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”

The Program for the Spring Meeting:

• Emily Ivey, Ph.D. Candidate – “The Host Factor 90K Restricts SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Targeting the Viral Spike Protein”
• Peter Trabold, Ph.D., MBA – “RATS, I mean rAST! The Coming Revolution in Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing”
• Caila Vaughn, Ph.D., MPH – “Meningococcal & More: Western Region Epidemiology Updates, Spring 2024”
• Wun-Ju Shieh, M.D., MPH, Ph.D. Dr. PH (h.c.) (virtual) – “Solving the Puzzle of Unexplained Outbreaks with a Multidisciplinary Approach”

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”