Indiana-Kentucky Border Section

American Chemical Society

Feb 2006

2006 Annual Awards Banquet

Monday, April 3, 2006

DINNER: 6:00 p.m. at the Briarpatch Restaurant, 2760 Veach Road, Owensboro, KY. The cost is ten dollars. Please make a reservation at nancyfl@kwc.edu or (270) 683-0023 by noon on Wednesday March 29.

POSTER SESSION: 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. in the Hahn Science Center at Kentucky Wesleyan College, 3000 Frederica Street, Owensboro, KY.

TALK: 7:30 p.m. in the Hahn Science Center

Genomic Fosfomycin Resistant Protein from P. Aeruginosa

Rachel Farris Rigsby

P. Aeruginosa

Rachel Rigsby earned a B.A. from Kentucky Wesleyan College and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. She is Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Belmont University in Nashville. She will be discussing some structural and mechanistic details of the FosA fosfomycin resistant enzyme encoded in the genome of P. aeruginosa.

Mark your calendar: On May 1 Eugene Stevens will present Green Plastics