MBID Retreat
Thank you for attending MBID 2024!
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POSTER AWARD WINNERS
2024 Postdoctoral Fellows (9 posters)
1st Place Carolaing Gabaldon Garsin Lab/McGovern Medical School
2nd Place Arindam Naha Margolin Lab/McGovern Medical School
2024 Graduate Students (17 posters)
1st Place Ryan Sloan Lee Lab/MDAnderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School
2nd Place Antonio Valentin-Acevedo Estes & Crawford Lab/Baylor College of Medicine
Honorable Mention Larissa Tavizón Garsin Lab/ MDAnderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School
Keynote Speakers for the 2024 MBID Retreat are:
Associate Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine
Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Co-Director, Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
The 2024 MBID Retreat will be held Thursday, March 7th, at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, 1825 Pressler St.
2024 MBID Organizing Committee
Michael Lorenz, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, UTHealth McGovern Medical School
Heidi B. Kaplan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, UTHealth McGovern Medical School
Lois Armendariz, MBID Fellow, Rice University/Biosciences
Jason Pizzini, MBID Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine/Immunology & Microbiology
Shane Cristy, MBID Fellow, MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Samantha Hitt, MBID Fellow, MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Please direct any questions to Carolyn Agurcia-Parker at Carolyn.A.AgurciaParker@uth.tmc.edu
The Molecular Basis of Infectious Diseases (MBID) Annual Research Retreat was instituted in 2008 and is sponsored by The Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at UTHealth McGovern Medical School – UTHealth Houston, and The Molecular Basis of Infectious Diseases (MBID) Training Program. With an average attendance of 150 scientists, the retreat serves the MBID faculty and students as well as investigators and students in the Greater Houston area, including: UTHealth Houston, University of Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, UT Medical Branch at Galveston, Houston Methodist Research Institute, University of Houston – Downtown, Houston Community College, and others. The day begins with a Career Development Panel, often featuring graduates of participating institutions, and keynote speakers who are locally- and nationally-recognized experts in infectious diseases. Oral and poster presentations are selected from submitted abstracts, and awards are given for exceptional graduate student and postdoctoral fellow presentations. Selected abstracts are made available to registrants prior to the retreat so they can select the posters they would most like to visit during the event’s poster session.