In-depth Symposia by Track
We’re excited to announce the topics for our In-Depth Symposia at Microbe 2023!
Our symposia are 2+ hour sessions presenting focused and extensive research, allowing attendees to connect and incorporate the knowledge acquired into their everyday practice.
Click below to view our accepted sessions for Microbe 2023 and get inspired! If you are interested in giving an oral presentation in an in-depth symposium, choose the session when you submit your abstract.
Our symposia are 2+ hour sessions presenting focused and extensive research, allowing attendees to connect and incorporate the knowledge acquired into their everyday practice.
Click below to view our accepted sessions for Microbe 2023 and get inspired! If you are interested in giving an oral presentation in an in-depth symposium, choose the session when you submit your abstract.
Antimicrobial Agents & Resistance (AAR)
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs: Beyond the Looking Glass.
- Class C and D Beta-Lactamases: Functional-Structural Aspects.
- New Perspectives on Phage Therapy to Treat Multidrug Resistant Infections.
- Role of Mobilome on Antimicrobial resistance, it is the Cause of the Burden of AMR?
- Is Climate Change Affecting the Epidemiology of Infections and AMR?
- Treating Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacterales with Novel and Repurposed Antibiotics.
- How B-Lactam/B-Lactamase Inhibitor Combinations Should be Tested in Vitro to Predict in Vivo Efficacy?
- Impact of Antimicrobial Use in the Human Microbiome.
- AI/Machine Learning Approaches for the Design of Antimicrobial Peptides.
- Continuous Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic in AMR.
- Elucidating Drug Resistance Development Using PK/PD Studies.
- Refining Clinical Breakpoints via Integrated PK/PD Approaches.
- PK/PD in Clinical Practice: What Does the Future Hold?
- The Next Generation Antifungal Agents: Clinical Application and Resistance.
- Where Will We Find the Next Generation of Antimicrobials/Antifungals?
- AAR (ICAAC) Lecture: Antifungal Surveillance of Candidemia: Emerging Species, Resistance Trends, and Molecular Insights.
- Bill and Melinda Gates Lecture.
Applied and Environmental Science (AES)
- Powering the Future: Applied Microbiology in the Energy Industry.
- The Rise of Vibrios: Climate Change Impacts on Vibrio Diseases.
- Synthetic Biology Tools and Emerging Environmental Organisms for Antibiotic and Natural Product Discovery and Synthesis.
- Electrosynthesis: Driving Microbial Metabolism with Electricity.
- Marine Invertebrate Mass Mortalities in the Caribbean.
- Impact of Re-aerosolization on the Transmission of Infectious Diseases in the Built Environment.
- Emerging Food Safety Challenges and Solutions in a Changing Climate.
- Behind the Scenes: AEM Journal Spotlights from Lab to Pub and Beyond!
- Drinking Water Microbiome—From Measurement to Management.
- Microbiomes of Agriculture: Supporting Crop Production and Mitigating Environmental Impact.
- Environmental Biotechnology for & Biodegradation of Forever Chemicals: PFAS & Plastics.
Climate Change and Microbes (CCM) - Guest Track
Clinical Infections and Vaccine (CIV)
- Prosthetic Joint Infections—Clinical Updates as Diagnosis ID and Surgical Perspectives.
- Unusual Clinical Presentations of Rare Fungi.
- Emerging Infections—What is the Next Pandemic (Focus on Nipah and Marburg).
- Gates: Cholera Genomics and Vaccine.
- Gates: Shigella Vaccine Symposium.
- Changing Patterns of Clinical Infections and Treatments in a Changing Climate.
- Hepatitis C and Organ Transplantation.
- Monkey Pox—Clinical Presentations and Diagnostic Testing.
Clinical and Public Health Microbiology (CPHM)
- Hot Off the Bench: Research from Microbiology Fellows—Part I.
- What is New in Susceptibility Testing of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria?
- Challenging Differentials That All Microbiologists Should Know.
- The Year in Clinical Microbiology.
- Getting the Full Picture: Integrating Host Response and Microbial Detection in Diagnostics.
- Mass Spectrometry for Rapid Identification of Bacteria.
- I Have to Do What?? Making Sense of Regulatory Requirements in Clinical Microbiology Labs.
- A New Look at Buruli Ulcer: a Flesh-Eating Disease on the Rise.
- To Report or Not Report: What to Do With Whole Genome Sequencing Results?
- In With the New and Old Viral Agents: Clinical Virology Diagnostics for All.
Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity (EEB)
- Parasitic Genes as Drivers of Microbial Ecology and Evolution.
- Switching it Up: Recomibnation in RNA Viruses.
- Disaster Microbiology.
- Microbiome Management in a Changing World.
- The Math of Microbes: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Microbial Systems.
- How Enteric Bacteria are Shaped by, Adapt to and Change Their Nutritional Environment.
- Ecology and Evolution of Fungal-Animal Associations.
- Ecology and Evolution of Microbial Dispersal Across Scales.
- The Causes and Consequences of Microbial Interactions.
Host-Microbe Biology (HMB)
- Host Niche Specificity in Symbiosis.
- The Multifaceted Functions of Cyclic Dinucleotides in Bacterial Growth and Pathogenesis.
- Commensal-Pathogen Interactions.
- Immune Responses to Fungi.
- Gut-brain axis: How the Gut Microbiome Modulates Brain Development and Function.
- Subversion of Host Responses by Secreted Bacterial Effectors.
- The Periodontal Microbiome and Inflammations.
- Mechanisms of Microbial Transmission.
- Meddling in Mucus: Colonization of Mucosal Surfaces.
- Beyond Bacteria: Trans-Kingdom Modulation of Microbial Pathogenesis.
- Role of Host and Microbial Pore-Forming Proteins in Regulating Infection and Immunity.
- Close Encounters in Respiratory Disease.
- Commercial-Pathogen Interactions.
Molecular Biology and Physiology (MBP)
- Influencing Your Neighbor: the Effect of Polymicrobial Interactions on Bacterial Behaviors.
- Signaling in Soil: How Microbes Adapt to Changing Environments.
- Phase Separation as an Organizing Principle in Bacterial Cells.
- Anti-Phage Defenses: The Battle Between Prokaryotes and Their Viruses.
- Feeling It Out: Mechanisms of Surface Sensing and Attachment in Biofilm.
- Enzootic Pathogens: Surviving in Vectors.
- Fixing and Nixing DNA Movement Within and Outside of the Microbial Cell.
- Recent Advances from the Next Generation of Microbiologists.
- Combating the Climate Crisis with Critters: Microbial Carbon Capture.
- Signalling in Microbiomes.
- Tracking Transport Using State-of-the-Art Technologies.
Profession of Microbiology (POM)
- Being a Microbiologist in the One-Health Era: Global Perspectives, Sharing Experiences and Gaps to Be Filled-In.
- Women in Drug Discovery—Inspiring the Next Generation of Female Research Scientists.
- Mentoring Programs and Outcomes for Historically Underrepresented Individuals in Microbiology.
- Beyond Academia: Fulfilling Microbiology Careers Outside the Tenure Track.
- Communication is the Bridge Between Confusion and Clarity: Microbiology Science Communication.
- Current Successes and Challenges in Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience.
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