Eastern PA Branch ASM – 2025-2026 Program Schedule
821st Monthly Meeting – September 29, 2025
“Emerging Zoonotic Eyeworm Infections in the U.S.: What We Know So Far”
Caroline Sobotyk, D.V.M., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania – Penn Vet
822nd Monthly Meeting – October 27, 2025
“Multidrug-resistant bacteria in the hospital environment”
Medini Annavajhala, Ph.D.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
823rd Monthly Meeting – November 17, 2025
“Doing More with Less – Addressing the Challenges of Science Education Today”
Davida S. Smyth, Ph.D.
Texas A&M University
Norman Willett Memorial Lecture
sponsored by the Branch Education Committee
54th Annual Clinical Symposium – November 7, 2025
34th Philadelphia Infection and Immunity Forum – December 1, 2025
824th Monthly Meeting – January 26, 2026
“Pandemic Preparedness through a Diagnostic Lens”
Nira Pollack, MD, PhD, MMSc, D(ABMM)
Boston Children’s Hospital
Monthly Meeting – February 23, 2026 (Postponed until September due to blizzard of 2026)
50 Years since the Historic Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak in Philadelphia
“Legionella pneumophila: the Journey from Poor Plumbing Design to the Perfect Replication Vacuole”
Ralph Isberg, Ph.D.
Tufts University
825th Monthly Meeting – March 30, 2026
“Mapping the microbial world through massive phenotypic screens and AI”
Jared Kehe, Ph.D.
Co-Founders and CSO, Concerto Biosciences
826th Monthly Meeting – April 27, 2026
“The highs and lows of enteric infections”
Vanessa Sperandio (ASM Distinguished Lecturer)
University of Wisconsin
827th Monthly Meeting – May 18, 2026
Organized by the Student Chapter
Toby Eisenstein Memorial Lecture
“Fungal Melanin in Space”
Radames J.B. Cordero, Ph.D., M.S.
Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
ASM Microbe – June 4-8, 2026
Washington, DC