Society for Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

A novel move toward the biological control of human foodborne illnesses associated with commercial crop production
Jie Zheng, Food and Drug Adminstration, College Park, MD

Beneficial microbes for plant disease control
Alison Stewart, Marrone Bio Innovations, Davis, CA

Application and mode of action of a Bacillus amyloliquefaciens subsp. plantarum biocontrol organism against foliar fungal and bacterial pathogens of broad acre crops
Michael Frodyma, Michael Furlan, Miriam Schulte, Randy Berka, Michelle Maranta, Barbara Cherry and Elizabeth Prusinkiewicz, Novozymes BioAg, Salem, VA

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Enemy of my enemy is my friend: How to use bacteria’s worst nightmare to control them
Marcin Los, Phage Consultants, Gdansk

Characterizing members of the gut microbiota that mediate colonization resistance to Clostridium difficile infection
Mark Koenigsknecht¹, Diane Wang¹ and Vincent Young², (1)Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, (2)Internal Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Use of recent practical molecular tools for confirmation of beneficial microbes in aquaculture
David Drahos¹, Seth D'Imperio², David Kuhn³ and Daniel Taylor³, (1)Research and Development, Novozymes Biologicals, Inc., Salem, VA, (2)R&D, Novozymes Biologicals, Inc., Salem, VA, (3)Food Science Technology, Virginia Polytechnical Institute, Blacksburg, VA

Harnessing biologically-based contact-independent antagonisms for control of White-Nose Syndrome in North American bats
Christopher Cornelison, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA