L. Beryl Guterman, M.D. & Ph.D. Candidate
Erwin Neter Award Winner 2024
Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Armbruster Laboratory
University at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
“Harnessing Microbially Derived Metabolites in the
Urinary Tract to Prevent Infection Induced Catheter Encrustation”

Ryan Hunter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
“When Good Bugs Go Wild. How Commensal Microbiota
Shape Chronic Airway Disease Trajectory”

Crista Wadsworth, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences
“A Bubbling Cauldron of Antibiotic Resistance:
Commensal Neisseria, a Persistent Threat for
DNA Donation to Important Human Pathogens”

Samuel P. Brown, Ph.D.
ASM Distinguished and Waksman Foundation Lecturer
Professor, School of Biological Sciences,
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Challenges and Opportunities in the Treatment of
Chronic Polymicrobial Infections”