8th Great Plains Infectious Disease (GPID) Meeting

Bacterial Toxins, Primases and Regulatory Networks

Mark Fisher, KUMC, "Structures of the Anthrax Toxin Pore translocation complex inserted into Lipid Nanodiscs"

Michael Baldwin, MU, "Gangliosides and Synaptic Vesicle Protein 2 as Dual Receptors for Botulinum Neurotoxin F"

Marilynn Larson, UNMC, "Structure-Function of Bacterial Primases from Pathogens"

Michael Chaussee, USD, "Mapping regulatory networks in the flesh-eating bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes"

Microbial Pathogenesis and Immune Responses

Guoquan Zhang, MU, "Coxiella burnetii pathogenesis and host response"

Charlie Brown, MU, "Eicosanoid regulation of the inflammatory response to B. burgdorferi infection"

Kristin Michel, KSU, "Mosquito hemocytes, immune safety in small numbers"

Poster Session I:
Presenting authors with last names A-J

Viral Pathogenesis and Vaccine Development

Victor Huber, USD, "Multivalent Vaccine Strategies to Elicit Broad Immunity Within an Influenza A Subtype (H3)"

Mohammad Mir, KUMC, " Transcription initiation of hantaviral mRNA"

Ed Stephens, KUMC, "The Use of Simian Human Immunodeficiency Virus (SHIV) to Study the Role of the Vif Protein in HIV-1 Pathogenesis"