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2014 Awards
Award Laureates
Presenting Lectures
ASM congratulates the 2014 General Meeting Award
laureates and encourages asm2014 attendees to come
and listen to their award lectures. The awards are listed
alphabetically by day of presentation.
Sunday, May 18
Abbott Award in Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology
Honors outstanding contributions in clinical or diagnostic immunology.
Session:
Should I Still Be Ordering Serology for That?
8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Meeting Room 253B
Award Lecturer:
Robert Yarchoan; Natl. Cancer Inst.,
Bethesda, MD
Lecture:
HIV-Related Malignancies: Diseases at the
Crossroads of Virology, Immunology, and
Cancer Biology
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Carski Foundation Distinguished Undergraduate
Teaching Award
Honors exceptional teaching of microbiology to undergraduate students.
Session:
NextGen Microbiologist
8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Grand Ballroom East
Award Lecturer:
Erica Suchman; Colorado State Univ.,
Fort Collins, CO
Lecture:
Teaching Your Students to Think Like a
Microbiologist: Let Them Practice What
You Preach
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Hardy Diagnostics ABMM/ABMLI Professional
Recognition Award
Recognizes outstanding contributions to the professional recognition
of clinical microbiologists and/or immunologists.
Session:
Fecal Microbiota Transplants and Competing
Organisms: From Practical to Practice to Promise
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Meeting Room 258A
Award Lecturer:
Peter Gilligan; Univ. of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, NC
Lecture:
Best Thoughts and Continuous Study: The
Intersection of Clinical Care and Research
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award
Honors the outstanding efforts of a scientist who has demonstrated the
fundamentals of culture collections and related resources and the rich biodiversity
that such collections preserve.
Session:
Biofilms: Synthesis and Consequences
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 pm | Meeting Room 205A
Award Lecturer:
Floyd Dewhirst; The Forsyth Inst., Cambridge, MA
Lecture:
Give Your Oral Biofilm a Break, Don’t Floss
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Monday, May 19
ASM Lifetime Achievement Award (sponsored by AbbVie)
ASM’s premier award for sustained contributions
to the microbiological sciences.
Session:
Farm to Table Microbiology
8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Grand Ballroom West
Award Lecturer:
Roy Curtiss, III; Arizona State Univ., Phoenix, AZ
Lecture:
The Atlantic Ocean via Tomato, Chicken, and
Microbial Genetics to Global Health: The Impact
of Luck and Mentors
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology
Honors research accomplishments that form the foundation for important
applications in clinical microbiology.
Session:
Era of Microbiology Laboratory Consolidation:
Approaches, Challenges, Considerations
8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Meeting Room 253B
Award Lecturer:
Angela M. Caliendo; The Warren Alpert Med. Sch.
of Brown Univ., Providence, RI
Lecture:
Molecular Diagnostics: Looking Back,
Thinking Forward
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
D.C. White Research and Mentoring Award
Recognizes distinguished accomplishments in interdisciplinary research and
mentoring in microbiology.
Session:
Marine Microbiology: Challenges to Old Paradigms
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Meeting Room 253C
Award Lecturer:
Edward Leadbetter; Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.,
Woods Hole, MA
Lecture:
Meanderings in Microbiology
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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