Schedule

8:45 AM	Career Development Panel
	Jennifer Dale, Ph.D. (external link) Research Scientist, Minnesota Department of Health Ph.D. with Dr. Theresa Koehler, M. D. Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
	Alejandra King, Ph.D. Manager, Strategic Alliances, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Ph.D. with Dr. Ambro van Hoof, M. D. Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
	Fahd Majiduddin, Ph.D. Associate Director – Patent Counsel, Teva Pharmaceuticals Ph.D. with Dr. Timothy Palzkill, Baylor College of Medicine M. D. Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
	Shrenik Mehta, Ph.D. Scientist, Genentech Ph.D. with Dr. Timothy Palzkill, Baylor College of Medicine M. D. Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
	Elke Saile, Ph.D. Microbiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Postdoc with Dr. Theresa Koehler, McGovern Medical School
10:00 AM	Welcome
	Theresa Koehler, Ph.D.
10:15 AM	Keynote 1
	Alina Baum, Ph.D. (external link) Senior Staff Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals “Development of REGN-COV2 antibody combination for COVID-19”
11:15 AM	Session 1
	Kathryn Patras, Ph.D (external link). Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine “Group B Streptococcus and the vaginal microenvironment”
	Kathryn Brink Graduate Student, Rice University “High-throughput identification of human antimicrobial peptide activators of Salmonella PhoQ”
	Alexandra Powell Graduate Student, Texas A&M HSC “Classical Complement Pathway Evasion in Lyme Disease Spirochetes, Borrelia miyamotoi, and Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Borrelia”
	John Taylor Graduate Student, Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences & Technology “The Type VII secretion system is a virulence determinant of Streptococcus gallolyticus subspecies gallolyticus”
12:15 PM	Lunch Break
12:45 PM	Poster Session, Zoom Breakout Rooms
2:00 PM	Keynote 2
	Scott C. Weaver, M.S., Ph.D. (external link) John Sealy Distinguished University Chair in Human Infections and Immunity Chair, Department of Microbiology & Immunology Director, Institute for Human Infections & Immunity Scientific Director, Galveston National Laboratory Professor, Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology “Mechanisms of Urban Arbovirus Emergence”
3:00 PM	Session 2
	Christian Perez, Ph.D. Associate Professor, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics “Mammalian host colonization by the fungus Candida albicans”
	Justin Clark, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine “Comparative Pathogenomics of Escherichia coli to Identify Vaccine Targets from the Virulome”
	Max Odem, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics “A high-throughput, open-source pipeline/workflow for the measurement and analysis of gut motility in larval zebrafish”
	Austen Terwilliger, Ph.D. Laboratory Director, Baylor College of Medicine, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics “Wastewater Trends of SARS-COV-2 as a Predictive Measure of Clinical Trends for a Major Metropolis”
4:00 PM	Awards and Closing Remarks