Flash Talks

8:45AM – 10:15AM
Great Hall
Session Chair: Emma Heckenberg

KC Cooper – North Carolina State University
Determination Of Bile Acid Tolerance Of Clostridium sporogenes and Clostridioides difficile

Shreya Ramakanth – North Carolina State University
A quantitative study of a model eukaryotic life cycle through computer vision

Lily McKay – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Fighting for air: Minimal requirements for Bordetella respiration in the respiratory tract

Zhengqing Zhou – Duke University
Population Ghost Effect Prolongs Plasmid Carriage Following Antibiotic Misuse

Samantha Kisthardt – North Carolina State University
Stickland amino acid availability alters the expression of the bile acid inducible (bai) operon
in commensal Clostridia

Rachel DuMez – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Kombucha-associated Microbes Remodel Host Pathways to Promote Metabolic Health

Sam McMillan – North Carolina State University
Metagenomic and metabolomic shifts associated with successful fecal microbiota transplantation in patients with recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection

Laura Childers – Duke University
Interactions between microbes and lysosome rich enterocytes impact protein
absorption in the zebrafish gut

Kairi Tanaka – North Carolina State University
Inhibition of Ruminal Methanogenesis Modulates Microbial Energy Metabolism via H2 Rerouting

Grace Hooks – Duke University
Hormonal Steroids Bind MtrR to Induce Multidrug Resistance
and Stress Response Genes in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Andrew Ratchford – North Carolina State University
Lipoxazolidinone Natural Product Derivative Displays Potent in vitro Antibiofilm Activity

Lara Matulina – East Carolina University
The Outer Surface Lipoproteins ElpM And ElpX From The Lyme Disease Spirochete
Inhibit Complement Protease C1s

Madeline Wight – Appalachian State University
Impact of Weight Cycling on Gut Microbiome Diversity

Morgan Milton – East Carolina University
Challenging the Archetype: Coupling Computational Modeling and Cellular Exploration to Probe the Protein-Protein Interactions Controlling Vibrio fischeri Biofilm Formation

Siddhi Omkar – University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Mechanosensor-Mediated Hsp70 Phosphorylation Orchestrates the Landscape of the Heat Shock Response

Akamu Jude Ewunkem – Winston Salem State University
Bees: A novel source for Green Synthesis of Nanoparticles and Evaluation
for Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Potential