Monday, February 6, 2023
| TIME | DESCRIPTION | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast at Copper Mine Bistro | |
| Scientific Session 2 | Session Chair: Aimee Potter - University of Virginia | |
| 8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. | Silencer/Counter-Silencer Interactions Coordinate Virulence Gene Expression in Brucella spp.—Role of Zn-Finger Protein MucR as an H-NS-like Gene Regulator | Ian Barton East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine |
| 8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | Single Cell analysis reveals transcriptional heterogeneity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a mucin-rich environment | Cristian Roca Avendano University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. | The novel protein ScrA is an essential regulator of Staphylococcus aureus virulence acting through the SaeS two-component system | Marcus Wittekind Ohio University |
| 9:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | RofA: A PRD-Containing Virulence Regulator Connecting Sugar Utilization and Virulence Regulation in the Group A Streptococcus | Meaghan Hart University of Maryland |
| 9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. | Dual Regulation of the Zinc Import Gene tdfJ in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae by Zinc and Iron | Sandhya Padmanabhan Georgia State University |
| 9:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. | Coffee Break | |
| Scientific Session 3 | Session Chair: Brian Conlon - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | Keynote #2 Bacterial Evasion of Host Innate Immune Defense Mechanisms |
Sunny Shin, PhD University of Pennsylvania |
| 11:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Investigating synergistic mechanisms of immune evasion by a multifunctional outer surface lipoprotein from the Lyme disease spirochete | Charles Booth East Carolina University |
| 11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. | Peptidoglycan deacetylation control Type IV secretion and the intracellular fate of Legionella pneumophila | Tamara O'Connor Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| 11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | The host protein PIK3C3 promotes Shigella flexneri spread from cell to cell | Steven Rolland University of Virginia |
| 12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Pseudomonas aeruginosa lipid A 2-hydroxylation impacts host recognition and response in CF macrophages | Casey Hofstaedter University of Maryland School of Dentistry |
| 12:15 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Deciphering IncS function at different stages of the Chlamydia developmental cycle | Maria Eugenia Cortina University of Virginia |
| 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch at Copper Mine Bistro featuring "Dine with a Keynote Speaker" | |
| 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Free Time (slopes close at 5:00 p.m.; no night skiing) | |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Networking Session | |
| Scientific Session 4 | Session Chair: Erin Harberts - Towson University | |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Keynote #3 Protein Export by Intracellular Mycobacteria |
Patricia Champion, PhD University of Notre Dame |
| 5:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. | Natural Human Genetic Variation Reveals Putative Yersinia Pestis Receptor | Rachel Keener Duke University |
| 5:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | The in vivo fitness defect in fluoroquinolone-resistant N. gonorrhoeae with commonly isolated gyrA, parC mutations is restored by selection of compensatory mutations during experimental infection | Adriana Le Van Uniformed Services University |
| 6:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. | The Latch Hypothesis: How Protein Conformational Arrangement Controls Outer Membrane Vesicle release in Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Jeffrey Schertzer Binghamton University |
| 6:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Developing a novel mRNA diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine | Graham Bitzer West Virginia University |
| 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | Dinner at Copper Mine Bistro featuring "Dine with a Keynote Speaker" | |
| 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. | Poster Session B | |
| 10:00 p.m. - 11:45 p.m. | Edge Bar Extended Hours |