Upcoming Events

2022-2023 Branch Program Schedule

797th Monthly Meeting – September 19, 2022
Jim Poupard Memorial
Matthew A. Pettengill, Ph.D., D(ABMM), Keynote Lecturer

798th Monthly Meeting – October 24, 2022
Matt Ziegler, MD, University of Pennsylvania

51st Annual Clinical Symposium – November 11, 2022

Infection and Immunity Forum – December 12, 2022

799th Monthly Meeting – January 30, 2023
Jason Carlyon, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

800th Monthly Meeting – February 27, 2023
Esther Babady, Ph.D., D(ABMM), FIDSA, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

801st Monthly Meeting – March 27, 2023
David B Olsen, Ph.D., Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA
“From Targeted Phenotypic Screening to Leads that Decipher Malaria Parasite Biology: A Productive Academic/Industrial Partnership”.

802nd Monthly Meeting – April 24, 2023
Kim Orth, Ph.D., ASM Distinguished Lecturer, University of Texas Southwestern

803rd Monthly Meeting – May 22, 2023 – Organized by the Student Chapter
Megan Povelones, Ph.D., Villanova University (featured speaker), Student talks from Abby Bolt, Univ of Delaware, Rina Matsuda, Univ of Pennsylvania, Julie Joseph, Drexel Univ

ASM Microbe 2023 – June 15-19, 2023, Houston

804th Monthly Meeting – June 19, 2023
Norman Willett Memorial Lecture
organized by the education committee

802nd Monthly Meeting – Kim Orth, Ph.D., UT Southwestern – April 24, 2023

Kim Orth studies how virulence factors expressed by bacterial pathogens cause disease. Studies using microbial genetics, biochemistry, cell biology and bioinformatics on effectors from Yersinia and Vibrio bacteria have uncovered many mechanisms that bacteria use to subvert host signaling pathways, including the discovery of novel protein modifications. Her team’s work has uncovered unexpected strategies that bacteria use to survive and spread. Additionally, her work has also helped reveal normal signaling pathways. She has received a variety of prestigious
awards, including Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases, ASBMB Merck Award, election to the American Academy of Microbiology, and recent election to the National Academy of Science. Kim is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

More information about the Kim Orth Lab

Program information to follow soon