://pic.twitter.com/fapGaLCM
This talk just shows what you can do with a great system, careful ability to track resources, and theory and empirical. Toby Kiers#asm2012
Strain variations in S. epi: phage and drug resistance (mec), biofilm, and transporters #ASM2012
What happens to the P? Because it was stored in an inaccessible form, did not get more C therefore. Toby Kiers #asm2012
James Musser: "Sproutbreak 2011" #ASM2012
Both the cooperative and less-cooperative species made decisions on cooperation, responding to C from plant. Toby Kiers #asm2012
Was great meeting "@h_lapp: Delegates at ASM stopping me to pass on thanks for the superb SGM meeting,Dublin @SocGenMicro#asm2012"
Wachsmuth: Japan initiated a project to preserve samples of all foods served in schools for 2 weeks in case of outbreak investig#asm2012
Cool thing about this system of C trading for P is that the different species are differently cooperative Toby Kiers #asm2012
Infer phage dynamics from metagenome data #asm2012
Hmmm, if we can't photograph, and we can't record, why is it ok to tweet? I know Toby is fine wi/ it, but how about ASM? Toby Kiers#asm2012
Clustering algorithm allows for binning with highly similar sequences. Identify strain variation, core genome and variants #asm2012
Delegates at ASM stopping me to pass on thanks for the superb SGM meeting, Dublin this year. Well done SGM! @SocGenMicro#asm2012
Effective enforcement depends upon the scale of interaction - could they discriminate neighboring rootlets? Toby Kiers #asm2012
Did you test your scientific knowledge @ booth 1523 #ASM2012?http://bit.ly/Kfebny http://pic.twitter.com/q1tM3vY9
Kiers et al Science 2011 shows story on plant ability to allocate more C to the cooperative strain, Glomus intraradices Toby Kiers#asm2012
CienciaPR
Strain level determination based on abundance patterns. This seems computationally challenging #asm2012
Wachsmuth: reminder, worldwide 1.8M children /year die of diarrheal disease, many of them food/water borne #asm2012
Wachsmuth: 1994 ice cream outbreak. Salmonella enteriditis, 224K cases, tankers contaminated with eggs -> ice cream -> people#asm2012 yum
Lehman Ellis
So many topics and interesting posts from #asm2012 unfortunately work calls me home
Infant gut shifts w nutrition and intervention #asm2012
Yesterday afternoon we were put off pets and travel.Today it's ice cream... #asm2012
AAAS MemberCentral
Come visit us at #ASM2012 booth 1306 and you might win a prize plus you'll get to meet the people behind this feed!
RT @aetiology: Summers: electron microscope really cemented idea of phage as virus instead of enzyme #asm2012
Strain-level variation may enable genomic flexibility and adaptation in the face of selection pressures #ASM2012
Variation at strain level allows pop to respond to selection. Culture, 16s, trad metagenomics won't cut it #asm2012
Sharon notes that strain level variation matters as it can result in substantial phenotypic differences #ASM2012
2nd ex s. epi makes protease inhibits s aureus biofilm strain variation in ESP protease #asm2012
Prochlorococcus "the most abundant organism on Earth"#ASM2012
Itai Sharon talking about infant gut microbiome. Finding strain variation in metagenome finds islands ex. Prochlorococcus#asm2012
Microbes are social creatures, I say hello to mine every morning when I get into the lab… sometimes they even say hello back ;)#asm2012
Holding an Illumina cell now. You can see the light on the lane.#asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/Yzo2xLqo
There's still time #asm2012 today! Stop by booth 1625, learn about@Labguru #researchmanagement tool & get a chance to win an iPad. See U ;)
Itai Sharon - Microbial species and strain variations during infant gut colonization #ASM2012 http://ff.im/YXgxH
I'll cover the session titled "Evolution and Development of the Microbiome". Most notes will be at FF:http://friendfeed.com/asm2012 #ASM2012
Back for the afternoon session after some lively discussions over posters at #ASM2012
Holding a 454 chip. Interesting to see where our sequence comes from. #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/JP5JyHu8
pvanhouts
True RT @TommieHata: #ASM2012 Many posters on culture independent MALDI–TOF MS microbe identification. Cheaper & faster than sequencing?
Next up at #asm2012: Kaye Wachsmuth talking about foodborne illness & microbial risk
Last session of the day: microbial powers to tap Earths energy.#asm2012. Battery dying so no live tweeting - will post some thoughts later
Come hear award winner Kaye Wachsmuth’s lecture “Foodborne Illness and Microbial Risk” in the Esplanade Ballroom 304 at 3 pm PT #asm2012 ^lg
Been a busy day here at #asm2012. Lots of follow-up to come for our sales team!! http://pic.twitter.com/cAvXalHj
Top 10 microbiology thrillershttp://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/top-10-microbiology-thrillers/#asm2012
Still more chances to win a kindle at #asm2012 - pick up a pin at the Cell Press booth (1211)
Award winner, E. Peter Greenberg, is giving a lecture at 3 pm PT in the Esplanade Ballroom 305/307 #asm2012 ^lg
Just gave away a kindle as part of the Cell Press (booth 1211) pin to win contest! So exciting! #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/PQaT8Nb8
"@_zoonotica_: All at #asm2012 pls check out new microbiol twitter jrnal club #microtwjc http://microtwjc.wordpress.com Next session tom 12pm SF time"
Find out how #MiSeq can enable small genome rsch with the fastest & easiest workflow. Booth 310 at #asm2012 or http://bit.ly/KOu3BL
Jim Caryl
..always someone who spots that ;-) RT @iGenomics: The blue banner in this booth also has a left-handed DNA. #asm2012http://bit.ly/Mj5csa
All attending #asm2012 pls check out new microbiol twitter journal club #microtwjc http://microtwjc.wordpress.com Next session tomorrow 12pm SF time
Hope everyone's having a great time at #asm2012! Don't forget to stop by our booth #1131 for samples and giveaways!
New #ThermoFisher Piko Real-Time PCR System has 5 channel detection for multiplexing & flexibility http://ow.ly/bDIly #ASM2012booth 1015
Bacterial cells "duel" with each other with T6SS. Awesome!#asm2012
Have to say this again...Mekalanos's T6ss real time videos are incredible!!! #asm2012
T6ss contracts in 5 milliseconds! #asm2012
Mekalanos: real time videos of Type 6 SS action. Quite awesome!#asm2012
SCW
Superbug testing: way forward? MT @illumina: RT @msnbc_health#asm2012 Real-time gene sequencing used to fight #MRSAhttp://on.msnbc.com/LgS7Aa
Alex Bossers
I want one! RT @phylogenomics At #asm2012 Illumina announced new mini MiSeq sequencing system - going to change worldhttp://pic.twitter.com/8X1mv90u
SEAPLEX Expedition
RT @girlscientist: This is just, ew. MT @phylogenomics: Ross says bottled water she surveyed has 100x as many microbes as tap water#asm2012
Affymetrix, Inc.
John Mekalanos: RNA-seq-based study of V. cholerae in vivo gene expression in mouse, rabbit models #ASM2012
So nice to meet u too @scopedbylarry! Still impressed by ur 31@ASMicrobiology mtgs attended! #asm2012
Busy day at #asm2012 I'm sad I have to leave San Francisco so soon! But at least i see @ash_mcdaniel tonight for our#BAshReunion
Meredith Wilson
RT @igenomics: Disappointed to see this big turning metal DNA model is left handed. #asm2012 Do microbiologists care?http://pic.twitter.com/7JIdMVwm
ES: knocking out different methyltransferases in outbreak strains to assess effects #ASM2012
Ahh - the new Illumina mini MiSeq is so easy to use even children can sequence microbes with it #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/mtSWMqEX
Schadt: found methylase that targets every A in E.coli genome. 8 other new methylases #asm2012
Have attached mini Illumina MiSeq I got at #asm2012 to laptop but does not seem to be downloading any sequenceshttp://pic.twitter.com/iydx3WMn
Representin at @ASMicrobiology booth. Visit me-row 1600. See my giant #asmcue pic-Brad Goodner w his poster! #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/FjhuO9Hi
ES: re-analyzed German E.coli outbreak strain to ID variation in kinetic signatures #ASM2012
The Illumina mini MiSeq I got at #asm2012 has a thumb drive port but I can't figure out how to get DNA into ithttp://pic.twitter.com/eWyHzES5
Cute name, seriously hard-working anaerobic incubated workstation. See the Bugbox at booth 1534. #asm2012
Mandy Brosnahan
Wow RT @phylogenomics: At #asm2012 Illumina has announced a new mini MiSeq sequencing system -going to change the worldhttp://pic.twitter.com/AMT8Y9uL
At #asm2012 Illumina has announced a new mini MiSeq sequencing system - going to change the world http://pic.twitter.com/Cv1XnlXQ
The blue banner in this booth also has a left-handed DNA. #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/F9XPifXw
Eric Schadt discussing application of PacBio SMRT in real-time pathogen surveillance #ASM2012
Poster time! Genome evolution in SAR11- 2092. Come say hi.#asm2012
The #ThermoScientific Smart-Vue wireless monitor has capabilities across temp controlled #lab equip http://ow.ly/bDIfj #ASM2012booth 1015
Disappointed to see this big turning metal DNA model is left handed.#asm2012 Do microbiologists care?http://pic.twitter.com/9U82wpZg
Weiser: Host: antibodies (IgA1) clump bact. cells to target. Bact: protease targeting Ab hinge. Host: make Ab's against protease!#asm2012
Re #ASM2012 session on microbes in the built environment more info on this topic available at http://www.microbe.net/ andhttp://www.microbe.net/microbenet-blog/
NIH Common Fund
At #ASM2012? Visit the NIAID booth to get information about the Common Fund high hist high reward programs! Booth 715
Weiser: However, in nasal passages, large size of S. pneumoniae selected for because promotes adhesion to epithelial cells#asm2012
Weiser: small bacterial size selected by complement/neutrophil immune surveillance. Bacteria marking/killing prop'l to surface area#asm2012
Jeffrey Weiser: S. pneumoniae colonizes 50-100% infants, 10-30% adults. Commensal/pathogen. How does interact with immune system? #asm2012
Come by the #asm2012 CM Lounge (rm 122) at 1pm to meet Dr. Cornish and Susan Munro and discuss Clin Micro careers!http://bit.ly/CMmentor618-tw ^tg
Bevins: no fungal/net follow up? Cool: blinds analysis to source of SEM images, asks to assign to source strain, measures accuracy.#asm2012
Visit booth 1126 to learn how Life Technologies is advancing microbiology research #asm2012
In case you are wondering, Eric Schadt's talk is 1PM in room 103. followed by Mekalanos at 1:30 #asm2012
Anyone else around? Meet here at 1! RT @NatureRevMicro middle entrance at 1, for hall B. #asm2012
Bevins: SEM revealed "netted" fungi. Ssowed DH6 self-assembles into nets in presence of bact. surface proteins. What about fungi?#asm2012
Bevins: HD6, though, took many grad student tears to figure out. Clue: cloudy white supt in fungi exposed to purified protein#asm2012
Amazing talks so far at #asm2012! I'll be at the Cell Press booth (1211) from 1 to 2. Come say hi & pick up some freebies
Bevins: HD5 forms dimer with alternate exposed hydrophobic and charged sides. Embeds in microbial cell membranes (like porins?)#asm2012
Charles Bevins (UCD): human defensins (HD) 5 and 6 for "harpoon" and "net" when host detects microbes in Paneth cells (crypts).#asm2012
Using Illumina NGS to track MRSA in real-time: study from Sanger, U Cambridge & Illumina just in time for #asm2012 http://bit.ly/MBv0zB
Total attendance at #ASM2012: 9,082 (highest since 2008); scientific attendance: 6,590
Have questions about next-gen sequence analysis? Katie and Stephanie will be happy to answer them in booth 1518 at #asm2012.
Great to finally meet you! RT“@kevinswilson66: What coincidence, sitting beside @surt_lab during Summers talk on phage history#asm2012”
Sheri Simmons
Enjoying #asm2012 microbiome tweets from home but disappointed in lack of plant microbiomes
Bosch: like Karen Guillemin in zebrafish, sees reproducible migration of hydra microbiome composition vs embryo age across PCA plot#asm2012
seaottersdotcom
RT @aetiology: Loss of wetlands can mean higher levels of parasites moving from land to sea; less filtering #asm2012
Eims
Learn something new everyday. Great live talks #asm2012. Hope to catch tomorrows ones as well. :)
Thomas Bosch: massive die-off from fungal contamination - Fusarium. Hydra microbiome=potent source of antifungal small molecules. #asm2012
Thomas Bosch: develop gnotobiotic hydra system to test host-microbe interactions. Surprise: antibiotics => massive host death!#asm2012
Maloy: Tracy McNamara played fundamental role in West Nile virus, have video interview from last year #asm2012
Melissa McCulloch
Free Laptop covers celebrating journal Pathogens and Disease, come and get yours now! Stand 724 #ASM2012
Gurfield: Last year, talked about microbes influencing formation of hail & rain, One Health hasn't begun to address that yet #asm2012
Mayo Medical Labs
Dr. Robin Patel presents "Microbiology Literature Review 2012" today at 3pm. #ASM2012
Harrowing truth regarding small villages in the developing world#asm2012
selwyn drain
Atlas: Heard that we should vaccinate animals first and children later, as the animals would feed the entire community #asm2012
Nicole King: do modern microbe-host interactions resemble ancient ones driving evol'n? Setting up experimental system to test#asm2012
RT @illumina Get highlights from #asm2012 day 1 and up to the minute news from Twitter with our Live at ASM coverage:http://bit.ly/NKMc7Y
F Jalalvand
envious of everyone attending #asm2012 in san fran. many great talks! one day we will meet... one day...
Atlas: Schwabe at UC Davis has tried to unite animal and human epidemiology #asm2012
Atlas: Pasteur & Koch were looking at animal & human diseases, rabies, Koch kept animals next to his practice. Siloed after#asm2012
Question for the panel of ASMlive: where wd u spend money to improve #onehealth research? #asm2012
Gurfield: Rudolf Virchow at the end of the 1800's was proposing looking at One Health. Now int'l travel & commerce requires this#asm2012
Just saw Hazel Barton. Cave micrologist-adventurer! #asm2012
Nicole King: reviews choanoflagellate rosette formation stim'n by bacterial sulfonated polyamine finding (tweeted yesterday).#asm2012
Gurfield: Veterinarians are more used to crossing sectors than other fields, due to having to manage health of herd or flock #asm2012
RT @aetiology: Disease-causing agents on land can affect health of ocean inhabitants #asm2012
RT @aetiology: Oocysts from cat feces likely source of T. gondii for otters #asm2012
Nicole King: spectcular talk suggesting that microbes drove evolution of multicellular life. #asm2012
RT @aetiology: Otters die from not only T. gondii encephalitis, but those infected also 3.7x more likely to be chomped by sharks#asm2012
Get highlights from #asm2012 day 1 and up to the minute news from Twitter with our Live at ASM coverage: http://bit.ly/NKMc7Y
Gurfield: One Border One Health was started in San Diego a year ago, per border btw San Diego and México emerging diseases#asm2012
RT @aetiology: Sea otters endangered by toxoplasma gondii encephalitis, federally threatened species #asm2012
Hadfield: settled colonies => "hull fouling." US Navy estimates this costs $0.5 billion/yr. and their fleet is 0.5% of world fleet! #asm2012
RT @aetiology: First up: Patricia Conrad, Division Z lecturer on Otters, Oocysts and Oceans #asm2012
Atlas: Much better communication w/in public health. However, big division btw medical field and public health. #asm2012
Q: Have officials, vets and public health officials, gotten better at talking to each other after West Nile? #asm2012
Michael Hadfield: bact. colony attractor can be from single species;others do have activity. Are larvae hijacking biofilm glue?#asm2012
Atlas: Today, the environment is the least understood part of the OneHealth equation. #asm2012
Atlas: WWI microbes were used against donkeys and horses, the cavalry of the time. Only later used against humans #asm2012
Sars and wealth, I'd never even thought about it. Learn something new everyday #asm2012
Lipkin: SARS spread most easily in the French hospital that had the money for nebulizers and so forth #asm2012
Michael Hadfield: bacterial biofilms induce settlement of very diverse set of marine larvae: sponge, coral, mussels. And bryophytes#asm2012
Lipkin: Diseases of wealth: see organ transplantation, treat cancer, more immunosuppression: context of more virulence #asm2012
Gurfield: B/c we're in a wealthy society, we care for exotic animals in backyards, and thus gave an elephant MRSA, who gave it back#asm2012
Exclusive 10% visitor discount @MacysTourism for @ASMicrobiology#ASM2012 attendees! 170 O’Farrell Street http://ow.ly/bDIdD
Lipkin: Will need to sample at ports of call. Gets to thorny issues of human subjects' freedom #asm2012
Lipkin - diseases don't just emerge from jungles - think daycares and animal farms too #asm2012
Lipkin: Need to sample day-care centers. Have good models of emerging infectious diseases: population density, access to bushmeat #asm2012
Remarkable (and at times quite speculative) session on how microbes might have shaped evolution of multicellular life. #asm2012
I am loving the contagion refs. Go Prof. Lipkin. #asm2012
Oops, previous tweets on big data were Lipkin, not Gurfield#asm2012
Lipkin: Filmmakers were committed to making Contagion educational about One Health #asm2012
Lynn Savage
RT @aetiology: Summers: electron microscope really cemented idea of phage as virus instead of enzyme #asm2012
Maloy: Lipkin was scientific advisor to movie Contagion, which educated about One Health #asm2012
Gurfield: Will need whole new population of people who understand biostatistics, data management, etc. Need people who can use info#asm2012
Gurfield: Have not sufficiently invested in computational power and people to analyze big data. Tiny percent of health budget #asm2012
MissouriSandT
Tree oil may combat obesity, diabetes (cool research by S&T team led by env engineer @danieloerther) http://ow.ly/bETrW #asm2012
Gurfield: Revolution due to culture-independent techniques, sequencing costs dropping well beyond Moore's law. Challenge of data #asm2012
Lipkin: MRSA moved from human to baby elephant, was amplified, then infected humans taking care of the elephant #asm2012
Likes the acknowledgement that its an exchange that flows from human to animal and animal to human #asm2012
Totally agree with panel that we shd consider zoonoses as 2 ways and not just animals to humans #asm2012
Atlas - zoonoses 2 way street RT @MicrobeWorld: ASM Live – One Health: Humans, Animals and the Environmenthttp://www.micreobeworld.org/asmlive #asm2012
Lipkin: Eco-tourism causes outbreaks of menopneumovirus (sp?), dangerous to neonatal apes. #asm2012
Atlas: Formal definition of zoonotic is unidirectional, but it's an interactive exchange. Reverse issues? #asm2012
S&Tresearchers report 'Almond Tree Oil May Combat Obesity, Diabetes': http://bit.ly/M66Yxt #asm2012
Lipkin: West Nile virus came to US shores 1999. HIV, influenza viruses that strike yearly, encephalitis, hantaviruses from animal#asm2012
Lipkin: 70% of infectious diseases rooted from year to year in animals. Agents may also move from human to animals & back#asm2012
Touch-screen, #health monitoring & event log! http://ow.ly/bDIbI@ASMicrobiology #ASM2012 #ThermoScientific Revco UFX400 frzr booth 1015
Watch ASM Live Now: One Health: Humans, Animals and the Environment http://bit.ly/m8xuVT #asm2012 ^js
Maloy introduces Ian Lipkin, Ronald Atlas, Nikos Gurfield on One Health: human, animal and environmental #asm2012
Ian Lipkin up first #asm2012
Watching now! RT @MicrobeWorld: Watch Now! ASM Live – One Health: Humans, Animals and the Environmenthttp://www.micreobeworld.org/asmlive #asm2012
Jim Sliwa
Watch ASM Live Now: One Health: Humans, Animals and the Environment http://bit.ly/m8xuVT #asm2012 ^js
Stanley Maloy, chair of ASM communications committee, starting next session of ASM Live #asm2012
"@MicrobeWorld: Watch Now! ASM Live – One Health: Humans, Animals and the Environment http://www.microbeworld.org/asmlive#asm2012"
"@MicrobeDoc: Summers: "all the world's a phage"! #asm2012"
Watch Now! ASM Live – One Health: Humans, Animals and the Environment http://www.micreobeworld.org/asmlive #asm2012
Nate
Your cold cuts are treated with anti listeria phage, phage history lecture #ASM2012
Still time to join us in the audience for ASMlive #asm2012#OneHealth
A century of bacteriophages... not just campfire stories... @#asm2012
ASMlive on #OneHealth now #asm2012
Summers: "The world's a phage" Incredible abundance, diversity#asm2012
Summers: "all the world's a phage"! #asm2012
Its sad how happy live coverage of #asm2012 is making me. Stress levels dropping nicely. (I am such a terrible nerd)
gna-phylo
Go and see @RageInScience talk about how Horizontal Gene Transfer has Shaped Public Goods Games in Osmotrophic Eukaryotes at 5 #asm2012
Guy Leonard
Go and see @RageInScience talk about how Horizontal Gene Transfer has Shaped Public Goods Games in Osmotrophic Eukaryotes at 5 #asm2012
New #ThermoScientific Barnstead GenPure xCAD extended Control & Dispenser unit, increases room on #lab bench http://ow.ly/bDI89#ASM2012
Summers: "gadgets" used to study mutations (eg Luria-Delbruck experiments), protein and nucleic acid synthesis #asm2012
Summers talks about Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith. Early example of#microbefiction influenced by discussions with Paul de Kruif.#asm2012
Summers: development of EM by Siemens in the 30s finally settled the microbe vs enzyme debate #asm2012
Summers: electron microscope really cemented idea of phage as virus instead of enzyme #asm2012
Eisen Sightings! Times three actually. Nice to see you and your F1s, Jon. #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/vPUG1syZ
Phages are the cutest viruseshttps://www.etsy.com/listing/102120658/virus-rainbow-12-original-watercolor #asm2012
Summers: Phage therapy preceded antibiotics #asm2012
Summers: Phage mid-20th C, used as "gadget" of molec bio#asm2012
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RT @NatureRevMicro: Summers: Phage therapy seen as panacea early on, even inspired a novel 'arrowsmith' by Sinclair Lewis#asm2012 won a ...
'Arrowsmith' movie shows early example of being scooped. On Netflix apparently! #asm2012
Side note, need to watch "Arrowsmith" movie for all the science-y badness. Hype, media, bad acting, looks awesome & on Netflix!#asm2012
Summers: book made into a movie, was #Oscar nominated - great clip #whiskeyinthelab #asm2012 looks like accurate biopic of lab life 2 me!
Summers: moved to pop culture. By 1925 phage in "Arrowsmith" by Sinclair Lewis, made into movie #asm2012
Studyhttp://news.mst.edu/2012/06/tree_oil_may_combat_obesity_di.html@MissouriSandT of the value of tree oil extract to combat obesity is a crowded poster at #asm2012
Next ASMLive session: One health: environment, animals, and human. 12pm today #asm2012http://www.microbeworld.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1204
Summers: By late 20s, looking at phage as treatment for disease. Why trials? No antibiotics, nothing else worked, desperate#asm2012
Summers: ah, drama. Scientists fought amongst themselves for credit of phage discovery, set back research 10 yrs, microbe v enzyme #asm2012
Used both culture-dependent and culture-independent methods, checked resistance of isolates phenotypically and looked for genes#asm2012
It is official, house flies are gross and harbingers of disease#asm2012
Study showed humans swallow 3 spiders per night during sleep (????!!!!) #asm2012
A: Haven't looked at food chain, don't know about spiders, but do know about human food chain, do get antibiotic resistance#asm2012
Q: Transfer of antibiotic resistance through food chain, e.g., spiders eat flies? #asm2012
Next to trash can in residential area, lots of houseflies. Fly may land on your skin, you may touch your face... #asm2012
Another reminder that pet ownership comes with risks at ASMlive#asm2012
Summers: Plaque assays are a remarkably stable technology, unchanged since 1922! #asm2012
A study has shown transfer from housefly to cattle of significant # of bacteria in single landing #asm2012
Tree oil may combat obesity, diabetes, Missouri S&T research suggests presented at #asm2012 http://bit.ly/M5P3qE
Nice to see so many people who appear happy to see me at the poster session. #asm2012
Summers: d'Herelle 1922 experiments using plaques--same technology as today "hasn't advanced since 1922" #asm2012
Summers: d'Herelle, 1917--conceived of phage as a virus of bacteria rather than enzyme #asm2012
Maloy quotes Julian Davies, "The world is bathed in antibiotics"#asm2012
Have tried to compare with more pristine places, e.g., Yellowstone National Park, though not as wild as coral reef #asm2012
Summers: d'Herelle was a deserter who may not have finished school. Set up lab in own basement #asm2012
Focus on commensal bacteria as their chance of transferring to pathogens by horizontal gene transfer is greater #asm2012
Lactic acid bacteria and enterobacteria can be opportunistic pathogens, e.g., human upper urinary tract infections #asm2012
A: Have identified resistant carriers by genes, find they are the same ones as found in human host commensal bacteria #asm2012
House flies can transfer antbiotic resistant bugs to uncovered food#asm2012
Summers: Twort, early phage researcher (by accident)--found "transmissible lysis" thought to be due to enzymes #asm2012
Q: Have seen transmission? A: In housefly study, have seen transmission of pathogenic bacteria from fly to ready-to-eat food#asm2012
Nick Wigginton
Lots of great tweeting from #asm2012 -- keep up the good work!
60 billion pounds of animal waste are produced in the US annually. They become source of resistant bacteria. Flies breed there#asm2012
Listening to William Summers talking about "A Century of Bacteriophages". I love the #ASMicrobiology history lectures!#asm2012
Flies are an important dissemination route of resistant sources from farms and hospitals to the human community #asm2012
RT @_zoonotica_ Antibiotic resistant bacteria can be carried by houseflies #learnsomethingnew Yep, see eghttp://www.jhsph.edu/sebin/q/h/AntibioticResistantEntero.pdf#asm2012
Summers: Early phage researchers struggled for funding/keeping a job for more that a few years. #asm2012
They looked for erythromycin and tetracycline resistance - used in agriculture. Also looked at cephalosporin resistance #asm2012
Found coding genes for antibiotic resistance from houseflies from all areas. #asm2012
Houseflies in both farms and residential areas carry antibiotic resistant commensal bacteria; more prevalent closer to farms#asm2012
Non-food animals: pets, zoo animals, and houseflies, provide reservoir of antibiotic resistance even w/o being treated #asm2012
Antibiotic resistant bacteria can be carried by houseflies#learnsomethingnew #asm2012
80% of antibiotic use in the US is in food animals, then humans in hospitals, then humans in community #asm2012
Ab resistant organisms in environment are kind of like ecotourists.#asm2012
Teina Lathrop
Visit Lathrop Engineering's booth #523 at the #ASM2012 to ask questions & learn about our newest development solutions and capabilities
Summers: Size of audience suggests history alive and well at#asm2012. More importantly, suggests that phage are coming back in a big way!
Antibiotic resistance in non-food animals being covered at ASMlive now #asm2012
ASM Live from #asm2012. Role of non-food animals spreading antibiotic resistance. http://bit.ly/m8xuVT Watch it now ^js
ASM Live from #asm2012. Role of non-food animals spreading antibiotic resistance. http://bit.ly/m8xuVT Watch it now ^js
Getting ready for phage history lesson #asm2012
Stop by #ASM2012 booth 1015 to check out Spectra MRSA, the#ThermoScientific source for #MRSA testing: http://ow.ly/bDI5Z
Watch Now! ASM Live – The Role of Non-Food Animals in the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance athttp://www.microbeworld.org/asmlive #asm2012
If u planned to buy a copy of "Microbes and Evolution" @ #asm2012u must shop fast! We only have 10 copies left at the ASM Press bookstore!
Anyone looking for good coverage of #asm2012 should check out@aetiology, shes doing a fantastic job.
Amazing battles described in #ASM2012 session on "Microbes trigger and shape immunity." http://friendfeed.com/asm2012 Fun taking notes w @tjsharpton
New symposium: a century of phages by William Summers, then off to posters #asm2012
I'm pretty sure that #asm2012 is one of the only places in the world where everyone washes their hands before leaving bathroom
Now for a change of pace with a talk on a century of bacteriophages by Bill Summers #asm2012
It's another productive and exciting day in San Francisco! Ask Betty or Barry for a demo of the anaerobic Bugbox at booth 1534.#asm2012
A great set of talks so far. Now to ASMlive for antibiotic resistance#asm2012
Clin Micro Mentoring Session @ 11 am! Stop by #asm2012 CM Lounge (rm 112) to meet Dr. Viscount and Brent Barrett!http://bit.ly/CMmentor618-tw
Patrice Couralin: correlation between plasmid copy # and vancomycin resistance. Fortunately resistance is costly; slower growth #asm2012
Melissa Karau talks Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Experimental Osteomyelitis at 1pm.#ASM2012
VA: diatoms hang out where nitrate meets iron, specialized regions on both sides of the Pacific. #asm2012
Starting second day at #asm2012. Stop by booth 1617 for special discounts on microbial genomics products
According to Jeff Weiser, size matters. Smaller pathogens are harder for the immune system to clear #ASM2012
VA: diatoms use iron for their nitrate assimilation pathways.#asm2012
MT @jovejournal: Charlotte Sage is at #asm2012 through tomorrow. Need to contact her? Follow us and go here: http://ow.ly/bEK8H
Charlotte Sage, a member of @JoVEEditor, is at #asm2012 through tomorrow. Need to contact her? Follow us and go here:http://ow.ly/bEK4k
Background reading on PG synthesis part of Gross talk, from Vollmer, Gross herself and their colleagues #asm2012http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/journal/v10/n2/abs/nrmicro2677.html
VA: diatoms can grab the abundant nitrate because they turn on the genes, other organisms don't. #asm2012
VA: 3817 genes differentially expressed, match predicted taxa for iron fertilization: diatoms #asm2012
Conference essential item number 1! #ASM2012http://pic.twitter.com/1vTvPP3v
VA puts up a plot from Marchetti PNAS 2012 with hundreds of points where EACH ONE is a pie chart! #asm2012
Fact-based microbiology fiction: #asm2012 attendees can request free ebook PETROPLAGUE, science thriller athttp://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/american-society-for-microbiology-attendees-want-a-free-petroplague-ebook-asm-asmcue-2012/
Jeff Weiser talks about how Streptococcus mutants are subject to "Fantastic Voyage" syndrome, resulting in immune clearance.#ASM2012
Sterlitech
Jason ready for Monday #ASM2012 http://pic.twitter.com/yI34Sa5x
VA: mimicked iron fertilization in seawater, filtered for metatranscriptomics, examined microscopically. #asm2012
Gross: few KOs with many phenotypes (envelope, transcription, translation). Many more with multiple phenotypes already annotated#asm2012
VA: ferritin allows iron storage in a small group of diatoms making them dominant. #asm2012
VA: dominant bloomer is pseudo-niezche (sp?), make a unique protein called ferritin #asm2012
Looking forward to a century of bacteriophage plenary at #ASM2012shortly. Fascinating little things.
The microbiota is not always beneficial to the host #asm2012
VA: iron is what limits phytoplankton in the northeast Pacific Ocean.#asm2012
Gross: phenotypes for half of E.coli genome in at least one environment #asm2012
Taleju
Levine #asm2012 systemic Salmonella strains increased pseudo genes - loks like captured in evolution to host specificity
Carol Gross' group screened 4k E.coli mutants under 120 unique stresses using comprehensive interaction profiling approach#ASM2012
Gross: finely arrayed E.coli deletion library (1536 KOs per plate). Screen for growth under 300 conditions #asm2012
Levine: animal reservoirs also not found for NTS in Africa, appear to be H2H transmission instead of zoonotic like in US #asm2012
Levine: Most African strains are typhimurium & enteritidis, causes of serious invasive disease, genomics look like typhi #asm2012
VA: diatom genomes range from 26-219Mb. The big one is highly repetitive, lots of transposons, like maize #asm2012
Special relationship vs uneasy alliance #microbiome #asm2012
Talk by Jeff Weiser (U Penn): ... and Immunity shapes microbes#asm2012 http://ff.im/YWlNu
Levine #asm2012 incidence of systemic disease by nontyphoidal Salmonella increasing, serious problem inAfrica
VA: diatoms with a urea cycle- what is that for? Still unclear- why would there be a N waste product in a photosynthetic organism?#asm2012
Levine: in Africa, high case fatality with non-typhoid salmonella, don't present w/gastroenteritis, weird epi comp. to US #asm2012
TP Guide to Autism
mT @scopedbylarry: #asm2012 tribute to Maurice Hilleman before introducing Mike Levine as winner of the 2012 Hilleman/Merck Award. #vaxfax
I can't decide if #asm2012 is making me feel better or worse about missing the meeting. Keep 'em coming!
VA: diatoms have "mix and match genomes" #asm2012
RT @illumina Rapid whole genome seq for neonatal MRSA investigation using #MiSeq. New article in @NEJM today:http://bit.ly/K2WxWW #asm2012
Levine: non-typhoidal salmonella--zoonotic, transmission by food products. Occasionally invasive. #asm2012
VA: diatoms have primary and secondary endosymbiosis, along with bacterial genes. Lots of contributors to their genomes #asm2012
see also http://shar.es/qwMf1 RT @PMOrwin: Abt 50% correct GO annot, more nearly right. Not bad. Compares well w machine annot#asm2012"
Feedback issues with the audio in this session, sounds like the speaker system is about to blow! #asm2012 ahh, fixed now...
Lucy Harper
Loving tweets from #asm2012. Hope the @SfAMtweets crowd incl.@Markusmicrobius are having fun & recruited lots of new members!
Pacific Biosciences
At #ASM2012? Come visit PacBio at booth1236!http://pic.twitter.com/W4QkewQE
VA: very few diatom genomes, existing ones are highly divergent.#asm2012
Hope everyone is enjoying #ASM2012!
Levine #ASM2012 new Typhoidvaccines promising initial studies on effectiveness and tolerance
Angela Douglas on health consequences of resident microbes now#asm2012
VA: diatoms are no more closely related to plants than you or I#asm2012
VA: showing crazy starburst tree that is Eukaryotic phylogeny#asm2012
So funny to read my twitter feed and realize @NatureRevMicro is at the same session as me #asm2012
Next: Virginia Armbrust from UW on diatoms #asm2012
Levine: 2 vaccines but not great, infants can't take & many doses required #asm2012
Last but not least, Carol Gross talks on systems approaches to dissect bacterial cellular processes #asm2012
Levine: chlorinated water & filtration in early 1900s = huge drop in typhoid transmission #asm2012
Had never occured to me transcription would continue post death.cert never thought some genes wd be upreg! #asm2012
Levine on Salmonella #asm2012 ... Yes, pseudogenes and host specificity prediction from genomics BUT proof required genetic tests!
Today at the #asm2012 Clin Micro Lounge (rm 112) -- learn more about career opportunities for CMs! http://bit.ly/CMmentor618-tw ^tg
At 1 PM today #ASM2012 - Eric Schadt - Whole-genome Characterization of Methyladenine Residues in Pathogenic Strainshttp://gm.asm.org/index.php/scientific-program/presidents-forum
Kashef Qaadri
Chris Lee #UCLA discussing phenoseq analysis for mutantshttp://people.mbi.ucla.edu/leec/docs/phenoseq/ #asm2012#genomics #ngs
Levine: Many places to intervene--water, carriers, etc. Vaccine to help eliminate carriers. In past, rivers source of outbreaks #asm2012
MAM: turns out the important Roseobacter species off CA is one of Steve Giovannoni's: HTCC2255 #asm2012
Aaron Darling
The postmortem microbiome. you get eaten by microbes 48 hrs after death. #ASM2012
Immune response, inflammatory upreg postmortem. Also look at microbiome. Again is this deep or obvious? #asm2012
Lee: NGS reliably and cheaply detects top genes that contribute to mutant phenotype. Pooling is a win/win for cost & thruput #asm2012
MAM: monitoring dmdA genes with automated Environmental Sample Processor from MBARI. #asm2012
Christopher Lee calls for collaborators to try out their phenotype sequencing approach with #asm2012
Most of the genes just go away, about 100 go up #asm2012
Levine: Salmonella as emerging pathogens. Typhoid--emerged in 1800s, restricted to humans #asm2012
Domazet-Loso: the zebrafish look dead, but how do you know they're really dead? more than 100 genes upregulated after death#ASM2012
CL: approach could expand the scope of mutants one might analyze#ASM2012
Postmortem microarray. Put zebrafish in cold water to kill, then back in warm. #asm2012
Correction, bacterial switch is between cleavage of DMSP to DMS vs demethylation to MMPA and finally CO2/acetaldehyde #asm2012
Domazet-Loso: how do you kill zebrafish without affecting their gene expression pattern? #ASM2012
2nd part. Txome of dead zebrafish #asm2012 #weirdscience
Be sure to visit the ASM Press Bookstore at #ASM2012. Members receive up to 30% on most books. ^csb
New counter theory to endosymbiosis after a few drinks at#ASM2012 last night. Exogeneis: Expel all the organelles!http://pic.twitter.com/BX7mhGTq
Hilleman Award #asm2012 - "Vaccines he developed saved more lives than any other scientific discovery in the century"
MAM: 75% of DMSP is demethylated and consumed 25% to DMS. Some goes to atmosphere, some consumed. #asm2012
Luminex
Evolution of endosymbiont oxidative phosphorylation see peaks in phylostratigraphy at origin of animals, animals and fungi #asm2012
Chris Lee: Isobutanol tolerant mutant strains 90 million single reads on GAIIx, fast & inexpensive way to det microb phenotype #asm2012
I'll be presenting poster (Div R 1546) on using electrophoresis of virus particles to examine sex in wild viruses. #shamelessplug#asm2012
MAM: metatranscriptomics showed carbon processing from DMSP was highly important at BATS #asm2012
Ryan Ferrell
MAM puts up a picture of work on the R/V Atlantic Explorer - I love that ship! #asm2012
Links origin of cancer w origin of multicellularity. Is this deep or obvious? Not sure #asm2012
Domazet-Loso says parsimony analysis of "cancer genes" puts all at root of metazoa and all metazoa can get cancer #ASM2012
MALDI-TOF in Microbiology Lab. Join UNC School of Medicine Speaker at bioMérieux InBooth Knowledge Forum at 11.50am booth1301 #asm2012
Congratulations to Susan Sharp PhD recipient of bioMérieux Sonnerwirth Award 2012 for Leadership in Clinical Microbiology during #asm2012
Relate txome in hydra stem cells to phylogeny. More potent stem cells express earlier genes #asm2012
Listening to my old mentor Dr. Mary Ann Moran speak at #asm2012. Feeling a bit nostalgic for environmental micro
Charles Bevins notes that your Paneth cells are awesome, but might play a role in the development of Crohn's disease #ASM2012
To make phenotype sequencing economical, 2x pooling — library pooling + pooling multiple tagged libraries per sequencing lane (CL)#ASM2012
MAM: looked for DMSP demethylation gene dmdA in metagenomic data. Found many different clades in GOS data. #asm2012
Used txomics to find evidence of phylogeny ontogeny relationship in zebrafish #asm2012 nature paper 2010
Domazet-Loso: genome phylostratigraphy: a way to reconstruct ancestral gene content, identify deviations from a null model#ASM2012
Look at trait over evolutionary time, compare across phylogeny, look for correspondence to evolution divergence #asm2012
MAM: DMSP demethylation winds up producing CO2 and acetaldehyde #asm2012
Christopher Lee discussing 'phenotype sequencing' — microbial mutant sequencing studies #ASM2012
Come hear Patrice Courvalin, an award winner, present his talk about S. aureus at 10:15 am PT in the Esplanade Ballroom 309#asm2012 ^lg
I also note Steve Giovannoni's lab has isolated many many Roseobacters #asm2012
Genomic phylostratigraphy. Yikes! #asm2012 arrow of time in genomes. Paging @seanmcarroll
Come meet your ASM Ambassador at the Ambassador's Forum (Convention Center; Room 114; 1:30pm-3:00pm) #asm2012 ^tp
MAM: Rugeria pomeroyi DSS-3 is their model Roseobacter#asm2012
MAM: large gene expansion in deep Roseobacter branches, possibly correlated with emergence of phytoplankton #asm2012
Animal and microbial genomes domazet-loso from Croatia#asm2012
Thanks Maryn! RT @marynmck i sincerely hope disease geeks are following @aetiology today as she tweets cool microbey stuff from#ASM2012
El Samad: no single bet hedging genes, rather there are bet hedging programmes to provide stochastic diversification in fungi #asm2012
Gurfield: 2011 reemergence of albopictus in same area."Whoever thought owning plants was risk factor 4 exotic bugs" #asm2012
MAM: focusing on Roseobacters, found near or on phytoplankton#asm2012
MAM: DMSP degrades to DMS which influences cloud formation. DMSP is an osmolyte produced by phytoplankton. #asm2012
Gurfield, case #3 Aedes albopictus. Outbreak in LA county, abopictus eggs came in with "lucky bamboo" plants #asm2012
Next, Mary Ann Moran on sulfur cycling through DMSP #asm2012
Elsevier Biomedchem
Missing out on #ASM2012? Check out the videos of yesterday's sessions and watch today's live! http://ow.ly/bEvQa
RT @bacteriality: #asm2012 the movie contagion would have been much less scary if they used the comic sans font
Metaorganism (or holobiont?) is unit of selection. Change microbiome to adapt #asm2012
Learned the difference between apoptosis and pyroptosis.#olddognewtricks #asm2012
i sincerely hope disease geeks are following @aetiology today as she tweets cool microbey stuff from #ASM2012
Gurfield: origin due to fighting cocks from Mexico, underground ring in CA spread infection #asm2012
Complex community necessary, biozoenosis -cool word. Also holobiont and hologenome. #asm2012 #youaretheecosystem
Gurfield: 3.9M birds destroyed, $160,000,000 to eradicate, $121,000,000 lost trade #asm2012
Getting ready for another exciting day at #asm2012 ! Stop by booth 1616 today & enter to win Beats by Dr Dre headphones!
Jeffrey Marlow
New award proposal: conference name badge worn farthest from the convention center, resulting in massive coolness factor.#asm2012
Is "exotic newcastle disease" in birds what we call simply "newcastle disease" in the UK? #asm2012
Gurfield: Case #2, exotic newcastle virus, foreign animal disease, rarely zoonotic (conjunctivitis) #asm2012 Outbreak in CA 2002-3
Math model of colonization pretty cool #asm2012#iwastoldtherewouldbenomath
KC: looks like AOA fractionation explains N2O production in nature.#asm2012
KC: 70% of N2O produced goes through a proposed intermediate: either NH2OH or HNO #asm2012
Nikos Gurfield #asm2012 preemie elephant calf in close contact with human caretakers transmission of MRSA from human to elephant
Just had read article about virus behind vanishing bees. "@ASMicrobiology: Can a virus save the honeybees?http://bit.ly/NGHDN6 #asm2012 "
Summary. Bacteria, is there anything they can't do? #asm2012#microbialsupremacy
KC: isotopes to track N and O fractionation from ammonia + O2 to N2O #asm2012
Sterile hydra attacked by fungi. Bacteria in glycocalyx coating protect #asm2012 new antimycotics?
Gurfield: Case of African elephant calf, skin pustules in animal & caretakers (guess what's coming) #asm2012
KC: so how do AOA produce N2O? #asm2012
In absence of gut microbiota in fish gut epi doesn't develop. Squid light organ develops in response to v. fisheri #asm2012
KC: N2O was produced in parallel with Nitrite #asm2012
Morning #asm2012- day 2. Come visit us today-booth 1625. We'd love to meet & show U @Labguru #researchmanagement tool. Waiting for U there.
El Samad: Cell to Cell variability may be a regulated phenotype e.g. Dig1 story in yeast mating #asm2012
Stop by #ThermoScientific booth 1015 at #ASM2012 for a look at the NanoDrop Lite, delivers accurate measurement http://ow.ly/bDHzD
Gurfield: works in San Diego County, ~size of CT state, 3M people, various ecosystems (desert, ocean, mountain), on Pacific flyway#asm2012
KC: enrichment cultures with growing Archaea do produce N2O#asm2012
Sam Miller (U Washington): Using bacteria to probe innate immune diversity #asm2012 (via http://ff.im/YW7Q7)
KC: archaeal amoA genes show shallow and deep water ecotypes#asm2012
Funny: "Getting to know my microbiome"http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/getting-to-know-my-microbiome/2012/06/17/gJQALVTpjV_story.html h/t George Weinstock #ASM2012
Antimic peptides in embryogenesis, correlate w microbiota#asm2012
Can a virus save the honeybees? http://bit.ly/NGHDN6 #asm2012^js
Can a virus save the honeybees? http://bit.ly/NGHDN6 #asm2012^js
All disasters start and end locally! “@aetiology: Next up: All Disasters are local, One Health in our Backyards Nikos Gurfield #asm2012”
Microbiome analysis suggests cure for chronic sinus conditionhttp://bit.ly/NGHoll #asm2012 ^js
Microbiome analysis suggests cure for chronic sinus conditionhttp://bit.ly/NGHoll #asm2012 ^js
Sam Miller (U Washington): Using bacteria to probe innate immune diversity #asm2012 http://ff.im/YW7Q7
"All disasters start and end locally" #asm2012
KC: so, can Amm ox arch produce N2O? #asm2012
Over express antimic pep changes microbiome. Does it change phenotype? Sympatric speciation? Pretty big leap... #asm2012
KC: N2O fractionation produced from Amm ox bact is depleted compared to what is observed in nature #asm2012
Next up: All Disasters are local, One Health in our Backyards Nikos Gurfield #asm2012
Totally wish I was at #ASM2012 :-( pretty please post links for talks that are recorded! #StuckInVA
SM hypothesizes our management of acute pathogenic diseases (antibiotics) may have brought about chronic inflammatory diseases#ASM2012
Nikos Gurfield now on "One Health in our backyard" #asm2012
Microbiota controlled by antimic peptides. Ident several from hydra. Taxon specific #asm2012
KC: 15N and 18O in N2O, site preference of the fractionation.#asm2012
Well, this made my day: A Master Of The Microbiome And His Quest To Re-Publish His Father's Papers #ASM2012 http://shar.es/svOml
Brendan Maher
I see @NatureRevMicro and others tweeting #asm2012 RT today: Interrogating genomes, 100 years of phage, lunch and then some bioenergy talks
Yesterday morning's session had nanoSIMS as a common thread, today it's isotopic fractionation. #asm2012
Hydra actively controls microbiome species specific. Microbiome recapitulates phylogeny. Plos bio paper #asm2012
Thomas Bosch immune system evolved to control microbiome. Path the exception. Uses hydra as model #asm2012
KC: N2O tightly correlated with nitrate. #asm2012
KC: focusing on N2O production in the ocean from both denitrifiers and nitrifiers, relative contributions of each #asm2012
CHERYLinND
"@aetiology: Lipkin: now showing clips from Contagion :) #asm2012" brilliant!!
Heh RT @bacteriality #asm2012 the movie contagion would have been much less scary if they used the comic sans font
KC: humans fix more N2 than the oceans #asm2012
KC: cycling of N2O. It's highest in the atmosphere now than ever measured. Thought to be due to human N2 fixation increases.#asm2012
Fantastic talk by Nicole King!! Eye opening full of awesomeness#asm2012
Lipkin: now showing clips from Contagion :) #asm2012
Next, Karen Casciotti from Stanford #asm2012
Produced by related group of bacteroidetes. Try to find receptor#asm2012
Getting more #Starbucks cards for booth 310. Stop by, fill out a quick NGS survey & get yours #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/Xp9uH0sW
Lipkin: seals can also be intermediates for avian/human flu viruses (similar to pigs, lung cells can bind both) #asm2012
Lipkin: "Zoonosis is a 2-way street" #asm2012
Lipkin: Industrial food production can also lead to new viruses, animals lack UV light, low vitamin D #asm2012
BW: looking at the effects of heating atmosphere through the lens of nitrate #asm2012
Colony formation in S. rosetta regulated by associated bacterium. Bacteroidetes algoriphagus. RIF-1 sulfonolipid signal #asm2012awesome!
The #ASM2012 meeting is underway in San Franciscohttp://bit.ly/NKmqkc
Greg Schuneman
Seeing all of @bacteriality 's #asm2012 tweets makes that ASM student membership seem very enticing
BW: what controls their relative importance? Organic matter composition. #asm2012
BW: anammox and regular denitrification are important to different levels in different places #asm2012
Conserved mechanisms in interactions. Looking for models#asm2012
NK: ubiquity of interactions between modern animals & bacteria hint at a really ancient influence in animal origins #asm2012
BW: recent work by Strous shows anammox can produce nitrate, but it's still a net nitrate loss #asm2012
BW: now denitrification, anammox #asm2012
Lipkin: estimated 1 million viruses left to be discovered; modeling suggests where to look (hotspots). #asm2012
Lipkin #asm2012 major contamination of PCE reagents with Methylbacteria
Collared cell key trait in common ancestor? key prediction#asm2012
BW: Sargasso Sea bugs are representative of the whole world so they are important to understand. #asm2012
NK: could the last common ancestor of all animals been a bacterivore? #asm2012
Lipkin: challenges upcoming. 1) analyze big data 2) eliminate contaminants esp methylobacteria #asm2012
BW: pure cultures show that the rate of nitrate utilization is very fast, even at the gene expression level #asm2012
Choanocytes in sponge sim to choanoflagellate, same function. Awesome sponge video from pbs #asm2012
BW: when do they get all the nitrate- they almost never see nitrate in the surface water. #asm2012
.@jimhu @pcronald used @Storify to make a transcript (one day citable?) of a seminar livestream. #asm2012 #Storifyseminars
DealsNear.Me
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BW: looks like the surface nitrate utilizes are picoeukaryotes at BATS#asm2012
Lipkin: not all zoonoses are infections, eg neurologic illness in pork processors in MN from brain removal & aerosolization #asm2012
Choanoflagellate unicellular form colonies closest relative to animals, eat bacteria #asm2012
BW: flow cytometry separation to figure out which bugs were using it#asm2012
BW: deep water fractionation of N is consistent at all times, surface fractionation shows nitrate is being used by something #asm2012
SM: Toll-like receptor 2 is required to protect host from chemically induced colitis #ASM2012
Unapproved statement from Nicole king. First animals bacteriovores#asm2012
Microbiology Lab of Future Driven Thru Automation. Dameron Hospital speaker on bioMérieux InBooth Knowledge Forum 10.55am booth1301 #asm2012
Not registered 4 bioMérieux Scientific Symposium 2nite? Stop by#asm2012 booth1301 to sign up! @David_Gergen speaker at this special event!
Check out the range of @ThermoSci innovations on display at#ASM2012 via @AmericanLab http://ow.ly/bEu7s
Myron Levine,winner of the prestigious Hilleman Award, is giving his lecture at 9:15 am PT in room 103 at the convention center#asm2012 ^lg
BW: the Sargasso Sea is where the small guys have really come into their own. Prochlorococcus. #asm2012
Lipkin: Lujo virus, 2008, Zambia. Travel agent sick, transmitted to 3 others, all 4 died. New arenavirus, reservoir unknown #asm2012
Fungi are the only group of microbes shown to cause extinction (ala Arturo Casadaval quoted by Lipkin) #asm2012
Tyler Nelson
"Fungi are the only type of organism that has convincingly shown to cause extinction." #asm2012
1300 On Fillmore
Hey #asm2012 attendees! Come on over for happy hour and a great dinner when you're done today! We'd love to see you!
BW: very slow nitrification at BATS- super oligotrophic- corresponds with Amm ox arch kinetics #asm2012
Nicole king: stromatolites are fossils of bacterial biofilms! #asm2012
Lipkin: fungal diseases also very important emerging diseases--white nose, frog deaths, asthma? etc #asm2012
Stromatolites! #asm2012
SM finds that bacterial sugars can protect the host gut from inflammation #ASM2012
RobertShafer: deep sequencing on viruses to ask if a single point mutation is relevant #asm2012
Ian Lipkin #asm2012 - pre-SARS Hong Kong had ad campaign "Hong Kong will take your breath away"
BW: so what about oxygen minimum zones (OMZ)? Amm ox bact/arch maybe not obligate aerobes #asm2012
Good morning #ASM2012! Follow us to find out what#ThermoScientific has to offer today. And head on to booth 1015 to chat to our colleagues.
Comparative genomic approach #asm2012
BW: the reason for a lot of nitrate in the deep ocean is because of low consumption there. Nitrification is slow in the deep ocean#asm2012
Lipkin: West Nile virus discovery really solidified need for one health paradigm #asm2012
Sarkis Mazmanian: gut microbiome composition shifts in inflammatory bowel diseased individuals #ASM2012
Independent origins of multicellular life lca of animals and fungi unicellular #asm2012
that & inter-rectal injection are both glossary adds! “@aetiology: "Fecal flotation" tests I love #asm2012 just for the new terms I learn.”
First protist and euk fossils coincides w oxygen in atmosphere#asm2012
Now: Ian Lipkin on microbe hunting #asm2012
Miriam Goldstein
MT @aetiology: Otters die from T. gondii encephalitis, also those infected 3.7x more likely to be chomped by sharks #asm2012#DeepSN
BW: source of nitrate is nitrification. Not all done in deep water- fastest at about 100m where N cycling in general is fastest#asm2012
Next up Rachel Brem, again on pathway regulation in Fungi#asm2012
Next up: Ian Lipkin on Microbe Hunting #asm2012
Traditional idea of animal evolution 2.5 bill yrs of unicellular life, aquatic bacteria #asm2012
BW: nitrate is the dominant form of N in the ocean #asm2012
Debi
Makes sense -> RT @aetiology: Loss of wetlands can mean higher levels of parasites moving from land to sea; less filtering #asm2012
BW: nitrate pool in deep water is separated from that of the surface.#asm2012
Transition to multicellularity, environment, phagotrophy,#asm2012interspecies competition
Johnson: transcription networks aren't finished products, they are diversifying and adapting rapidly #asm2012
Only cats shed Toxoplasma locusts = disease in many other animals (including people) #asm2012
BW: looking at the N cycle "through the lens of nitrate" #asm2012
Johnson: Circuit intercalation preserves ancestral logic while adding novelty #asm2012
RT @aetiology: Loss of wetlands can mean higher levels of parasites moving from land to sea; less filtering #asm2012 #DeepSN
BW: microbial N cycle- nothing molecular! #asm2012
How bacteria influenced orig of animals #asm2012
Nicole king berkeley orig and evolution of interaction #asm2012
Johnson: regulators and logic of circuit may be conserved but network of genes regulated in different fungi species varies widely#asm2012
Now Bess Ward from Princeton #asm2012
Hygiena
Theodore White "hsp90 and calcineurin inhibitors turn fungalstatic into fungalcidal" does this change resistance development rate?#asm2012
RT @aetiology: Loss of wetlands can mean higher levels of parasites moving from land to sea; less filtering #asm2012
Loss of wetlands can mean higher levels of parasites moving from land to sea; less filtering #asm2012
Sharon Deml presents on Sensititre SLOMYCO ® Plate for Susceptibility Testing of Slowly-Growing, Nontuberculous Mycobacteria now @ #ASM2012.
Iwasaki: Interrectal injection of LPS in antibiotic treated mice restores virus-specific immune responses #ASM2012
DJ: dsrAB gives a very reproducible fractionation of 11 per ml, much smaller than expected #asm2012
BioLibélula
eeewwww! Remote controls: one of the most heavily contaminated items with bacteria in hotel rooms ->http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/asfm-tmc061312.php #asm2012
DJ: enzyme specific fractionation experiments (instead of whole organism) to define pathways. DsrAB #asm2012
Wild cats have higher levels of T. gondii (bobcats, mountain lions, feral kitties); feral & bobcats shed the most #asm2012
Want to learn about Detection of Group A Streptococcus from Throab Swabs by PCR using Roche and Focus ASRs? Catch Jim Uhl @ 10:45am #ASM2012
"Fecal flotation" tests to detect T. gondii oocysts. I love #asm2012just for the new terms I learn.
DJ: when you look at the fractionation of thiosulfate, you get a really big signal #asm2012
DJ: loss of fractionation signal using sulfite is due to neglect of thiosulfate #asm2012
Pseudoaltero also promotes coral settlement and sea urchin#asm2012
DJ: sulfite is Penn Station. Everything goes through sulfite.#asm2012
DJ: ...attribute that to a microorganism. Now we're pushing those limits. #asm2012
DJ: for the last 40 years, sulfur fractionation was restrained to a limit, meaning that if you saw anything under that limit... #asm2012
Wow Toxoplasma gondii oocysts are tough! Soaking them in bleach doesn't stop them from being infective! #asm2012
Reef coral settlement. Internal fertilization release larvae that settle on biofilm, form polyps #asm2012
Dr. Elli Theel talks about the identification of yeast using a direct on-plate extraction method today at 10:45am. #ASM2012
Found operon in pseudaltero promotes settlement, not altering biofilm structure. Blast search didn't help #asm2012
Drat! Ran out of last year's Microbial Pride buttons I brought:http://www.cafepress.com/cp/moredetails.aspx?showBleed=false&ProductNo=588216656&colorNo=0&pr=F. Sorry!#microrulz #asm2012
DJ: their chemostat studies were done with Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough #asm2012
P Conrad: Dz causing agents on land can affect our oceans#asm2012
Disease-causing agents on land can affect health of ocean inhabitants #asm2012
DJ: this inverse relationship can now be used to look at geochemistry #asm2012
DJ: inverse relationship between sulfate reduction rate and sulfur fractionation. #asm2012
Oocysts from cat feces likely source of T. gondii for otters #asm2012
Cytophaga lytica, pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea pro settlement from ocean, atcc strain doesn't #asm2012 #phyloisnteverything
.@DrValleyFever Who are you watching discuss coccidioides?#ASM2012
DJ: experimental sulfur fractionation data comes from batch cultures, now chemostats, both pure and enrichments. #asm2012
Iwasaki shows using mice with modified immune systems that autophagy is important to virus detection #ASM2012
Toxoplasma infections makes sea otters more likely to be killed by sharks #asm2012
Otters die from not only T. gondii encephalitis, but those infected also 3.7x more likely to be chomped by sharks #asm2012
Satoshi Kawaichi
RT @DrJCThrash: DJ: each different sulfur metabolism has a distinct fractionation when minor isotopes are included. #asm2012
Loving the cute pictures! MT @bacteriality: #asm2012 kittens, otters a beautiful ocean vista and a nasty Protozoa #asm2012
Key to settlement diverse biofilm on surface, not a particular bacterium #asm2012
Toxoplasma gondii infection of sea otters - can cause protozoal encephalitis. Poor sea otters! #asm2012
Nicola Wardrop
Sea otters endangered by toxoplasma gondii encephalitis, federally threatened species #asm2012
Collect marine biofouling polychaete by putting PVC panel in water.#asm2012
DJ: the whole goal is getting experimental evaluation of fractionation so the geochemical record can be interpreted. #asm2012
DJ: each different sulfur metabolism has a distinct fractionation when minor isotopes are included. #asm2012
Bacteria were there first, larvae had tides with it from the beginning#asm2012
Clock of earth history- nice infographic! #asm2012
Iwasaki discusses the various immune system sensors that detect viruses at #ASM2012
Intertidal banding selective settlement of larvae. Soluble and adsorbed factors #asm2012
My poster is up, board 1399. Conveniently close to the restrooms#asm2012 #microarray #bacteria #coral disease
DH: sulfur isotope fractionation is huge and can be used to track sulfur geochemistry #asm2012
Michael hadfield "lowest chordates" ? Marine biofilms interact w invert larvae #asm2012
First up: Patricia Conrad, Division Z lecturer on Otters, Oocysts and Oceans #asm2012
Unseen forces microbes shape animal biology #asm2012
David Johnson from Harvard on sulfate reducers #asm2012
Hear Brian Lucas talk about Improved Pyrazinamide Broth Susceptibility Testing for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Complex at 10:45am. #ASM2012
RT @aetiology : @Typhi: "If you care about human health, you have to care about animal health and environmental health" #onehealth#asm2012
And by happy coincidence, the first talk starts with a picture of a nebula #starwarstheme #asm2012
Iwasaki is this year's winner of the Eli Lilly and Co. Research Award. Congrats! #ASM2012
In the Cmte on Undergraduate Education Board mtg. A lot accomplished and now we'll see what new ideas we can come up with! #asm2012
Flitting between One Health and Microbes Shape Animal Biology sessions this morning. #toughchoices #asm2012
Listen to Bess Ward, award winner, at 8:45 am PT in the Esplanade Ballroom 305/307 give her talk about nitrate consumption #asm2012^lg
this one is my 1st stop today as well. “@aetiology: #asm2012 first session today, One Health convened by @Typhi Room 103”
And continuing the star wars theme from the opening night, we have Christopher Lee talking about phenotype sequencing later on#asm2012
My poster is up- 2092 way in the back. I'll be presenting from 1:00-2:45pm #asm2012
Back for the second full day at #ASM2012. I'll spend my morning watching the session "Microbes Trigger and Shape Immunity."
Excited for transcript talks #asm2012
Interrogating genome session at #asm2012 about to get started, first up Alexander Johnson on transcription circuit evolution
Ahhh, #asm2012 seats my chiropractor Thanks you from the bottom of his wallet!
Contamination-free pumping results in improved efficiency. Take a look at some products at the #ThermoScientific booth 1015#ASM2012
Are you in San Francisco? Come visit DNASTAR at #asm2012 . We are in booth 1518, offering live Lasergene demos from 10:45 - 4:00.
I need Hermione Granger's time-turner to be in multiple places at once to see multiple talks at #asm2012
Day 9 of marathon conference trip & I have hit the wall. Today will mostly be fuelled by caffeine and microbial community spirit!#asm2012
If you're at #ASM2012 this week don't miss the Idaho Tech Booth #514! Check out the FilmArray, new targets, and collect the next bug magnet!
Scott Cunningham discusses Identification of Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Aerobic Bacteria at #ASM2012 today at 10:45am.
Arash Komeili
“@aetiology: Note to organizers: scheduling business mtgs before buses start ain't good for attendance #asm2012 #7amwtf” seriously?
Akiko Iwasaki, winner of the 2012 Eli Lilly Award, is hosting a lecture at 8:15 am PT in the Convention Center, room 104 #asm2012 ^lg
Renewing ASM m'ship yesterday proved gd plan when got back2hotel room last night2find my pjs missing.Free tshirt came in useful! #asm2012
Here's an idea. A TV remote coliform containment condom:#ASM2012 study in hotel rooms. Stay away from TV remote!http://ow.ly/bE54u”
Looking forward to following #asm2012, thanks to everyone tweeting
Support @Typhi (Stan Maloy) and the effort to disseminate microbial literacy! An example: http://academy.asm.org/index.php/colloquium-program/browse-all-reports/390-ecolifaq #asm2012
Getting set to see several microTweeps today: @DrChrisKellogg and@NatureRevMicro. Then former students. Then obsess about talk#asm2012
No paranoia, we have immune system. RT @bioworld: #ASM2012study on bacteria in hotel rooms. Stay away from TV remote!http://ow.ly/bE54u
Wiley Health Medical
RT @microbiology_wb: Attending #ASM2012 today? Come visit us at the Wiley-Blackwell Stand 724 for the Pathogens and Disease event from 11am
New blog post- Experiencing the culture & climate of ASM, Day 1 on our website: http://bit.ly/LfPeQ3 #keepingitreal #asm2012
Merck Millipore Bio 
Seeding Labs
Are you at #asm2012? bring this flier http://www.daigger.com/about-us/tradeshows.jsp to the Daigger booth and they will donate $5 to Seeding Labs
Siemens Healthcare
Last day at #ASM2012 ! Come see Siemens’ broad microbiology testing portfolio @Booth 701. http://bit.ly/LguV4W
Stop by booth 723 at #asm2012 for a free sample of our alternative to SuperScript II – equal performance, ½ the price!http://ow.ly/i/HK9B
Lots of APHL staff are attending! RT @chrisnmangal: Excited to be attending this year's @ASMicrobiology General Meeting #ASM2012
Another busy day ahead at #asm2012. Interrogating genomes, 100 years of phage, lunch with @markowenmartin and then some bioenergy talks
wrt to Bt caterpillar killing talk from yesterday: RT @BigSporkDaggler: no it really doesn't! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20338765#asm2012
BioWorld Today
Just in time for #BIO2012: #ASM2012 study on bacteria in hotel rooms. Stay away from that TV remote! http://ow.ly/bE54u
Attending #ASM2012 today? Come visit us at the Wiley-Blackwell Stand 724 for the Pathogens and Disease event from 11am
Adam M. Goldstein 
The EEO Blogger 
Female Scientist
So cool to see a young female on the #asm2012 livehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGdiu_TIX_A&feature=youtu.be
Kids love schwag #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/l47AxTpk
Video of ASM-Live w/ me,K. Kirsch & S. Malloy on "Microbial Analysis of Environmental Surfaces in Hotel Rooms"http://youtu.be/KGdiu_TIX_A #ASM2012
Heather Quinn 
Ken Yaw Agyeman-Badu 
Maya Amichay
MT @phylogenomics: Uploaded vid of my talk on #microBEnet from#ASM2012-http://ow.ly/bDUu7-not my best but still feel like I should share
Abt 50% correct GO annot, more nearly right. Not bad. Compares very well w machine annot #asm2012
Will come up again Tues 3pm Rm 305 MT @JoshRosenau :public respects scientists but 2/3 cant name living scientist. #asm2012
Very impressed by the diversity of attendees at ASM this year. For example... #ASM2012 http://pic.twitter.com/SEtftAGb
Emmanuel Adukwu
Some protein families appear to be better represented in the diseased state, many of which appear to be involved in stress response #ASM2012
“@phylogenomics: Ross says the bottled water she has surveyed has 100x as many microbes as tap water #asm2012” may change my shopping habits
Think about annotation process when writing papers...good idea, tough to implement #asm2012
"@Free_Nelson: #asm2012 life lesson: don't ever get a monkey as a pet...or a Komodo dragon." or a rattlesnake!
Friends of ABG at #asm2012 link up at Foleys Irish Pub on O'Farrell and Powell at 9 on Monday (243 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco)
.@JoshRosenau: public names LIVING scientists like Eisnstein or Sagan (both dead) or Bill Gates or Dr Oz (Not scientists) #FAIL#asm2012
Li: found that some genera are significantly impacted by Chron's disease. It looks like the disease suppresses them #ASM2012
Ross says the bottled water she has surveyed has 100x as many microbes as tap water #asm2012
Speaker uses anecdata as plural of anecdote! #asm2012
Ignorance may be bliss in this case.... @phylogenomics #ASM2012
. @JoshRosenau : the public respects scientists and wants to hear from them! But 2/3 can't name a living scientist. #asm2012
Student teams compete. Choose any protein they want. #asm2012
Ross: shows slide with lots of gunk and microbes and says she wants to show us pic of what we are drinking from tap #asm2012
.@JoshRosenau: NIH director Francis Collins is an evangel Christian but has no prob w/evolution--can connect w/religious audiences#asm2012
Li: 6 monozygotic twin pairs exhibiting healthy/diseased conditions. Conducted quantitative community proteomics on stool samples#ASM2012
Identical twins and crohns disease #asm2012
Now up at #asm2012 Kimberly Ross discussing microbes in municipal drinking water
shd have said are /often/ given to cats with cat bites #asm2012
Hierarchical label in gene ontology helps w searching #asm2012
Li: Crohn's disease is a poorly understood, complex disease of the human gut #ASM2012
Shd we give "prophylactic" antibs to ppl who present early with bite wounds?Are given to cats with cat bites in UK. #asm2012
+1 RT @JoshRosenau: Dear scientists, Fewer words per slide, please. Love, your audience. #asm2012
“@ASMicrobiology: Who is going to the #asm2012 Poster Hall Networking Reception tonight in Hall C from 5:30pm-6:30pm?” I'm considering it.
Couple annotation to teaching. Students make GO annot w CACAO#asm2012
100S ribosomes!!! #ASM2012
Curation rate limiting step #asm2012 crowdsourcing
Lists of genes, figure out new functions. Ask a biochemist? Prob not. Curation #asm2012
Hey #asm2012 , are there grad students/nice people who want to pal around downtown San Francisco? Dinner/drinks or something?
Competitive annotation of gene function #asm2012 cool!
Cat bite tenosynovitis! Ouch! #asm2012
Humeida: of 3 sequenced symbiont genomes (are there more? Maybe I misunderstood), surprisingly sparse for secondary metabolism. #asm2012
RT @physicsdavid: Photo shown of testicular bite received while owner teaching pit bull to bite. Serves him right! #asm2012
RT @phylogenomics: Sanko says he refers to rare microbes as "the less than 1%" #asm2012
Humeida: sponges filter 50,000L seawater per day (!?); efflux sterile. Contain bewildering variety of associated microbes. #asm2012
Pasteurella in cat bites>dog bites. P. multocida in cat bites but P. canis more common in dog bites #asm2012
Photo shown of testicular bite received while owner teaching pit bull to bite. Serves him right! #asm2012
Using cDNA from transcripts can help identify rare organisms that are active in a community. #ASM2012
Allison Brady
Controversies in transplantation session time #asm2012
Some very grim pictures being shown in bite talk! #asm2012
Hentschel-Humeida: sponge microbiome review of findings. Developed single-cell whole genome amplification method.#asm2012
Chandler: some microbes also eavesdrop on competitors QS signals - think gives adv to microbes just below the critical conc for QS#asm2012
Only deep-sea nitrite organizers found were Nitrospirae. Low abundance genes but high transcripts. Rare but active. #ASM2012
BB: called these new bugs DONN- they and Thaumarchaea were most dominant at depth based on mRNA (I think I got that last part).#asm2012
Cat bites mostly on hands. Dog bites distributed more widely over human body. #asm2012
Sanko says he refers to rare microbes as "the less than 1%"#asm2012
Dog bites: mostly on men. Cat bites: mostly on women#interestingfact #asm2012
Cats and dogs bite different body parts preferentially. No cat bites to head and feet but lots of dog bites #asm2012
Cool - John Sanko finding halothermophilic microbes in flue gas desulfurization system slurries #asm2012
BB: however, Nitrospira were very low in rRNA 0.3%. No other known nitrite oxidizer rRNAs tho #asm2012
Zoonoses session def put me off travelling and pet ownership#asm2012
BB: good homology with Nitrospira nitrite reductases, also other transcripts match Nitrospira #asm2012
Chandler: QS important for Antimicrobial synthesis and competition in soil microbes - cool competition assays - FIGHT! #asm2012
Oh: skin disease lowers bacterial diversity #asm2012
Ammonia-oxidizing Archaens can make up 40% of the cells in the deep sea. #ASM2012
BB: focusing on resolving which bugs are responsible for nitrite oxidation. #asm2012
BB: marine group II Euryarchaea amino acid transport transcripts were high. #asm2012
Baker: highly active organisms such as Alteromonas are present at low coverage #asm2012
Great day at #asm2012 we love meeting our customers & hearing about your research! Stop by booth 1616 tomorrow & say hi!
Bite wounds gen infected with oral flora of biting animal (which may reflect what that animal eats) #asm2012
Learning about the microbiology of animal bite wounds at #asm2012
BB: Alteromonas was highly active but low DNA abundance#asm2012
clin micro rev (2011) 24:231-246 makes up some of data in bite talk#asm2012
Brett Baker from U Michigan talking about de novo assembly in transcripts done w/#Hiseq on deep ocean vent communities#asm2012
BB: assembled transcripts into contigs, identified genes, to look at geochemical impacts of rare microorganisms #asm2012
Julia Oh: how primary immunity shapes bacterial communities#asm2012
Setting up camp for a few talks, so I'm adding notes to the#ASM2012 FriendFeed again: http://friendfeed.com/asm2012
BB: hydrothermal plumes introduce a lot of reduced material into the water column #asm2012
Last jump metatxomics of deep sea gulf of CA #asm2012
Excellent talk from Sally Cutler :) Now onto animal bites... #asm2012
If you have Latina students, they may be intetested in this dual language science website from Puerto Rico http://cienciapr.org/#ASM2012
S Cutler: Exotic pets come in & out of fashion. Me: pet rats are always fashionable! #asm2012
“@tjsharpton Hear that @jennymccarthy MT @phylogenomics trouble with Bordetella in Boulder b/c lots of parents don't vaccinate kids#ASM2012
Heath-Heckman: E. scolopes squid, V. fischeri bacterial symbiont. Light from bacteria regulates host cryptochrome transcription.#asm2012
mT @MicrobioEduGuy: Great talk from @aetiology on science denial, will the issue of mmr vax ever go away? #ASM2012 #autism
pcronald
Alegado: Choanoflagellate closest to multicellular animals; assoc. bacterial sphingolipid -> multicellular behavior in fM range!#asm2012
mT @kausikdatta22: #ASM2012 Tara taking the audience on a fascinating journey thru' antivax & other assorted pseudoscience. Great stuff!
S Cutler now talking about ticks that will chase you for 30m to get a bite... #puttingmeofftravelling #asm2012
mT @kausikdatta22: #ASM2012 Tara [Smith @aetiology ] chronicling the devastating effect of HIV denialism & vaccine 'skepticism'.#vaxfax
mT @kausikdatta22: #ASM2012 @aetiology lamenting sad state of science education in US, esp. the shrinkage of science coverage in news media
JH: Looks like some microbes activate immune system, leading to increased morality. #asm2012
RT @kausikdatta22: #ASM2012 @aetiology opening the session on Science Denial and the Internet [rubs palms in anticipation!!] #vaxfax
Induce septicemia with PG + Bt #asm2012
Some1 was unlucky enough 2 get lepto after giving CPR 2 some1 who drowned in a waterfall (well done the medic who got that history) #asm2012
mT @kausikdatta22: #ASM2012 Emmanuel Roilides (Aristotle U, Greece)invasive candidiasis in NICU ; neonates highest incidence :(
I'm in! RT @ASMicrobiology: Who is going to the Poster Hall Networking Reception tonight in Hall C from 5:30pm-6:30pm?#asm2012
Aspirin and ibuprofen protect caterpillars against Bt #asm2012
JH notes that willow diet reduces catapiller death. Willow contains antiinflammatories #asm2012
Very interesting talk of thomas bosch about tumors in hydra, at#asm2012
mT @kausikdatta22: #ASM2012 all cases candidemia require treatment; morbidity, mortality similar to bacteremia by staph aureus - Tom Walsh
S Culter: Schistosomiasis infections rel high among travellers after swimming/kayaking/rafting on the Nile in Uganda #asm2012
Willow trees suppress effect, produce aspirin! #asm2012
Inflammatory response kills caterpillars #asm2012
Hear that Jenny McCarthy? MT @phylogenomics lots of trouble with Bordetella in Boulder b/c lots of parents don't vaccinate kids#ASM2012
Enterococcus toxic when directly injected into haemolymph#asm2012
I'll be there RT @ASMicrobiology: Who is going to the Poster Hall Networking Reception tonight in Hall C from 5:30pm-6:30pm?#asm2012
Just ran into Kelly Hughes, who taught the only official microbiology course I ever took, back in 2003 at Cold Spring Harbor #asm2012
"Availability" of examples... Do you know someone with autism vs. do you know someone with polio. This one is Huge. #robynwilson#asm2012
Model bt breaks epi, gut microbes invade #asm2012
Abstract cards = great & glad to learn about their service MT@madamian @Quartzy creative marketing is a key! #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/j30UoHqs
Handelsman: Bt killing of Lepidoptera requires the resident gut bacteria! #asm2012
Milena Adamian
Who is going to the #asm2012 Poster Hall Networking Reception tonight in Hall C from 5:30pm-6:30pm?
Enterococcus has same effect in manduca #asm2012
RT @kausikdatta22: RT @ASMicrobiology: Overheard today at#asm2012 "I got norovirus. It was awesome!" ^js (oh @EpiRen )
Hernandez says they have lots of trouble with Bordetella in Boulder area b/c lots of parents don't vaccinate their kids #ASM2012
S Cutler currently putting me off exotic holidays! Rodent infestations, snakes, fleas, mosquitos... #asm2012
Zwittermicin effect not based on just killing gut microbes. Bt activity dependent on gut microbes -enterobacter #asm2012
JH knocked down community abundance and found that larval mortality dropped. Pathogen susceptibility depends on gut microbes#asm2012
Hernandez now discussion PhD thesis work of Jordan Peccia who is speaking later #ASM2012 http://www.eng.yale.edu/peccialab/
Tremulacin attacks gut wall. B. Cereus zwittermicin a synergizes, also w tobacco hookworm #asm2012
Did JH just say "lower Eukaryotes" ? #asm2012
prob still better than home though RT @phylogenomics: Kirsch: hotel room surfaces can appear clean but may be very very dirty#asm2012
Didn't attend for same reason #dontwannaknow RT @tjsharpton I had to leave out of fear I could never stay at a hotel again #asm2012
Aeroplane travel - it's not just us that's travelling on the aeroplanes, arthropods are as well! #asm2012
Elizabeth Heath heckman: squid can sense light from bacteria and modulate expression of cry1 #asm2012
Dr. Castillas Martinez engages "invisible students" -- those that dont qualify for typical university programs -- in her research. #ASM2012
JH finds that diet influences pathogen-infected catapiller mortally rates. Suggests commensals play a role #asm2012
Mark Finnagon
RT RT @DrJCThrash: JA: built environment easier to control than nature, easier to replicate. #asm2012
RT RT JA: built environment easier to control than nature, easier to replicate. #asm2012
Aspen, willow change effect of bt. Aspen produce phenolics synergies w bt #asm2012
JH: plant diet effects Bt killing efficacy #asm2012
People driven by emotional value of loss, not likelihood, in assessing risk #robynwilson #asm2012
Leptospirosis: now seeing recurrent epidemics. ?assoc with climatic change/change of land use/growth of urban slums? #asm2012
Firmicutes enterococci, staph, proteos enterobacter, pantoea. Diet effects on flora #asm2012
Catapillers have an orally acquired pathogen, commentary organisms, and dietary variation #asm2012
Dr. Casillas Martinez recognized for being an excellent mentor of hispanic women from low income homes. #ASM2012
JH: Bacillus thuringiensis kill insects with crystal toxin #asm2012#newbandnames
Bt pathogen for Lepidoptera, tobacco hornworm and gypsy moth.#asm2012
Wait, what's the point of listening to marketers if we can't trick people into making good decisions??? #robyneilson #asm2012
JH uses the catapiller gut as a model to study host-gut community interactions. #asm2012
correction re: last tweet -- speaker was Christopher Rath. Apologies!#ASM2012
Sticking with the gut theme, next up Jo Handelsman and the caterpillar gut microbiome & disease #asm2012
Yay callipitters #asm2012
Talk about microbiome of caterpillar guts! #asm2012
DR
Word. RT @JoshRosenau: Dear scientists, Fewer words per slide, please. Love, your audience. #asm2012”
S Cutler:Are we better thinking of zoonotic infections as multi-host pathogens rather than human infections acquired from animals?#asm2012
Now Jo Handelsman from Yale on the caterpillar gut #microbiome#asm2012
Did they look at that?! “@PMOrwin: @surt_lab @drjcthrash things you do not want to know. Sleep on the floor #asm2012 #bassbeckingfail”
Mark Hernandez using methods to introduce known amount of microbes into aerosols #asm2012
F. Cunningham on the discovery of provitamin A synthesis, Vitamin A deficiency and the creation of Golden Rice http://sfy.co/f0G1#asm2012
Nicholas Rath mass spec as a platform for spatial systems biology, re: effects of microbiome on metabolism #ASM2012
Next up is Jo Handelsman #asm2012
Dear scientists, Fewer words per slide, please. Love, your audience.#asm2012
Can I just say I want to be Mark Hernandez when I grow up?#asm2012
Now up at #asm2012 Mark Hernandez on stability of airborne microbes to master environmental variables
I really love the uploaded discussion videos so far...very informative#asm2012 ;)
Mark Hernandez (UC Boulder): Stability of airborne microbes to master environmental variables. #asm2012. http://ff.im/YTaLs
Comparing to germ free mice identifies microbiome specific signaling molecules #asm2012
Cyrus Radfar
Imaging mass spec is just amazing. See this review from Dorrestein and co for more info #asm2012http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/journal/v9/n9/abs/nrmicro2634.html
Can then innoculate germ free mice with microbes and compare mass spec profiles from mice with different microbes #asm2012
SaPI mobilization more complex than previously thought phage can protect selves from SaPI co-option #asm2012
Known unknowns and unknown unknowns!#Rumsfeldwasamassspectroscopist #asm2012
Rath uses computational techniques to deconvolute complex mass spec data. Can find small molecules. #asm2012
KK: Housekeepers only have about 30 min to clean each hotel room - no time to focus on non-priority areas (light switches, remotes)#asm2012
Kirsch: sinks, sponges, and mops have a lot of potentially dangerous aerobic bacteria #asm2012.
Kirsch: hotel room surfaces can appear clean but may be very very dirty #asm2012 me: sort of like people
Air microbiome: Nicholas Be using deep sequencing/metagenomic analysis to characterize air in public spaces, like mass transit hubs#ASM2012
KK: Headboards and curtain rods were most clean as measured by metagenomics. Sounds like a challenge...#asm2012
The main light switch in hotel rooms is often coated with coliform bacteria - double yuck. #ASM2012
SaPI particles different from normal phage particles, diff size, SaPI encoded proteins force packaging of SaPI not phage #asm2012
Rath uses model commentary bacteria to study nutrient exchange#asm2012
KK: TV remote & main light switch are two of the "dirtier" spots in hotel rooms, as measured through Coliform bacteria #asm2012#microBEnet
Methanosarcina implicated in mass extinctions at Permian-Triassic boundary (with a little help of genes from Clostridium) #ASM2012
Rath uses image mass spec to model metabolic exchange in our guts #asm2012
Kirsch says HAACP protocols were used in testing hotel rooms#asm2012
Katie Kirsch : Getting a food-born illness in zero gravity would not be so great. SPACE PUKE!!!!!!! #ASM2012
I had to leave out of fear I could never stay at a hotel again@phylogenomics #asm2012
Back in the bowels, first with talk on Bifidobacterium dentium production of GABA and now imaging mass spec & gut systems biology #asm2012
Temperate phage role in transmitting other elements like SaPIs, defective phages with toxins. Super antigens! #asm2012
Hoping Kirsch focused on sampling hotels for microbes outside of San Francisco #asm2012
Cool example of how phylogenetic analysis of Methanosarcina tested a hypothesis that originated from physical science #ASM2012
Kirsch: SARS and bedbugs getting mentioned as calling attention to hotel uncleanliness #asm2012
Watching Rath discuss host microbe metabolic exchange #asm2012
Rosalin Le
RT @SpringerMicBio: #ASM2012 John Fuerst: Gemmata: bacteria(! Planctomycetes) with a nucleus-like internal structure, cell division.
Now up Katie Kirsch discussing microbial surveys of hotel Rooms#asm2012
Lots of SaPIs since I left the field. Staph genetics is crazy #asm2012
A microbial analysis of environmental surfaces in hotel rooms - gross! #ASM2012
Next up in #microBEnet #asm2012 session: Katie Kirsch talking about the microbiology of hotel rooms - disturbed yet intrigued!
Factoid for @aetiology: even as you speak, Pakistani Taliban bans polio vaccination campaign http://bit.ly/Mkme52 #ASM2012Religious madness
Scott Ouellette on distorted chlamydia shapes in penicillin analog treated cells #asm2012
Talk by Altaira Dearborn from u Alabama birmingham #asm2012
Jump to new session, talk about staph path islands and helper phage #asm2012
Stephen A Parent
RT @SpringerMicBio: #ASM2012 John Fuerst: Gemmata: bacteria(! Planctomycetes) with a nucleus-like internal structure, cell division.#in
Bifido. dentium is the primary producer of GABA in the upper ilium#asm2012
Be: Found shifts in microbial population according to season, in both abundance and composition #asm2012
Come to the convention center today at 4 pm PT in room 133 to hear an #asm2012 award winner, Lilliam Casillas‐Martinez, give her lecture.^lg
Adam Regelmann
If you have a poster at #asm2012 then you ALREADY have FREE Networking cards. Come pick them up right outside hall C.http://blog.quartzy.com/poster-cards-for-asm/
Be: Collected aerosol material from public facilities over 1 yr, used PE Illumina seq and mapped reads to taxonomic IDs #asm2012
That's it @FakeEisen, I'm including @kimkardashian in all future@phylogenomics #asm2012 tweets. I know she loves you work.
Permian-Triassic extiction 252 mya killed 96% of marine life! (including giant sea scorpions) #ASM2012
Giant viruses 'giruses' can have viruses of their own: 'virophages.' Wow. #asm2012
Nicholas Be from Lawrence Livermore: What microbes surround large highly mobile populations, and what forces act on them?#asm2012
Pick up a free copy of your favorite ASM journal! Here today til 4, Exhibit Hall booth 1308 #asm2012 ^nr
Yingfei Ma: DNA Virome in the Human Distal Esophagus #asm2012http://ff.im/YT78I
Yep, that's my PI RT @PatrikD: #asm2012 @phylogenomics: "I'm recording this talk & will be posting it later even tho asm will be pissed off"
FakeEisen
Eisen: Great perspectives on science and social media. Sharing is not just caring, it's good science. #asm2012
Reminder, we have a public friendfeed going for archiving#ASM2012 notes: http://friendfeed.com/asm2012
I'm bouncing around concurrent sessions for the next few talks, so I'll be less active, esp on FF. #ASM2012
Just kidding. #asm2012
ASM police crash through the door and throw @phylogenomics to the ground. #asm2012
Rohwer: black reef =algal microbial mat crawling along bottom; microbial mediated iron cycling. Bacteria = shock troops. #asm2012
Not tweeting his own #ASM2012 talk, but "I am recording slides and audio of this talk, which I'll post on the web later" - @phylogenomics
"Tteach someone to share and you help them (and everyone) for a lifetime" @phylogenomics at #asm2012 #microBEnet session
Ninevi
Phew, finished presenting my poster at #ASM2012! A rarity when I get to talk science in more than 1 language. So many cool people!
JE drawing laughs for mentioning he's recording his talk and might be pissinh off ASM #asm2012
Great talk from @aetiology on science denial, will the issue of mmr vaccinations ever go away? #ASM2012
JE wants MORE TWITTER FEEDS. Give him what he wants!#asm2012
My new goal is to get the work "Eukaryotes" into @phylogenomics 's word cloud figures when he gives talks #asm2012 #microBEnet
Terrible anti vax rapper, someone is wrong on internet #asm2012
Rohwer now talking about black reefs - iron from shipwrecks causes algal overgrowth on reef, killing corals #asm2012
Scientists should use social media as a powerful tool for sharing scientific information, e.g. Facebook groups to build communities#asm2012
microBEnet: @phylogenomics: keeping up w/ literature can be burdensome, highlights Mendeley '(like EndNote w/ Facebook mixed in') #ASM2012
Bloody twitter autocorrect changes tweeps to twerps! #asm2012
microBEnet : Adding value by talking with one another. Hear that,@FakeElsevier? #ASM2012
Eisen: Using Mendeley to create social references of literature: EndNote meets FaceBook #asm2012
Rohwer: cites Dave Zawada's work showing coral GFP fluorescence changes when coral is stressed, incl when encroached by algae #asm2012
Yep - now all we need is more Sake RT @DrJCThrash:@phylogenomics talk is basically a tweet-up with a lot of crashers.#asm2012 #asmtweetup
Scientists can't avoid Internet, will become irrelevant #asm2012microbe world aetiology
“@surt_lab: @phylogenomics fails to rep @kittymicrobiome duringhttp://microBE.net session at #asm2012 sad panda” Go#pandamicrobiome!!
Sending chickenpox thru the mail. Isn't that bioterrorism? #asm2012
Rohwer: interfaces btw corals and algae have their own unique bacterial community, incl Vibrios #asm2012
Apparently, if you are @phylogenomics, you can get paid to blog and tweet. Where do I sign up? ;) #ASM2012
Low vaccination rates in parts of Oregon, chicken pox parties#asm2012
“@bacteriality: #asm2012 I think @phylogenomics gets paid per tweet! This explains so much!!” like @kimkardashian!
JE wants feedback, content ideas for http://microBE.net #asm2012
PBCV-1 encodes 11 tRNAs and is doing transcription just 10min post infection. #ASM2012
NVIC and IMCV stealth anti-vaxxers. Deny herd immunity wtf?#asm2012
Rohwer: corals win against CCA in uninhabited areas; near people turf algae wins over coral. #asm2012
Girus PBCV-1 infects Chlorella that are usually symbiotic in Paramecium bursaria #ASM2012
Jenny McCarthy body count. Push back! autism correlates with Jenny McCarthy fame #asm2012
If you collaborate with JA and you're in the room, you're getting pointed out. #asm2012
Rohwer: degraded, overfished reef favors lots more microbes incl pathogens bc more algae exuding DOC #asm2012
And Jenny McCarthy of course #asm2012
Great poster session. Now for a talk on fungal pathogens before heading to a Staph talk. #asm2012
Eisen notes that DNA based investigations have been readily adopted among researchers of some communities, but not others.#ASM2012
Kelly Cowan
Vaccines -bill maher and Mayim bialik. Bill maher denies germ theory!#asm2012
Rohwer: Corals & crustose coraline algae are rebar and cement of reef #asm2012
Love that I can follow "Soundbites to Superbugs" session while also learning about campy - thanks to all tweeting at #asm2012
Jon Eisen: new approaches to studying microbes in the built environment are culture independent, incl NGS #asm2012
Lots of people died because of Christine maggiore and thabo mbeke including her and her daughter, website still alive #asm2012
wait, there was a saki tasting?!?! #ASM2012
Eisen jokes: Showing the movie Contagion on an airplane probably isn't the best idea #ASM2012
RT JA: built environment easier to control than nature, easier to replicate. #asm2012
"Viruses are the biggest source of genes on the planet." #ASM2012
Rohwer: crawling holobionts and microbial mats in corals #asm2012
Tara is using HIV, vaccine denial as examples (not creationism?)#asm2012
JA: built environment easier to control than nature, easier to replicate. #asm2012
Talk: Crawling holobionts and microbial mats: Forest Rohwer (SDSU). #asm2012 http://ff.im/YT2K1
Emily T.
I wouldn't be surprised if @phylogenomics tweeted while giving his talk. #asm2012
Free t-shirt, cookie and coffee! Stand 724, meet the editor of MicrobiologyOpen, #ASM2012
JA has a lot of apple stickers in his apple. #asm2012
Turn to Internet for science info, or stumbled upon. Amplifies misinfo.#asm2012
Manuela Raffatellu
"When Good Bugs Go Bad" Forest Rohwer just handed me a pair of glasses that say "coralandphage.org 10 ^31 viruses can't be wrong"#asm2012
Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics talking about microBEnet#asm2012
Science coverage in news sucks (no kidding) #asm2012
Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) - The Microbiology of the Built Environment Network #ASM2012 http://ff.im/YT2jA
Disclaimer will use blog, tweep, etc #asm2012
Campy talk followed by the zoonoses session this afternoon for me - my fav topics :) #asm2012
Jonathan encourages more people to tweet #ASM2012, including people that "don't know what twitter is"
Talk "science denial and the Internet" #asm2012
This is going to be a highly redundant session! #asm2012
On to @phylogenomics talk on built environment micro. I can see at least four other tweeps @Dr_Bik @ryneches @surt_lab @tjsharpton#asm2012
Having a blast at #asm2012! Can't wait to hear @David_Gergenpresent tonight during the bioMérieux Scientific Symposium at 6pm
Finally managed to get iPad functionality. Blame the comp illiterate user. Ready to live tweet from Dr. Tara Smith's session #asm2012
Good point, Tuesday not tomorrow! Days are a muddle right now RT@wragbags: @NatureRevMicro @_zoonotica_ #microtwjc #asm2012Tuesday surely
mmmm.... “@aetiology: Also, tweetup in poster hall at 5:30? Supposed to be beer somewhere there... #asm2012”
Good to meet @_zoonotica_ for lunch today - if you are following#asm2012 then why not check out the fourth #Microtwjc tomorrow!
ditto “@NatureRevMicro: Jumping between sessions this afternoon. First up, microbiology of the built environment w/ @phylogenomics#asm2012”
Dr. Bauman's presentation on #cryptococcosis @ #asm2012. He'll be on again tomorrow at 11am booth 1025http://pic.twitter.com/HV5zM8F5
In the ASM Div W mtg at #asm2012. Elizabeth . Emmert reporting out on working document of ASM Teaching Lab Biosafety Guidelines.
Chk out bigger than life #ASMCUE pics at the @ASMicrobiologybooth in row 1600 at #asm2012. Thx for ur photo releases!http://pic.twitter.com/9Pa4s9bs
I just saw your name on board as I was walking by. Congratulations. “@phylogenomics: I has been elected #AAM #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/WhJcR7BQ”
Jumping between sessions this afternoon. First up, microbiology of the built environment with @phylogenomics #asm2012
Carotenoid biosynthesis pathway "in living color" http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0168945210000956-gr2.jpg#ASM2012 #goldenrice
Hisham Rana, MD
Blog: "Fecal Matter Hiding in Hotel Rooms" by Jenniffier M. Mahand, M.D. http://abcn.ws/NIsvO0 - Presented at #ASM2012.
Well, ur a great mentor! RT @MicrobeDoc: So proud of the#BestResearchStudentsEver presenting posters at #asm2012!http://pic.twitter.com/BqkiA7Om
These great #asm2012 sessions should inspire you to vote for#grandmicrochallenges. We want your ideas! More info:http://academy.asm.org/challenges ^kl
Day isn't over yet #asm2012 ppl! Come meet us at booth 1625. Learn about @Labguru #researchmanagement tool & get cool gifts. See U there.
Adam Rogers
I may have stolen a bottle of sake from that tasting. I may have stolen two. For science. #asm2012
Meet the author of our Culture Dish blog! @SuzyScientist will be at booth 1616 at #asm2012 to answer your technical questions!
L. Barth Reller, award winner, is hosting an interactive quiz about#microbiology.Come to the Esplanade Ballroom 304 at 3 pm PT!#asm2012 ^lg
Christine Clarke
Hiro Imachi has a brilliant solution to continuous-flow bioreactors: dripping sterile seawater thru sponges in an anaerobic tube#asm2012
I waited for Miles Archer here, but he never showed up.#maltesefalcon #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/HXbFFK7h
Thomas Richards
Prepping for #ASM2012 session I am chairing "The Great Indoors: Recent Advances in the Ecology of Built Environments"http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2012/06/coming-up-at-asm2012-mtg-great-indoors.html
The most stable zero-oxygen conditions - demo the Bugbox at booth 1534. #asm2012
excellent. Cheers! “@ryneches: @scopedbylarry @Dr_Bik Sparkling sake. Kampai! #ASM2012 http://pic.twitter.com/MUqckTs2”
Also, tweetup in poster hall at 5:30? Supposed to be beer somewhere there... #asm2012
Recovered from sake? (or not? tha's ok too!) Come to "Soundbites to superbugs" 3PM 306 Esplanade ballrm 306 #ASM2012
New MIDI PLFA method more info at booth no 1036 #asm2012
repeat after me #ASM2012 presenters: NO MORE COMIC SANS!!
Guide to sake types #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/WCcp5fc5
DNA Genotek
To everyone at #asm2012, come checkout our booth (840) to find out all about Omnigene for simplified microbial DNA & RNA sample collection.
Having a great poster session #asm2012! Stop by poster 740.http://pic.twitter.com/0oTixXrJ
Tweeting might get wild after sake-tasting since many tweeters were in attendance #ASM2012
Talk: Larry Forney (U Idaho)-- Diversity in the vaginal microbiome#asm2012 http://ff.im/YSRMC
Sake tasting has successfully redefined my impression of sake (from warm spit to yum) Fave was nigori style unfiltered silky mild#ASM2012
Chuck Rice
Great session on food safety hosted by PSAB. ~400 attendees.#asm2012
Now @physicsdavid has shown up at the sake tasting. It's a science party. No seconds on koji mold-infected rice, though. #asm2012
Yay its great so many people are tweeting "@ASMicrobiology:#asm2012 still trending on Twitter. ^gm"
Sake tasting at #ASM2012! So tasty! http://pic.twitter.com/43NJiyPo
Sake tasting happening now in Room 110 at #asm2012 - love this meeting!!! http://pic.twitter.com/SCkngFXV
Rice thats been inoculated with the koji mold #asm2012http://instagr.am/p/L_RrYoh61G/
The more polish on the rice, the less protein left before fermentation. The lighter more floral the taste. Ginjo type #ASM2012
Audience comment: HMP studies in indigenous communities practice scientific colonialism if they don't include local collaborators#asm2012
All scientific conference sessions should conclude with sake tastings. #asm2012
Ethics of HMP studies: overstepping informed consent can result in consequences - like return of samples & huge fines #asm2012
Sake tasting in room 110 #ASM2012
Diversity & ethics of the human microbiome project: partnerships w/ community should have usable outcomes , not just possibilities#asm2012
Wait extracellular atp increases extracellular dna and enhances biofilm formation? #asm2012
Biofilms are critical for infection of rice xylem. Ax21 (quorum sensing) knock-outs of Xanthomonas have reduced virulence in rice.#ASM2012
Ax21 is quorum sensing molecule produced by Xanthomonas. It's recognized by XA21 (toll-like) protein in rice. #ASM2012
Exhausted! Busy day at poster 495 baby poo time series metagenomics. Thanks to all who visited #ASM2012
Andrew Thompson
XA21 has similarities to TOLL #ASM2012
Xanthomonas oryzae causes bacterial blight in rice. #ASM2012
XA21 surface molecule in rice recognizes conserved microbial signatures #ASM2012
Move over golden rice, scientists may move to putting carotene synthesis pathway into residents of the human gut microbiota#ASM2012
GM Know
I don't get star struck by movie stars but I do get fan girl around science stars!! #eep #ASM2012 #scienceconfessions
Liveblogged ASM Live livestream When Good Bugs Go Bad: Microbiome Dynamics and Disease #asm2012 on Google+:...http://ff.im/YSEhw
Penises, vaginas and bowels (and their microbiomes) done, now for lunch with @_zoonotica_. #asm2012
Two recessive mutations led to orange carrots: first mutation created yellow carrots, 2nd made orange. #ASM2012
Microbiome: CR: not enough info to connect race+microbiota+IBD at present, but links b/w race/ethnicity+microbiota provide clues#ASM2012
Kat McGowan
American Society for Microbiology meeting: A lovely weekend spent with gut bugs. #ASM2012
CM Mentoring session, round 2; stop by the #asm2012 CM Lounge (rm 112) at 1pm for Dr. Carey and Michele Pessa!http://bit.ly/CMmentor617-tw ^tg
Wild progenitor of domestic carrot was white! People like colored food, chose to breed the mutants. #ASM2012
Liveblogging "When Good Bugs Go Bad: Microbiome Dynamics" here:https://plus.google.com/104641711123551165692/posts/NLouRCRcR8j #asm2012
“@MicrobioEduGuy: Poster presentation on new @SocGenMicroalgae resource going down very well at #ASM2012 general meeting, lots of interest”
Carotenoids have high conversion to retinol when oils are present; much less efficient in absence of oil. #ASM2012
Microbiome: Courtney Robinson discussing race, microbiota, and IBD #ASM2012
Vitamin A deficiency is most severe Africa and SE Asia, affecting children and pregnant women. Leads to blindness and death.#ASM2012
At American Society for Microbiology meeting, we've heard about vaginas, teen penises, and inflamed bowels in 1 hr. Good morning!#ASM2012
Poster presentation on new @SocGenMicro algae resource going down very well at #ASM2012 general meeting, lots of interest
Are you at #ASM2012? Tell us your favorite aspect of the conference! (Elsevier booth is #1213 - stop by and say hello!)
Woodcuts from Izumi Matai's sake talk #ASM2012http://pic.twitter.com/t4i3u3zH
Come see us at #asm2012 in San Francisco today! We're at booth 1518
Matai: Junmai sake is sort of like Japan's version of German beer (only rice & water). Ginjo sake invented less than 20 years ago.#ASM2012
Izumi Matai showing more 16th century woodcuts as method illustrations. Awesome. #ASM2012
Tweets from concurrent #ASM2012 session ('culture of rice') causing major lunch cravings
Pasteurization of sake began over 300 years before Pasteur#ASM2012
The penis, a different story: Different ethnic groups in US have very similar microbe colonies, sez Indiana U's Fortenberry #ASM2012.
It seems all the #asm2012 tweeters are in this history of sake talk right now. High twitter usage correlates with interest in alcohol...
“@EpicentreBio: Attending #ASM2012? RT this and stop by booth 1617 for special giveaway” I love surprises
Sake mash relies on nitric acid reducing microbes and lactobacillus to repress wild yeasts. #ASM2012
Stephaney
Sake started out as a drink for the nobility. Isolation/purification of Koji mold allowed mass production & wide popularity #asm2012
Stephanie Joy Bouley
I love presenting at #asm2012
LizNeeley
Koji mold (Aspergillus Oryzae) is the key ingredient in the sake fermentation process. no delicious alcohol without it! #asm2012
Microbiome: penis microbiome: DF studying behaviorally mediated interactions among microbiota over time in adolescents #ASM2012
Huh. Didn't realize that sake is fermented by Aspergillus (koji) isolated with alkali ash. #ASM2012
Microbiological serendipity -- how did the Japanese discover the safe koji mold when it's "evil twins" produce deadly aflatoxins?#ASM2012
Attending #ASM2012? RT this and stop by booth 1617 for special giveaway
Mass production of pure koji mold in Japan in the 13th century!#ASM2012
Sara Reardon
Fortenberry: clothing, hygeine, circumcision, condoms, sex practices are ways culture could affect penis microbiome.#asm2012
Kate meets Julian Davies at #asm2012.#BestResearchStudentsEver #brushwithgreatnesshttp://pic.twitter.com/JAAzYRq6
Is this a grant application? 15mins and going #gettothedataplease#asm2012
8th century koji mold discovered, early sake brewing begins, sake becomes drink rather than eaten product #ASM2012
Izumi Matai showing 17th century woodcuts; wish more talk would do this! #ASM2012
"the moldy rice developed into a delicious beverage called Sake"#asm2012
When good bugs go bad - ASM Live at noon PDT, join us online, ask questions on twitter at #asm2012
LORRAINE 
Trish Whetzel
Following #ASM2012 this week
Microbiota of the teenage penis by d fortenberry Begins w a primer on postcolonial literary criticism @edwardsaid #asm2012
Original sake 2000 years ago mash was done by chewing#ASM2012
To make sake: 1. Make koji (grow mold on rice) 2. Make mash (fungal enzymes break down starch add yeast) 3. Ferment#ASM2012
10 mins in to this talk and yet to even hint at some experiments/results #gettothedata #asm2012
Photo: Moscone Center, San Francisco - site of #asm2012 (Taken with Instagram) http://tmblr.co/ZbJGIxNaN4yk
Moscone Center, San Francisco - site of #asm2012http://instagr.am/p/L_EJH4wpX0/
Now onto the guys! Dennis Fortenberry: is race meaningful for penis#microbiome? Biological or socioeconomic differences? #asm2012
Microbiome: w/i race/ethnic group differences may be just as large or larger than b/w group differences J. Dennis Fortenberry#ASM2012
I give my Roche-provided latte a rating of 4.54 out of 5 . I paired it with some syrup. #asm2012
Forney; Human Microbiome Projest excludes women w/ high vaginal pH. That is most women. #asm2012
Roche have an espresso machine. Just ordered a latte. #asm2012
The most important message from #ASM2012 : lactic acid bacteria -> beer spoilage, AAAAAAAA!
MT @scopedbylarry: #asm2012 Eva Harris: brilliant surveillance of dengue & flu in Nicaragua conducted despite unique challenges cc@EpiRen
Elizabeth Halliday
Cool, vaginal microbiome shows we need to stop labeling women as "normal" or "not"- redefine healthy to reflect diversity! #asm2012
Forney: stop making averages abt women, 40% of black&Hispanic women have unhealthy vag. microbiome according to"conventional wisdom"#asm2012
Healthy black, hispanic women have diff. vaginal bacteria than white, get labeled abnormal, sez microbiologist Larry Forney.#ASM2012
So proud of the #BestResearchStudentsEver presenting posters at#asm2012! http://pic.twitter.com/kJTgkl1i
Rice plus enzymes (mostly amylases) from koji mold (Aspergillus oryzae) turns rice starch into sugar for fermentation. #ASM2012
Microbiome: vaginal microbiome: "need to think critically and re-evaluate 'healthy' and 'normal'" (LF) #ASM2012
Tauqeer Zaidi
Being around this many microbiologist makes me realize why I love science #asm2012
Larry Forney: vaginal #microbiome varies btwn ethnic groups, normal in black & Hispanic women cld be misdiagnosed as disease#asm2012
Just talked to PacBio people at #asm2012. Very friendly. Seems like very long reads will be great for de novo assembly with Illumina.
Japanese scientist Jokichi Takamine one of the fathers of biotech--filed a patent on a microbial enzyme in the 1800s #ASM2012
Microbiome: vaginal microbiome composition: prevalence of community-state types vary among ethnic groups Larry Forney#ASM2012
Larry forney challenging the use of 'normal' to describe vaginal ph and microbiota. Science w conscientiousness #asm2012
The #asm2012 exhibit is hopping! Come by booth 310, take a short survey on next gen seq and get a $10 #Starbucks card.
Come visit the MIDI booth no. 1036 at #asm2012
Forney: the idea that vaginal health is indicated by ph <4.5 simply isn't true especially in hispanic and black women. #asm2012
Fermentation to make sake is more like making beer than wine.#ASM2012
Forney: speaking of function as opposed to taxonomic name, lactic acid bacterium rather than lactobacillus will reduce confusion.#asm2012
T. Greynolds
Enjoying my trip to SF - hanging out with microbiologists of all levels in the Clinical Microbiology Lounge at #asm2012!
Disease triangle: host, pathogen, environment #ASM2012
Forney: we need to rethink what we thought we knew re: vaginal bacterial ecosystems. They are not all the same and are not stable.#asm2012
Tanbo art uses rice plants with differently colored leaves to make intricate murals in rice fields #ASM2012
Guess I'm in San Fran! Thx 2 all my #ASMCUE tweeps 4 a great time. Ur energy feeds me. Luv my job! On to #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/1M10gUbk
Jen Biddle
Listening to @phylogenomics online at #asm2012. Right now!http://www.microbeworld.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1204
Chris L. McGowin
Indeed the vaginal #microbiome is remarkably complex #asm2012
An over-the-counter buccal swab HIV test. #ASM2012http://pic.twitter.com/KAmIpCZk
SF I'm in ur airport waiting for my BART. #asm2012
Now attending #diversityinthevaginalmicrobe #asm2012 Larry Forney PhD
Cool RT @phylogenomics: Watch online and tweet in questions for#asm2012 ASM Live microbes in buildings and hotel roomshttp://bit.ly/NIaNdH
Kim Orth just showed that a T3SS associated with clinical Vibrio para/cholera isolates regulates an intercellular infection #asm2012
Sepsis Know from Day1: Microbiology Approach. Join Grady Health System speaker bioMérieux InBooth Knowledge Forum 12.45pm booth1301 #asm2012
Wow, so many people here. Like a Salmon swimming upstream trying to get to microbiome racial/ethnic differences session#asm2012
Watch online and tweet in questions for #asm2012 ASM Live microbes in buildings and hotel roomshttp://www.microbeworld.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1204
Stephanauskas: Could every microbial cell be genetically different? Especially "uncultured majority" in oceans #asm2012
ASM Live at 11AM at #asm2012 - bacteria in hotel rooms and microbes in man made environments watch online and ask questions on twitter
ASM Live webcast: The most contaminated surfaces in hotel rooms. Starts in 10 min http://bit.ly/m8xuVT #asm2012 ^js
ASM Live webcast: The most contaminated surfaces in hotel rooms. Starts in 10 min http://bit.ly/m8xuVT #asm2012 ^js
Meet a clin micro mentor in the #asm2012 CM Lounge (rm112) at 11 am! http://bit.ly/CMmentor617-fb ^tg
Just informed by speaker that a sake tasting will follow history of rice session! #ASM2012
Giovannoni: fan of metagenomes, but need our little friends (cultured microbes) to help figure it all out #asm2012
Whoops. I just applauded Steve in the overflow room. I was the only one. Guess I got caught up. #ASM2012
Coming up at #asm2012 on ASM Livehttp://www.microbeworld.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1204 microbes in hotel rooms (w/ me on Panel)
Hey #asm2012 ppl! Come meet us at booth 1625. We'll explain all about @Labguru #researchmanagement tool & give cool gifts. See U there.
The exhibit hall is open at #asm2012 and we are looking forward to meeting you! We're with the Bugbox at booth 1534.
SG: getting in to our recent project on the high core genome conservation of multiple SAR11 strains #asm2012
Cultures may not always be informative about other closely related organisms thanks to rapid diversification - SG #ASM2012
Good to see a critical mass of livetweeters at #asm2012! Keep up the good work!
Giovannoni: need extreme patience to culture microbes that divide once every 5 days. #asm2012
SG: Some questions you just can't tackle without access to cultures (ex. of inducing gene expression) #asm2012
SG: figuring out the role of proteorhodopsin in SAR11 required cultures #asm2012
Giovannoni : All you oceanographers know that didn't make any sense. #ASM2012
Mystery effector vopQ induces rapid autophagy in v.para, w/in 5mins when expressed recombinately. No known structural homolog!#asm2012
SG: Will expanded insights from single cell genomics change our view of microbial genome evolution? #asm2012
Giovannoni #asm2012 'Change perspectives of microbial cultivation, I run my own culture collection, this has a big scientific impact'
Did anyone catch which city's subway map Giovannoni just had up on the screen as he was talking about systems biology? #ASM2012
Infection nucleoid=rosette of phage assembling at cell center, if not localized reduced burst numbers #ASM2012
Many marine microbes are difficult to culture because they have unusual metabolic requirements - SG at #ASM2012
Giovannoni RT @tjsharpton SG jokes "Don't start a culture collection!" at #ASM2012
SG: the result of genome streamlining is unusual nutrient requirements, which makes these organisms hard to grow.#asm2012
Anyone else in San Francisco pick up a little food poisoning at#asm2012? Need to compare notes.
Giovannoni: Vibrios & Alteromonas can reach high abundances episodically but otherwise undetectable most of the time. #asm2012
Is there evidence for strong selection of genome streamlining in marine bacteria as per Giovannoni? Deletion bias possible?#asm2012
SG: genome streamlining comes from "a very powerful selective hammer on these cells" #asm2012
RT @tjsharpton: SG: Streamlined genomes are small because of selection, symbiotic genomes are small because of drift. #ASM2012
SG: Streamlined genomes are small because of selection, symbiotic genomes are small because of drift. #ASM2012
SG: symbionts get reduced genomes thru a very different evolutionary process than streamlined genomes of marine bactioplankton #asm2012
Phage with their own genes for tubulin-like proteins (PhuZ), need the proteins to localize their DNA to center of cell #ASM2012
Giovannoni: not funded to run a culture collection, but does it anyway ~ 2500 isolates; culuring matters #asm2012
SG: discussing his experiences with running a culture collection- lots of people use our cultures now! #asm2012
Very good talk by Sir Roy Anderson on data and databases available for infectious disease. #asm2012
Emily Hollister
Work from our group: "@ASMicrobiology: Intestinal Bacteria Produce Neurotransmitter, Role in Inflammation #asm2012http://gm.asm.org/index.php/component/content/article/48/312 ^js"
SG jokes "Don't start a culture collection!" at #ASM2012
SG: but to get the dominant organisms, like SAR11, you need cultivation with dilution to extinction, other specific techniques.#asm2012
SG: I'm not funded to run a culture collection, but I'm running one right now! Housing about 2500 strains right now. #asm2012
Microbial communities: consider life cycle history of 'unculturable' microbes Stephen Giovannoni #ASM2012
Struggling to hear a little in single cell session - note to self: don't rely on microphone to do all the work! #asm2012
Dilute cells and develop sensitive detection protocols: the key to culturing marine bacteria #asm2012
SG: Disturbance-loving bacteria can reach high abundances during episodic blooms, but otherwise undetectable most of the time.#asm2012
SG: those guys are adapted spurts under optimal conditions.#asm2012
Global warming contributes to persistence of vibrio parahaemolyticus, causative agent of oyster related food poisoning#asm2012
SG: what are classical, easy to culture organisms normally doing in the water? They're really rare. #asm2012
Earth White Horse
SG: r vs k, generalist vs specialist are old concepts that need updating. We're missing life cycle history #asm2012
SG: Pervasive concepts in culturing microbes: metabolism, substrate, growth rates, nutrient concen. No one considers life cycle! #asm2012
Life cycle complexity is more rule than exception: Giovannoni#asm2012
Christian Munz: lots unpublished data so will be vague. Macroautophagy: special subset, LC3+ phagosome that promotes APC activity. #asm2012
SG: documenting the attack on culturing the "uncultureable"#asm2012
Simulating spread of influenza A on global map via Microsoft. Very quick spread. Chilling. #asm2012
Steve: when the great age of economic excess is over, we're all gonna be interested in geochemistry #asm2012
2000: unculturable, 2012: hard to culture #asm2012
My AT&T 4G connection is so much better than the Moscone wifi :(#ASM2012 will my data plan run out?
Stephen Giovannoni: changing perspectives on microbial cultivation; undetected to unculturable to uncultured #asm2012
Last talk of the morning micro community session: Stephen Giovannoni talking about expanding the cultured microbial world#asm2012
I'm at ASM 2012 (San Francisco) http://4sq.com/MWf6x8 #ASM2012
Steve has received the Porter award this year #ASM2012
Now my boss, Steve Giovannoni! The Porter Award winner for bridging the gap between culturing and culture independent techniques #asm2012
Steve Giovannoni - Expanding the Boundaries of the Cultured Microbial World (via http://ff.im/YSicM) #ASM2012
Up now Steve Giovannoni #asm2012
However, - only 1 abstract on Giardia and 3 on Entamoeba histolytica! #asm2012
Pearson: Measuring isotopic ratios of protein products will help us move towards using stable isotopes in metagenomic studies#asm2012
One single abstract on Blastocystis at #asm2012 - not impressed!
one of my favorite activities at ASM is to take a peek into the work going on in so many areas outside my every day world. #asm2012
Good use for spray sanitizer swag!RT @ASMicrobiology: The most contaminated surfaces in hotel rooms http://bit.ly/N5XN0d#asm2012 #news ^js
Negative feedback is one way to decrease the noise in a system. N. Wingreen #gangstaregulation #asm2012
Don't you date cough in a room full of epidemiologists!! #asm2012😖😷
Satellites scanning Earth using infra-red to identify population density for countries without census. #asm2012
Pearson: Hopanoid biomarkers not specific to cyanobacteria as previously thought. Mostly proteobacteria. #asm2012
iPhone app to map sequence data to other strains based on MLST. Google maps interface with relationships geographically shown.#asm2012
Roy Anderson presenting some interesting data & information using social media to track emerging infectious disease trends. #asm2012
Possibilities to predict disease outbreak using twitter and Facebook.#asm2012
Using social media to predict and track disease outbreaks.#asm2012 Facebook and twitter!!
Pearson: Bacteria mostly make hopanoids & not steroids--good news for using these compounds as lipid biomarkers in the fossil rec#asm2012
MT @michaelbarton: Simulating influenza A movement in UK based on mobile phone data #asm2012” -Google did this, too, no? Based on searches
Following changes in movement after cholera out break in Haiti using mobile phone data. #asm2012
AP: they've found putative bacterial steroid cyclases!#notjustforEuksanymore #asm2012
Simulating influenza A movement in UK based on mobile phone data. Use simulations to make policy. #asm2012
MALDI-TOF: Positive impact on results & workflow. Join C.Ginocchio bioMérieux's In-Booth Knowledge Forum at 11.50 am, booth 1301#asm2012
For any microbio groupies wanting to follow along at home RT@ASMicrobiology: Watch ASM Live now at http://bit.ly/m8xuVT#asm2012
Watch ASM Live now at http://bit.ly/m8xuVT #asm2012 ^js
Using mobile phone data for modeling epidemiological movement in communities. Very nice idea. Excellent visualization too. #asm2012
Poster hall at #ASM2012 is massive ! Epic number of posters being presented
Microbial communities: targeted manipulations to enrich for organisms with certain characteristics in #metagenomics studies#ASM2012
Pearson: looking for biomarkers that can be used to trace microbial groups back in time in geologic record #asm2012
Ned Wingreen "bacteria are multilingual" - universal signals as well as species-specific ones #asm2012
Pearson: lipids from oceanic archeal species suggest they are chemoautotrophs living below the photic zone. #asm2012
Pearson: Can investigate functional roles of microbes by measuring how heavy cellular lipids are. #asm2012
Geoffrey Smith: virions extracellular, host nucleated actin=cytoplasmic. virus tags and can distinguish inf and uninf cells. Sweet! #asm2012
Ned Wingreen giving a simple intro to quorum sensing - old hat for many but great for those rel new to microbiol like me! #asm2012
To #asm2012 attendees - I'm living vicariously through you. KEEP ON TWEETIN'.
AP: Thaumarcheal lipids are isotopically heavier than phytoplankton, fractionation helped them track down the c-fixation pathway#asm2012
Frank Olken
Geoffrey Smith: great talk. Video microscopy reveals vaccinia virus "hopping" from inf. to uninf. host cells on host actin tails #asm2012
Geoffrey Smith jokes that maybe medical students today should get attendance certificates like those given out by Lister #asm2012
Jennifer Philips: neat mechanism proposed. EsxG-EsxH binds and inhibits ESCRT complex that drives maturation. #asm2012
Jennifer Philips: RNAi screens in fly and mouse uncover TB protein complex (EsxG-H) that blocks phagosome maturation #asm2012
The avoidance and subversion of host cell defenses by intracellular pathogens session has been amazing so far! #asm2012
Geoffrey Smith shows certificate of attendance signed by Lister for 11/11 lectures in 1871 by his Great Grandfather #asm2012
Def need to learn more about nanoSIMS after this morning's talks#asm2012
Accurate assessments of cell viability, apoptosis & cell cycle in minutes w/ #Muse http://bit.ly/LV6wBN #ASM2012
Had no idea that diagnostic microbial lipids could be preserved in the fossil record. http://1.usa.gov/MiqFQf So cool! #asm2012
AP: reverse TCA fractionates carbon less than Rubisco, so this can be used diagnostically for different c-fixation events #asm2012
At 10:15 am PT Stephen J. Giovannoni, who has won an #asm2012award, will be giving his lecture in the Esplanade Ballroom 305/307. ^lg
Patches of inert peptidoglycan located at tips of E. coli branches#ASM2012
William Jackson: acidification of lysosomes required for very last step in poliiovirus maturation. ...and they found it last :-) #asm2012
Microbial communities: who is doing what *with whom*? Jonathan Zehr #ASM2012
Ann Pearson: using lipid biomarkers and stable isotopes to look at biosynthetic pathways in microbes #asm2012
AP: how does functional diversity of microorganisms get reflected in the geologic record? #asm2012
Pearson put up photo collage of microbes and said "you probably see your fav species". No eukaryotes, so I don't see mine :(#asm2012
Vic Orphan nanoSIMS on aggregate slices to dramatically increase resolution - individual cells! Very slick. #asm2012
Listening to cool talks on bacterial morphogenesis at #asm2012
Awesome! RT @tjsharpton Look at that, #ASM2012 is trending on twitter. Microbiologists, unite!
RT @tjsharpton Ann Pearson--Exploring natural microbial communities w/ lipids and stable isotope ratios. (viahttp://ff.im/YScKi) #ASM2012
Ann Pearson from Harvard on lipids and stable isotopes #asm2012
Ann Pearson - Exploring natural microbial communities using lipids and stable isotope ratios. (via http://ff.im/YScKi) #ASM2012
Almost all microbial community talks this morn have mentiioned NanoSIMS. We need more use of this awesome imaging technology!#asm2012
Inert peptidoglycan patches not recycled or diluted by new material#ASM2012
PBP mutants have abnormal Z-rings, cell constriction altered, leads to freaky shapes in E. coli #ASM2012
Look at that, #ASM2012 is trending on twitter. Microbiologists, unite!
Super sore today, but it will be fun to exhibit at #ASM2012 Come visit me in booth 1306!
Note the typo in that last post, it's Zehr. My fingers need more caffine #ASM2012
drdr A
Nano SIMS let's you see an image of where different isotopes are located within a single cell, that is super cool. #asm2012
My notes on Zher's #ASM2012 talk are up: http://ff.im/YS7H4
Zehr: making a marine functional array for major microbial communities in the oceans to examine interactions. Wow. #asm2012
YES RT @NatureRevMicro Anyone else finding the seats at#asm2012 excruciatingly uncomfortable? #cushionsneeded
E. coli PBP mutants branch! #ASM2012
JZ: nitogenase distribution data showing everything is NOT everywhere. #asm2012
Zehr: Who is doing what...and with whom? Symbiosis BTW cyanobacteria & calcifying eukaryote. #asm2012
Learn more about career opportunities for CMs today at 11am and 1pm in the #asm2012 CM Lounge (rm 112)!http://bit.ly/CMmentor617-tw ^tg
Just watched footage of a virus particle being moved around by actin tails. Cooooooool #asm2012
Heard John Taylor couple of weeksago use the phrase "reverse ecology" for genome directed understanding of ecology changes#asm2012
Zehr: Genome sequence of cyanobacterium revealed many missing enzymes for metabolism, sugg probably asymbiont #asm2012
Zehr: For microbial communities, it isn't 'who's doing what', but 'who's doing what with whom'? #ASM2012
MT @ScienceThriller: #ASM2012 attendees free copyhttp://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/american-society-for-microbiology-attendees-want-a-free-petroplague-ebook-asm-asmcue-2012/ where? Where? WANT!!
JZ: improved handling revealed UCYN-A was a symbiont with a haptophyte #asm2012
"E. coli has a boring shape" #ASM2012
Getting my science conference on. So far so awesome #ASM2012
Sensing a trend here at #asm2012 , genome gazing leads to otherwise unpredictable insights into bacterial lifestyles and physiology
Loving the marine biology at #asm2012 - Jonathan Zehr now talking about Cyanobacteria and picoplankton associations & genomics
Zehr: symbiosis suggested from lack of metabolic pathways in genome seq. of cy anobacterium #asm2012
JZ: traditional procedures were giving them erroneous sense of what n2 fixers were free living. #asm2012
Hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria paralyze LA in microbiology thriller PETROPLAGUE #ASM2012 #ASMCUE attendees free copyhttp://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/american-society-for-microbiology-attendees-want-a-free-petroplague-ebook-asm-asmcue-2012/
Patches of actin-like proteins move in circles along longitudinal lines during cell wall formation in B. subtilis--not fixed helix #ASM2012
Josie Libertucci
Zehr: symbiosis results in genome reduction. #ASM2012
Lidstrom - Both culture independent AND culture-dependent approaches important to work out key environmental processes#asm2012
Audrey Richard
Zehr: endosymbiotic Cyanobacteria are missing genes for some key cellular machinery #asm2012
Just got to #asm2012 will be live tweeting all day.
JZ: nanoSIMS used to prove n2 fixation by symbionts and uptake by associated cells #asm2012
JZ: N2 fixers many times in symbiotic relationships #asm2012
Paul Hoskisson
MT @_zoonotica_: Microbiology twitter journal club #microtwjc taking place at 8pm GMThttp://microtwjc.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/microtwjc-week-4-paper-summary-and-discussion-points/ #asm2012
JZ: Trichodesmium a charismatic microorganism! #asm2012
Slow wifi & broken phone impeding tweeting! Time to get the laptop out to report on #asm2012
BioCurious
JZ: nitrogen fixation a community effort #asm2012
Kenneth Landgraf
Zehr discusses balancing the Global Nitrogen Budget at #ASM2012(eat your heart out congress!)
Anyone else finding the seats at #asm2012 excruciatingly uncomfortable? #cushionsneeded
Heba Shalaby
Sounds like global meeting for American Society of Microbiology is going on now at #ASM2012
Want to meet the people behind @AAASMember!? We are exhibiting at #ASM2012 come say hi at booth 1306 and you may win a prize!
John Zehr from UCSC talking about nitrogen fixation. #asm2012
Join us for ASMLive at #ASM2012 at 10 am for insights into conversations in your nose and microbial neurotransmitters in your gut
Reminder: we have a public friendfeed group going for #ASM2012notes. Feel free to add to the archive:http://friendfeed.com/asm2012
Keith Martinez
"RNA's a big thing..." #thingsyouonlyhearinsanfranciscoduring#ASM2012
Cool pics of B. subtilis morphological mutants (cytoskeletal mutants) -- one looks like a corkscrew #ASM2012
I've made it to #ASM2012 after a little BART delay. Watched Jill Banfield's talk from the floor, but now I'm plugged in and ready to report!
RT @kausikdatta22 “@Dr_Bik: #asm2012 wifi is free but sloooooooooow.” too many simultaneous connections :(
Shapiro: Caulobacter chromosome segregation is highly organized & dynamic, starting at cell pole #asm2012
Stochastic noise in flagellal activation results in exploratory movement. Very nicely modeled using exponential distribution.#asm2012
Hell of a lot of genomic data in Jill Banfield's talk...way to dense to process right now #asm2012
Huh. Official ASM people are throwing 20 or 30 people out of my session. Not enough space in the overflow room, even. #ASM2012
Pucker factor. I'm stealing that. #ASM2012
All Jill Banfield's trees are for ribosomal protein S3...don't know whether that's good or bad #asm2012
Daniel Sprockett
Didn't make it to #ASM2012 in San Francisco? Join the discussion online! Beginning in about an hourhttp://www.microbeworld.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1204
New Revco UFX400 #ThermoScientific freezer usesup to 15% lesson energy. http://ow.ly/bszsm Chk it out #ASM2012 booth 1015
FYI Kelly's data is in press. #asm2012
Statistics of single-cell single-flagella. Very nice modeling. I like mathematics in biology talks. #asm2012
JL: most organisms that came up during acetate stimulation were not the same as the background organisms. #asm2012
I see self organizing maps on the screen; I must have found Jill Banfield's talk. :-) #ASM2012
Caulobacter talk by Lucy Shapiro nice blend of system/reductionist, echoes of opening session #ASM2012
We are live from #asm2012! Stay tuned for blog updates and tweets from the sessions today thru Tues. And stop by booth 310 to say hello.
JL: most abundant organism at Rifle is RBG-1 candidate division, never before observed. #asm2012
Toss out those 0.2um filters environmental micro tweeps! Banfield tells us we are missing the little bugs 0.1um is better #asm2012
Congrats to Geoffrey Smith, former SGM @SocGenMicro Council member, for award of ASM International Member 2012. #asm2012
Now cryo TEM data from Birgit Luef showing very small cells#asm2012
Just turned off autocorrect -- scientific freedom! #ASM2012
JL: OP11, OD1 - hypothesis: the cells are small #asm2012
JL: many of the assembled metagenomes went to candidate divisions, and these are organisms with <1% abundance #asm2012
Kelly did an insane amount of genome binning, assisted with time series abundance info. 87 genomes! #asm2012
Banfield: bin meta genomic data by tetra nucleotide freq to assign to organism #asm2012
The exhibit hall is now open at #ASM2012. Stop by to see us at booth 532 to learn about #MayoClinic #microbiology tests and resources.
JL's talk centered around data created by Kelly Wrighton #asm2012
Cellular machines = "somes": divisomes, inflammasomes....#ASM2012
JL: acetate amended sediment communities at Rifle bioremediation site. Then metagenomics and proteomics. #asm2012
M Brown
JL: things have changed with metagenomics - going after complex communities now #asm2012
I'm tweeting from here today! RT @phylogenomics those interested in microbes, follow the action at the ASM meetings via #ASM2012#ASMCUE
Geoffrey Smith, award laureate, will be speaking this morning at 9:15 am PT at the Convention Center in room 104. #asm2012 ^lg
Next- Jill Banfield from UC Berkeley. Go bears! #asm2012
ML: Need to couple culture dependent/independent approaches to identify key players in microbial communities #asm2012
Intestinal Bacteria Produce Neurotransmitter, Could Play Role in Inflammation #asm2012 #newshttp://gm.asm.org/index.php/component/content/article/48/312 ^js
Intestinal Bacteria Produce Neurotransmitter, Could Play Role in Inflammation #asm2012 #newshttp://gm.asm.org/index.php/component/content/article/48/312 ^js
ML: 9 single-cell genomes in the pipeline now, 2 from Methylobacter. Microfluidic sorting still amazes me! #asm2012
ML: one more technique: nanoSIMS #asm2012
Poster loaded & ready to go at 10:45! #ASM2012 the poster hall is huge; over a thou posters on just this first day!http://pic.twitter.com/opXAbQAd
It would be kind of nice if the scientific program actually said WHERE the talks are taking place. Grumpy. #ASM2012
I love this combination if culturing and culture independent techniques. We do that too, of course. #yesimbiased #asm2012
ML: metatranscriptomics helped them figure out how to culture methylobacter. Key was to limit Methane #asm2012
ML: Methylobacter needed low methane and low O2 #asm2012
ML: Methylotenera possibly using oxidation of C1 cmpds for energy and other carbon for biomass. #asm2012
Posters up and ready to go for the day! #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/cb3g3LE5
Bryan Schmitt, D.O., discusses Identification of Corynebacterium species, among other topics, today at 10:45am at #ASM2012.
They're throwing the whole book at this: metagenomics, genomics, SIP, transcriptomics, culturing, single-cell analysis #asm2012
ML: change of concept methanotrophs sustain larger communities, starting to look at the whole community as a "metaorganism"#asm2012
ML: sequencing 80 new genomes from the isolates. #asm2012
Mary Lidstrom - sequencing 80 new genome sequences from methylotrophs cultured from Lake Washington #asm2012
ML: combination of pure culture studies and metagenomics. Over 100 new strains that are relevant based on metagenomics.#asm2012
Mary Lidstrom is up first- C1 cycling in the environment. #asm2012
First up this morning- Who's Doing What in Microbial Communities.#asm2012
Ok, session about to start. Radio silence for a couple of hours I'm afraid #asm2012 #cantmultitask
microbiologists are much classier than Marine biologists by the looks of #asm2012 - think I'm moving into the right field.
Jim Collins told to stick to engineering as biology is too complex and later that that were so naive that they might just succeed #asm2012
New Insights in Global Surveillance of Current and Emerging Infectious Diseases. #ASM2012 (@ Moscone Center)http://4sq.com/LYlUhU
Dianne Newman: bacteria use antibiotics as electron acceptors/donors in the environment #asm2012
Great, funny orientation talk from Wade Bell - take opportunity to expand ur horizons while at #asm2012
The Moscone parking garage opens at 9am but the sessions start @ 8:15 am. WHY #asm2012
Coffee habit and giant conventions don't mix. #asm2012 #longlines
Scott O'Neill: community engagement for Wolbachia mosquito release used telemarketing approach, still got big positive response#asm2012
In session "Who's Doing What in Microbial Communities" - words on screen seem a bit blurry no matter where I sit; focus, please?#asm2012
Pop by booth 936 for a chat and pick up a mouse pad and a demo CD of the latest release of MacVector. Enjoy yourself at #asm2012
Some points from last night opening session at #asm2012 to follow...
Morning session at #asm2012 on avoidance and subversion of host defences. Will post some key points later tonight.
Have planted myself in the "whose doing what in microbial communities" session for this morning. Banfield, Lidstrom, Giovannini #asm2012
Updated my list of microbiology related blogs (now at 60) - more wanted - please send suggestionshttp://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2012/06/collecting-links-to-blogs-that-focus.html #ASM2012
Come hear the first award laureate lecture of #asm2012! Susan Sharp is giving her talk today at 8:15 am PT in the Esplanade Ballroom 304.^lg
Now the fun really begins. #ASM2012
Microbiology twitter journal club #microtwjc taking place on Tues 12-1pm San Francisco timehttp://microtwjc.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/microtwjc-week-4-paper-summary-and-discussion-points/ #asm2012
What a difference from my last meeting, where I was the only tweeter! http://yfrog.com/odm4envj #asm2012
BioData
Good morning #asm2012 ppl! Come meet us at booth 1625. We'll explain all about @Labguru #researchmanagement tool. Have a wonderful day :)
Good morning #asm2012 ppl! Come meet us at booth 1625. We'll explain all about @Labguru #researchmanagement tool. Have a wonderful day :)
At ONT waiting to board flight to OAK. Will I get to my grad students poster? Also, Happy Father's Day to the travelin' microdads#asm2012
Accurate assessments of cell viability, apoptosis & cell cycle in minutes w/ #Muse http://bit.ly/LV6wBN #ASM2012
Jonathan Gross
Awakened instantly from a deep sleep by bird singing, "Shut up! Shut up!" outside my window. I love parrots! #ASM2012
Kind of inside baseball, but I have long wanted to give an ASM GM talk. So here I am; fingers crossed! #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/pFxLLi5W
PingGadgetSFO 
Steve Beste
Of course I am wide awake at 5:30 am in SFO. Dressed & ready. Thank God for my Starbucks app as I walk with a mission.#asm2012
Wiley Open Access
MT @phylogenomics Updated: Collecting links to blogs that focus entirely or partly on microbiology topics #ASM2012http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2012/06/collecting-links-to-blogs-that-focus.html?spref=tw
Ready to board proper plane to #asm2012.
Updated: Collecting links to blogs that focus entirely or partly on microbiology topics #ASM2012 #StillWantMorehttp://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2012/06/collecting-links-to-blogs-that-focus.html?spref=tw
Never been to a #scientific meeting quite like this #swank lots of#money #asm2012. http://pic.twitter.com/g9XH0QLd
Got my @Quartzy poster cards at #ASM2012 today. Great idea, already given out three. http://pic.twitter.com/kpvVAvtz
Just saw so many of my favorite microbiologists! Lisa Gorski, Julian Davies, Ned Ruby, Margaret McFall-Ngai, Eric Stabb... #asm2012
This is a nice stage to present some data. Will they ask me next year? #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/vlHMZd9A
movie trailer voice over guy doing the announcements for #asm2012opening session. Very stern for California!
Waiting on the opening session of #asm2012 to start
Fancy stage this year at #asm2012! Opening session starts in 10 minutes... http://pic.twitter.com/ZOIgIJgC
Presenting a poster at #ASM2012? Beat the crowds and pick up your networking cards now! Outside Hall Chttp://blog.quartzy.com/poster-cards-for-asm/
Arrived at opening session #asm2012 http://moby.to/fsrg5o
Overheard today at #asm2012 "I got norovirus. It was awesome!" ^js
Here we go opening session audience filing in #asm2012.http://pic.twitter.com/P32LyXhz
About to walk down to #asm2012 - making the most of sunshine :)
Liking the iPad app for #asm2012.
At #asm2012! Whoot. Seeking Tara and Jonathan, Mary, and Corrie...
Crowdsourcing for #asm2012 - compiling a list of blogs that focus cover microbe-related topics - help needed
jcardinale 
Joyce McBeth
I hope you have a great time!! RT @Leptothrix: On the Bart to#asm2012 yippee!
E Fleming
On the Bart to #asm2012 yippee!
Setting sail for #ASM2012!
Be sure to stop by bioMérieux booth n°1301 at #asm2012 for a personal tour through The Microbiology Pathway
Attention all #asm2012 Poster Presenters! Don't forget to pickup your poster networking cards outside of Hall C. ^gm
At the ASM Communications committee meeting #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/STajsoP8
Loving the career program at #asm2012
If you have a poster at #asm2012 Come by hall C now to pick up your networking cards http://blog.quartzy.com/poster-cards-for-asm/ !
Opening of #ASM2012 should be good tonight -J. Collins on synthetic bio, S. O' Neill on Wolbachia/Dengue, D. Newman - on GeoMicro
Brianna Lindsay
The amount of scientists on my flight and this train is ridic. #asm2012
Wow. I was not expecting it to be this HOT in SFO. I could have left the leather jacket home. #asm2012 http://tinyurl.com/7s5782l
Oh California how I have missed you. Getting ready for a great week in San Francisco. #ASM2012
Michael Binder
"Church is God forming a family out of strangers." D. Leong#ASM2012 quoting Hauerwas
Registered for the #asm2012 First a cup of coffee @starbucks and waiting for the opening ceremony. http://pic.twitter.com/gpqOxsvT
Presenting Monday iA #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/88mfUmDJ
Wow. I was not expecting it to be this HOT in SFO. I could have left the leather jacket home. #asm2012
Methinks the Word "Aquarium" may not mean what they think it means #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/nZExP3Id
Eric Vick
Dr. Icenhour is ready to mentor at the Microbiology Career Choices!#asm2012
Nice to see a quote From @SylviaEarle - one of my heroes - at the Aquarium by the Bay #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/3hzhUWlp
Just checked in at #ASM2012
Oh well - say goodbye to some halophiles #asm2012 restoration is good - but I will miss salterns http://pic.twitter.com/HLwPtcF9
MT @ASMicrobiology wants to know global challenges u think#microbiology shld solve! #grandmicrochallenges #asm2012http://bit.ly/LZHYoN
Looking for a job in Microbiology? Attend the #asm2012Microbiology Career Choices session at 1pm in Rm 103 to find out what's available.^gm
From #ABS2012 to #ASM2012, here I come. #integrative#taxonomicadventures #social #microbes #maybecrazy
And so it begins... #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/Ur7aGmLo
Last year I imagined going to #asm2012 and tweeting like mad. Life got in the way. Depending on my microbe tweeps! Charge yer batteries!
Our chapter is out! @springerpub Modern Clinical Molecular Techniques http://www.springer.com/medicine/pathology/book/978-1-4614-2169-6 #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/8K29EPou
dawessner
Getting set to provide career advice at an early session for students interested in microbiology careers. #asm2012
Just landed at SFO now Hotel Monaco here I come. #asm2012
Thx! Miss u already! See u in San Fran! RT @MicrobeDoc: Have to leave #asmcue early to go to #asm2012. Best #asmcue ever!@asmkelly rocks!!
MT @ASMicrobiology wants to know global challenges u think#microbiology shld solve! #grandmicrochallenges #asm2012http://bit.ly/LZHYoN
Has conference envy #asm2012
On my way to SFO to meet up with #BestResearchStudentsEver for#asm2012
Register online for bioMérieux In-Booth Knowledge Forum at#asm2012 San Francisco http://bit.ly/KMzdfW Presentations begin 2morrow 10.55am
Top 10 microbiology thriller novels:http://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/top-10-microbiology-thrillers/#ASM2012 #ASMCUE
And while you are on the #asm2012 app, bookmark my talk at 4:30 on Mon 18th in the "New Bio Questions from Pan Genomes" section. Room 104
I don't know how I can attend conferences without own apps in the future. The #asm2012 app is great for sitting in an airport n planning
wizardgraphics
This is a huge event #ASM2012 here at Moscone center in SFhttp://pic.twitter.com/3Lq1ssfL
Right next to you #notcreepy RT @DrRachelleSmith: Getting ready to go to my first session at #ASM2012. Where my other microbiologists at?
Rachelle Smith Ph.D.
Getting ready to go to my first session at #ASM2012. Where my other microbiologists at?
First thing I have seen in #chinatown about the human microbiome#asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/DbnArhPo
Just got set up at #asm2012 Time for lunch!http://pic.twitter.com/YVzhz0Gp
Things just got real! 19th at 4 PM. Psyching up.... #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/w3fgFpDE
porteco
PortEco at #ASM2012 http://bit.ly/MSDuQc
Drugs from Bugs
Hotel Monaco, breakfast at Talor Street Coffee Shop, and tonight#asm2012
Setting up the Epicentre exhibit at #ASM2012http://pic.twitter.com/4VxmGUXJ
Trevor Wagner
If you are in San Francisco early for #ASM2012 make sure to check out the microbiology at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. Yum!
Have you played our game @ booth 1523 #ASM2012http://bit.ly/Kfebny
Ran 3 miles in 27 mins and felt great. killer workout in SF before the start of #asm2012 ! TM run with speed and hil... http://bit.ly/LkBLrz
Stop by our booth 1301 tomorrow at #asm2012 for a $5 Starbucks gift card & brief survey. Tell your friends too!
Registering for #asm2012 doesn't include workshops. Separate, equal charge. Should've seen that. Teaching myself Pway-Tools for free, check.
Disappointed that I will miss ASM Communications Board meeting bc of time conflict w Branch Officers Forum. Next year! #asm2012
AcroMetrix
Headed to #ASM2012 #moleculardiagnostics workshop
Sitting in on ASM publications board meeting this morning & Branch Officers Forum this afternoon. #asm2012 #innerworkings
TUC->LAX->SFO-> #asm2012 :)
For anyone at #ASM2012, you can archive your notes via our public@friendfeed group, if you like: http://friendfeed.com/asm2012@ematsen @DrJCThrash
Sodalite Jatholo
@ OKC airport on way to #ASM2012. Time to be geeky with the microbiologists
Happy birthday to microbe fanatic @markowenmartin #asm2012
Small footprint & low noise is just 1 benefit of the #ThermoScientificPiko Real-Time PCR System #ASM2012 booth 1015http://ow.ly/blRzX
Microbiology thriller fiction! #ASMCUE #ASM2012 attendees ask for a free reviewers' copy of PETROPLAGUEhttp://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/american-society-for-microbiology-attendees-want-a-free-petroplague-ebook-asm-asmcue-2012/
WatersLab
Waters lab is at #asm2012! Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues.
Have you played our game @ booth 1523 #ASM2012http://bit.ly/Kfebny
Off to #asm2012! Symposium tomorrow at 3: "Sound bites to Superbugs" on science communication with @joshrosenau and others, stop by!
Catch Dr. Robin Patel's presentation "Trends in Clinical Lab Identification of Microbes in 2012: MALDI ToF MS" today, 8:30am-4:30pm #ASM2012
View Dr. Glenn Roberts' presentation on Lab Diagnosis of Fungal Infections: Identification of Filamentous Fungi today, 8am-5pm at#ASM2012.
MT @mtraven The A. Society for Microbiology and A. Society of Missiology http://www.asmweb.org/content/home are both meeting now using #ASM2012.
Jealous of all of my friends and colleagues heading to #asm2012today! Enjoy and share, please!
Flip flop wearers standing barefoot in airport security line. Gross people. Use protection. Put a sock on those feet! Nasty! #asm2012
All checked in for my Virgin America flight & having breakfast at Chili's. I am amazed at all the traveling flip-flop wearers. #asm2012
James Hathaway 
Vincent Racaniello
Once again the #asm2012 app excludes ASM Live events. Why, isn't it microbiology?
well car is packed, coffee consumed on my way to FLL airport for#asm2012. I woke up like a zombie this morning. Rest. Need more rest!
Talk for #asm2012 is done! Looking forward to my session - Symbiosis as a driver of ecology & evolution. Now to upload... Grr
Looking forward to more playing with SRI's pathway-tools tomorrow. Fungal genomes loaded and ready to rock, also roll. #ASM2012
Kenneth Ginsberg
Coming up at the #ASM2012 mtg. “The Great Indoors: Recent ...: The American Society for Microbiology meeting is ...http://bit.ly/MeZdRh
Just arrived in San Francisco for #ASM2012
the swanson lab has arrived! #asm2012
Excited for #asm2012 Jazzed to hear the latest and greatest in microbiology, and to reconnect with great microbiologists
Fab 1st day in San Francisco.sealions,sun & ex max security prison!Pity my phone seems 2b on its way out.Hope can still tweet from #asm2012
Finally landed in San Francisco! Set up for #asm2012 and a video shoot at the exploratorium. Then I see @ash_mcdaniel for our#BAshReunion!
I am just about finished packing for #asm2012. On the AM flight from FLL. Hoping for a nice long transcontinental nap!
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The A. Society for Microbiology and A. Society of Missiologyhttp://www.asmweb.org/content/home are both meeting now using#ASM2012 -- should be amusing.
Having dinner at First Crush in SF #asm2012http://pic.twitter.com/JZUgdyvE
Kathryn A. Wiles
My lab mates and PI's left for #asm2012 this afternoon. Sad I won't be able to make it this year. have fun everyone!
Brian Hull
Sharing faith isnt about convicting someone else. Its about being an instrument of truth. Where u r changed as much as anyone else#ASM2012
JR Rozko
Maybe prophesy is all about timing... About to whom you say it, when, in what situation. #ASM2012
Prophesy is the life giving imagination that a different life is possible.#ASM2012
Mission in... Basic ethos and values, bold humility, prophetic dialogue, saying YES, saying NO, living Yes and living No #ASM2012
Music metaphors most helpful for talking about gospel in context. It is performed, interpreted, remixed in community. #ASM2012
Ok people, I bit the bullet and will officially be attending #asm2012for the day on Sunday - does this officially make me a microbiologist?
Mission in... The gospel is always in the culture, in the context. We must always interpret it. #ASM2012
Summer course @gordoncollege over. @BioLogosOrg grant submitted. Off to San Francisco and #ASM2012 tomorrow. Fun times... #fb
Mission with... Patterns of encounter. We must stop with this idea that we are moving into empty space. #ASM2012
Mission through... Mission praxis #ASM2012
Mission as... Unfolding initiatives and concrete things to do. Can anyone do all of this? We either narrow it down or choose one.#ASM2012
Mission is... Missio Dei #ASM2012
Blythe Layton
Stoked for #asm2012 !! Plane delayed, practicing patience.
Dr. Klippies Kritzinger bringing opening: Mission as prophetic dialogue #ASM2012
The Tree of Life: Coming up at the #ASM2012 mtg. "The Great Indoors: Recent Advances in the Ecology of Built…http://goo.gl/fb/XVGOi
American Academy of Microbiology poll on what challenges you think microbes should be used to solve http://shar.es/sr2Hc#ASM2012
AG Oglesby-Sherrouse
Just finished planning my schedule for #asm2012; now for some wine and a little family time.
Great week at Steuebnville with@youthworks and my church Generations... Now in Chicago for #ASM2012 hope it's okay to tweet cuz I am!
Trying to come up w shorter term for "student, postdoc and young faculty members" of ASM. What do you think of "Next-gen members"? #asm2012
Checked into room; hotel provided chilled bottle of wine, cheese plate, & personal welcome note. I wonder who they think I am?#asm2012
What's the tweeting protocol for #asm2012? Is it OK to tweet every talk?
Vaughn Cooper
Sad to be missing #ASM2012 but better pizza @LaFestaPizzeria, beer from @mainebeerco and tucks for boys. Plus, twitter updates from friends
Fully automated #ThermoScientific Sensititre ARIS 2X System. Check it out @ASMicrobiology booth 1015 http://ow.ly/bBREq#ASM2012
Hmm, intrigued but disturbed at this #asm2012 livestreamed talk: Microbial Analysis of Environ Surfaces in Hotel Roomshttp://bit.ly/mRkdE6
PortEco and EcoCyc will be at booth 1623 at #ASM2012
Arrived -SF - for #asm2012 but am worried that this may not be the African Super Meateters meeting http://pic.twitter.com/hqD8yCy6
GAH!!! the #asm2012 website is DOWN, and I need to look at the program to see if its worth me going. Anyone have a PDF copy??
Matthew Begemann
Getting ready to leave for #asm2012. I will be talking on Monday about engineering cyanobacteria.
Don't forget to register for the bioMérieux Scientific Symposium Monday night (18/6) at #asm2012 http://bit.ly/MNpyah
Seconded “@ematsen: @tjsharpton are you going to be Chief Microblogging Organizer at #asm2012? Consider this to be a nomination.”
We're excited to be in beautiful San Francisco next week for#ASM2012! Come visit us at booth No. 626. USB life science reagents @Affymetrix
In honor of today's events...I'm just going interrupt every speaker at#asm2012 mid talk
Lindsay Kelley
We have ur solutions for cellular & pathway analysishttp://bit.ly/Kfebny #ASM2012
How can microbiol socs grow from medical micro emphasis to other global concerns eg environ quality? @ISME_OFFICE #asm2012
Shahana Kazmi, Pres of Pakistan Soc for Microbiol is updating us on impressive achievements of her Society #asm2012 @SocGenMicro
Did you hear about our new PowerMag Soil & Microbial DNA Kits? Check it out http://bit.ly/NVVf3A & stop by booth 1616 at #asm2012for info.
Smart-Vue wireless monitoring solutions safeguard the integrity of your precious samples http://ow.ly/bBSi4 Booth 1012 #ASM2012
CrowdedHead
Revco UxF freezers deliver ultimate protection and optimum capacity for your most critical samples http://ow.ly/bBS6b Booth 1012 #ASM2012
CryoExtra provide outstanding sample protection with uniform cryo temperatures http://ow.ly/bBRYi Booth 1012 #ASM2012
Find out about the new #ThermoScientific cold storage products on display at @ASMicrobiology's #ASM2012 on booth 1015. Details to follow…
Heading in to #ASM2012 in San Francisco #GoMicrobes
Gearing up for #asm2012 http://pic.twitter.com/c0fq9aFD
Spending the day at #asm2012 membership board meeting.
Missed "Using next-gen seq for microbial genomes & transcriptomes"?- webinar recording now availablehttp://bit.ly/LVBur0 #asm2012
We're hosting our annual Scientific Symposium at #asm2012Monday June 18 at 6pm. @David_Gergen 2 be keynote speaker. Don't miss it! Pls RT
Hey @dawessner Sun-Tue when skipping sessions #asm2012 make use of the time by visiting @Labguru's booth 1625 ;) Our guys would love to meet
We're getting excited for #ASM2012 tomorrow! Visit booth 1213 and learn about all the content solutions Elsevier can provide!
How to get from SFO or Oakland airport to #asm2012 MT @PMOrwin@DrJCThrash BART. It'll take you right there
I made it in one piece to SF, navigated to the BART station and I’m now sitting on a train full of what appear to be scientists #asm2012
What's the best way to get from the SFO airport to #asm2012downtown?
Getting ready for #asm2012 ! Stop by booth 1616 Sun-Tue and enter to win Beats by Dr. Dre Headphones & get free DNA & RNA kit samples!
IBT Bioservices
No booth for us at #asm2012 so instead we'll have a twitter booth on#nrmicroASM drop us a tweet if you have queries/want to meet etc
ScriptPhD.com
Test ur scientific knowledge @ booth 1523 #ASM2012http://bit.ly/Kfebny
One day until #ASM2012 - already in the Bay area, who knows who I might run into?
We're excited to visit beautiful San Francisco next week for#asm2012! Come visit us at booth n° 1301
Ok tweeps, who is presenting at #asm2012 ? I have a poster Monday afternoon. Come say hi. It's awesome. #hopefulmonster
American Society of Microbiology’s #ASM2012 starts tomorrow#SanFrancisco, stop by the #Affymetrix / USB booth 626 -http://gm.asm.org/
Definitely coming for a coloring book! MT @TrendsMicrobiol: Also, you can pick up the awesome Cell Press coloring book #asm2012(booth 1211)
Plus pick up a Cell Press pin at Booth 1211, if you’re spotted with this you could win a Kindle. Too bad I can’t do this... #asm2012
Also, you can pick up a copy of the 2011 Best of Cell Host & Microbe and the awesome Cell Press coloring book #asm2012 (booth 1211)
I’ll be at the Cell Press booth 1211 Monday June 18 and Tuesday June 19 from 1-2 - stop by and chat and pick up a copy of TIM#asm2012
The Academy wants to know what global challenges you think microbiology should solve! #grandmicrochallenges #asm2012http://bit.ly/LZHYoN
Planning my itinerary and getting ready for #asm2012. Hope to see you there!
American Society of Microbiology’s #ASM2012 starts tomorrow#SanFrancisco, stop by the #ThermoScientific booth 1015http://gm.asm.org/
We have ur solutions for cellular & pathway analysishttp://bit.ly/Kfebny #ASM2012
And there's Boston airport. Offline for the next 9 hours or so.#asm2012 here I come
Core-apps 
SGM
Our President @h_lapp is at #asm2012 this week talking about how best to tackle global pollution http://www.swansea.ac.uk/media-centre/latest-news/swanseaacademicseekingglobalsolutionstopollutionproblems.php via @SwanseaUni
Checking out the #asm2012 iPhone app http://m.core-apps.com/TriStar-asm2012
On my way to #asm2012 (@ Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) w/ 45 others) http://4sq.com/Lrubqv
Amy Hendricksen
Attending the #ASM2012 in San Francisco? Map out your event in advance: Floor planhttp://www.gm.asm.org/images/asm2012_floor.pdf Lathrop Engineering Booth #523
Love the enthusiasm! RT @LivinNerdStyle: Omfg im going to San Francisco tomorrow! #asm2012
Your bugs, our box - see the anaerobic Bugbox workstation at booth 1534 #asm2012
Congratulations to LaJoyce Debro who has been honored with the William A. Hinton Research Training Award. http://bit.ly/KBPfuU#asm2012 ^lg
Wiley News Room
RT @wileyopenaccess: MicrobiologyOpen meet-the-editor event:#ASM2012, June 17th, from 2-4pm, Booth 724. Free coffee, cookies and...
Leaving #GRChostpara after 5 great days of science. Now for San Francisco and #asm2012!
Omfg im going to San Francisco tomorrow! #asm2012
Are you going to #ASM2012? http://bit.ly/pwMkkB
Test ur scientific knowledge @ booth 1523 #ASM2012http://bit.ly/Kfebny
MicrobiologyOpen meet-the-editor event: #ASM2012 from 3pm on the 17th June http://bit.ly/pwMkkB
We'll be demoing MacVector 12.6 at the #asm2012http://macvector.com/blog/2012/05/macvector-12-6-coming-soon/Come have a look and pick up a demo CD and a mouse pad! Booth 936
We'll be at #ASM2012 in SF from the 16-19th! Come see us at Booth 1131 to meet our researchers & take advantage of our samples & giveaways!
promega
Attending #asm2012? Visit Promega representatives at booth# 727 and ask about our latest nucleic acid purification & quantitation products.
Learn about the wide range of reliable #ThermoScientific peristaltic pumps at booth 1015 #ASM2012 http://ow.ly/bAsjH
See the #ThermoScientific #Remel #virology products@ASMicrobiology for solutions to simplify workflow http://ow.ly/bArXz#ASM2012
RT @illumina: Rapid whole genome seq for neonatal MRSA investigation using #MiSeq. New article in @NEJM today:http://bit.ly/K2WxWW #asm2012
Congratulations to Bernhard Palsson who has won the @Promega#Biotechnology Research Award. http://bit.ly/K23hnZ #asm2012 ^lg
Presenting at #asm2012 or another conf? Here's some tips: How to Present Successfully at Conferences - Bitesize Biohttp://bit.ly/LY5m8b
Attending #ASM2012 ? Stop by Booth #1617 for special savings on products for microbial #genomics. http://ow.ly/bA2dY
34,000 feet and 500 miles per hour...on the internet! #asmcue2012#asm2012
Good advice! RT @DrChrisKellogg: Enroute to #asm2012. Do NOT forget poster tube that has rolled to the far back of the overhead bin.
Insightful cellular analysis http://bit.ly/MhxllS #ASM2012 Booth 1523
See you at #asm2012 June 17-19! @mobio is booth 1616. Details on our giveaway here (bottom of article) : http://bit.ly/JyfAJF
TIMM2013
Enroute to #asm2012. Do NOT forget poster tube that has rolled to the far back of the overhead bin.
For anyone studying infectious disease, we will be offering two OMNIgene seminars following #asm2012. Please retweet!http://on.fb.me/Nl4opL
Ava'
Time to head out to the airport for #asm2012 and #asmcue2012
Using next-gen seq for microbial genomes &amp; transcriptomes- webinar recording now available http://bit.ly/LVBur0#asm2012
People watching at the #JetBlue terminal at JFK. On my way to#asmcue and #asm2012. #wontyousavemesanfrancisco
Niall Lennon 
The PostDocs Forum
RT @labguru: We're going to #asm2012 in SF! Come meet us-booth 1625. We'll explain about @Labguru #researchmanagement tool & give cool gifts
LabLife
RT @labguru: We're going to #asm2012 in SF! Come meet us-booth 1625. We'll explain about @Labguru #researchmanagement tool & give cool gifts
RT @labguru: We're going to #asm2012 in SF! Come meet us-booth 1625. We'll explain about @Labguru #researchmanagement tool & give cool gifts
Insightful cellular analysis http://bit.ly/MhxllS #ASM2012 Booth 1523
Rapid whole genome seq for neonatal MRSA investigation using#MiSeq. New article in @NEJM today: http://bit.ly/K2WxWW#asm2012
Tomorrow I pick up @DrRachelleSmith and we're going to check out the zoos in Sacramento and SF before #asm2012 #zootours#hugalltheanimals
Mike Ingerson-Mahar
Look for #grandmicrochallenges at #asm2012! How do you think that microbes can save the world? Let us know!
Our last batch of sample DNA & RNA isolation kits is beginning its journey to #asm2012 stop by booth 1616 next week to try some free kits!
My student Adam just found out he’s giving a talk at #ASM2012. Short notice, but a great opportunity! Stop by Tues. at 11 am, Div. B/D mtg.
look fwd to it! MT @tjsharpton: Novel Bacterial Taxa in the Human Microbiome http://bit.ly/MBQeKm I'll be speaking about this at#ASM2012
Stay tuned! Over the next few days we'll announce new#ThermoScientific products to be displayed on booth 1015 at@ASMicrobiology's #ASM2012
Novel Bacterial Taxa in the Human Microbiome (Open):http://bit.ly/MBQeKm I'll be speaking about this at #ASM2012
Download the #ASM2012 floor plan to make sure you can find booth 1015 to speak with our #ThermoScientific colleagues:http://ow.ly/bxkh1
We’ll be in SF this weekend for #asm2012 (booth 840). Hope to see you there! We’ll be presenting OMNIgene, our infectious disease kit.
Posters done printed and ready for san Francisco!!!! #asm2012#cantwait http://pic.twitter.com/IUIRgzjO
DL Carranza
Are you going to #asm2012 - bring this flierhttp://www.daigger.com/about-us/tradeshows.jsp to the Daigger booth and they will donate $5 to Seeding Labs
Nourtan
Starting to pack for San Fransisco! #ASM2012 with the@ASMicrobiology will be fun, but the #BAshReunion with@ash_mcdaniel will be awesome
Belinda Wagner 
Coalesce
looking forward to learning about great technologies and research.#ASM2012, San Francisco June 16-19
Enjoy the conference! RT @kristindownie: SF bound! #ASM2012
Talia J.
Florida bound! Back in time for one day of #ASM2012. Deciding between Mon or Tues...
Neutrophil in Immunity congres in Quebec was very nice. Now grant writing and saturday to the #ASM2012 in San Francisco
SF bound! #ASM2012
Hmmm, wonder if can take part in next Tues' #microtwjc from#asm2012 ? I think the time difference will make it around lunchtime...
I'll be attending #asm2012. First microbiology meeting for me, and looking forward to it!
(1) Technician returned ms to journal w responses to reviewers & compelling new data. (2) #asm2012 poster printed. A satisfying day.
Excited about heading to #asm2012 this weekend! #microbiology
All these tweets about people having scheduled #asm2012 already have me feeling complacent...haven't even written my talk yet
ASMCUE/ASM scheduling finished. Happy to meet up with people depending on schedule. Hilton Union Square from 17-20 June.#asm2012
Using #inkscape to make my poster for #asm2012. The official quick-ref for this amazing free drawing program:http://inkscape.org/doc/keys046.html