title: American Society for Microbiology--99th general meeting. 30 May-3 June 1999, Chicago, IL, USA.
abstract: The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) celebrated its centenary at this meeting, which aimed to appeal to an audience with diverse microbiological interests. The program comprised six colloquia, division lectures and award sessions, division sessions, poster and special interest sessions, as well as pre-meeting workshops. The colloquia topics, selected by the ASM members advisory committee, were: pathogenesis; microbes and public health; microbial diversity; beyond the recombinant RNA revolution; molecular dissection of complex biological processes; and, host defenses. The divisional groups were: diagnostic microbiology and epidemiology; pathogenesis and host response mechanisms; general microbiology; and, molecular microbiology, physiology and virology. Each group highlighted a topic of importance to scientists from all divisions within that group and the divisional lecture was given by a distinguished scientist within one of the division's sessions.
authors.affiliation: Middlesex House, Current Drugs Ltd, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London W1P 6LB, United Kingdom. barbarac@cursci.co.uk
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authors.lastname: Chan