Past Events

Western New York American Society For Microbiology Fall Symposium

Our Fall Menu:

Raw, Resistant, and Relevant for the Microbiology Connoisseur

Tuesday, Nov.5, 2019

University at Buffalo
Center for Tomorrow
Amherst, NY 14226

Program:

4:00 – 4:45 pm

4:45 – 5:45 pm

5:45 – 6:30 pm

6:30 – 6:45 pm

6:45 – 7:30pm

7:30 -8:15 pm

Registration/Refreshments
/Exhibits

Edward G. Dudley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Food Science The Pennsylvania State University
Institute for Cyber Science
University Park, PA
“Make Mine Raw , Unprocessed, and Preservative-free, Please”

Karl O. A. Yu, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.P.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics University at Buffalo
Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Pediatrics
Oishei Children’s Hospital
“Not MRSA….Not MSSA….but Somewhere in Between”

Christian P. Ahearn, Ph.D.
Erwin Neter Award Winner
Postdoctoral Scientist Center for Microbial Pathogenesis
Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus,Ohio
“Discovery of a putative nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae human respiratory invasin”

Dinner by Reservation and
WNY ASM Business Meeting

“Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Intervention: Case Presentations by New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH)”

Registration Deadline: Oct 28, 2019

Annual WNY ASM Spring Meeting

Monday, April 15, 2019

Hayes Hall, Room 403
3435 Main Street, Buffalo, UB South Campus

Program :

Christina Hidalgo, M.P.H.
Regional Epidemiologist, NYSDOH, Buffalo NY
“Recent Communicable Disease Investigations in WNY”

Bryon Backenson, M.S.
Deputy Director for Disease Control,
Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, NYSDOH, Albany, NY
“Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases: Where does
the data come from, and what is that data telling us?”

Danielle Wroblewski, M.S.
Supervisor, MALDI-TOF MS Laboratory, Wadsworth Center
NYSDOH, Albany, New York
“MALDI-TOF MS: Its Impact and Success”

Registration: 4:30 – 5:00 PM
Presentations: 5:00 – 7:15 PM
Dinner: 7:15 PM

Western New York American Society For Microbiology Fall Symposium

Rub Out Germs:

Prevention, Identification, and
Treatment Approaches

Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018

University at Buffalo
Center for Tomorrow
Amherst, NY 14226

Program:

4:00 – 4:45 pm

4:45 – 5:45 pm

5:45 – 6:30 pm

6:30 – 6:45 pm

6:45 – 7:30pm

7:30 -8:15 pm

Registration/Refreshments
/Exhibits

Donald W. Schaffner, Ph.D.
Professor, Rutgers University
Department of Food Science
School of Environmental & Biological Sciences
New Brunswick, New Jersey “Handwashing and Hand Sanitizers
from the Perspective of a Food
Microbiologist”

John A. Sellick, D.O.
Epidemiologist, WNY Veterans
Administration and Kaleida Health
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
University at Buffalo, SUNY
“Surveillance Definitions for Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs)”

Jennifer Colquhoun
Erwin Neter Award Winner
Ph.D. candidate,
University of Rochester Medical Center
“Staphylococcus aureus Rnp A:
Investigation of essential function and identification of novel inhibitors”

Dinner by Reservation and
WNY ASM Business Meeting

Dr. Oscar G. Gomez, M.D., Ph.D.,
Chief, Division of Infectious Disease, Oishei Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Jacobs School of Medicine
University at Buffalo
“Non-0157 Shiga toxin producing
E. coli in the United States”

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, Nov 7, 2017

Annual WNY ASM Spring Meeting

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Hayes Hall, Room 403
3435 Main Street, Buffalo, UB South Campus

Program :

Elaine Haase, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor, University at Buffalo
School of Dental Medicine, Division of Oral Biology
“The Oral Microbiome in Sickness and in Health”

Maureen Sullivan, DDS
Chief, Department of Dentistry, Erie County Medical Center
Division of Oral Oncology and Maxillofacial Prosthetics
“Human Papillomavirus-Associated Oral Carcinomas”

David Topham, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Rochester Medical Center
Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology
“Prospects for a Universal Influenza Vaccine”

Registration: 4:30 – 5:00 PM
Presentations: 5:00 – 7:15 PM
Dinner: 7:15 PM

Western New York American Society For Microbiology Fall Symposium

Buffalo Bites:

Buffets, Beans, Beer and Biomes

Monday, Nov. 13, 2017

University at Buffalo
Center for Tomorrow
Amherst, NY 14226

Program:

4:00 – 4:45 pm

4:45 – 5:45 pm

5:45 – 6:15 pm

6:15 – 6:30 pm

6:30 – 7:15 pm

7:15 – 7:30 pm

7:30 -8:30 pm

Registration/Refreshments
/Exhibits

Susan Lynch, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Division of Gastroenterology
University of California,
San Francisco
“Canary in the Coalmine: The
Neonatal Gut Microbiome and
Childhood Atopy and Asthma
Development”

Christina M. Hidalgo, MPH,
Regional Epidemiologist,
New York State Department of Health
“Recent Food-borne Outbreaks
and Food-borne Illness in WNY”

Jazmine Sanchez
Erwin Neter Award Winner
Ph. D. candidate,
University of Rochester
“Cold blooded killer: Investigating Viral Gene Function in Frog Virus 3”

Dinner by Reservation

WNY ASM Business Meeting

Joseph Bustos, Senior Manager
Brewing Quality Innovation
North American Breweries, Inc
Rochester, NY
“Practical Brewing Microbiology: The Art and Science of Yeast Whispering”

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, Nov 7, 2017

Special WNY ASM Summer Seminar Series

Friday, August 11, 2017 (4 – 6 PM)

UB Clinical and Translational Research Center (UB CTRC)
875 Ellicott Street (Room 5019B)
Buffalo NY 14203

Program :

Adriana Kajon, Ph.D.
Scientist, Infectious Disease Program
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, NM
“Molecular Epidemiology of Adenovirus-Associated Acute
Respiratory Infections: Recent Events of Public Health Relevance”

Daryl Lamson, MT(ASCP)
Assistant Director Special Projects Unit, Virology
Wadsworth Center, NYSDOH
“Applications of Next-Generation Sequencing in Virology”

Kirsten St. George, MAppSc, Ph.D.
Chief, Viral Diseases
Wadsworth Center, NYSDOH
“Recent Mumps Outbreaks in NYS:
Enhanced Analysis with NGS and Protein Molecular Modeling”

Registration: 4:00 – 4:15 PM
Presentations: 4:15 – 6:00 PM

Annual WNY ASM Spring Meeting

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

UB Center for Tomorrow
Flint Road (near Maple Rd), UB North Campus

Program :

Gale R. Burstein, MD, MPH, FAAP
Erie County Commissioner of Health,
“The Opioid Epidemic and theRise of Hepatitis C in Erie County”

Andrew H. Talal, MD, MPH
Director, UBMD Center for Clinical Care and
Research in Liver Disease,
University at Buffalo
“New Approaches to Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Disease:
Investigation to Implementation”

Candace Marr, DO
Infectious Disease Fellow,
Department of Medicine, University at Buffalo
“Bacterial Infections Complicating Opioid Use”

Registration: 4:30 – 5:00 PM
RSV Presentations: 5:00 – 6:15 PM
Dinner: 6:15 PM
EIP Presentation: 7:00 – 8:00 PM

Western New York American Society For Microbiology Fall Symposium

Demystifying Microbiology:

Mosquitoes, Mycology, Microcephaly and Man!

Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016

University at Buffalo
Center for Tomorrow
Amherst, NY 14226

Program:

4:00 – 4:45 pm

4:45 – 5:45 pm

5:45 – 6:15 pm

6:15 – 6:30 pm

6:30 – 7:15 pm

7:15 – 7:30 pm

7:30 -8:30 pm

Registration/Refreshments
/Exhibits

Nancy S. Miller, M.D.
Medical Director,
Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory Medicine,
Boston Medical Center
“Fungal Fest: A Potpourri of
Challenges, Conundrums and
Lessons Learned”

Marc Potzler, B.S.
Board Certified Entomologist, Technical Training Director, Buffalo Exterminating
“Mosquito Biology and Control of Aedes Mosquitoes”

Ryan Reddinger
Erwin Neter Award Winner
Graduate Student,
Department of Microbiology
University at Buffalo
“Modulation of Transitions from Colonization to Infection in Dual Species Biofilms”

Dinner by Reservation

WNY ASM Business Meeting

Laura D. Kramer, Ph.D.
Director, Arbovirus Laboratory
NYS Department of Health
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY “Global Emergence of Zika Virus”

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, Oct 18, 2016

Annual WNY ASM Spring Meeting

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

UB Center for Tomorrow
Flint Road (near Maple Rd), UB North Campus

Program :

Jill C. Fennell, MD
Pediatric Resident,
University at Buffalo-SUNY
Women’s and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo
“Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Case History and Experience ”

Cara Clementi, PhD, MLS (ASCP)
Technical Director,
Clinical Microbiology
Kaleida Heath, Buffalo, NY
“Clinical Laboratory Diagnosis of Respiratory Syncytial Virus”

Kari E. Burzlaff, MPH
Emerging Infections Program (EIP) Surveillance Officer,
New York State Department of Health
Buffalo Office, Buffalo, NY
“Emerging Infections Program Presents: Everything Old
Becomes New Again and other Lessons Learned from Microbes”

Registration: 4:30 – 5:00 PM
RSV Presentations: 5:00 – 6:15 PM
Dinner: 6:15 PM
EIP Presentation: 7:00 – 8:00 PM