Poster Assignments
For those presenting in the morning sessions (Sessions I and III), please plan to put your posters up before the first session of the day and take it down before lunch. For posters in the afternoon sessions (Sessions II and IV), please put up your posters during lunch and take them down before the last session of the day. Thank you!
Poster Session I
Monday, June 12 | 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
| # | Name | Title |
| 1 | Eleanor Young | Deploying Go-PhAST-R on Clinical Samples |
| 2 | Irem Ozkan | The impact of subinhibitory levels of translation inhibiting antibiotics on transcription initiation and termination sites in Streptococcus pneumoniae |
| 3 | Rebecca McSweeney | Investigating the genetic modulators of observed vancomycin susceptibility in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates |
| 4 | Emily McNutt | A genetic selection for identifying enzymes that metabolize modified nucleosides |
| 5 | Thais Harder de Palma | Absolute and conditionally essential genes of Haemophilus parainfluenzae |
| 6 | Benjamin Koleske | Screening the PE/PPE secreted effectors of M. tuberculosis to uncover novel virulence-promoting genes |
| 7 | Britta Goncarovs | Engineering Synthetic Biotics to Secrete Therapeutic Proteins |
| 8 | Kevin Barthes | A functional metagenomic screen for antiphage defense systems |
| 9 | Desiree Sukhram | Development of Synthetic RNA thermometers for biocontainment genetic circuits |
| 10 | Arvie Grace Masibag | Membrane vesicles as microbial delivery systems for mediating competition in pathogen-probiont interactions |
| 11 | Alicia Egea Weiss | Use of morphological profiling in B. burgdorferi to investigate environmental stress |
| 12 | Samuel Verzino | Development of Whole-Cell Biosensors For Early Detection Of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma |
| 13 | Ziming Wei | Deep learning for antibiotic discovery in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis |
| 14 | Elizabeth Tan | Using transposon-sequencing to assess phage gene contributions for fitness in the virulent phage ICP1 during the predation of Vibrio cholerae |
| 15 | Samantha Lindberg | A Genome-wide CRISPRi Screen Identifies Drivers of Antibody-mediated Agglutination in Salmonella Typhimurium |
| 16 | Abigail Dzordzorme | Distinct Nanoparticle Surface Chemistry Influences Early P. aeruginosa Biofilm Association |
| 17 | Mark Young | Pangenome hybrid capture increases coverage of Escherichia coli within stool metagenomes, enabling transcriptomic analyses of E. coli within the rUTI gut microbiome |
| 18 | Alicia Mendoza | Understanding how Histidine Kinase, NahK, Influences Biofilm Formation and Quorum Sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. |
| 19 | Amanda Adams | Bacteria-virus interactions in the vaginal microbiome reduce herpes virus infectivity |
| 20 | Nicole Reinhold-Larsson | Identifying Chlamydia trachomatis virulence factors that inhibit adaptive immunity |
| 21 | Pooja Uchil | Host Factors Engaged in the Repair of the Mtb Phagosome Membrane |
| 22 | Nick Peterson | Non-canonical pattern recognition of a pathogen-derived metabolite by a nuclear hormone receptor identifies virulent bacteria in C. elegans |
| 23 | Pathricia Leus | Identifying neutrophil effector functions targeted by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Yops |
| 24 | Jennie Ruelas Castillo | The heme oxygenase-1 metalloporphyrin inhibitor stannsoporfin enhances the activity of a novel regimen for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in a murine model |
| 25 | Shuying Xu | S. pneumoniae pneumolysin promotes airway barrier breach by triggering neutrophil transepithelial migration and elastase release |
| 26 | Lia Parkin | Defining LprG-Rv1410c mediated lipid transport through the mycobacterial cell envelope |
| 27 | Aseem Palande | Identifying the Mycobacterium tuberculosis surface proteome using proximity labeling in live cells |
| 28 | Andres Herrera-Tequia | Posttranslational regulation of the leucine-responsive regulatory protein (Lrp) from E. coli |
| 29 | Merlin Brychcy | The Impact of Acinetobacter baumannii Vanillate Catabolism on Biofilms |
| 30 | Jason Denoncourt | Inhibition of disulfide bond formation enzymes potentiates bacteriophage killing of Acinetobacter baumannii |
| 31 | Ibukun John Abulude | New interaction network among hypothetical proteins may serve important role in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus predation |
| 32 | Amy Rohlfing | Variations in sporulation conditions and purification methods affect sensitivity to germinants in Clostridioides difficile spores |
| 33 | Daigo Inoyama | A Preclinical Drug Candidate Targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis KasA |
| 34 | Celena Gwin | Spatial segregation of metabolic processes underlies cellular asymmetry in mycobacteria |
| 35 | Sierra Schmidt | Investigating the autoregulation of a ribosomal protein in the pathogen Francisella tularensis |
| 36 | Natalia Quinones-Olvera | Diverse and abundant viruses exploit conjugative plasmids |
| 37 | Saumya Bandyopadhyay | Legionella employ a cell surface signaling system to maintain replication vacuole integrity |
Poster Session II
Monday, June 12 | 03:25 PM – 04:25 PM
| # | Name | Title |
| 38 | Justin Bae | Investigating heterogeneous regrowth of Salmonella persisters inside macrophages using spatially resolved, single-cell transcriptomics |
| 39 | Rebecca Korn | Exploring the relationship between sequence and antibiotic resistance with FMN riboswitch fitness landscapes |
| 40 | Yishak Woldetsadik | CRISPR/Cas mediated evolutionary arms race between Vibrio cholerae and ICP1 bacteriophage |
| 41 | Allison Scott | Understanding the role of gene family expansion in R. parkeri’s type IV secretion system |
| 42 | Matteo Luban | A unique CRASP (complement regulator-acquiring surface protein) from Borrelia afzelii possesses a distinct pattern from other members of its identified paralogous pfam54 gene family |
| 43 | Katerina Roth | Genomic Analysis of Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris and Alicyclobacillus suci reveals genetic differences that could contribute to differences in spoilage potential |
| 44 | Quinn Furumo | PIPETS: A Novel 3′-seq Analysis Method for the Identification of Transcription Termination Signal |
| 45 | Tommy Tashjian | Proteomic survey of the DNA damage response in Caulobacter crescentus reveals evidence of post-transcriptional control |
| 46 | Natalie Murphy | Design of a propeptide-based antimicrobial for Vibrio cholerae |
| 47 | Janet Peet | Iron sequestration by murine calprotectin induces starvation and alters virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
| 48 | Andrew Barnett | Experimental characterization of the diversity of gene transfer agents in alphaproteobacteria |
| 49 | Yunha Hwang | Genomic language model predicts protein co-regulation and function |
| 50 | Sosie Yorki | Metagenomic assembly to track antibiotic resistance genes in international traveler stool |
| 51 | Rachel Bargabos | Small molecule produced by Photorhabdus kills bacteria by blocking ubiquinone synthesis |
| 52 | Hyerim Ban | Elucidating the transferability of CRISPRi systems across model and non-model E. coli strains |
| 53 | Devin Lloyd | Exploring the Regulation of Biofilm Formation in Acinetobacter baumannii |
| 54 | Jacob Baker | Community assembly dynamics in the human skin microbiome |
| 55 | Michael Zulch | How Many Microbes Can a Plant Support? |
| 56 | Samantha Wellington Miranda | Evolution and function of bacterial communication systems in polymicrobial communities |
| 57 | Ananyaa Welling | Characterizing the role of neutrophil extracellular traps in Staphylococcus aureus kidney infection |
| 58 | Kender Poore | Characterization of an Unknown Virulence Gene in Shigella flexneri |
| 59 | Juan Hernandez-Bird | Applying the Mouse Pneumonia Model of Acinetobacter baumannii for the Evolution and Characterization of Colistin-Selected Mutants. |
| 60 | Katherine Dailey | Dissemination of barcoded uropathogenic Escherichia coli in a murine model of urinary tract infection |
| 61 | Brandon Lee | The Impact of Age on Lyme Disease-Associated Atopic Dermatitis |
| 62 | Alexandra Grote | Adaptive mechanisms of chronic salmonellosis in humans |
| 63 | Brandon Sit | New biology from an old antigen: a role for the 17kDa surface lipoprotein in rickettsial cell envelope maintenance |
| 64 | Aditya Bandekar | Cell division principles and mechanisms of ceftriaxone resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
| 65 | Anna Seminara | Characterization of the microbial ergothioneine transporter EgtUV in the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori |
| 66 | Christina Rothenberger | Investigating a Predicted Fimbriae-forming Lipoprotein in Porphyromonas gingivalis |
| 67 | Ellen Madden | Cell division protein ZapE links the division machinery to central carbon metabolism in pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli |
| 68 | Mark Soo | A novel control system links cell wall stress to outer membrane synthesis in Acinetobacter baumannii |
| 69 | Ella Messner | Identifying Genes that Regulate Gene Transfer Agent Synthesis and Release in Caulobacter crescentus |
| 70 | Morgan McNellis | Pseudoprotease-mediated regulation of germinant sensing in C. difficile |
| 71 | Caitlin Wiafe-Kwakye | Investigating the impact of prophages on bacterial fitness of Group B Streptococcus |
| 72 | Kuldeepkumar R Gupta | An essential periplasmic protein coordinates lipid trafficking and is required for asymmetric polar growth in mycobacteria |
| 73 | Jinna Bai | Global transcriptional control of membrane lipid biosynthesis and metabolism in A. baumannii |
| 74 | Duncan Kountz | The structure and proposed biosynthesis of an elusive bacterial pigment associated with efficient cellulose digestion |
Poster Session III
Tuesday, June 13 | 10:10 AM – 11:10 AM
| # | Name | Title |
| 75 | Lisa-Marie Nisbett | Exploring the mechanism of lipid transport to the outer membrane of mycobacteria in the LprG-Rv1410c pathway |
| 76 | Jade Law | Analysis of BfmRS essentiality in multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii |
| 77 | Daniel Banas | Antibiotic tolerance in populations of non-proliferating and intracellular uropathogenic E. coli |
| 78 | Ari Sarfatis | Highly Multiplexed Spatial Transcriptomics in Bacteria |
| 79 | Audrey Ory | Improving the genetic tractability of Xanthobacter autotrophicus for use as a point-of-need food production platform |
| 80 | Sydney Edwards | Use of a Graph Theoretic Approach to Identify and Study a Novel Transcriptional Regulator in Shigella |
| 81 | Danielle Peterson | Accurate species identification and antibiotic susceptibility prediction (AST) for multiple pathogens in contrived polymicrobial blood samples using whole genome Oxford Nanopore sequencing |
| 82 | Sophie Bodrog | Applying droplet Tn-Seq to identify metallophore transport systems in Yersinia pestis. |
| 83 | Abigail Miller | Developing a Fluorescence-activated Cell Sorting Method to Evaluate Ribosomal Cis-Regulatory RNAs |
| 84 | Margaret Hill | Outer Membrane Vesicles Isolated from ()Pseudoalteromonas rubra() Carry Prodiginine Antibiotics as Cargo |
| 85 | Sunhee Bae | Lectin-seq: uncovering the determinants of host-microbe interactions |
| 86 | Nathan Hill | Escherichia coli Surface Display of Borrelia burgdorferi Lipoproteins |
| 87 | Michelle Naegeli | Rapid Emergence of Resistance against Direct Antimicrobial Activity of Avibactam in Gram-Negative Pathogens |
| 88 | Courtney Price | Bacillus subtilis biofilm induction by diverse carbon sources |
| 89 | Kindra Becker | Selective in vivo tagging of mycobacteria surface proteins with a cell-impermeable fluorescent substrate |
| 90 | Celia Souque | Ecology & evolution of a plasmid population |
| 91 | Rosalind Xu | A Single-Cell Spatial Atlas of the Mouse Gut Reveals Spatial- and Microbiota-Dependent Sensation |
| 92 | Maximillian Soltysiak | Food and biomass from air, water, salt, and electricity |
| 93 | Monica Wei | Mining the Pig Skin Microbiome for Antimicrobial Products |
| 94 | Karthik Hullahalli | Innate immune responses yield tissue-specific bottlenecks that scale with pathogen dose |
| 95 | Kristina Kelley | The Microbiota-derived Metabolite TDCA May Contribute to the Pathogenesis of Pediatric Celiac Disease |
| 96 | Talia Greenstein | Granuloma-specific design of drug combinations for tuberculosis treatment |
| 97 | Jon McGinn | Dissecting the genetic networks underlying host subversion during Rickettsia infection |
| 98 | Siavash Valafar | Continuing Evolution in Mycobacterium tuberculosis result in Evasion of Molecular Diagnostics but provide prognostic markers for Isoniazid (INH) Resistance |
| 99 | Nicholas DiBenedetto | Investigating the role of epithelium-associated populations of Clostridioides difficile as a determinant of disease severity |
| 100 | Isabel Sakarin | Rv3802c function in mycobacterial cell envelope remodeling, barrier properties, and antibiotic susceptibility |
| 101 | Natalie Sontag | Investigating the interplay between serine/threonine protein kinases and two-component systems in Mycobacterium tuberculosis environmental response |
| 102 | Pola Kuhn | DNA methylation promotes Clostridioides difficile sporulation by enhancing transcription of a gene encoding the cell fate determinant SpoIIE |
| 103 | Kubra Yigit | Lon protease is important for the adaptation to low oxygen and the regulation of heme biosynthesis in Caulobacter crescentus |
| 104 | Samantha Palace | Rapid evolution to serum resistance through phase variation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
| 105 | Colby Ferreira | FtsA-FtsN direct interactions support assembly of translateral divisome complexes de novo |
| 106 | Natalia Quirk | Uncovering novel regulators of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis nitric oxide (NO) response |
| 107 | Mimi Kay | An Alternative Model of Error Prone Polymerase Recruitment in Post-replicative DNA repair |
| 108 | Christian Loyo | A gene in the integrative and conjugative element ICEBs1 confers phage defense in Bacillus subtilis |
| 109 | Takehiro Kado | Bilayer-Intrinsic and -extrinsic structure to separate mycobacterial plasma membrane into domains |
| 110 | Kerry McGowen | DNA damage as an in vivo mechanism of action of pretomanid in Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
| 111 | Anne McCabe | Exploring the mechanisms of collateral sensitivity to evolved Gentamicin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae |
Poster Session IV
Tuesday, June 13 | 02:55 PM – 03:55 PM
| # | Name | Title |
| 112 | Keiichiro Mukai | Analysis of molecular mechanisms underlying concentration-dependent positive effects of the antibiotic lincomycin on Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) |
| 113 | Amina Bradley | Investigating Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Activation in Bacilli |
| 114 | Yun Tian | Gene silencing through CRISPR interference in Borrelia burgdorferi |
| 115 | Bharathi Sundaresh | Bacterial genomic profiling reveals novel routes to complement evasion and targeted therapeutic strategies |
| 116 | Julie McDonald | A Versatile Plasmid-based System for Continuous Evolution in Bacterial Hosts |
| 117 | Nicoletta Collison | Streptococcus pneumoniae transcription factor fitness quantification using transcriptional regulator-induced phenotype screens |
| 118 | Emily MacLeod | Development of a Culture-Free Diagnostic for Urosepsis Leveraging Whole Genome Sequencing and Machine Learning |
| 119 | Annie Wen | Development of the First Inducible CRISPRi System in Rickettsia to Knockdown Gene Expression |
| 120 | Patricia Romanos | Inhibition of NE release as a novel therapeutic target to prevent systemic disease during S. pneumoniae infection |
| 121 | Doug Kenny | Engineering Synthetic Biotics to Secrete Therapeutic Proteins and Small Molecules for the Treatment of Intestinal Inflammation |
| 122 | Irene Lepori | Screening small molecule permeation across the mycobacterial outer membrane |
| 123 | Dora Mahecic | Elucidating plasmid copy number control with super-resolution microscopy |
| 124 | Patrick Woida | Proximity-based proteomics as a tool to dissect the bacterial-host interface during Listeria cell-to-cell spread |
| 125 | Angela Dao | Microbiome Avatar Colitis Mouse Model – A Translational Tool For In Vivo Characterization of Heterogeneity in Stool Samples From Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) |
| 126 | Christopher O’Connell | Pseudomonas spp. are prevalent in the microbial communities in maple sap |
| 127 | Nora Pyenson | Community ecology of phage on a single bacterial host |
| 128 | Aanya Subramaniam | MIT Mucosal and Systemic Signatures Triggered by Responses to Infectious Organisms (MAESTRO) Clinical Study |
| 129 | Dezmond Cole | Investigating the role of cell shape in the host interactions of Rickettsia parkeri |
| 130 | Renuka Ramanathan | Redox regulation of host ribosomal proteins during Helicobacter pylori infection |
| 131 | Aditi Kannan | The diversity and dynamics of vaginal Lactobacillus crispatus prophages |
| 132 | Deepak Chouhan | Saccharibacteria decreases Actinomyces induced innate immune response |
| 133 | Danielle Guercio | Characterizing the role of NahK in Anaerobic Respiration Regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. |
| 134 | Vania Lopez Ruiz | Potentiating immune responses to microbial pathogens by innate-like T cells via non-classical antigen presentation in Xenopus laevis |
| 135 | Julia Ryan | Evolution of growth-enhancing mutations in Mycolicibacterium smegmatis strains deleted for a small RNA and an RNA binding protein |
| 136 | Lucas Guzman | Determining the role of cyclic-di-GMP in enhanced biofilm formation in Vibrio cholerae and Paracoccus aminovorans cocultures |
| 137 | Daniel Eaton | An Essentialome-Wide CRISPRi Screen for Cell Cycle Defects with Barcoded Live-Cell Microscopy |
| 138 | Satoshi Kimura | A tRNA modification in Mycobacterium tuberculosis facilitates optimal intracellular growth |
| 139 | Kimberly Barker | Magnesium-Dependent Regulation of Cell-Cycle-Dependent Proteolysis in Caulobacter crescentus |
| 140 | Audrey Randall | Determining if Parabacteroides distasonis requires HPRT to accelerate diabetes and activate insulin B:9-23-specific T-cells |
| 141 | Janan Wang | Elucidating Lon Protease Biological Functions Through the Use of Overexpression Vectors in Acinetobacter baumannii |
| 142 | Ololade Gbadebo | Membrane Vesicles from the Marine Bacterium Pseudoalteromonas piscicida Deliver Antimicrobial Cargo |
| 143 | Malavika Prithviraj | Membrane-intrinsic Factors that Control the Dynamics of Mycobacterial Membrane Compartments |
| 144 | Emily Chu | Transcriptional Profiling of Desemzia incerta to Explore Colony Morphology Differences |
| 145 | Aaron Love | Specific Codons Control Cellular Resources and Fitness |
| 146 | Anna Green | Integrating protein 3D structure with mutation data identifies proteins under selection in Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
| 147 | Yanqi Wu | Single-cell growth rate of heterotrophic bacterioplankton in natural seawater |