Past Meetings and Photos

December 4, 2024A Virtual Presentation: Microbial and Maternal Bile Acid Metabolism Determine Heightened Newborn Susceptibility to Norovirus Disease with Stephanie Karst, PhD, Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

April 24, 2024 Antibiotic Discovery from a Single Bacterial Colony with Brian T. Murphy PhD

April 24, 2023 Potential Influence of Climate Change on the Northward Expansion of Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis Cases with Caterina M. Miraglia, D.C. MLS9ASCP)CM, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA.

February 16, 2023 Black Spot, Black Death, Black Pearl: Tales of Bacterial Effectors (virtual) with Kim Orth, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Molecular Biology

January 31, 2023  Can Poliovirus Be Eradicated? (virtual) with Vincent Racaniello, PhD, Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 

October 18, 2022 Serotherapy Before COVID: Pneumonia Before Antibiotics with Scott Podolsky, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Medical Library

September 29, 2022 Harnessing Plant Microbiomes for Sustainable Agriculture with Sarah Seaton, Director, Microbial Sourcing and Evaluation Indigo Agriculture, Boston, MA

April 12, 2022 Vaccine Mandates in Historical Perspective: Lessons from the Last Great American Smallpox Epidemic with Michael Willrich, PhD

April 7, 2022 The Ethics of CRISPR Editing Out in the World and in the Classroom with Natalie Kofler, MS, PhD

May 4, 2021 Fighting Antibiotic Resistance and Climate Change with Bacterial Genetics

April 20, 2021 Infections with Multidrug Resistant Enterobacteriaceae  in the US

April 6, 2021. Testing Strategies for Re-opening Businesses in the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

March 24, 2021. The White Plague: Here Today? Here Tomorrow?

March 18, 2021. The Continuous Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Testing in Clinical Laboratories … One year on: what have we learned after the news of COVID-19 first broke?

October 8, 2020. SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 and you (but hopefully not you)

September 24, 2019The Intersection of Stress Response and RNA Metabolism in Mycobacteria

April 8-9, 2019 Joint Annual Meeting NACMID and NEB-ASM

March 21, 2019 Tick-Borne Illness Testing: Opportunities for Education and Test Utilization 

September 12, 2018 How Inkjet Printing and Artificial Intelligence Can Defeat Multi-Resistant Pathogens

April 23-24, 2018  3rd Annual NACMID/NEBASM Joint Conference

April 18, 2018 Synthetic Biology: Miracle or Monster?  Redesigning Micro-organisms into Life Forms That Make Rubber, Saffron, Vanillin, Rice, Fuels and Much More

March 29, 2018 Integrating Genomics and Epidemiology: Examples of Antibiotic Resistant Gonorrhea and the Resurgence of Mumps

March 28, 2018 Bridging Syndemics: Infections and Substance Use Disorder

October 19-20, 2017  2017 Northeast Epidemiology Conference

October 18, 2017  Around the World of Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship Policy

October 18, 2017  Northeast Regional Antimicrobial Resistance Conference: “A Spectrum of Threat”

September 27, 2017  Old and New Arthropod Associated Diseases in Massachusetts

May 1, 2017  Salmonella in Food Production Systems: How does it get there and How to keep it out

April 26, 2017  A Rare Presentation of Brucellosis in a Pediatric Patient: A Case Study

April 3-4, 2017  Joint Meeting NACMID and the Northeast Branch-ASM

March 16, 2017  Clinical and Laboratory Optimization of a Hepatitis C Testing Strategy

September 15, 2016  Microbial Metabolism and Antibiotic Efficacy

March 24, 2016  Pediatric Clinical Microbiology: Little Things Mean a Lot

April 20, 2016 Microbial Metabolism and Antibiotic Efficacy                

April 11 and 12, 2016  Joint Meeting NACMID and Northeast Branch-ASM

October 20-21, 2016  50th Annual Region I Meeting

Thank you for helping us celebrate Region I’s 50th Anniversary                                    

Hosted by: The Northeast Branch and the Meeting Organizing Committee