Oral Presentations at International Meetings (Presenter Underlined):

K.M. Stedman, A. Clore, Y. Combet-Blanc, A. Daugherty, R. Diessner, M. Lambert, and S. Morris. Diversity, Genomes, and Stability of Viruses of the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus. International Conference on Extremophiles, 17-21 Sept. 2006. Brest, Brittany, France.

K. Stedman. Biogeographical Diversity of Archaeal Viruses. 158th Annual Meeting of The Society for General Microbiology. April 3-6, 2006 University of Warwick, Coventry, England (Plenary session, Invited speaker)

K. Stedman. Viruses from Hell. The Northwest Mining Association 111th Annual Meeting. December 5-9, 2005 Spokane Washington (Invited)

K. Stedman: Diversity of Viruses of (Cren)archaeal Thermophiles. The 9th International Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology, Joint meeting of the International Union of Microbiological Societies 2005. July 23-28, 2005 San Fransciso, California, USA. (Invited, Session chair and organizer)

Y.Combet-Blanc, S. Morris and K. M. Stedman. Genomes and Stability of the Fuselloviridae. Archaea, The First Generation, June 2-4, 2005 Schloss Hohenkammer, Bavaria, Germany (Invited)

K. Stedman, Viruses from Extreme Environments. Goldschmidt 2005 May 20-25, 2005. Moscow Idaho, USA (Invited)

K. Stedman, Y. Combet-Blanc, R. Diessner, J. Snyder, B. Wiedenheft, and, M. J. Young. Comparative Genomics and Diversity of Viruses of Extreme Archaeal Thermophiles. American Society for Microbiology Conference on the New Phage Biology August 1 - 5, 2004 Key Biscayne, Florida, USA.

K. Stedman, Y. Combet-Blanc, B. Wiedenheft, A. Clore, G. Rice, J. Snyder, J. Spuhler, L. Zoeller, F. Roberto, M. J. Young, and W. Zillig. Genetics and Genomics of Fuselloviruses of hyperthermophilic Archaea. Third Astrobiology Science Conference. March 28th - April 1st, 2004. NASA-Ames, California, USA.

M. J. Young, K. Stedman, B. Wiedenheft, J. Snyder, G. Rice, J. Spuhler, F. Roberto, L. Tang, T. Douglas, and J. E. Johnson. Viruses from Yellowstone's high temperature acidic environments. Third Astrobiology Science Conference. March 28th - April 1st, 2004. NASA-Ames, California, USA.

S. Brouns, J. Walther, R. Bernander, K. Stedman, M. Young, B. Snijders, P. Wright, J. van der Oost. The hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus - from exploration to exploitation. First Biannual Workshop on Geothermal Biology and Geochemistry in Yellowstone National Park, October 9-11, 2003.

K. Stedman, E. Barklis. Extremophiles and their Viruses in Nanotechnology. Nanoscale Science and Technology Workshop, 2003. Sept. 22-23, 2003. Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

A. Clore, K. Stedman. Exploring the Replicative Cycle of SSV1, a Virus of the Archaeon Sulfolobus shibatae. 15th Evergreen International Phage Meeting, Evergreen State College, July 23-27, 2003, Olympia, Washington, U.S.A.

B. Wiedenheft, K. Stedman, F. Roberto, D. Willits, A. Gleske, and M. Young. Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Hyperthermophilic Archaeal SSV Virus. American Society for Virology, Annual Meeting, June 12-17, 2003. Davis, California, U.S.A.

G. Rice, L. Tang, J. Spuhler, K. Stedman, J. E. Johnson, and M. Young. Structure and Characterization of a New High Temperature Virus. American Society for Virology, Annual Meeting, June 12-17, 2003. Davis, California, U.S.A.

K. Stedman, G. Rice, J. Snyder, B. Wiedenheft, M. Young, and W. Zillig, Novel Viruses from Extreme Environments .(Invited talk) Second Astrobiology Science Conference, April 7-11, 2002. NASA Ames Research Center, U.S.A.

K. Stedman, B. Wiedenheft, R. A. Garrett, F. Roberto, M. Young, and W. Zillig, Comparative genomics of Sulfolobus viruses. West Coast Bacterial Physiologists Annual Asilomar Meeting, Dec. 14-16 2001, Asilomar, California, USA.

K. Stedman. Sulfolobus viral biodiversity. Gordon Conference on Archaea: Ecology, Metabolism and Molecular Biology . August 5-10, 2001, Proctor Academy, Andover, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

H.P. Arnold, E. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, R. Garrett, H. Phan, J.K. Kristjansson, E. Redfield, G. Rice, F. Robb, Q. She, J. Snyder, K. M. Stedman, B. Wiedenheft, M. Young, and W. Zillig. Biodiversity in Fuselloviruses from Japan, Iceland, Yellowstone USA, and Kamchatka, Russia.West Coast Bacterial Physiologists Annual Asilomar Meeting, Dec. 15-18 2000, Asilomar, California, USA.

K. Stedman, E. Martusewitsch, C. Schleper, J. van der Oost, and W. Zillig. Advances in Molecular Genetics of Sulfolobus solfataricus. Extremophiles. Sept. 3-7, 2000. Hamburg Germany.

K. Stedman, E. Martusewitsch, W. Zillig, and C. Schleper. Transformation of Sulfolobus solfataricus with viral vectors. Kamchatka 2000: Enzymology, Molecular Biology and Biogeochemistry of Thermophiles . August 6-12, 2000, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

K. Stedman, R.A. Garrett, and W. Zillig. Was S. solfataricus infected with an SSV? Did SSV steal some genes from the S. solfataricus genome? Workshop on the Origin and Evolution of viruses. July 25-27, 2000 Fondation des Treilles , France

K. Stedman. H.P. Arnold, D. Prangishvili, E. Redfield, G. Rice, J. Snyder, H. Phan, Q. She, R. A. Garrett, M. Young and W. Zillig. SSV from Yellowstone, Iceland and Japan: SSVs are everywhere. Workshop on the Origin and Evolution of viruses. July 25-27, 2000 Fondation des Treilles , France

K. Stedman, H.P. Arnold, I.Holz, D. Prangishvili, and W. Zillig. Novel Archaeal Viruses: Collection, Characterization and Utilization. West Coast Bacterial Physiologists Annual Asilomar Meeting, Dec. 17-19 1999, Asilomar, California, USA.

K. Stedman, E. Martusewitsch, C. Schleper, E. Stieger, and W. Zillig. Genetic Engineering in the Extremely Thermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. Third Meeting on Extremophiles as Cell Factories. June 3-6, 1999, Graz, Austria.

K. Stedman, Q. She, I. Holz, D. Prangishvili, H. Singh, R. A. Garrett, and W. Zillig. Conjugation in Archaea: New Twists on an Old Theme. Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewante Mikrobiologie, annual meeting, March 7-10, 1999, Göttingen, Germany.

K. Stedman, Q. She, I. Holz, D. Prangishvili, H. Singh, R. A. Garrett, and W. Zillig. Conjugation in Archaea: New Twists on an Old Theme. West Coast Bacterial Physiologists Annual Asilomar Meeting, December 18-20, 1998, Asilomar, California, U.S.A.

K. Stedman, C. Schleper, I. Holz, W. Zillig, H. Phan, Q. She, and R.A. Garrett. A viral transforming vector for Sulfolobus solfataricus and insights from conjugative plasmid sequences. Second Workshop on vector development for Extremophiles, November 8-10, 1998, Gif sur Yvette, France.

K. Stedman, C. Schleper, and W. Zillig. Recombinant Fuselloviruses as High Copy Number Vectors for the Extremely Thermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus.. Thermophiles 98, September 6-11, 1998, Brest, France.

Arnold, H.P., Holz, I., Prangishvili, D.,Rumpf, E., Schleper, C., Schweier, P.A., Stedman, K., and W. Zillig. Molecular Genetic Tools for the Extremely Thermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus. Second Meeting on Extremophiles as Cell Factories. April 17-21, 1998. Dublin Ireland. (Plenary Oral Presentation).

K. Stedman, C. Schleper, and W. Zillig. A shuttle vector for the extremely thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus and E.coli.. Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie. March 22-25, 1998 Frankfurt, Germany.

Stedman, K., Schleper, C., Arnold, H.-P., Holz, I., Rumpf, E., and Zillig, W. Vector Development for Extremely Thermophilic Archaea: West Coast Bacterial Physiologists Annual Asilomar Meeting December 19-21, 1997, Asilomar, California, U.S.A.

Stedman, K., Arnold, H.-P., Holz, I., Rumpf, E., and Zillig, W. Developments using SSV1 as a vector system. Workshop on vector development for Extremophiles, October 3-5, 1997. Naples, Italy.