Re: EPA Workshop of Microbial Source Tracking--Abstracts

["Richard L Whitman" <richard_whitman@usgs.gov>]

Great stuff for anyone interested in source tracking. Some of the best
trackers in the USA presented at this meeting, summaries are included.

                                  Agenda


              U.S. EPA Workshop on Microbial Source Tracking


                             February 5, 2002


              Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, Irvine, CA





7:30 - 8:30 Registration


Welcome
8:30 am - Gerard Stelma / Stephen Weisberg


Methods I (ribotyping, rep-PCR. PFGE, etc.)


8:45 - Lessons Learned and Questions Unanswered from 5 Years of Bacterial
Source Tracking
        Valerie J. Harwood, Ph.D.
        Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
        University of South Florida


9:15 - Microbial Source Tracking: Principles and Practice
        Mansour Samadpour, Ph.D.
        Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health
        University of Washington


9:45 - Ribotyping Enterococci
        Peter G. Hartel, Ph.D.
        University of Georgia


Break


10:30 - Fecal Source Tracking with Bacteroides
        Katherine G. Field, Ph.D.
        Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology
        Oregon State University


11:00 - Urbanization and Coastal Water Quality: What Can Molecular
Fingerprinting Tell us?
        Patricia A. Holden, Ph.D.
        The Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
        University of California, Santa Barbara


11:30 - Comparison of Environmental and Clinical Isolates of Escherichia
coli using Various Genetic Fingerprinting Methods
        Cindy H. Nakatsu, Ph.D.
        Purdue University


12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Speaker:
Bacterial Endemism and Co-Speciation
        James T. Staley, Ph.D.
        Professor, Department of Microbiology
        University of Washington


1:30 - Source Tracking Fecal Bacteria in the Environment Using rep-PCR DNA
Fingerprinting: Prospects and Problems
        LeeAnn K. Johnson
        Department of Soil, Water, and Climate
        University of Minnesota


Methods II (Antibiotic resistance profiles, biochemical profiles,
immunological, etc.)


2:00 - Microbial Source Tracking Using Antibiotic Resistance Analysis
        Bruce A. Wiggins, Ph.D.
        Professor, Department of Biology
        James Madison University


2:30 - Animal Source Tracking: A Complement to Microbial Source Tracking
        R.D. Ellender, Ph.D.
        University of Southern Mississippi


3:00 - Carbon Source Profiles, Pulsed-field Gel Electrophoresis Patterns,
and Antibiotic Resistance Analysis
        Charles Hagedorn, Ph.D.
        Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences
        Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University


Break


4:00 - Coliphage Tracking to Identify Sources of Fecal Contamination
        Mark D. Sobsey, Ph.D.
        Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences
        University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


4:30 - Source Tracking of Fecal Waste Material in Environmental Waters
using a Biomarker based on
Enterotoxin Genes in E. coli
        Betty Olson, Ph.D.
        Professor
        University of California, Irvine


5:00 - Detection of Enteroviruses Using PCR-Based Techniques for Source
Identification and Assessment of
Microbiological Water Quality
        Rachel T. Noble, Ph.D.
        Assistant Professor, Institute of Marine Science
        University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


5:30 - Adenovirus as an Index of Human Viral Contamination
        Sunny Jiang, Ph.D.
        Assistant Professor
        University of California, Irvine


CONCLUSION - Application of a methods to identify coliform pollution
sources using multiple antibiotic resistance, selected molecular techniques
and GIS spatial analysis
        Geoffrey Scott
        NOAA/NOS, Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular
Research


6:00 - Adjourn


For abstracts, visit the following site

www.sccwrp.org/tools/workshops/source_tracking_agenda.html