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108th ASM General
Meeting Report
The 108th General Meeting was held on 1–5 June
2008 in Boston, Mass., and attracted over 10,000.
The last time this meeting was held in Boston was
almost 40 years ago. This year’s meeting included
345 scientific and poster sessions with 600 speakers and 3,400 poster presenters.
Program Chair Jeff Miller of the University of
California Los Angeles, introduced the important meeting session topics in an opening press
conference. These included a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) update,
new vaccine contenders, and methods to diagnose and treat disease.
The Opening Session was held at the Boston
World Trade Center, located two blocks from the
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. A special session entitled “Microbiology in the 21st
Century: Genomes, Pangenomes, and Systems Biology” included presentations by Tim Donohue
from the University of Wisconsin and Rino Rappuloi from Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics.
This session was capped off by ASM Lecturer
Lucy Shapiro, Stanford University School of Medicine, who presented, “The Bacterial Cell Cycle: a
Regulatory Circuit under Temporal and Spatial
Control.” A Bostonian Bash proceeded along the
Boulevard of Flags with the culinary delights of
Boston’s diverse neighborhoods.
ASM President Clifford Houston of the University of Texas and Margaret McFall-Ngai of
the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vice
Chair of the General Meeting Program Committee, opened the Exhibit Hall with a ribboncutting ceremony. This was followed by a Boston Tea Party during which a continental
breakfast was served.
The sold-out Exhibit Hall and new activities on
the Hall floor succeeded in generating meeting
participants’ interest. There was substantial opportunity for attendees to learn from exhibitors
about the latest scientific technologies, products
and services. Leadership Day was an occasion for
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General Meeting attendees to meet ASM leadership, Program Committee Members and ASM
staff. The Philadelphia Convention and Visitor’s
Bureau provided Tastykake snacks, a Pennsylvania staple, for attendees over Philadelphia Day, to
highlight the next General Meeting destination.
A total of 743 participants registered for two
days of Pre-Meeting Workshops on May 31 and
June 1. These workshops were facilitated by 95
Lecturers at Northeastern University.
The 108th General Meeting received over 226
press mentions over the meeting in various
newspapers, magazines and blogs. A recap of
the entire 108th General Meeting is available for
purchase on the General Meeting website
(http://www.gm.asm.org), under the “Post
Meeting Products” green tab. The full digital
library is a compilation of all the scientific meeting sessions offered at a discounted price. If you
are interested in specific sessions, individual
meeting sessions may also be purchased.
This year, for the first time, ASM is also offering
a Divisional Group I Only session library. Those
affiliated with this Divisional Group or with similar career interests will now have easy access to
the session information meant for them.
The audio for these library products is downloadable as MP3 files. The PowerPoint presentation slides are packaged as watermarked read
(l-r) General Meeting Program Committee Chair Jeff Miller,
ASM Lecturer Lucy Shapiro, General Meeting Program Committee Vice-Chair Margaret McFall-Ngai, and ASM President
Clifford Houston at the 108th General Meeting.
only PDF files. Purchasing these products on
CD-ROM is also possible.
A survey was emailed to all attendees and
exhibitors in effort to evaluate this year’s General Meeting program and prepare for next
year’s program which will be held in Philadelphia, Pa., on 18 –20 May 2009.
New Branch Organization
Committee Chair
Michael Schmidt, Ph.D.,
will begin his appointment as Chair of the
Branch Organization
Committee beginning 1
July 2008. The Branch
Organization Committee
(BOC) is part of the
Membership Board and
serves as the liaison between ASM and its 35 Schmidt
national Branches. ASM
Branches coordinate meetings and activities at
the local level throughout the United States. The
BOC oversees Branch funding and support,
which stimulates regional meetings, encourages
scientific program diversification, supports Student Chapter formation, and promotes the microbiological sciences through local programming. In addition, the BOC monitors the activity
of Branches, interacts proactively with Branch
officers, and suggests programs to enhance regional Branch efforts. Organized into seven regions, each Branch region is overseen by a Regional Planning Coordinator who serves on the
BOC. Schmidt has served as a Regional Planning
Coordinator since 2005.
Schmidt states, “I am looking forward to
working with each of the Branches. My predecessors have laid a solid foundation upon which
the BOC will continue to build new opportunities for Branches to reach individuals, both
members and prospective members to our Society, interested in all aspects of our discipline.
Many of us fondly remember our first professional presentation or interaction with ASM. It
often occurred at a Branch or a Student Chapter
meeting where we learned that ASM is one of
the most robust, diverse, and scientifically interesting professional societies in all of science. My
vision is to continue to help the Branches serve
their members and all those interested in our
discipline. Together with the RPCs and Branch
leadership I am certain that we will be successful
in advancing the core values of the society
through the 35 national Branches.”
Schmidt is presently Professor and Vice
Chairman of the Department of Microbiology
and Immunology at the Medical University of
South Carolina in Charleston. He has a strong
research program focusing on the role that the
inherent microbial burden plays on the acquisition and transmission of hospital-acquired infections. Additionally, he is active in the areas of
biodefense and pandemic flu preparedness training. He currently is funded by the Department of
Defense and the Department of Health and Human Services. He is a member of the South
Carolina Branch and has served as Secretary,
President-Elect, President, and Councilor of
the Branch. He also serves as a member of the
ASM Communications Committee. Membership Board Chair Toby K. Eisenstein states,
“Mike has breadth of experience at the local and
national levels of ASM. He is dedicated to enhancing access to microbiology through activities of the ASM at the grass roots level. He has
demonstrated strong administrative skills and a
wealth of ideas for energizing the Branches as a
Regional Planning Coordinator. I know he will
be an effective leader of the BOC, and I look
forward to working with him.”
Completing nine years of service as cochairs
of the BOC, the Membership Board thanks Stephen A. Sonstein and Norman P. Willett for
their inspired contributions to ASM Branches.
They have served ASM tirelessly through their
efforts to strengthen Branches and ensure all
Branches are in good standing. As cochairs, they
worked with the Regional Planning Coordinators to advance the goals of the BOC and coordinated new programs to enhance Branch activities including online Branch dues collection,
Branch membership promotion and retention,
and the Branch Logo Contest. More recently,
they developed a new funding initiative to support diversity in scientific programming at
Branch meetings which was intended to attract a
broader spectrum of microbiologists to local
activities. On behalf of ASM and its Branches,
the Membership Board congratulates and
praises them for their many accomplishments,
and thanks them for their considerable dedication to the Branch Organization Committee.
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Education Board
Abstracts, Travel Awards and
Subsidies and Registration
Open for ABRCMS 2008
Registration is open for the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), one of the nation’s premier student scientific meetings.
This year’s conference will be held from
5– 8 November 2008 at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.
Attendees to ABRCMS 2008 can look
forward to a stellar lineup of speakers,
including keynote speakers Belle Wheelan,
president of the Commission on Colleges
and Schools, and Freeman Hrabowski,
president of the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County. Speakers for the plenary scientific sessions include Bonnie
Bassler, Princeton University; Martin Philbert, University of Michigan; David Page,
Whitehead Institute; and Juan Enriquez,
author of bestseller As the Future Catches
You.
Now in its eighth year, ABRCMS is the
largest multidisciplinary conference for
biomedical and behavioral students,
drawing more than 2,500 individuals, including 1,600 students and 850 faculty,
program directors, and exhibitors. Students come from more than 280 U.S. colleges and universities. Approximately
76% of the student attendees are undergraduates, and the remaining 24% are
postbaccalaureate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral scientists.
Call for Students. Students are invited to
submit abstracts and travel award applications for consideration at the conference.
Approximately 1,100 students will participate in poster and oral presentations in 10
subdisciplines in the biomedical and behavioral sciences and compete for monetary awards of $250 sponsored by professional scientific societies, research
organizations, and educational institutions. Abstract submitters must read the
entire Call for Abstracts at www.abrcms
.org before submitting an abstract.
The ABRCMS Travel Award provides
up to $1,500 to cover registration, housing, and travel (airfare and ground transportation), and the FASEB MARC Program Travel Award provides up to $1,650
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for travel-related expenses and/or conference registration.
The abstract submission deadline is 5
September 2008, and the travel award
deadlines are 5 September 2008 for the
ABRCMS Travel Award and 10 October
2008 for the FASEB MARC Program
Travel Award.
Call for Scientists. Travel subsidies are
available to individuals interested in serving as poster and oral presentation judges
at the 2008 ABRCMS. Each subsidy provides one conference registration (which
includes all scheduled meals, conference
materials, closing banquet admission, and
access to all sessions) and housing for four
nights at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort. The application deadline is 26 September 2008. To be eligible, you must be
(i) a postdoctoral scientist or faculty member, (ii) a first-time ABRCMS Judge, (iii)
an active researcher in one of the 10 scientific disciplines represented at the conference, and (iv) available to judge all poster
and oral sessions scheduled throughout
the conference. Applications are available
at www.abrcms.org/TravelSubsidy.html.
The preliminary program as well as
program updates are available on the
ABRCMS website at www.abrcms.org.
International Affairs
2008 ASM International
Affairs Spring Grants and
Fellowships Recipients
ASM International Education Committee
(IEC) is pleased to announce the winners
of Spring 2008 Grants and Fellowships.
The programs strive to put the IEC’s Strategic Plan into action by providing highquality education and training programs
to microbiologists and institutions at all
levels, promoting the professional development of international microbiologists,
and promoting excellence in the microbiological sciences through scholarly exchange. To learn more about how to apply
for these programs, please visit: www.asm
.org/international/grants.
ASM International Fellowships
The International Fellowship Program encourages research and training collaborations in microbiological sciences world-
wide by enabling an early career scientist
or student from a developing country to
visit the host laboratory of an experienced
ASM member in the United States. The
International Fellows for Round Two,
2008 are:
Maria Guadalupe
Martinez, Ph.D. student at the University of Buenos Aires
in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, was
awarded an ASM
International Fellowship for Latin
America to research
“Early steps of the Martinez
multiplication cycle
of arenavirus: interaction between virus
and the cell cytoskeleton” with Gary
Whittaker at Cornell University in Ithaca,
N.Y.
Maria Alexandra
Garcia Amado, research assistant at
the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas
(IVIC) in Altos de
Pipe, Edo Miranda,
Venezuela,
was
awarded an ASM
Garcia Amado
International Fellowship for Latin
America to work with host Andrei Chistoserdov on a research project entitled,
“Helicobacter and Vibrio detection in the
Cariaco basin” at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
ASM International Professorships
The International Professorship Program
provides microbiological expertise to faculty and students throughout the world.
The program enables an ASM member
who is scientifically recognized for his/her
area to travel to an institution of higher
learning in a developing country to teach
an interactive short course on a topic in
any of the microbiological disciplines. The
International Professors for Round Two
of 2008 are:
Maria Bottazzi, associate professor and
vice-chair for administration at The
George Washington University in Washington, D.C., was awarded an ASM Inter-
national Professorship
for
Latin
America to present
the short course entitled, “Quality Public
Health Laboratory
Services: how to
build and sustain
laboratory infrastructure to improve Bottazzi
the detection and reporting of parasitic diseases” with Nidia
Calvo Fonseca at the Instituto Costarricense
de Investigación y Enseñanza en Nutrición y
Salud (INCIENSA) in Tres Rı́os, Cartago,
Costa Rica.
Stephen Knabel,
professor of microbiology at the Penn
State University in
University Park,
was awarded an
ASM International
Professorship for
Latin America
Knabel
to travel to the Pontificia Universidad
Catolica del Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador,
and present a short course entitled “Detection, Tracking and Control of Foodborne
Pathogens” with host Josefina Egas.
Indo-U.S. Professorships in Microbiology
This Professorship encourages partnerships between the United States and India
and is sponsored by the Indo-U.S. Science
& Technology Forum.
Durg Singh of the
Institute of Life Sciences in Bhubaneswar, India will visit
Rita Colwell at the
University of Maryland in College Park
to collaborate on
the research project
entitled “Microar- Singh
ray-Based Analysis
of V. cholerae Strains Reveals Deletion of
CTX⌽ Prophages under Stress Condition.”
Rup Lal, a professor at the University of
Delhi in Delhi, India, will collaborate with
Taifo Mahum at the Oregon State University in Corvallis on the research project
entitled “Genetic
Manipulations of
Amycolatopsis
mediterranei S699
for the production
of rifamycin analogs.”
Colin Stine, associate professor at the
University of Maryland in Baltimore,
will teach a short
course entitled,
“Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome
Analysis” in collaboration with Balakrish Nair at National Institute of
Cholera & Enteric
Diseases (NICED)
in Kolkata, India.
Lal
Stine
Francis Eko, associate professor at the
Morehouse School
of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga., will
teach a short course
entitled “Bacterial
Ghost-Based Vaccine Development”
at the National In- Eko
stitute for Research
in Reproductive Health, ICMR in Mumbai, India, in collaboration with Jayanti
Mania-Pramanik.
2008 Millis - Colwell Postgraduate Student Travel Grant Recipient
New for 2008 and funded jointly by ASM
and the Australian Society for Microbiology (ASM Australia), the Millis-Colwell
Postgraduate Student Travel Grant enables one student member from each society to present an abstract at the annual
General Meeting of the other society and
to spend a week at nearby research laboratory.
After a call for nominations and formal
review, the grant has been named after
ASM (U.S.) member Rita Colwell and
ASM (Australia) member Nancy Millis.
This is an exciting new initiative and will
be an important program for promoting a
more dynamic and visible relationship
with our Australian colleagues.
Ajay Krishnamurthy, the Australian
winner, presented
his abstract at the
2008 ASM General
Meeting.
Krishnamurthy also spent
a week with Lauren
O. Bakaletz at The
Research Institute at Krishnamurthy
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, in Columbus, Ohio, conducting in vivo analyses of bacterial nasopharyngeal colonization and middle ear
infection using a Biophotonic imaging
technology.
The American winner, Nicole Garneau, will present
her abstract during
the opening session
at the 2008 Australian Society for Microbiology’s Annual
Scientific Meeting
& Exhibition in Garneau
Melbourne, Australia, July 2008. She will also spend a week
with Greg Goodall in his laboratory at
the Institute of Medical & Veterinary
Science in Adelaide, Australia, exploring mechanisms of stem-loop RNA stability elements, and techniques to study cytokine gene expressions and miRNA
regulation.
2008 International Student Travel Grant
for Best International Abstract
The ASM International Student Travel
Grant for Best International Abstract provides funding for an ASM Student from a
developing country to attend the General
Meeting and present an abstract of his/her
research. This year, the IEC Chair further
qualified the grant to include only those
abstracts with a student as the principal
investigator.
The 2008 International Student Travel
Grant for Best International Abstract was
awarded to Richa
Madan of New
Delhi, India, for her
work on the “Role
of Syntaxins in the
Madan
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Maturation Process of Salmonella Containing Phagosomes.” Madan is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Cell Biology at National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi.
2008 Pre-Meeting Workshop Scholarship
Awardees
The ASM Pre-Meeting Workshop Scholarship Program provides successful applicants with registration to the pre-meeting
workshop of their choice at the ASM Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial
Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC)
Meeting and the General Meeting.
Chen
Quintero
The 2008 Pre-Meeting Workshop Scholarship recipients for the General Meeting
were Jianshun Chen of Zhejiang University, in Hangzhou, China, and Teresa Realpe Quintero of the Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas in Medellin,
Colombia. Chen attended the workshop
Microbial Genome Annotation, Analysis
and Comparative Study and Realpe attended the workshop Epidemiology, Taxonomy, Laboratory Detection and Clinical Cases in Mycobacteriology.
Membership
K-12 Teachers Workshop on
Techniques in Molecular
Microbiology
Narayanan (Raj) Rajendran of Kentucky
State University (KSU), a member of ASM,
has recently conducted a K-12 teacher
workshop at KSU. The workshop helps
teachers learn about modern microbiology
techniques and to understand nanobiotechnology and emerging educational
technology for student learning. They
carry out molecular microbiology laboratory techniques with methods of instruc-
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tion and innovations in the context of molecular microbiology and query-based
learning. Experts from Indiana State University and Kentucky State University have
presented technical seminars to these
teachers. With the help of a National Science Foundation grant, Rajendran conducts this workshop and contributes significantly to enhance K-12 teacher’s
knowledge in advanced biology.
Deceased Members
It is with great sadness that ASM members
have learned of the death of Harlyn Halvorson, a notable microbiologist who pioneered in studies of the molecular genetics
of Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus cereus, and
Saccharomyces cerevisiae. His death at age
83 came as a surprise to his former student
Roy Doi, who had dinner with Harlyn at
this year’s General Meeting in Boston. His
attendance at the meeting this year, possibly his last public appearance, was highly
appropriate, because first, and foremost,
Harlyn was a loyal and active member of
ASM, who served as President from 1976 –
77. His father, H. Orin Halvorson, served
as ASM President in 1955.
However, his service to ASM, microbiology, and the country will probably be
most remembered for his role in engaging
the Society in public affairs. He was responsible for founding the Public and Scientific Affairs Board (PSAB) in 1977 and
served as its first chair for 10 years. One of
the first achievements of the PSAB was to
play a leading role in the debate concerning recombinant DNA. The advent of the
technology excited a high level of public
anxiety, which led to proposals for draconian federal legislation to regulate the efforts of scientists in this field. Fortunately,
through the efforts of Harlyn and other
scientists, who helped to form a coalition
to advocate a more reasoned approach to
the new technology, the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee was
formed. This led to the development of
guidelines for research which could be
readily modified as evidence of lack of risk
was obtained. The flexibility of the RAC
approach led to both public assurance of
safety and rapid scientific development.
Although there have been considerations
of whether there was a continued need for
the RAC, its role as a public monitor of the
Roy Doi (l) and Harlyn Halvorson at the 108th
General Meeting in Boston, Mass.
safety of the “new biology” has continued
and is an ongoing testament to the wisdom
of Harlyn and his cohorts.
“We had the conviction—and the advice—that to be effective in public policy,
we should speak only on the basis of our
technical expertise; we should try to magnify our voice by seeking coalitions with
other professional groups; we should
make every effort to be forthright in our
positions and not to embarrass anyone;
and to form an effective coalition there
must be no heroes,” Halvorson noted
upon retiring as PSAB chair (ASM News,
July 1989, p. 362), adding “Don’t take on
more issues than you can do well, and if
you do take on an issue, you have to stay
the course. In the case of DNA, we’ve been
at it for more than 15 years. In this way,
we’ve not only learned to do things better,
but we’ve also gained credibility. I think
part of our success comes from having had
very good advice, part comes from the fact
that we’ve had a continual series of officers
who are involved and participate, and part
comes from having the best staff in town.”
Another effort in public affairs championed by Harlyn was the development of a
successful coalition for the public advocacy of support for NIH funding, as well
as the funding of other federal agencies
supporting biomedical research. He recognized that successful advocacy required a
unified approach rather than special interest pleading, and his efforts were instrumental in the formation of the Ad Hoc
Group for the Support of Biomedical Research. ASM was a founding member and
remains a permanent member of the executive committee of the Ad Hoc Group,
which has grown to represent several hundred scientific societies and organizations.
In recent years Halvorson had a list of
priority issues, which include environmen-
tal release and biotechnology issues, dealing with problems of medical and clinical
microbiologists in the workplace, science
budgets for many government agencies,
and coordinating scientific efforts in South
America. A humanitarian as much as a
scientist, he was involved with all of the
Society’s programs to help women and
minorities and strongly supported efforts
to interest minorities in professional-level
positions in microbiology. Harlyn was a
prodigious mentor who advised and
served as the patron, not only for the students who passed through his laboratory,
but for many people who came to play
major roles in ASM leadership. Those he
worked with in this capacity included Michael Goldberg, Bob Watkins, Janet Shoemaker, Ken Berns, and Gail Cassell, to
mention just a few.
Harlyn was educated at the University
of Minnesota for his B.A. and M.A. degrees and received his Ph. D. from the
University of Illinois. He served on the
faculty at the University of Wisconsin
from 1956 –71 and as the Director of the
Rosenstiel Institute of Basic Biomedical
Sciences at Brandeis University from
1971– 87. In 1987 he became the Director
of the Marine Biological Laboratory at
Woods Hole, Mass., and served in this role
until 1992. He received many honors for
his scientific work and leadership, including election to the Institute of Medicine of
the National Academy of Sciences, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and the American Academy of Microbiology.
We will all miss him.
Kenneth Berns
Univeristy of Florida Genetics Institute
Gainesville, Fla.
Milton R. J. Salton, Fellow of the Royal
Society and Professor Emeritus of Microbiology, who from 1964 –1991 was Chairman of the Department of Microbiology at
the New York University School of Medicine, passed away on Monday, 14 April
2008 after a short respiratory illness. His
major scientific contributions include the
discovery in the
1950s of a thennovel morphological structure in bacteria—the bacterial
cell wall. Salton’s
pioneering studies
contributed to the
groundbreaking discovery that penicil- Salton
lin’s bactericidal action is due to its inhibition of cell wall
synthesis.
Salton was born near Sydney, Australia,
on 29 April 1921. He attended the University of Sydney, from which he received his
Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree in
1945. In 1948, Salton was awarded a fellowship from Australia’s Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation for postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge, receiving a Ph.D. in
1951 from St. John’s College, and subsequently a Sc.D. from the University of
Cambridge. At Cambridge he began his
pioneering studies that led to the discovery
of the bacterial cell wall. He continued
these investigations during postdoctoral
studies at the University of California.
In 1956, Salton was appointed to his
first faculty position as a Reader of Chemical Bacteriology at the University of
Manchester. In 1960, Salton spent a year
in Berkeley at the University of California
as an Associate Professor in the Department of Bacteriology, and returned to the
University of New South Wales in his native Australia (1961– 64) as the Foundation Professor of Microbiology. In 1964,
he was recruited by Nobel laureate Severo
Ochoa to head the Microbiology Department at New York University School of
Medicine, where he remained for over 25
years as Professor and Chairman until his
retirement in 1991.
An international scholar, Salton taught
and carried out research in China, the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Escola Paulista de Medicina in Brazil, University of Adelaide, the University of
California, and Oregon State University.
He lectured throughout Europe, Asia,
Australia, South America, and North
America and hosted numerous international scholars in his laboratory. He
gained international recognition for his
scientific achievements, receiving an honorary degree in Medicine from the University of Liège in Belgium, conferred by the
King of Belgium, and named a Fellow of
the Royal Society, the national academy of
science of the UK. Salton authored several
books, many book chapters, and published more than 110 scientific papers.
Many of his seminal papers on the bacterial cell wall were published in the 1950s
and early 1960s. In a paper published in
Nature in 1952, Salton showed that the
cell wall is the substrate for lysozyme action in Micrococcus lysodeicticus, and between 1951 and 1961 he published a series
of eight papers with the common title
“Studies of the bacterial cell wall”. These
and other publications helped to explain
why bacteria either do or don’t take up the
Gram stain and also laid the basis for the
understanding of the mechanism of action
of penicillin on bacterial cell wall synthesis. His later work at NYU focused on
both the physical and biochemical elucidation of the unique macromolecular structure of the bacterial cell wall and the multiple functions it served.
A colorful, warm and outgoing person,
Milton Salton was known for his unique
blend of Aussie and British humor, enthusiasm, fairness, and good nature.
Throughout his lifetime Salton maintained
contact with colleagues and collaborators,
and with a number of his former students
and postdoctoral fellows, many of whom
have gone on to distinguished academic
careers in different parts of the world. He
leaves behind Joy Salton, his wife of 56
years, two sons, Dr. Stephen Salton of
South Nyack, NY and Alastair Salton of
Los Angeles CA, and two grandsons,
Gregory Salton and Alexander Salton.
Milton Salton will be thoroughly missed
by his friends and colleagues.
Joel D. Oppenheim
Jan Vilcek
New York University School of Medicine
New York, N.Y.
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