Monthly Program Schedule 2020 – 2021
780th Monthly Meeting
September 21, 2020
100th Year Celebration of the Eastern PA Branch ASM
Speakers: James Poupard, Alan Evangelista, Irving Nachamkin, Sunny Shin, Michele Kutzler
4-7pm
781st Monthly Meeting
October 26, 2020
Joe Zackular, University of Pennsylvania
“Microbial cooperation enhances Clostridioides difficile pathogenesis”
5-6pm
782nd Monthly Meeting
November 23rd, 2020
Daniel Portnoy, UC Berkeley
“How intracellular pathogens sense their intracellular environment to activate virulence gene expression”
5-6pm
December 4th 2020
Infection and Immunity Forum
783rd Monthly Meeting
January 25th, 2021
John Mekalanos, Harvard Medical School
“Protein covariance networks reveal interactions important to the emergence of SARS coronaviruses as human pathogens“
5-6pm
784th Monthly Meeting
February 22nd, 2021
Isabell Coppens, Johns Hopkins
“Catching What You Eat: The Secret of the Intracellular Tenure of Toxoplasma gondii“
5-6pm
785th Monthly Meeting
March 22nd , 2021
Invited speaker
5-6pm
786th Monthly Meeting
April 26th, 2021
Invited speaker
5-6pm
787th Monthly Meeting
May 24th, 2021
Student Chapter Sponsored Meeting
Student speakers at 4-5pm, Invited Speaker 5-6pm
788th Monthly Meeting
June 14th, 2021
Norman Willett Memorial Lecture
Amy Vollmer, Swarthmore College
“Microbiology: Nevertheless, We Persisted”
5-6pm
(Sponsored by the Education Committee)