POSTER SESSION
Submission Deadline to be considered for Oral Presentation: September 23rd
Poster Abstract Submission Deadline: October 7th
Poster size: 4 feet in width by 3 feet in height.
Moderated Poster Discussion: Abstracts for poster presentations are classified into categories designed to stimulate conversation across labs and topics (groups 1 to 12). Following the open poster viewing opportunities, there will be a moderated poster discussion in the following format.
- All presenters in each group should gather at the first poster in each group where they will meet with assigned moderators for their thematic category.
- Each presenter will have 5 minutes of total time allocated to their poster, with 3 minutes overview presentation of the take-home results and message from their study and 2 minutes time available from questions from the moderators and the audience.
- Each poster will be presented sequentially with strict adherence to allocated times.
- Following the presentation of all posters in each group, the moderators will lead a brief 5-10 minutes discussion of the main themes and summative conclusions from the studies presented within each group.
Poster discussion groups:
| Poster | Presenter | Group | Moderator | Title |
| 1 | Brooke Dresden | 1 | Drew Bridges | Staphylococcus aureus protein SasD influences macrophages during pulmonary infection |
| 2 | Emma Mills | 1 | Laura Cook | Bacteriocin production facilitates the emergence of Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a large tertiary care center |
| 3 | Grace Heine | 1 | The role of bacterial diversity in disease: characterizing commensal streptococcal-pathogen interactions | |
| 4 | Saroj Khadka | 1 | Sugar import regulates capsular polysaccharide chain length and reduces hypermucoviscosity | |
| 5 | Sarah Preston | 1 | Quorum Sensing Interactions Between C. difficile and Commensal Bacteria | |
| 6 | Shaw Camphire | 1 | Mutual Repression between Master Regulators of Nutrients and Cell-Cell Communication in the Pneumococcus | |
| 7 | Alyssa R. Hamm | 2 | Kevin Mason | Transcriptionally-unique subpopulations of cells mediate microbe-microbe interactions in a model community |
| 8 | Nathan Robert Wallace | 2 | Catherine Armbruster | Variability in antibiotic and phage susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from patients with and without cystic fibrosis exhibiting treatment-evolved resistance to ceftolozane-tazobactam |
| 9 | Beatriz de Pina Mariz | 2 | The MurM-ur of the Cell Wall: How the MurMN and membranes redifine penicillin defense | |
| 10 | Amber Shaffer | 2 | Differential abundance of microbiota in the middle ear and nasopharynx of children with and without cleft palate | |
| 11 | Steven Taddei Jr | 2 | Building a community: characterizing polymicrobial interactions in different in vitro environments | |
| 12 | Rowan Ruby Terra | 2 | Microbes, Mines, and Machines: Data-Driven Microbial Community Enrichments for Enhanced Critical Mineral Biomining from Abandoned Mine Drainage Precipitants | |
| 13 | Anish Pyne | 3 | Laty Cahoon | A putative Pseudomonas aeruginosa transcriptional regulator undergoes parallel evolution in biofilms |
| 14 | Emily Kinney | 3 | Gina Lewin | Evolved Loss of Mucoidy of Klebsiella pneumoniae Changes Host Interactions |
| 15 | Namrata Deka | 3 | Longitudinal metagenomic analysis of urine collected from nursing home residents with long-term indwelling urinary catheters. | |
| 16 | Rebecca Deek | 3 | Statistical and computational approaches for estimating microbial covariation networks | |
| 17 | Renata DiDonato | 3 | Phenotypic Diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated from Pediatric Patients with Acute Otitis Externa and Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media | |
| 18 | Meghan Wells | 3 | Functional role of a RsmE-regulated type-VI secretion system in a crowded population of Pseudomonas fluorescens | |
| 19 | Adeline Supandy | 4 | Matthew Olm | Characterizing Novel Klebsiella Phages Targeting the O-Antigen for Infection |
| 20 | Allison Kumar | 4 | Eldin Jašarević | The intrinsically disordered region of the Listeria monocytogenes secretion chaperone PrsA2 is required for bacterial virulence |
| 21 | Anna Belford | 4 | Infection machinery of the P. aeruginosa phage D3 | |
| 22 | Emmy Nguyen | 4 | Molecular insights into the DbfQRS regulatory pathway in Vibrio cholerae: From membrane stress to biofilm regulation | |
| 23 | Lily Apte | 4 | Harnessing Bacterial Two-Component Systems: Developing Biosensors for Microbial Metabolites in the Rhizosphere and Gut | |
| 24 | Yangyang Liu | 4 | A Novel Lysis-sensing Mechanism Drives Dynamic Aggregation in Vibrio parahaemolyticus | |
| 25 | Charles Agbavor | 5 | Chelsie Armbruster | The chaperone PrsA2 regulates the secretion, stability, and folding of listeriolysin O during Listeria monocytogenes infection |
| 26 | Grace E. Shepard | 5 | Sheryl Justice | Sex-Dependent Differences in Human Urine Regulate Klebsiella pneumoniae Mucoidy |
| 27 | Madison Stellfox | 5 | Daptomycin tolerance in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium from patients with recurrent bloodstream infections | |
| 28 | Mona Chatrizeh | 5 | Plant based enteral nutrition outperforms artificial nutrition in mitigating consequences of antibiotic-induced dysbiosis in mice and humans | |
| 29 | Pratyush Madapuji Ravi | 5 | High-throughput tool to investigate the morphology, growth dynamics, and molecular mechanisms associated with biofilm development in Streptococcus pneumoniae | |
| 30 | Vartika Srivastava | 5 | Developing a novel therapeutic strategy against antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria | |
| 31 | Ariadna Soto | 6 | Apollo Stacy | Immunomodulatory functions of the gut protist Pentatrichomonas hominis in health and disease |
| 32 | Sumita Dutta | 6 | Will dePas | Gut Microbiota-Derived N-Oleoyl Serinol Modulates Postprandial Metabolism: Implications for Cardiometabolic Health |
| 33 | Jacob Werner | 6 | Investigating the intersectional effects of genotype, microbial condition, and diet on growth and development in Drosophila melanogaster | |
| 34 | Nathalie Chen | 6 | Host-pathogen interactions of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae | |
| 35 | Sarah Latimer | 6 | Characterization of Gram-positive cyclophilin-like chaperone, SlrA structural appendages | |
| 36 | Samskrathi Aravinda Sharma | 6 | Gut microbiota regulates lipid uptake and homeostasis through the circadian clock: a role for REVERBs | |
| 37 | Elizabeth Knorr | 7 | Anna Zemke | Pre-infection adaptation impacts host-pathogen interactions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
| 38 | Yanhong Li | 7 | Stephanie Langel | Genomic and Phenotypic Characterization of Enterococcus faecalis from infective Endocarditis |
| 39 | Molin Yue | 7 | Diversity Analysis and Meta-Analysis of Differential Abundance in Nasal Meta-transcriptomic Profiles from Asthma | |
| 40 | Nima Naghshtabrizi | 7 | Comparative Gene Expression Analysis in Influenza Associated Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis and Post-Influenza Staphylococcal Pneumonia | |
| 41 | Sam Nance | 7 | Arc1 and Acetobacter aceti Regulate Tissue Size and Proportionality during Drosophila melanogaster Growth | |
| 42 | Nathanial Tolman | 7 | Lower respiratory tract C. albicans induces lung injury in mice and associates with worse lung injury in humans | |
| 43 | Sara Alqudah | 8 | Mike Morowitz | The Role of the Gut Microbiota in the Efficacy of Dietary Intervention with Flavonoid-Containing Foods in Metabolic Diseases |
| 44 | Benjamin Anderson | 8 | R. Hinterleitner | Antimalarial Drug interactions with the Human Gut Microbiome |
| 45 | Hanyang Luo | 8 | Mechanism of Obesity Control by Gut Microbiota in Mice through HDAC5 Regulation | |
| 46 | Kirsten Evans | 8 | Characterization of the Enterococcus faecalis-targeting bacteriophage 42 | |
| 47 | Kala Mahen | 8 | Genetic alteration of the gut microbiome is sufficient to perturb host circadian rhythms in metabolism | |
| 48 | Ceylan Tanes | 8 | Atlas of microbe-associated metabolites in the human gut and plasma | |
| 49 | Brooke Burnfield | 9 | Rebecca Deek | Multi-nutrient environments in the gut: Exploring how different enrichment in the media alter the growth and metabolism of fiber-degrading microbes of wild rodents |
| 50 | Edith Campana | 9 | Laura Palmer | The role of Tritrichomonas arnold in restraining viral mediated loss of oral tolerance |
| 51 | Layan Hamidi Nia | 9 | Encapsulation of Engineered Microbes in Hydrogel Beads for Targeted Delivery in the Colon | |
| 52 | Joseph Heath | 9 | Role of Cellular Topoisomerase I in Productive Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Infection | |
| 53 | John Manion | 9 | C. difficile intoxicates neurons and pericytes to drive neurogenic inflammation | |
| 54 | Nour Mouannes | 9 | The Ability of Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids to Protect Against Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) is Dependent on Gut Microbes | |
| 55 | Bailey Smith | 10 | Paty Grace | Message in a bubble: Contributions of extracellular vesicles to population-level behaviors in Streptococcus pneumoniae |
| 56 | Connor Friedman | 10 | Yolanda Huang | Unlocking Therapeutic Potential: Decoding the Toxicity of Mycobacteriophage Muddy’s Nonstructural Genes for Combating Mycobacterial Infections |
| 57 | Eric Joseph Evans | 10 | Characterization of Enterococcus faecium-targeting Minhovirus bacteriophages | |
| 58 | Jada George | 10 | Streptococcus pneumoniae secretion chaperones are required for chain formation and resistance to osmotic stress and cell wall-active antimicrobials | |
| 59 | Luzmariel Medina Sanchez | 10 | Unlocking the Secrets of T. arnold: A commensal protist that restrains virus-mediated loss of oral tolerance to gluten | |
| 60 | Sandhya Kasivisweswaran | 10 | Defining Biofilm Cell Fates in V. cholerae | |
| 61 | Amanda Lee | 11 | Miqdad Dhariwala | Defining the role of AhR and Nrf2 in commensal immunomodulation of antitumor immunity |
| 62 | Audrey Duff | 11 | Zheng Kuang | Prenatally stressed offspring exposed to intranasal polyI:C challenge exhibit exaggerated lung immune response |
| 63 | Dingjiacheng Jia | 11 | Microbial metabolite enhances immunotherapy efficacy by modulating T-cell stemness in pan-cancer | |
| 64 | Katrina Carr | 11 | Preliminary Associations of Gut Microbiota and Symptoms in Breast Cancer Survivors | |
| 65 | Yue Zhang | 11 | Examining antitumorigenic effects of Ruminococcus gnavus | |
| 66 | Jakobi Deslouches | 11 | ||
| 67 | Amanda Reshke | 12 | Jan Claesen | Maternal Microbiome-Derived Metabolites Accumulate in the Placenta and Drive Sex Differences in Transcription |
| 68 | Fikadu Balcha Wakeyo | 12 | Ryan Hunter | Lacticaseibacillus Paracasei PC-H1 Inhibitory Effect And Its Mechanism On Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
| 69 | Jianglin Zhang | 12 | HDAC3 integrates TGF-β and microbial cues to program tuft cell biogenesis and diurnal rhythms in mucosal immune surveillance | |
| 70 | Miranda Hilt | 12 | Repeated stressor exposure dysregulates immune homeostasis in the colon of C57BL/6 mice | |
| 71 | Simran Randhawa | 12 | Investigating commensal bacteria translocation to gut-distal organs and melanoma tumors | |
| 72 | Halah Winner | 12 | The Role of the Gut Commensal Protist T. arnold in Type 2 Dependent Colitis |