Mycoplasma Genetics

• Greg Mahairas and Lee Hood (Institute of Systems Biology) - Sequencing of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae.
• Elliot Lefkowitz (University of Alabama in Birmingham) - Anaylsis and annotation of mycoplasma genomic sequences
• Dan Nettleton and Dan Nordman (Iowa State University) - analysis of microarray gene expression data

Microarrays

• Tracy Nicholson (National Animal Disease Center) - development of swine microarrays for transcriptional gene profiling during infections
• Kerry Gunning (Integrated DNA Tecnologies, Inc.) - development of swine arrays, enhanced hybridization conditions

Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae

• Eileen Thacker (Iowa State University) - Pathogenesis and vaccine development for Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, development of PCR diagnostic for M. hyopneumoniae, development of recombinant vaccines, modulation of swine immune responses to Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae antigens
• Steve Djordjevic (New South Wales Agriculture) Role of surface proteins in pathogenesis, proteomics
• Shane Burgess (Mississippi State University - Proteomics

Food Safety

• Rob Edwards (Sand Diego State University) Genetic basis for persistence of Salmonella enteritidis in chicken ovarian tissues
• Nancy Cornick and Greg Phillips (Iowa State University) - E. coli 0157:H7 persistence in ruminants
• Joe Frank (University of Georgia) - Transcriptional profiling of Listeria monocytogenes during exposure to sanitizers using microarrays
• Glenn Young (University of California, Davis) - Transcriptional profiling of Listeria monocytogenes during biofilm formation using microarrays
• Arvind Bhagwat (USDA, Baltimore) - Transcriptional profiling of E. coli O157:H7 during exposure to sanitizers using microarrays

Molecular Vaccines

• Mike Wannemuehler (Iowa State University) - Development of mycobacteria ESAT-6 for development of enhanced vaccines, development of single dose vaccine against Yersinia pestis
• Balajii Narasimhan (Iowa State University) - Use of polyanhydrides in microspheres for single dose vaccines, development of single dose vaccine against Yersinia pestis
• Dennis Metzger (Albany Medical College) - ANimal challenge studies for Yersinia pestis

Quorum Sensing

• Alex Horswill (University of Iowa) and Matt Parsek (University of Washington) - Identification of the quorum sensing regulon in Yersinia pestis, AI-2 and AHL pathways