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SEP 7 - 9 2021

Microbiology Week Virtual Event Series 2021

Labroots is excited to bring academia and industry, research experts, virologists, microbiologists, healthcare professionals, and leading biomedical scientists under one roof at our 7th Annual Event in the Microbiology Week Virtual Event Series, held on September 7-9, 2021!

Microbiology Week Virtual Event Series 2021 will offer a 3-day content-rich program offering invited lectures, thought-provoking discussions and posters to explore global developments for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Infectious Diseases, discoveries in Microbiology & Immunology research to improve human, animal, and plant health, including virology, pathogenesis, genomics and epidemiology, microbial communities and biofilms, and research to find improved vaccines, diagnostics, and antiviral drugs for Influenza.

This year's event includes the following topics and tracks:

Immunology:

  • Plant Response to Disease
  • Bacterial Immunologies and Epigenetics
  • Vertebrate Adaptive Immune Systems and Epigenetics
  • Immunopathology and Epigenetics
  • Innate Immunity and Epigenetics

Infectious Disease:

  • Virology
  • Antimicrobial Resistance and Novel Antimicrobial Strategies
  • Point of Care Diagnostics: Lessons Learned from COVID-19

Respiratory Viruses:

  • Novel Respiratory Virus Vaccines
  • Genomics of Respiratory Viruses
  • Immunity to Respiratory Viruses

Microbial Communities:

  • The Microbiome in Precision Medicine
  • Biofilm and Microbial Community Contribution to Health and Disease
  • Viromes

Modeling Approaches:

  • Machine-learning Approaches in Microbiology and Immunology
  • Genomic Epidemiology

Call for Posters — Virtual poster sessions offer the opportunity to present data to a global audience via a PDF poster and video summary and discuss results with interested colleagues through email. Plan now to have your poster included in the 2021 Microbiology Virtual Week. Submit your free abstract here.

Our virtual conference allows you to participate in a global setting with no travel or cost to you. The event will remain open for 2 years from the date of the live event, and the webinars will be available for unlimited on-demand viewing.  This virtual conference also offers increased reach for the global microbiology community with a high degree of interaction through live-streaming video and chat sessions.

Continuing Education - Labroots is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. ® Program. By attending this event, you can earn 1 Continuing Education credit per presentation for a maximum of 50 credits.

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Speakers
  • Blythe Adamson, PhD, MPH

    Founder and Epidemiologist, Infectious Economics, LLC
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jon Armstrong, MSc

    Vice President of Research and Development, Jumpcode Genomics
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ramy K. Aziz, PhD

    Head of the Microbiology and Immunology Research Program, Children's Cancer Hospital of Egypt; Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • David M. Bisaro, PhD

    Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nicolas Caffarelli

    R&D Scientist at MilliporeSigma
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nicholas Chia, PhD

    Associate Professor, Depts of Surgery and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Bernard and Edith Waterman Co-Director, Microbiome Program, Mayo Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • David C. Danko, PhD

    Chief Technology Officer, Biotia, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Shou-Wei Ding, PhD

    Distinguished Professor, Department of Microbiology & Plant Pathology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD

    Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, Tisch Cancer Center Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD

    Chief, Division of Infectious Disease - at OPTUM TriState, Clinical Instructor of Medicine - Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rong Hai, PhD

    Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of California, Riverside
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nicholas Heaton, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Komal Jain, M.Sc., MS

    Director of Bioinformatics, Center for Infection Immunity, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Marc Johnson, PhD

    Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Marcus Kaul, PhD

    Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Co-Director at the UCR Aging Initiative, University of California Riverside
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sabra L. Klein, PhD

    Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and International Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Co-director, Center for Women's Health, Sex, and Gender Research
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Maudry Laurent-Rolle, MD/PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine: Infectious Diseases Section, Yale University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Shi-Long Lu, MD, PhD

    Professor of Otolaryngology, Pathology Dermatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Founder, President, and CSO, Summit Biolabs, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Peter Nagy, PhD

    Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Cara T. Pager, PhD

    Associate Professor, The RNA Institute, University at Albany, SUNY
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Preeti Pancholi, PhD

    Director, Clinical Microbiology, Professor, Clinical Pathology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ricardo Rajsbaum, PhD.

    Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Director, Center for Virus-Host-Innate Immunity (CVHII), Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School Cancer Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ronald E. Reitenour, MT(ASCP)

    Area Coordinator-Microbiology, HAZMAT, and Disaster Preparedness for Riverview Health in Noblesville, Indiana
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kan Saito, PhD

    R&D Scientist at MilliporeSigma
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Hélène Sanfaçon, PhD

    Senior Research Scientist, Summerland Research and Development Centre of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Andrea J. Sant, PhD

    Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical School, David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rupak Shivakoti, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Isabel Sola, PhD

    Co-director of the Coronavirus Laboratory The National Center of Biotechnology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ashley St. John, PhD

    Associate Professor in the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Lucy R. Stewart, PhD

    Research Plant Pathologist, USDA-ARS Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit, Frederick, Maryland
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Matthew Sullivan, PhD

    Professor of Microbiology and Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator; Co-director | OSU Infectious Diseases Institute Microbial...
    BIOGRAPHY
  • George Tetz, MD, PhD

    Co-Founder, Human Microbiology Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kamala Tyagarajan, PhD

    Director, Flow Cytometry Assays & Application
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Priscilla Li-ning Yang, PhD

    Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ni Zhao, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
    BIOGRAPHY

Agenda

  • SEP 09, 2021 12:00 PM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: COVID-19 Point of Care Diagnostics: The Importance of Timing and RNA Levels

    Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD
    Chief, Division of Infectious Disease - at OPTUM TriState, Clinical Instructor of Medicine - Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases
    BIOGRAPHY
  • SEP 09, 2021 10:30 AM PDT

    Approaches to SARS-CoV-2 Sample Processing for RNA Detection

    Sponsored By: MilliporeSigma
    Nicolas Caffarelli
    R&D Scientist at MilliporeSigma
    Kan Saito, PhD
    R&D Scientist at MilliporeSigma
  • SEP 09, 2021 10:30 AM PDT

    Navigating the SARS-2 Pandemic at Riverview Health

    Ronald E. Reitenour, MT(ASCP)
    Area Coordinator-Microbiology, HAZMAT, and Disaster Preparedness for Riverview Health in Noblesville, Indiana
    BIOGRAPHY
  • SEP 09, 2021 9:00 AM PDT

    Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV):One Pathogen with Multiple Clinical Manifestations

    Preeti Pancholi, PhD
    Director, Clinical Microbiology, Professor, Clinical Pathology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Diasorin
  • SEP 09, 2021 7:30 AM PDT

    DNA Synthesis for mRNA Therapeutics: How to ensure good results by choosing the right DNA

    Axel Trefzer, PhD
    Director, Product Management, Thermo Fisher Scientific
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • AtbFinder: A New Diagnostic Tool for the Selection of Optimal Antibiotics for Patients with Drug-Resistant Bacterial Infections

    George Tetz, MD, PhD
    Co-Founder, Human Microbiology Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Development of Capture Sequencing Assays for Enhanced Detection and Genotyping of Tick-borne Pathogens and Infectious Vertebrate Viruses

    Komal Jain, M.Sc., MS
    Director of Bioinformatics, Center for Infection Immunity, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Log-linear Model for Modeling for Biases in Microbiome Studies

    Ni Zhao, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • RNA Viruses Reshape the RNA Modification Landscape in the Cell

    Cara T. Pager, PhD
    Associate Professor, The RNA Institute, University at Albany, SUNY
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Real World Value of COVID Testing in Reopening Sports, Retail, and Theater

    Real World Value of COVID Testing in Reopening Sports, Retail, and Theater

    Blythe Adamson, PhD, MPH
    Founder and Epidemiologist, Infectious Economics, LLC
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Saliva Diagnostics for Infectious Disease and Cancer

    Shi-Long Lu, MD, PhD
    Professor of Otolaryngology, Pathology Dermatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Founder, President, and CSO, Summit Biolabs, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Targeted Protein Degradation as an Antiviral Strategy

    Priscilla Li-ning Yang, PhD
    Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Tracking of Novel SARS-CoV-2 Lineages Through Wastewater Surveillance

    Marc Johnson, PhD
    Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • SEP 08, 2021 12:00 PM PDT

    HMGB1 to Help in the Understanding of the COVID-19 Disease

    Ulf Andersson
    Professor of Pediatric Rheumatology, Karolinksa Institute
    Sponsored By: Tecan
  • SEP 08, 2021 10:30 AM PDT

    A CRISPR-Powered Universal Infectious Disease Assay

    Jon Armstrong, MSc
    Vice President of Research and Development, Jumpcode Genomics
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Jumpcode Genomics
  • SEP 08, 2021 10:30 AM PDT

    Serological and Cellular Approaches to COVID-19 Research Using Flow Cytometry

    Kamala Tyagarajan, PhD
    Director, Flow Cytometry Assays & Application
    BIOGRAPHY
  • SEP 08, 2021 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: Development of an Affordable COVID-19 Vaccine Based on a Newcastle Disease Virus Platform

    Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD
    Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, Tisch Cancer Center Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    BIOGRAPHY
  • SEP 08, 2021 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: Viromics: Lessons from the Oceans, Soils, and Humans

    Matthew Sullivan, PhD
    Professor of Microbiology and Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator; Co-director | OSU Infectious Diseases Institute Microbial...
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Development of Self-Replicating Propagation-Defective RNAs as Next Generation Vaccine Candidates Against Human Coronaviruses

    Isabel Sola, PhD
    Co-director of the Coronavirus Laboratory The National Center of Biotechnology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Genetic Approaches and Host Targets to Inhibit Influenza Virus Pathogenesis

    Nicholas Heaton, PhD
    Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Gut Microbiota in maternal-infant populations with HIV

    Rupak Shivakoti, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • High-precision Microbial Diagnostics From Sequencing Data

    David C. Danko, PhD
    Chief Technology Officer, Biotia, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Machine Learning Approaches for Modeling Complex Community Dynamics

    Nicholas Chia, PhD
    Associate Professor, Depts of Surgery and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Bernard and Edith Waterman Co-Director, Microbiome Program, Mayo Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Memory CD4 T cells established by endemic human Coronaviruses have the potential to be recruited into the response to SARS-Cov-2

    Andrea J. Sant, PhD
    Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical School, David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • SeXX Matters for Respiratory Viral Pathogenesis and Responses to Vaccines

    Sabra L. Klein, PhD
    Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and International Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Co-director, Center for Women's Health, Sex, and Gender Research
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Translating Pharmacomicrobiomics: From Microbiome Cloud Uncertainty to Pharmaceutical and Clinical Application(s)

    Ramy K. Aziz, PhD
    Head of the Microbiology and Immunology Research Program, Children's Cancer Hospital of Egypt; Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • SEP 07, 2021 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: Mammalian RNAi Response to Virus Infection

    Shou-Wei Ding, PhD
    Distinguished Professor, Department of Microbiology & Plant Pathology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside
    BIOGRAPHY
  • SEP 07, 2021 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: The Virus, the Host and the Battle for Survival: How Viruses Interact with the Host Ubiquitin Machinery to Promote Susceptibility or Resistance to Infection

    Ricardo Rajsbaum, PhD.
    Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Director, Center for Virus-Host-Innate Immunity (CVHII), Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School Cancer Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Biased Pol II Fidelity Contributes to Conservation of Functional Domains in the Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid Genome

    David M. Bisaro, PhD
    Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • CMPK2 Restricts the Replication of Multiple Flaviviruses

    Maudry Laurent-Rolle, MD/PhD
    Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine: Infectious Diseases Section, Yale University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • From Viral Infection to Neurodegeneration: The Role of Innate Immunity

    Marcus Kaul, PhD
    Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Co-Director at the UCR Aging Initiative, University of California Riverside
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Immune-Mediated Pathologies During Dengue Virus Infection

    Ashley St. John, PhD
    Associate Professor in the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Maize Lethal Necrosis: Emergence of a Global Plant Virus Disease and Outcomes of Virus Mixed Infections in Plants

    Lucy R. Stewart, PhD
    Research Plant Pathologist, USDA-ARS Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit, Frederick, Maryland
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Plant Defense and Viral Counter-Defense Mechanisms Regulating Symptom Recovery, an Inducible Form of Plant Tolerance to Virus Infection

    Hélène Sanfaçon, PhD
    Senior Research Scientist, Summerland Research and Development Centre of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Understand the Emerging RNA Viruses

    Understand the Emerging RNA Viruses

    Rong Hai, PhD
    Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of California, Riverside
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Virus Replication: The Role of the Unique Pathogenic Organelle

    Peter Nagy, PhD
    Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Immunology
    • Innate Immunity and Epigenetics
    • CMPK2 Restricts the Replication of Multiple Flaviviruses

      Maudry Laurent-Rolle, MD/PhD
      Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine: Infectious Diseases Section, Yale University School of Medicine
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Immune-Mediated Pathologies During Dengue Virus Infection

      Ashley St. John, PhD
      Associate Professor in the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School
      BIOGRAPHY
    • From Viral Infection to Neurodegeneration: The Role of Innate Immunity

      Marcus Kaul, PhD
      Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Co-Director at the UCR Aging Initiative, University of California Riverside
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Understand the Emerging RNA Viruses

      Understand the Emerging RNA Viruses

      Rong Hai, PhD
      Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of California, Riverside
      BIOGRAPHY
    • SEP 07, 2021 7:30 AM PDT

      Keynote Presentation: The Virus, the Host and the Battle for Survival: How Viruses Interact with the Host Ubiquitin Machinery to Promote Susceptibility or Resistance to Infection

      Ricardo Rajsbaum, PhD.
      Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Director, Center for Virus-Host-Innate Immunity (CVHII), Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School Cancer Center
      BIOGRAPHY
    • SEP 07, 2021 9:00 AM PDT

      Keynote Presentation: Mammalian RNAi Response to Virus Infection

      Shou-Wei Ding, PhD
      Distinguished Professor, Department of Microbiology & Plant Pathology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Plant Response to Disease
    • Plant Defense and Viral Counter-Defense Mechanisms Regulating Symptom Recovery, an Inducible Form of Plant Tolerance to Virus Infection

      Hélène Sanfaçon, PhD
      Senior Research Scientist, Summerland Research and Development Centre of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Maize Lethal Necrosis: Emergence of a Global Plant Virus Disease and Outcomes of Virus Mixed Infections in Plants

      Lucy R. Stewart, PhD
      Research Plant Pathologist, USDA-ARS Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit, Frederick, Maryland
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Virus Replication: The Role of the Unique Pathogenic Organelle

      Peter Nagy, PhD
      Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Biased Pol II Fidelity Contributes to Conservation of Functional Domains in the Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid Genome

      David M. Bisaro, PhD
      Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University
      BIOGRAPHY
  • Microbial Communities
    • The Microbiome in Precision Medicine
    • High-precision Microbial Diagnostics From Sequencing Data

      David C. Danko, PhD
      Chief Technology Officer, Biotia, Inc.
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Translating Pharmacomicrobiomics: From Microbiome Cloud Uncertainty to Pharmaceutical and Clinical Application(s)

      Ramy K. Aziz, PhD
      Head of the Microbiology and Immunology Research Program, Children's Cancer Hospital of Egypt; Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University
      BIOGRAPHY
    • SEP 08, 2021 10:30 AM PDT

      A CRISPR-Powered Universal Infectious Disease Assay

      Jon Armstrong, MSc
      Vice President of Research and Development, Jumpcode Genomics
      BIOGRAPHY
      Sponsored By: Jumpcode Genomics
    • Biofilm and Microbial Community Contribution to Health and Disease
    • Gut Microbiota in maternal-infant populations with HIV

      Rupak Shivakoti, PhD
      Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Viromes
    • SEP 08, 2021 7:30 AM PDT

      Keynote Presentation: Viromics: Lessons from the Oceans, Soils, and Humans

      Matthew Sullivan, PhD
      Professor of Microbiology and Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator; Co-director | OSU Infectious Diseases Institute Microbial...
      BIOGRAPHY
  • Respiratory Viruses
    • Immunity to Respiratory Viruses
    • SeXX Matters for Respiratory Viral Pathogenesis and Responses to Vaccines

      Sabra L. Klein, PhD
      Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and International Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Co-director, Center for Women's Health, Sex, and Gender Research
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Memory CD4 T cells established by endemic human Coronaviruses have the potential to be recruited into the response to SARS-Cov-2

      Andrea J. Sant, PhD
      Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical School, David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology
      BIOGRAPHY
    • SEP 08, 2021 10:30 AM PDT

      Serological and Cellular Approaches to COVID-19 Research Using Flow Cytometry

      Kamala Tyagarajan, PhD
      Director, Flow Cytometry Assays & Application
      BIOGRAPHY
    • SEP 08, 2021 12:00 PM PDT

      HMGB1 to Help in the Understanding of the COVID-19 Disease

      Ulf Andersson
      Professor of Pediatric Rheumatology, Karolinksa Institute
      Sponsored By: Tecan
    • Novel Respiratory Virus Vaccines
    • Development of Self-Replicating Propagation-Defective RNAs as Next Generation Vaccine Candidates Against Human Coronaviruses

      Isabel Sola, PhD
      Co-director of the Coronavirus Laboratory The National Center of Biotechnology
      BIOGRAPHY
    • SEP 08, 2021 9:00 AM PDT

      Keynote Presentation: Development of an Affordable COVID-19 Vaccine Based on a Newcastle Disease Virus Platform

      Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD
      Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, Tisch Cancer Center Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Genomics of Respiratory Viruses
    • Genetic Approaches and Host Targets to Inhibit Influenza Virus Pathogenesis

      Nicholas Heaton, PhD
      Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine
      BIOGRAPHY
  • Modeling Approaches
    • Machine-learning Approaches in Microbiology and Immunology
    • Machine Learning Approaches for Modeling Complex Community Dynamics

      Nicholas Chia, PhD
      Associate Professor, Depts of Surgery and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Bernard and Edith Waterman Co-Director, Microbiome Program, Mayo Clinic
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Genomic Epidemiology
    • Log-linear Model for Modeling for Biases in Microbiome Studies

      Ni Zhao, PhD
      Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Tracking of Novel SARS-CoV-2 Lineages Through Wastewater Surveillance

      Marc Johnson, PhD
      Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri School of Medicine
      BIOGRAPHY
  • Infectious Disease
    • Virology
    • RNA Viruses Reshape the RNA Modification Landscape in the Cell

      Cara T. Pager, PhD
      Associate Professor, The RNA Institute, University at Albany, SUNY
      BIOGRAPHY
    • SEP 09, 2021 9:00 AM PDT

      Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV):One Pathogen with Multiple Clinical Manifestations

      Preeti Pancholi, PhD
      Director, Clinical Microbiology, Professor, Clinical Pathology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
      BIOGRAPHY
      Sponsored By: Diasorin
    • SEP 09, 2021 10:30 AM PDT

      Approaches to SARS-CoV-2 Sample Processing for RNA Detection

      Sponsored By: MilliporeSigma
      Nicolas Caffarelli
      R&D Scientist at MilliporeSigma
      Kan Saito, PhD
      R&D Scientist at MilliporeSigma
    • Antimicrobial Resistance and Novel Antimicrobial Strategies
    • Targeted Protein Degradation as an Antiviral Strategy

      Priscilla Li-ning Yang, PhD
      Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Development of Capture Sequencing Assays for Enhanced Detection and Genotyping of Tick-borne Pathogens and Infectious Vertebrate Viruses

      Komal Jain, M.Sc., MS
      Director of Bioinformatics, Center for Infection Immunity, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
      BIOGRAPHY
    • AtbFinder: A New Diagnostic Tool for the Selection of Optimal Antibiotics for Patients with Drug-Resistant Bacterial Infections

      George Tetz, MD, PhD
      Co-Founder, Human Microbiology Institute
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Point of Care Diagnostics: Lessons Learned from COVID-19
    • Real World Value of COVID Testing in Reopening Sports, Retail, and Theater

      Real World Value of COVID Testing in Reopening Sports, Retail, and Theater

      Blythe Adamson, PhD, MPH
      Founder and Epidemiologist, Infectious Economics, LLC
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Saliva Diagnostics for Infectious Disease and Cancer

      Shi-Long Lu, MD, PhD
      Professor of Otolaryngology, Pathology Dermatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Founder, President, and CSO, Summit Biolabs, Inc.
      BIOGRAPHY
    • SEP 09, 2021 10:30 AM PDT

      Navigating the SARS-2 Pandemic at Riverview Health

      Ronald E. Reitenour, MT(ASCP)
      Area Coordinator-Microbiology, HAZMAT, and Disaster Preparedness for Riverview Health in Noblesville, Indiana
      BIOGRAPHY
    • SEP 09, 2021 12:00 PM PDT

      Keynote Presentation: COVID-19 Point of Care Diagnostics: The Importance of Timing and RNA Levels

      Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD
      Chief, Division of Infectious Disease - at OPTUM TriState, Clinical Instructor of Medicine - Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases
      BIOGRAPHY
  • SEP 09, 2021 7:30 AM PDT

    DNA Synthesis for mRNA Therapeutics: How to ensure good results by choosing the right DNA

    Axel Trefzer, PhD
    Director, Product Management, Thermo Fisher Scientific
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

Speakers


  • Blythe Adamson, PhD, MPH

    Blythe Adamson, PhD, MPH

    Founder and Epidemiologist, Infectious Economics, LLC

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jon Armstrong, MSc

    Jon Armstrong, MSc

    Vice President of Research and Development, Jumpcode Genomics

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ramy K. Aziz, PhD

    Ramy K. Aziz, PhD

    Head of the Microbiology and Immunology Research Program, Children's Cancer Hospital of Egypt; Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University

    BIOGRAPHY
  • David M. Bisaro, PhD

    David M. Bisaro, PhD

    Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nicolas Caffarelli

    Nicolas Caffarelli

    R&D Scientist at MilliporeSigma

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nicholas Chia, PhD

    Nicholas Chia, PhD

    Associate Professor, Depts of Surgery and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Bernard and Edith Waterman Co-Director, Microbiome Program, Mayo Clinic

    BIOGRAPHY
  • David C. Danko, PhD

    David C. Danko, PhD

    Chief Technology Officer, Biotia, Inc.

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Shou-Wei Ding, PhD

    Shou-Wei Ding, PhD

    Distinguished Professor, Department of Microbiology & Plant Pathology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD

    Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD

    Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, Tisch Cancer Center Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD

    Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD

    Chief, Division of Infectious Disease - at OPTUM TriState, Clinical Instructor of Medicine - Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rong Hai, PhD

    Rong Hai, PhD

    Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of California, Riverside

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nicholas Heaton, PhD

    Nicholas Heaton, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Komal Jain, M.Sc., MS

    Komal Jain, M.Sc., MS

    Director of Bioinformatics, Center for Infection Immunity, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Marc Johnson, PhD

    Marc Johnson, PhD

    Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri School of Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Marcus Kaul, PhD

    Marcus Kaul, PhD

    Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Co-Director at the UCR Aging Initiative, University of California Riverside

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sabra L. Klein, PhD

    Sabra L. Klein, PhD

    Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and International Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Co-director, Center for Women's Health, Sex, and Gender Research

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Maudry Laurent-Rolle, MD/PhD

    Maudry Laurent-Rolle, MD/PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine: Infectious Diseases Section, Yale University School of Medicine

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  • Shi-Long Lu, MD, PhD

    Shi-Long Lu, MD, PhD

    Professor of Otolaryngology, Pathology Dermatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Founder, President, and CSO, Summit Biolabs, Inc.

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  • Peter Nagy, PhD

    Peter Nagy, PhD

    Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky

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  • Cara T. Pager, PhD

    Cara T. Pager, PhD

    Associate Professor, The RNA Institute, University at Albany, SUNY

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Preeti Pancholi, PhD

    Preeti Pancholi, PhD

    Director, Clinical Microbiology, Professor, Clinical Pathology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ricardo Rajsbaum, PhD.

    Ricardo Rajsbaum, PhD.

    Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Director, Center for Virus-Host-Innate Immunity (CVHII), Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School Cancer Center

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  • Ronald E. Reitenour, MT(ASCP)

    Ronald E. Reitenour, MT(ASCP)

    Area Coordinator-Microbiology, HAZMAT, and Disaster Preparedness for Riverview Health in Noblesville, Indiana

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kan Saito, PhD

    Kan Saito, PhD

    R&D Scientist at MilliporeSigma

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Hélène Sanfaçon, PhD

    Hélène Sanfaçon, PhD

    Senior Research Scientist, Summerland Research and Development Centre of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Andrea J. Sant, PhD

    Andrea J. Sant, PhD

    Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical School, David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rupak Shivakoti, PhD

    Rupak Shivakoti, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Isabel Sola, PhD

    Isabel Sola, PhD

    Co-director of the Coronavirus Laboratory The National Center of Biotechnology

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ashley St. John, PhD

    Ashley St. John, PhD

    Associate Professor in the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Lucy R. Stewart, PhD

    Lucy R. Stewart, PhD

    Research Plant Pathologist, USDA-ARS Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit, Frederick, Maryland

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Matthew Sullivan, PhD

    Matthew Sullivan, PhD

    Professor of Microbiology and Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator; Co-director | OSU Infectious Diseases Institute Microbial...

    BIOGRAPHY
  • George Tetz, MD, PhD

    George Tetz, MD, PhD

    Co-Founder, Human Microbiology Institute

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kamala Tyagarajan, PhD

    Kamala Tyagarajan, PhD

    Director, Flow Cytometry Assays & Application

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Priscilla Li-ning Yang, PhD

    Priscilla Li-ning Yang, PhD

    Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ni Zhao, PhD

    Ni Zhao, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University

    BIOGRAPHY

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Event Series


Microbiology Week Virtual Event Series 2025
September 02, 2025 6:00 am Pacific Time

Microbiology Week Virtual Event Series 2025

Microbiology Week Virtual Event Series 2024
September 03, 2024 6:00 am Pacific Time

Microbiology Week Virtual Event Series 2024

Microbiology Week Virtual Event Series 2023
September 05, 2023 5:30 am Pacific Time

Microbiology Week Virtual Event Series 2023

Microbiology Week Virtual Event Series 2022
September 06, 2022 6:00 am Pacific Time

Microbiology Week Virtual Event Series 2022

Microbiology Week Virtual Event Series 2020
September 08, 2020 5:30 am Pacific Time

Microbiology Week Virtual Event Series 2020

Influenza Virtual Event Series 2019
November 06, 2019 6:00 am Pacific Time

Influenza Virtual Event Series 2019

Microbiology & Immunology Virtual Event Series 2019
September 11, 2019 6:00 am Pacific Time

Microbiology & Immunology Virtual Event Series 2019

Infectious Disease Virtual Event Series 2019
April 25, 2019 6:00 am Pacific Time

Infectious Disease Virtual Event Series 2019

Microbiology & Immunology Virtual Event Series 2018
September 12, 2018 6:00 am Pacific Time

Microbiology & Immunology Virtual Event Series 2018

Microbiology & Immunology Virtual Event Series 2017
September 13, 2017 6:00 am Pacific Time

Microbiology & Immunology Virtual Event Series 2017

Microbiology & Immunology Virtual Event Series 2016
September 07, 2016 6:00 am Pacific Time

Microbiology & Immunology Virtual Event Series 2016

Microbiology Virtual Event Series 2015
September 02, 2015 6:00 am Pacific Time

Microbiology Virtual Event Series 2015

Committee

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  • Svetlana Y. Folimonova

    Dr. Svetlana Y. Folimonova received her PhD in Microbiology from Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. She held a postdoctoral position at the S. R. Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma and a postdoctoral position at the University of Florida, Citrus Research and Education ...

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  • Juliet Morrison, PhD

    Dr. Juliet Morrison is an Assistant Professor at the University of California Riverside. Her research combines immunological and virological methods with computational analysis to address questions at the host-pathogen interface. A major interest of the Morrison Lab is ...

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  • K. Leigh Greathouse, PhD, MPH, MS, RD

    Dr. K. Leigh Greathouse is an Assistant Professor at Baylor University with appointments in Biology and Nutrition. Her background spands the fields of cancer biology, epidemiology, and nutrition. She recived her Ph.D. from the University of Texas and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center ...

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  • Niamh O'Hara, PhD

    Dr. O'Hara has developed cutting edge next-gen sequencing-based technology for hospitals and spent five years commercializing this technology. She has led unprecedented, large-scale metagenomics work characterizing the microbiome of ambulances across the US, hospital ...

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  • Stephen S. Morse, PhD, FAAM, F.A.C.E.

    Stephen S. Morse, Ph.D., is Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where he also serves as Director of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology certificate and as chair of the Columbia University Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) ...

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  • Matthew Flegal

    Matt entered the research field over 20 years ago as a lab animal technician at the TSI/Mason contract research facility. He has worked at both contract facilities such as TSI and OREAD Biosafety as well in industry at Pharmacia, Pfizer, and Sanofi-Aventis. During that period he ...

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  • Dorottya Nagy-Szakal, MD PhD

    Dorottya earned her MD and PhD in clinical medicine from Semmelweis University of Medicine in Hungary. Holding postdoctoral fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital and Columbia University, she has 10+ years of experience in translational medicine ...

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  • Jonas Korlach

    Jonas Korlach was appointed Chief Scientific Officer of Pacific Biosciences in July 2012. He was previously a Scientific Fellow, supporting commercial development of the PacBio RS II system and performing research aimed at developing new applications for SMRT technologies. He ...

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  • Meredith Ashby, PhD

    Meredith Ashby is the Director of Market Strategy for Microbial Genomics, Cancer and Immunology at Pacific Biosciences. She completed her Ph.D. at Caltech mapping the gene regulatory networks that direct sea urchin development just as the sea urchin genome was being sequenced ...

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  • Marilyn Roossinck

    Dr. Roossinck received a PhD in 1986 from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Microbiology and Immunology, studying Hepatitis B virus, on an National Institutes of Health fellowship. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University, where she began studying ...

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  • Garth D. Ehrlich, PhD, FAAAS

    Dr. Ehrlich is Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCoM) in Philadelphia, PA, USA. He also directs: the Center for Genomic Sciences (CGS); the Center for Advanced Microbial Processing ...

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  • Ana Fernandez-Sesma, PhD

    Dr. Fernandez-Sesma is currently a professor with tenure in the department of Microbiology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) in New York, NY, USA. She is interested on the modulation of innate immunity by viruses of human health interests, such as dengue (DENV) ...

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  • Jennifer Fettweis, PhD

    Jennifer M. Fettweis, Ph.D. is the founder and director of the Research Alliance for Microbiome Science (RAMS) Registry and assistant professor in the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University. From 2009-2019, she ...

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