Advances in Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases

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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  Maryam Moarefian, Maryam Moarefian, PhD

  NIH IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of California Santa Cruz
  Santa Cruz, California, United States
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  Atefe Alimirzaei, PhD

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  Atlanta , Georgia, United States

Presentations:

• 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM PDT

  Ultrasensitive and long-lasting bioluminescence immunoassay for point-of-care viral antigen detection
  

  Invited Speaker: Sungwan Kim, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital
• 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM PDT

  Single-sample melt analysis for screening emerging tuberculosis mutation hotspots: Application to rifampicin susceptibility in the rpoB codon 491 hotspot
  

  Presenting Author: Nicole Malofsky, M.S. – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: Swayashreyee B. Dhungel – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: Megan Pask – Vanderbilt University

  Primary Investigator: Frederick Haselton – Vanderbilt University
• 1:15 PM - 1:30 PM PDT

  Rapid Electrochemical Detection of Influenza A Virus using User Switchable Biosensor Platform for Point-of-Care Diagnostics
  

  Presenting Author: Donggee Rho, PhD – National NanoFab Center (NNFC)

  Co-Author: Jeongsu Kim – National NanoFab Center (NNFC)

  Co-Author: Jaehee Lee – National NanoFab Center (NNFC)

  Co-Author: Kyung Won Lee – National NanoFab Center (NNFC)

  Co-Author: Kyoung G. Lee – National NanoFab Center (NNFC)

  Primary Investigator: Yoo Min Park – National NanoFab Center (NNFC)

  Last Author: Nam Ho Bae – National NanoFab Center (NNFC)
• 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM PDT

  Pathogen to Read: A Rapid, Automated Workflow for Public Health-Ready Microbial Sequencing in Resistance and Evolution Tracking
  

  Presenting Author: Kathryn Whitehead – Brown University

  Co-Author: Lloyd Bwanali – Revvity

  Co-Author: Shreyas Shah – Revvity

  Co-Author: Trinity Williams – Brown University

  Co-Author: Anubhav Tripathi, PhD – Brown University

  Last Author: Anubhav Tripathi, PhD – Brown University

  Primary Investigator: Anubhav Tripathi, PhD – Brown University
• 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM PDT

  Multiplexed isothermal assays for the detection of P. falciparum, T. vaginalis, and C. trachomatis in urine
  

  Presenting Author: Joshua Dupaty, MS – Boston University

  Presenting Author: Catherine Klapperich – Boston University

  Co-Author: Clement Shiluli, PhD – Mount Kenya University

  Co-Author: Berit Schaus – Boston University

  Co-Author: Srinivasa R. Lolabattu – Jigsaw Bio Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

  Co-Author: Jesse Gitaka, PhD, MBChB, MTM, PhD – Mount Kenya University

  Last Author: Catherine Klapperich – Boston University