Hosted by: The SUNY Buffalo ASM Student Chapter
Format: Moderated panel discussion followed by open Q&A
Audience: undergraduate and graduate students in BS, MS and PhD programs

The Panel Members:

• Karuna Sharma, Ph,D.
• Peter Trabold, Ph.D., MBA
• Olga Petrova, Ph.D.

The Program for the Spring Meeting:

• Rodney E. Rohde, Ph.D., SM (ASCP) CM, SVCM (virtual) – “The Resurgence of Vaccine-Preventable Infections: A U.S. Update”
• Namrata Deka, Ph.D. Fellow – “Microbial Community Dynamics and Within-Host Pathogen Adaptation in Individuals with Long-Term Urinary Catheters”
• M. Kim Saxton, MBA, Ph.D. – “From Why to How: Designing Vaccine Messages That Motivate”
• John A. Sellick, Jr., D.O., M.S. – “What’s New With the Flu?”

The Program for the Fall Symposium:

• Alexsandra P. Lenhard, Ph.D. Candidate -“The role of CD73 during Influenza A Virus/Streptococcus pneumoniae co-infection.”
• Sebastian Lourido, Ph.D. – “Stress and Persistence: How one parasite adapts to survive”
• Susan Madison-Antenucci, PhD – “Clinical Parasitology in the age of Multiplex PCR and Targeted Next Generation Sequencing”
• Elizabeth A. Wohlfert, Ph.D. – “Nerve-wracking Parasites: Toxoplasma’s inflammatory footprint”

The Program for the Fall Symposium:

• L. Beryl Guterman, M.D. & Ph.D. Candidate -“Harnessing Microbially Derived Metabolites in the Urinary Tract to Prevent Infection Induced Catheter Encrustation”
• Ryan Hunter, Ph.D. – “When Good Bugs Go Wild. How Commensal Microbiota Shape Chronic Airway Disease Trajectory”
• Crista Wadsworth, Ph.D. – “A Bubbling Cauldron of Antibiotic Resistance: Commensal Neisseria, a Persistent Threat fo rDNA Donation to Important Human Pathogens”
• Samuel P. Brown, Ph.D. – “Challenges and Opportunities in the Treatment of
  Chronic Polymicrobial Infections”