Tuesday May 19, 2009 (2:30pm-5:00pm)
     From Direct Counts to Metagenomics: Two Decades of Discovery in Aquatic Viral Ecology
     K. Eric. Wommack & Steven W. Wilhelm -- Conveners

• Steven W. Wilhelm -- Global Biogeochemical Implications of the Virioplankton
• Willie Wilson -- Virus-Phytoplankton Interactions
• John H. Paul -- Division N Lecture: Temperate Phage
• Shawn W. Polson -- Viral Metagenomics
• Matthew Sullivan -- Comparative Phage Metagenomics

Tuesday May 19, 2009 (2:30pm-5:00p)
     Phage & Pathogenic Bacteria: Involvement of Phage in Disease and Therapy
     David I. Friedman & Ryland F. Young -- Conveners

• Jeff F. Miller -- Diversity-Generating Retroelements in Phage and Bacterial Genomes
• Ryland F. Young -- Fatal Wound: Holes That Release Toxin
• JMatthew K. Waldor -- Mobile Antibiotic Resistance Elements Promote Their Own Diversity with a Lambda Red-like Recombination System
• José R. Penadés -- Phage Requirements for Induction and Transfer of Staphylococcus Aureus Pathogenicty Islands
• David I. Friedman -- Division M Lecture: Prophage Induction and Pathogenicity of Enterohemorrhagic E. coli

Wednesday May 20, 2009 (2:30pm-5:00p)
     The 3 R's: Recombination, Replication and Recombineering
     Kenan C.. Murphy -- Convener

• Mark C. Williams -- Modulation of T4 gene 32 Protein DNA Binding Activity on Single DNA Molecules by the Recombination Mediator Protein UvsY
• Stephen W. White -- Structural and Functional Studies On The Phage T4 Uvswxy Recombination System
• Joseph E. Peters -- A Mechanism for Transposition Directed into DNAs Undergoing Lagging-Strand DNA Replication
• Graham F. Hatfull -- Mycobacterial Recombineering
• Kenan C.. Murphy -- Studies on the Mechanism of Lambda Red Recombineering

Thursday May 21, 2009 (8:15am-10:45am)
     Colloquium II: Environmental Microbiology -- Phage
     Konstantin Severinov -- Convener

• Eugene V. Koonin -- Evolution of the CRISPR/CAS System: Adaptive Immunity in Prokaryotes
• Luciano A. Marraffini -- CRISPR Interference in Staphylococci: A Natural Barier to Plasmid Conjugation
• Udi Qimron -- Acquisition by Bacteriophage T7 of the Host, Escherichia coli
• Ivana Gudelj -- Mathematical Models and Experiments as Tools for Studying Host-Pathogen Co-Evolution
• Konstantin Severinov -- Modifications of Host Transcription Apparatus during Bacteriophage Development