Time |
Event |
Location |
6:00 pm |
Registration opens |
Foege Hall Foyer |
6:30 pm |
Introduction Dr. Steve Libby |
Foege Hall Auditorium |
6:40-7:50 pm |
Keynote Address: Dr. Nancy Freitag "From soil to cytosol: the pathogenic transition of the environmental bacterium Listeria monocytogenes" |
Foege Hall Auditorium |
8:00 - 9:00 pm |
Opening reception |
Vista Cafe |
Time |
Event |
Location |
8:00 am |
Registration opens |
South Campus Center
Lobby |
8:30 - 12:00 pm |
Session A: General Microbiology Session B: Clinical Microbiology |
SCC 316 SCC 303 |
12:10 - 1:00 |
Lunch |
SCC lobby and SCC 316 |
1:30 - 5:00 |
SCC 316 SCC 303 |
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5:00 - 6:30 pm |
Poster session and hor d'hoeuvres |
SCC Lobby |
Session A: General Microbiology |
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8:30 - 8:55 am |
Mike Konkel Washington State University |
Campylobacter jejuni takes control: effector-driven manipulation of host cell signaling |
SCC 316 | |
8:55 - 9:20 am |
Rosalind Bilharz |
A Tale of Two NS1s: A Comparison of the Host Type I Interferon Response to the 1918 'Spanish Flu' and the 2009 'Swine Flu' |
SCC 316 |
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| 9:20 - 9:45 am | Josh Woodward University of Washington |
Defining the critical role of c-di-AMP in Listeria monocytogenes physiology and pathogenesis | SCC 316 | |
| 9:45 - 10:10 am | Jay Mellies Reed College |
How Ler Became an Anti-Silencer | SCC 316 | |
10:10 - 10:30 am |
Break |
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10:30 - 10:55 am |
Marina Kalyuzhnaya |
Methanotrophy revisited: C-1-T0-Cn plus energy. Is it possible? |
SCC 316 |
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10:55 - 11:20 am |
Elaine Frawley |
Ler of Pathogenic Escherichia coli forms toroidal protein-DNA complexes |
SCC 316 | |
| 11:20 - 11:45 pm | Marion Brodhagen Western Washington University |
Espionage and counter-intelligence in Aspergillus and aflatoxin | SCC 316 | |
| 11:45 - 12:10 | Svetlana Yurgel Washington State University |
"Sinorhizobium meliloti nitrogen stress response: role in Rhizobium–legume association" | SCC 316 | |
| 12:10 - 1:00 pm | Lunch Special Educator Session |
Lunch available in SCC lobby Special Session: |
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| 12:20 - 12:40 | Rebecca Achterman |
Crowd Funding in the Sciences | ||
| 12:40-1:00 | Gita Bangera Bellevue College |
Research in the classroom: Implementing NSF's Vision and Change Recommendations | ||
| 1:00 - 1:25 pm | Charlotte Majerczyk University of Washington |
Quorum sensing in B. thailandensis, B. pseudomallei and B. mallei- adaptation of bacterial signaling in the related free-living saprophyte, opportunist, and host-restricted pathogen. | SCC 316 | |
| 1:25 - 1:50 pm | Xiaonan Lu Washington State University |
Garlic-derived organosulfur compounds fight foodborne pathogens | SCC 316 | |
| 1:50 - 2:15 pm | Mo Li University of Washington |
Type VI secretion effector recognition by a cognate immunity protein-Tsi2. | SCC 316 | |
| 2:15 - 2:40 | Xuan Qin Children's Hospital |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa syntrophy in chronically colonized cystic fibrosis airways. | SCC 316 | |
| 2:40 - 3:00 pm | Break |
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| 3:00 - 3:25 pm | Brett Mellbye Oregon State University |
You are what you eat: Nutrient and growth-rate control of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. | SCC 316 | |
| 3:25 - 3:50 pm | Curtis Moon Central Washington University |
Arsenate resistance genes in alkaliphiles from Soap lake | SCC 316 | |
| 3:50 - 4:10 pm | Jonathan Pruneda University of Washington |
Activation of the Shigella effector OspG requires binding to host cell ubiquitination machinery | SCC 316 | |
| 4:10 - 4:30 pm | Chris Whidbey University of Washington |
Penetration of human placental membranes by Group B Streptococci | SCC 316 | |
| 4:30 - 4:50 pm | Sarah Wilson University of Washington |
Evaluating interactions between epithelial cells and enteric pathogens in a small intestinal organoid model | SCC 316 | |
| 5:00 - 6:30 pm | POSTER SESSION with hor d'hoeuvres |
SCC lobby | ||
Session B: Clinical medicine |
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9:00 - 9:25 am |
William Glover, Ph.D Washington State Public Health Laboratories |
Vibrio Parahemolyticus: Tales from the half shell |
SCC 303 |
9:30 - 9:55 am |
Perez Osorio, Ph.D |
New surveillance tools to aid tuberculosis control |
SCC 303 |
| 10:00 - 10:25 am | Mitchell Woodberry, Ph.D. |
Clinical Case Study: The legion of doom! | SCC 303 |
10:30 - 10:45 am |
Break |
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10:45 - 11:10 am |
Raquel Martinez, Ph.D University of Washington |
Rapid bacterial diagnostics |
SCC 303 |
11:15 - 12:00 am |
Carl Wigren, MD Forensic Pathology Autopsy Services, LLC |
Dead ahead: An autopsy conundrum |
SCC 303 |
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
SCC Lobby | |
| 1:00 - 1:35 pm | Art Braden, PhD Roche Diagnostics |
Applying multiplex testing to HPV screening: Enhancing assay design for clinical benefit | SCC 303 |
| 1:45 - 2:20 pm | Steve Salipante, MD, Ph.D Bellingham Research Institute |
Rapid next generation sequencing for molecular diagnosis of complex specimens | SCC 303 |