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21ST ANNUAL GREAT PLAINS INFECTIOUS DISEASE MEETING

November 3-4, 2023

MU Bond Life Sciences Center, 1201 Rollins St., Columbia, MO 65211

Accommodations: Hampton Inn & Suites Columbia (at the University of Missouri)

The 21st Great Plains Infectious Disease Meeting will bring investigators together to share their science and build connections. Researchers in the Great Plains region (Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa, etc.) meet at this two-day conference to inform themselves on the latest in infectious disease research and encourage new, fruitful collaborations.

Postdoctoral fellows and students are encouraged to attend.

Register today

Poster presentations

  • Registration is now closed

  • Poster assignments will be sent by Wednesday, Nov. 1

  • Poster presentations will be Saturday, Nov. 4 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

  • If you have any questions or concerns, please contact cydney.smith@missouri.edu 

Keynote speaker

Jorge Galán, PhD, DVM

Our keynote for the conference, will be Jorge Galán, PhD, DVM, Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Professor of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine. He will speak at 5 p.m. on Friday, November 3, 2023.

Jorge Galán, PhD, DVM, Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Professor of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine

Schedule

All registrations and sessions held at Bond Life Sciences Center

Friday, Nov. 3
3 p.m. Registration opens (basement atrium)
4-5 p.m. Networking
5-6 p.m. Opening keynote address (Monsanto auditorium)
"A cell-intrinsic host defense mechanism to control intracellular pathogens"
by: Dr. Jorge Galan (Yale University)
6-7 p.m. Dinner (first floor atrium)
7:10-9 p.m. Panel discussion (Monsanto auditorium)

Saturday, Nov. 4
7:30-8:30 a.m. Registration and breakfast
Session 1.  Assorted molecules, viruses and protozoans
8:30 a.m. Tiffany Weinkopff (University of Arkansas Medical School) – Pathogenesis of leishmaniasis
8:50 a.m. Matt Jorgenson (University of Arkansas Medical School) – Engineering Escherichia coli for increased Und-P availability leads to material improvements in glycan expression technology
9:10 a.m. Jerod Skyberg (University of Missouri) – B cell mediated susceptibility to brucellosis
Brief Q/A  
Break
Session 2.  Microbiomes and bacterial defenses
9:30 a.m. Rosana Ferreira (University of Kansas) – Bacterial interactions in the skin microbiome and their role in colonization and virulence
9:50 a.m. Jennifer Auchtung (University of Nebraska) – Colonization resistance and control of GI pathogens
10:10 a.m. Caetano Antunes (University of Kansas) – Modulation of enteric pathogen virulence by microbiome derived-small molecules
Brief Q/A  
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Posters and lunch
Session 3.  Bacterial pathogens
1 p.m. Jeff Bose (University of Kansas Medical Center) – Virulence of Staphylococcus aureus
1:20 p.m. Rey Carabeo (University of Nebraska Medical Center) – Chlamydia infection infidelities and pathogen recognition
1:40 p.m. Avi Mitra (Oklahoma State University) – A novel class of membrane proteins function In heme iron acquisition in mycobacteria
Brief Q/A  
Break  
Session 4. Structures
2:20 p.m. Michal Zolkiewski (Kansas State University) – ATP-dependent chaperones and proteases as targets for novel antimicrobials
2:40 p.m. Roberto De Guzman (University of Kansas) – Structures and molecular interactions of virulence proteins
3 p.m. Christina Bourne (University of Oklahoma) – Progress on understanding mechanisms of DNA gyrase-inhibiting ParDE TA systems
Brief Q/A  
Wrap up and networking

 

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