The Program for the Fall Symposium: A Taste Of Bacteriophage

• Megan Ulbrich, BS, PhD Candidate – “Special Delivery: A Novel Vibrio cholerae Protein Remodels Host Cytoskeletal Structures.”
• Kathryn Kaufman, PhD – “Resolving the Structure of Phage-bacteria Interactions, from the Ocean to the Oral Microbiome”
• Mark Gallo, PhD – “Isolation of Bacteriophage from Whitetail Deer, Odocoileus virginianus: I Study Deer Snot!”
• Patrick Kenney, MD, MS – “Bacteriophage Discovery in Buffalo: Successes and Challenges”
• Karen Maxwell, PhD – “Off-switches for CRISPR-Cas9: From Phage Biology to Biotechnology”

April 21, 2023

The Program for the Spring Meeting:

• Christina Hidalgo, MPH and Rebecca Hoelzl, MPH – “Extreme to Routine: Western Region Communicable Disease Updates”
• Jonathan Lovell, Ph. D. – “Liposome-Display of Antigens: A Versatile Approach for Vaccine Development”
• Alexis Morgenstern – “Type 2 Cytokines Diminish S. aureus Invasion of Basal Keratinocytes”

The Program for the Fall Symposium:

• Matthew J. Binnicker, Ph.D. – “Monkeypox: Epidemiology, Clinical Presentation and Diagnostic Testing”
• Esther Babady, Ph. D. – “Clostridium difficile Epidemiology and Diagnostic Challenges”
• Charles S. Berenson, M.D. – “SER-109, an oral microbiome therapy for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection: Application of microbiome restoration to a critical clinical problem”

The Program for the Spring Meeting:

• Cesar de la Fuente, Ph. D. – “Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Antibiotic Discovery”
• Thomas A. Russo, M.D. – “COVID: Where We Have Been, Where We Are Going Now”
• John K. Crane, M.D., Ph.D. – “Case Presentation: “From Plaque to Peril: An Aggregation of Risk”

The Program for the Fall/Winter Symposium:

• Benjamin Pinsky, M.D., Ph.D. – “Testing for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of COVID-19”
• Kimberlee A. Musser, Ph.D. – “Next Generation Sequencing for the Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis”
• Kenneth Alexander, M.D., Ph.D. – “Experiences with SARS-2 Coronavirus”

Conference showcases plenary speakers in the fields of mycology, bacteriology, parasitology and virology.

The Program for the Spring Symposium:

• Ann R. Falsey, M.D. – “Updates on COVID-19 Vaccination”
• Patricia Diaz, DDS, Ph.D. – “Microbiome Interactions in the Mouth”
• Howard Faden, M.D. – “Climate Change and Vector-Borne Diseases”