Special Topics 1B

Medical Microbiology
10:30AM – 11:50AM
Learning Hall – Room 2050
Session Chair: Naz Siddiqui

Tyler Culpepper – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Engineered Saccharomyces boulardii reduces colitis-associated colorectal cancer burden in a mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease

Sophie Sipprell – University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Substance P augments the inflammatory immune response of resident bone cells during staphylococcal osteomyelitis

Giovanna Hernandez – Wake Forest School of Medicine
The role of aerobactin on the virulence and translocation of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae following gastrointestinal colonization

Matthew Greenwald – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Aggregation Independent of Biofilm Formation Drives Antibiotic Tolerance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Airway Mucus

Aruna R. Menon – Duke University
The sigma factor SigE’s role in mycobacterial granulomas