2015 Schedule
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Friday November 20th
Time |
Event |
Location |
5:00 pm |
Registration opens |
Foege Auditorium Foyer |
6:15 pm |
Introduction Dr. Derek Wood |
Foege Auditorium |
6:30-7:30 pm |
Keynote Address: Dr. Regina Rabinovich Accelerating to Impact - the evolving story of malaria and neglected tropical diseases |
Foege Auditorium |
7:45 - 9:00 pm |
Opening reception |
Vista Cafe |
Saturday November 21st
Time |
Event |
Location |
8:00 am |
Registration opens |
South Campus Center
Lobby |
8:30 - 12:00 pm |
SCC 316 SCC 303 |
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12:10 - 1:30 |
Lunch |
SCC lobby SCC 354 |
1:30 - 4:00 |
SCC 316 SCC 303 |
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4:00 - 6:00 pm |
Poster session and hors d'oeuvres |
SCC Lobby |
Session A: General Microbiology |
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8:30 - 9:00 am |
Lakshmi Rajagoapl, Ph.D.Associate Professor. Childrens's Hospital |
Role of pigment in GBS pathogenesis |
SCC 316 | |
9:00 - 9:30 am |
Ajai Dandekar, MD Ph.D. Assistant Professor., University of Washington |
Metabolic policing of quorum sensing cheaters by Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
SCC 316 |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 am | Rey Carabeo, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Washington State University | Chlamydia modulation of host cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix”. | SCC 316 | |
10:00 - 10:30 am |
Break |
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10:30 - 11:00 am |
Rudy Urbano, BS Senior Graduate Student, University of Washington |
Antimicrobial Nitric Oxide Targets Staphylococcal Quorum Sensing to Suppress Virulence |
SCC 316 |
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11:00 - 11:30 am |
Peter Jorth, Ph.D. Senior Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Washington |
Regional Isolation Drives Bacterial Diversification within Cystic Fibrosis Lung. |
SCC 316 | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 pm | Viveka Vadyvaloo Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Washington State University | Investigating free-living amoeba as an enzootic host for the bubonic plague | SCC 316 | |
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm | Lunch Special Educator Session Please grab your lunch and meet us in the Crow's nest (SCC 354) by 12:15 to join in this discussion. |
Lunch available in SCC lobby Special Session: |
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| 1:30 - 1:50 pm |
Jessica Klein, BS Senior Graduate Student, Washington State University |
Functional complementation of Inv/Mxi-Spa Type III Secretion System translocator operon in Salmonella enterica | SCC 316 | |
| 1:50 - 2:20 pm | Jean Celli, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Washington State University | Modulation of host secretory trafficking by the Brucella effector BspB | SCC 316 | |
| 2:20 - 2:40 pm |
Jay Vornhagen, BS Senior Graduate Student, University of Washington |
Group B Streptococcus Induction of Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition | SCC 316 | |
| 2:40 - 3:00 pm | Break |
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| 3:00 - 3:30 pm | Anders Omsland, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Washington State University | Metabolic adaptation to obligate intracellular parasitism" | SCC 316 | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 pm |
Elaine Frawley, Ph.D. Senior Post Doc, University of Washington |
Zinc efflux protects Salmonella Typhimurium from oxidative and nitrosative stress in vitro and in vivo | SCC 316 | |
| 4:00 - 4:20 pm | Fermin Guerra, BS Senior Graduate Student, Montanta State University |
Staphylococcus aureus Neutrophil Evasion Strategies: The SaeR/S Regulatory System Modulates Reactive Oxygen Species Production |
SCC 316 | |
| 4:20 - 4:50 pm | Jay Mellies, Ph.D. Professor, Reed College |
A plasmid-encoded regulator manipulating surface antigens and metabolism in pathogenic Escherichia coli |
SCC 316 | |
| 5:00 - 6:00 pm | POSTER SESSION with hors d'oeuvres |
SCC lobby | ||
Session B: Clinical Microbiology |
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8:30 - 9:00 am |
Natalie Linton, MPH |
Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:- infections linked to pork, Washington State, 2015. |
SCC 303 |
9:00 - 9:30 am |
Roxanne Meek, BS Washington State Department of Health |
Implementation of Whole Genome Sequencing for foodborne Outbreak Investigations in Washington State. | SCC 303 |
| 9:30 - 10:00 am |
William A. Glover II , Ph.D., D(ABMM), MT(ASCP) |
Evolution of CRE Surveillance at the WA State Public Health Laboratory. |
SCC 303 |
10:00 - 10:30 am |
Break |
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10:30 - 11:00 am |
Scott Weissman, MD Seattle Children's Hospital |
The power of Clinical Microbiology to advance Antimicrobial Stewardship |
SCC 303 |
| 11:00 - 11:30 am |
Alpana Waghmare, MD. Seattle Children's Hospital |
Respiratory viral infections following hematopoietic cell transplantation | SCC 303 |
| 11:30 - 12:00 pm | Luke Hoffman, MD, Ph.D. University of Washington |
It’s the little things: The significance and characterization of Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variants in chronic infections | SCC 303 |
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
SCC Lobby | |
| 1:30 - 1:50 pm |
Xuan Qin, PhD, D(ABMM) Seattle Children's Hosptial |
Experiences from Seattle Children’s Hospital: adopting rapid molecular assay systems for the diagnosis of infectious diseases |
SCC 303 |
| 1:50-2:10 pm |
Rafael Hernandez, MD., Ph.D. Seattle Children's Hospital |
PCR to the rescue: Clincial cases from Seattle Children's Hospital |
SCC 303 |
| 2:10-2:30 pm |
Al Bateman, PhD. University of Washington |
Nothing's perfect. |
SCC 303 |
| 2:30 - 2:50 pm |
Jacky Chow, PhD, D(ABMM) MultiCare Health System, Tacoma, WA |
Think outside the box, look outside the scope | SCC 303 |
| 2:50 - 3:10 pm | Lori Bourassa, Ph.D. MPH University of Washington |
Clinical Microbiology: Keeping us on your toes | SCC 303 |
| 3:15 - 5:00 pm | tba |
Bruker Users Group | SCC 303 |
| 5:00 - 6: 00 pm | POSTER SESSION with hors d'oeuvres |
SCC Lobby | |
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