Schedule for Monday, February 3, 2025

TIME	DESCRIPTION	SPEAKER
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.	Breakfast at Copper Mine Bistro
	Scientific Session 2: Microbial Adaptations to Stress	Session Chair: Erin Gloag Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.	An NADH:quinone Oxidoreductase of Staphylococcus aureus Mediates Resistance to Pseudomonas aeruginosa-derived Pyocyanin	Anthony Martini National Cancer Center
8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	E. coli carrying different mcr variants adapt to colistin selective pressure via simultaneous lpxC and hns mutation	Anna Schumann Cornell University
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.	ZitB: A Key Player in Shigella flexneri’s Defense against Macrophage-Mediated Clearance	Yuang Sun University of Virginia
9:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.	P. aeruginosa Mucus-Embedded Aggregates are a Unique Sub-Population Driving Antimicrobial Tolerance in Muco-Obstructive Airway Diseases	Matthew Greenwald University of North Carolina
9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.	Defining copper tolerance mechanisms in Yersinia and their role in virulence	Mahendar Kadari University of Louisville
9:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.	Coffee Break
	Scientific Session 3: Microbial Response to the Host Environment	Session Chair: Lance Thurlow University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.	Keynote #2 Commensal colonization by Candida albicans: effects on the gut and beyond	Carol Kumamoto, PhD Tufts University
11:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	The inclusion membrane protein IncD is essential for Chlamydia infection	Samantha D'Spain University of Virginia
11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.	Tyrosine phosphorylation coupling of one carbon metabolism and virulence in the endogenous human oral pathogen Porpyromonas gingivalis	Kendall Stocke University of Louisville
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	“Do I Stay or Do I Go?”: Pseudomonas aeruginosa exposure to mucin reveals two distinct motility fates	Sabrina Lamont Ohio State University
12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m.	Vaginal microbes communicate with reproductive tissues via production of extracellular vesicles	Darby Steinman University of Maryland, College Park
12:15 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Exploration of Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Understudied Periopathogen Selenomonas sputigena	Colin Hawkes Virginia Commonwealth University
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.	Keynote #3 Promoting Equity and Inclusion through Effective Mentoring: The Work Begins with You	Johnna Frierson, PhD Duke University
	Scientific Session 4: Gene Regulation in Microbial Pathogens	Session Chair: Kimberly Walker University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	Keynote #4 Bacterial Strategies for Stress Survival Across Diverse Mammalian Host Niches	Sean Crosson, PhD Michigan State University
5:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.	Helicobacter pylori methyltransferases have differential effects on biofilm formation	Marina Wylie Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
5:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.	Defining the Role of the Translational GTPase BipA in the lifecycle of Yersinia pestis	Roger Pechous East Carolina University
6:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.	Dynamics of virulence factor phase variation under selective pressures during Clostridioides difficile infection	Nicole Gadda University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
6:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.	Quorum sensing LuxR proteins VjbR and BabR jointly regulate Brucella abortus survival during infection	Mitch Caudill Virginia Tech
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