Montana
     Biofilm Science & Technology
            Meeting

July 7-9, 2009

Bozeman, Montana

Why Attend?

You have many options for technical meetings to attend. Why attend the Montana Biofilm Meeting (MBM, formerly TAC) and not some other meeting? Here are five ways that the MBM is different from many other conferences: 1) We continue to work to bring you “synthesis” presentations in which the presenter steps back from his or her own research and identifies trends, hypotheses, and actionable ideas. These presentations are intended to deliver insight (hard to come by) not just information (easy to come by); 2) We facilitate an ongoing discussion of the development of standardized biofilm methods and related regulatory issues and we broker dialogue with agencies such as FDA and EPA; 3) We afford opportunities for hands-on learning at the pre-meeting workshop and during the laboratory open house; 4) We encourage interaction and networking with our faculty, students, invited speakers, and other industrial attendees. Many meetings can make this claim, but we feel that the size, collegial spirit, and accessibility of the participants makes the MBM special for developing new professional contacts and relationships; and 5) We are in Montana! Put our next meeting on your calendar.  -Director Phil Stewart

Attendee Quotes
 

"The interaction of academia, government and industry provides an interesting and very useful forum to groups that might otherwise be "isolated" form each other."
      -NASA

"My first CBE meeting was engaging, thought-provoking and wholly delightful."
      -Procter & Gamble

Invited Speakers

Colgate-Palmolive
Somerset, NJ

Dow Microbial Control, Buffalo Grove, IL

STANDARDIZED BIOFILM METHODS WORKSHOP

This workshop focused on how to grow, treat, sample & analyze biofilm bacteria using CDC, RDR and DFR growth reactors.

Pictured: Lindsey Lorenz, CBE, demonstrates the drip flow reactor to Marc Rindal, EPA; and Raymond Ignar and Osy Ona, GlaxoSmithKline.

POSTER SESSION & OPEN HOUSE

The open house and poster session gave attendees the opportunity to interact with CBE staff, students, and visiting researchers. 

Pictured left to right: Reiko Kariyama, Okayama University School of Medicine and Dentistry, Japan; Federica Villa, University of Milan, Italy; Dr. Yi Wang, Xi’an University Architecture & Technology, China.

POSTER AWARD

Congratulations, Mary Cloud Ammons!  Mary Cloud won the award with her poster, "Lactoferrin, xylitol, and the inhibition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms," coauthored by Mary Cloud Ammons, Loren Ward and Garth James.

MEMBERS AND GUESTS

▪ 3M ▪  Procter & Gamble ▪ BASF ▪ ICU Medical  ▪ Sandia National Laboratories ▪ Ethox International ▪ BioSurface Technologies ▪ University of Washington ▪ Alcon Research, Ltd. ▪ EPA ▪ BD Medical ▪ Kane Biotech ▪ NIST  ▪ NASA ▪ Colgate-Palmolive  ▪ Midwest Research Institute

▪ Cardinal Health  ▪  Baxter Healthcare Corp. ▪ W.L. Gore ▪ University of Minnesota ▪  BioScience Laboratories, Inc.▪ Stanford University ▪ GlaxoSmithKline ▪ NIH  ▪ University of North Carolina

▪ Young Innovations ▪ University of New York Binghamton ▪ American Society for Microbiology

▪ Church & Dwight ▪ Cook Medical ▪ Johnson & Johnson ▪ Okayama University Hospital

Next Conference

Winter Conference:
  February 9−10, 2010

Winter Workshop:
  February 8, 2010

We look forward to seeing you in 2010!