Seq #136 Thursday, 11 March 2004
12:30 PM-2:30 PM Hawaii Convention Center 317-A, Symposium - Group/Division Sponsored
Oral Microbiology 2004: A Tribute to Toshihiko Koga

Sponsored by: Microbiology / Immunology and Infection Control
Description: We will commemorate the life and career of Toshihiko Koga, DDS, PhD by presenting a symposium on an organism that he spent a major portion of his career investigating: Streptococcus mutans. We have chosen friends, colleagues and students of Professor Koga’s all of whom are currently involved in active, funded oral microbiology research as participants in this symposium and have asked them to present their work in such a way that it will bring us up to date on this bacterium. In assembling our speakers an associate of Dr. Koga’s said that he “…always had a foot (both scientifically and culturally) in the United States …” and hence our speakers will come from both sides of the Pacific Ocean to present their talks in Hawaii
Chairpersons: K. OKUDA and C.-H. LAI
 
1314  12:30 PM Toshihiko Koga: A Dentist-Scientist Role Model
H. KURAMITSU, State University of New York - Buffalo, USA
  12:40 PM Development of Safe Antibodies for Passive Immunotherapy Against Oral Infectious Diseases
Y. ABIKO, Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo, Chiba, Japan
  1:05 PM Serotypic Polysaccharide Antigen on Streptococcus mutans
Y. YAMASHITA, Kyushu University, Faculty of Dental Science, Fukuoka, Japan
  1:30 PM A New Method to Eliminate Streptococcus mutans from the Oral Cavity
N. HANADA, National Institute of Public Health, Tokyo, Japan
  1:55 PM Streptococcus mutans-omics - Past, Present, and Future
R. BURNE, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
  2:20 PM Discussion

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