Innovations in Infectious Disease Diagnostics, Discovery, and Delivery

Track Chair(s)

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  Orlando Hoilett, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  University of Cincinnati, United States
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  Anita Shukla, PhD

  Elaine I. Savage Professor of Engineering
  Brown University
  Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Session Chair(s)

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  Congyue Peng

  Research Assistant Professor
  Clemson University, United States
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  Rohan Ingrole

Presentations:

• 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM PDT

  Biofilm Comes Back: Inhibiting regrowth with Self-Locomotive Antibacterial Micromotors (SLAM)
  

  Invited Speaker: Hyunjoon Kong, PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM PDT

  Smart Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Systems for the Treatment of Bacterial and Fungal Infections
  

  Presenting Author: Anita Shukla, PhD – Brown University

  Co-Author: Zhaowei Jiang, Ph.D. – Brown University

  Co-Author: Veronica LaMastro, Ph.D. – University of Southern California

  Last Author: Anita Shukla, PhD – Brown University
• 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM PDT

  A point-mutated Ag85B antigen improves recombinant bacterial expression and protects mice from aerosol M. tuberculosis challenge via liposomal vaccine delivery.
  

  Presenting Author: Wen-Ling Hsu, MS – University at Buffalo

  Primary Investigator: Wen-Ling Hsu, MS – University at Buffalo

  Co-Author: Yang Jiao – University at Buffalo

  Co-Author: Wei-Chiao Huang – University at Buffalo/POP Biotechnologies

  Co-Author: Kristina N. Tran – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Brennen T. Troyer – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Matthew Hvasta – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Co-Author: Brian Kuhlman – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Co-Author: Andres Obregon-Henao – Colorado State University

  Last Author: Jonathan Lovell – University at Buffalo
• 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

  Control of Microbial Infection through Interfering with Nucleotide Second Message Signaling
  

  Presenting Author: LICHONG XU, PhD – Penn State College of Medicine

  Co-Author: Jiale Liu – Penn State College of Medicine

  Co-Author: Dongxiao Sun – Penn State College of Medicine

  Co-Author: Chen Chen – Penn StateUniversity

  Last Author: Christopher Siedlecki – Penn State College of Medicine

  Co-Author: Parya Akram

  Co-Author: Gaurav Pendey
• 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM PDT

  Targeting Biofilms with a Novel Secondary Dithiol S-Nitrosothiol: Synthesis, Characterization, and Antibacterial Evaluation
  

  Presenting Author: Anastasia Marx – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Sumit Kumar – University of Georgia

  Primary Investigator: Elizabeth Brisbois – University of Georgia

  Last Author: Hitesh Handa – University of Georgia

  Primary Investigator: Hitesh Handa – University of Georgia