VIRULENCE AND PATHOGENS 1. 'New insights on iron acquisition mechanism in pathogenic Pseudomonas' Isabelle Schalk, UPR - CNRS, Strasbourg, France. 2. 'Clonal variations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa' Burkhard Tümmler, Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover, Germany. 3. 'Pseudomonas aeruginosa phospholipases and phospholipids' Michael Vasil, University of Colorado, Colorado, USA 4. 'In vivo functional genomics of Pseudomonas: PCR-based signature-tagged mutagenesis' Roger Levesque, Université Laval, Québec, Canada. GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS 5. 'A genome-wide mutant library of Pseudomonas aeruginosa' Michael E. Jacobs and Colin Manoil*, University of Washington, Seattle-WA, USA 6. 'Biogenesis & function of type IV pili in Pseudomonas species' Cynthia B. Whitchurch, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. PHYSIOLOGY METABOLISM AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 7. 'Evolution of catabolic pathways in Pseudomonas through gene transfer' Jan Roelof van der Meer, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. 8. 'Controlling regiospecific oxidation of aromatics and the degradation of chlorinated aliphatics via active site engineering of toluene monooxygenases' Ayelet Fishman, Ying Tao, Gönül Vardar, Lingyun Rui, and Thomas K. Wood*, University of Connecticut, Storss - CT, USA. 9. 'Aromatic ring hydroxylating dioxygenases' Rebecca Parales* and Sol Resnick, University of California, Davis - CA, USA and The Dow Chemical Company, San Diego - CA, USA. PSEUDOMONAS BACTERIAL COLLECTIONS 10. 'The Pseudomonas aeruginosa genome database' Fiona Brinkman, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada.