North American East Coast Conference International Society of Protistologists.

The article presents abstracts on microbiology presented at the North American East Coast Conference of the International Society of Protistologists held on June 3 to 5, 2005 in Richmond, Virginia. They include "Cryptosporidium hominis: The Genome," "Laboratory Microcosm Studies of Abundance and Diversity of Protists in Response to Salinity Changes Simulating Tidal Forcing at a Location Within the Critical Salinity Zone (ca 8 ppt) of the Hudson Estuary," "Identification and Characterization of a Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor in Tetrahymena thermophila," "Clonal Hhenotypic Variation of Tritrichomonas foetus: The Relevance of Cytoadhesion and Proteolytic Activity in the Parasite Cytotoxicity Against Epithelial Cells" and "Intratest Scales: A Synapomorphy for Gromia."