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ACS Waksman Landmark: Celebrating Waksman
Presentation Type	Oral
Summary Statement
Presiders:	Arnold Demain, Drew University, Madison, NJ Douglas Eveleigh, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Welcome: Douglas Eveleigh and Arnold Demain Plaque presentation to the Waksman Institute: William Carroll and Joachim Messing Natural product antibiotics from actinomycetes - past, present and (hopefully) future William Strohl, Merck and Company, West Point, PA Why aren't we finding antibiotics as easily as we used to? Julian Davies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Break Soil as a source of genes encoding the production of novel anti-microbials Gerben Zylstra, Boris Wawrik and Jerome J. Kukor, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Small-molecule inhibitors of bacterial RNA polymerase J. Mukhopadhyay1, E. Sineva2, Y.W. Ebright1, V. Mekler1, A. Volkov1, A. Srivastava1, A. Kravets1, D. Wang1, X. Wang1, S. Ismail1, S. Sarafianos3, S. Tuske3, B. Hudson3, A. Clarke3, J. Birktoft3, C. Dharia3, M. Bayro3, G.V.T. Swapna3, J. Huang3, L.C. Ma3, J. Knight3, O. Laptenko4, J. Lee4, S. Borukhov4, H. Berman3, E. Arnold3, G. Montelione3, R. Levy3 and R.H. Ebright1, (1)Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, (2)Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, (3)Rutgers University, (4)UMDNJ-Stratford TB: Global Time bomb Lee Reichman, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ Actinomycete secondary metabolites: gifts from the soil Arnold Demain, Drew University, Madison, NJ

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