Group photo.

When: May 12 - 15, 2006
Where: Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Center, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Campus, Kingsville, Texas (45 miles SE of Corpus Christi). [more information]

Program:

Advanced informatics of phage/viral genes; bacteriophage therapy; microbial communities; prophage genes and their role in bacterial phenotypes; phage/virus detection, characterization, purification, and evolution; and other topics to be announced.

Registration deadline has been extended to April 1, 2006 (Number of attendees will be restricted)

Organizing committee:

• Philip Serwer, Ph.D., The Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
• Stephen C. Hardies, Ph.D., The Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
• Elizabeth Kutter, Ph.D., The Evergreen State College

Meeting Website: http://biochem.uthscsa.edu/~hs_lab/phage_meeting.

Registration fees:

• $275 per person, covering meals (other than breakfast) and entertainment, but not lodging.
• If registering after the April 1 deadline, the late registration fee will be $350 per person.
• Registration fees must be paid by check in US dollars, which should be included when returning the registration form. (see links at the bottom of this page for the registration form and registration instructions.)
• Be sure to include any special dietary requirements on your registration materials.

• Should fit on one page including any figures, with 1 inch margins, single spaced, 12 point font, and including title, authors, address in the following general format. [prototype abstract] Please underline the author who will present the talk or poster.
• Everyone who wishes to speak and/or present a poster will please submit at least a preliminary abstract by April 1 by e-mail to Deborah Yrle (yrle@uthscsa.edu).  Please indicate a preference for  poster and/or a platform presentation.
• Posters will be on display throughout the meeting.
• Poster boards will be 4 x 6 feet.
• Oral presentations will be 10-15 minutes in length with a question period. The talks do not have a fixed format. Computers suitable for projecting powerpoint presentations will be available, and this is the preferred mode of presentation. A 2x2 slide projector will also be available.

Lodging (including breakfast):

• 77 One-Stop Rodeway Inn, 3430 S.
  Highway 77, Kingsville, Texas 78363.  Phone: (361) 595-5753.  Fax:
  (361) 595-0298.  Email: RodewayInn@gmail.com.
  Manager: Leo Garcia
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• Each participant should arrange lodging separately with the Rodeway Inn.
• $49.95 per night for one person per room.
• $54.95 per night for two people per room.
• $59.95 per night for three people per room.
• When making reservations, identify yourself as being with the "University of Texas Health Science Center" meeting.
• A block of 60 rooms has been reserved for the meeting.

• Make your reservations to fly to the Corpus Christi airport.
• Some attendees have reported that round trip airfare from their location to Corpus Christi is much higher than to Houston. In this case, you may save some money by independently booking a second round trip from Houston to Corpus Christi. The cost is about $124 for Continental Air and $134 for Southwest. Alternatively, if you decide to fly to Houston and drive to Kingsville, the driving distance is 255 miles.
• Shuttle service from the Corpus Christi Airport to the Roadway Inn will be available from Star Shuttle for a fee.
• If you want to use this shuttle service, please refer to instructions on the registration form linked at the bottom of this page.
• Please refer to the registration form for information about rental cars in Kingsville.
• There will be shuttle service from the Roadway Inn to the Conference Center throughout the day as part of the registration fee.
• Shuttle service to the entertainment events will also be provided.

• Bamford laboratory page.

Schedule: Each day/evening of the conference will have two work sessions and one entertainment session.  The entertainment sessions
will consist of two evening concerts, one country western and one mariachi, and a day tour of the King Ranch.

• Schedule (as of May 4).

Participants interested in chairing a session should contact Dr. Philip Serwer (serwer@uthscsa.edu) by April 1.
 

First Meeting announcement.

Registration Form

• In pdf format.
• In doc format.

For more information

For questions/comments concerning this web site, send e-mail to Stephen C. Hardies (hardies@uthscsa.edu).