( American Society for Microbiology ) The American Society for Microbiology will hold its 112th General Meeting June 16-19, 2012 in San Francisco, California. The meeting will feature approximately 3,000 individual scientific presentations spanning the breadth of microbiology and has an expected attendance of 10,000.
MICHIGAN CITY ? Teachers often refer to a ?light bulb? moment when students finally understand the lesson. Two science teachers at Michigan City High School had their own light bulb moments, courtesy of senior Matthew Bietry ? who has taken his studies of microbiology to new levels.
( American Society for Microbiology ) The 2012 winners of the ASM Public Communications Award are Jon Cohen and Martin Enserink from Science. "False Positive" was published in Science on Sept. 23, 2011. The article digs deep into the controversy surrounding the publication of a study that linked a mouse retrovirus, XMRV, to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
