Branch Officers: Secretary kinchel.doerner@wku.edu Upcoming Events: American Society for Microbiology KY/TN Regional Meeting 2011 Volunteer State Community College ASM Branch Lectureship Program Speaker Michele Shuster "Genetics and Genomics in Allied Health Microbiology Education" This meeting is being organized by Amy Woron (amy.woron@tn.gov) and Joseph Dolan, Volunteer State (dolanjw2006@gmail.com) The current issue of the branch newsletter, The Germ Gazette (see link below), contains information regarding the upcoming annual branch meeting.

The Department of Microbiology at UT Knoxville is dedicated to providing the quality education, through both teaching and research, necessary to meet the needs of this growing field. Our faculty members aggressively pursue research in many areas of the science: immunology; virology; microbial ecology and pathology; microbial genetics; and others.