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Welcome!

Welcome colleagues and guests to the 59th Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists, hosted this year at Concordia University, located in the heart of beautiful downtown Montreal!

The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) has put together a great scientific program that will provide attendees with leading edge discussion of microbiology research, specifically in the areas of Microbial Metal Uptake, Oral Pathogens, Host/Pathogen Interactions, Virology/Phage, Polar Microbiology, System Microbiology/Metagenomics, and Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins.

This year's meeting is especially exciting because we have the honor of welcoming an internationally renowned expert in the field of Listeria monocytogenes, Dr. Pascale Cossart, as our keynote speaker.

We wish you a meeting filled with rich discussion and fruitful exchanges as well as a stay filled with the wonderful hospitality our University and vibrant city have to offer!

Sincerely,

Vincent Martin
Chair, Local Organizing Committee
CSM 2009

Bienvenue!

Bienvenue, chers collègues et invités, à la 59ième Conférence Annuelle de la Société Canadienne des Microbiologistes. Le colloque est cette année accueilli par l’Université Concordia, située dans le magnifique centreville de Montréal!

Le comité organisateur local a préparé un programme scientifique des plus passionnant qui stimulera chez nos participants des discussions à la fine pointe de la recherche en microbiologie, tout particulièrement dans les domaines suivants: absorption microbienne des métaux, pathogènes buccaux, intérations hôte/pathogène, virologie/phage, microbiologie polaire, microbiologie systèmique/métagénomique and biologie structurale des protéines membranaires.

Nous vous souhaitons un colloque rempli de riches discussions, et espèrons que vous aurez l’occasion de profiter de l’hospitalité et du dynamisme de l’Université Concordia et de la ville de Montréal.

Sincèrement,

Vincent Martin, PhD
Président, Comité organisateur local
Congrès annuel 2009 de la SCM

 
 
 

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Award Recipients


The Canadian Society of Microbiologists is pleased to announce this year’s award winners: Dr. B. Brett Finlay, UBC Peter Wall Distinguished Professor (University of British Columbia) will receive this year’s Roche Diagnostic Award and Dr. John Hunter Brumell, Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children and Associate Professor (University of Toronto) will receive this year’s Fisher Award and Dr. Philippe Constant, from the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany) will receive this year’s Cangene Gold Medal Award.


Congratulations to this year’s award recipients!


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Keynote Speaker

Dr. Pascale Cossart Dr. Pascale Cossart, Professeur, Institut Pasteur
Unité Interactions Bactéries Cellules


Listeria monocytogenes: a bacterial pathogen responsible for severe infections and a multifaceted model in biology
P. Cossart, Unité des Interactions Bactéries-Cellules, INSERM U604, INRA USC2020, Institut Pasteur, 28 rue du Dr Roux - 75015 Paris, France.


The food borne pathogen L. monocytogenes discovered by Murray in 1926 is responsible for a severe infection with various clinical features (gastroenteritis, meningitis, meningoencephalitis and materno foetal infections) and a high mortality rate (30%). The disease is due to the ability of Listeria to cross three host barriers during infection: the intestinal barrier, the placental barrier and the blood brain barrier. It is also due to Listeria capacity to survive in macrophages and to enter into non phagocytic cells, such epithelial cells. Recovery from infection and protection against reinfection are due to a T-cell response, explaining why Listeria has since many years has become a model in immunology. Nearly three decades of molecular biology and cell biology approaches coupled to genetic and post-genomic studies have promoted Listeria among the best models in infection biology. In depth studies of the mechanism of entry into cells has help unraveling how Listeria crosses the intestinal and placental barrier. Unsuspected concepts in cell biology were discovered. Post-genomic studies have recently allowed to unveil the Listeria transcriptional landscape during switch from saprophytism to virulence.
The talk will give an overview highlighting recent results in the frame work of well established data.


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