2024 Infectious Diseases Annual Research Symposium and the J. Russell Little, MD Lecture
Agenda
May 29, 2024
1:00 – 5:30 pm
ID Annual Research Symposium
Eric P. Newman Education Center, 320 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
| 12:30 p.m. | In person attendee check-in |
| 1:00 p.m. | EPNEC Seminar Room B Welcome and Introductory Remarks William G. Powderly, MD and Jennifer A. Philips, MD, PhD Co-Directors, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis |
| 1:05 p.m. | J. RUSSELL LITTLE, MD LECTURE Post-TB Lung Disease: Burden, Biomarkers, and Potential Therapeutics Gregory P. Bisson, MD, MSCE Associate Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology in Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania |
| Selected oral presentations Part 1 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. Onyekachukwu Anikamadu, MPH Exploring Preferences and Assets for HPV Self-Sampling and Vaccination Services for Women and Girls in Nigeria 2:15 p.m. Tamarand Darling PhD Mucosal Immunization with Chad-SARS-Cov-2-S Prevents Sequential Transmission of SARS-Cov-2 to Unvaccinated Hamsters 2:30 p.m. David Price PhD Characterization of Rift Valley Fever Virus Glycoprotein interactions with LRP1 2:45 p.m. Irina Diekmann, DVM Mosquito-borne Filarial and Plasmodium Species in Domestic and Wild Animals in Belitung District, Indonesia |
| 3:00 P.m. | Break (refreshments) |
| Selected oral presentations Part 2 3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | 3:15 p.m. G V R Krishna Prasad, PhD Signaling Lymphocyte Activation Molecule Family Member 1 (SLAMF1) promotes protective immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis 3:30 p.m. Maria Johnson, MD student Decreasing Blood Culture Contamination Rates in a Rural Emergency Department 3:45 p.m. David Olafsson MD, ID Fellow Let’s B. cereus – reheated associations in the opioid epidemic 4:00 p.m. John Wildenthal, MD/PhD student Metabolomic Approaches to Detect Implant-Associated Infections in Post-Mastectomy Women |
| 4:15 p.m. | Refreshments and Poster Session EPNEC Great room B – Poster Presentations (until 5:30 p.m.) |
1. N/A
2. Comparison of a Fourth Generation HCV Immunoassay to Standard of Care Algorithmic Testing
Tina Bui-Bullock, Abigail P. Brown, Meghan Brown, Sydney Lawless, Brittany Roemmich, MT (ASCP), Neil W. Anderson, MD, Christopher W. Farnsworth, PhD*
3. Metabolomic Approaches to Detect Implant-Associated Infections in Post-Mastectomy Women
John Wildenthal, Margaret Olsen, Hung Tran, Jeffrey Henderson
4. Profiling antibiotic-associated intestinal metabolome disruption in patients
John Robinson, Jennie H. Kwon, Peter J. Mucha, Jeffrey P. Henderson
5. Lets B. cereus – reheated associations in the opioid epidemic.
David Olafsson, Laura R Marks
6. Association between Clostridioides difficile Colonization, Rectal Swab NAAT Positivity, and Environmental Contamination
Mary Morgan Lee, MD;1 Tiffany Hink, BS;1 Erin Newcomer, BS3; Skye Fishbein, PhD3
7. Combined Nephrotoxicity of Vancomycin and Ceftriaxone in Patients on Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT)
Lovin George, Madeline McCrary
8. Exploring Preferences and Assets for HPV Self-Sampling and Vaccination Services for Women and Girls in Nigeria
Onyekachukwu Anikamadu
9. Hepatitis B Virus Knowledge, Screening and Vaccination Status of Vulnerable Young Adults in a Disadvantaged Urban Community in Lagos, Nigeria
Halita Garuba, Adekemi O. Sekoni
10. Mucosal Immunization with Chad-SARS-Cov-2-S Prevents Sequential Transmission of SARS-Cov-2 to Unvaccinated Hamsters.
Tamarand L. Darling, Houda H. Harastani, Astha Joshi, Traci L. Bricker, Kuljeet Seehra, Ahmed O. Hassan, Michael S. Diamond, and Adrianus C.M. Boon
11. Mosquito-borne Filarial and Plasmodium Species in Domestic and Wild Animals in Belitung District, Indonesia.
Irina Diekmann, Kerstin Fischer, Taniawati Supali, Balbir Singh, Paul C S Divis, Young-Jun Choi, Makedonka Mitreva, Peter U. Fischer
12. A Systematic Review: The Most Common HPV Genotypes Found Among Nigerian Women with Invasive Cervical Cancer.
Nkiruka Obodoechina
14. Application of evidence-based music intervention for health in Africa: A systematic review.
Chidi Okafor, Dr. Juliet Iwelunmor, Dr Temitope Ojo, Dr. Ucheoma Nwaozuru, Shravya Allena, Alexis Engelhart
15. Awareness of HPV Vaccination Amongst Respondents of an Open HPV Contest: Implications for a National HPV Vaccination Program in Nigeria.
Emily Haglin, J. Iwelunmor; J. Tucker; O. Ezechi
16. Exploring Facilitators and Barriers to HPV Self-Sampling Among Nigerian Women.
Ekenechukwu Kokelu, Joseph D Tucker, Juliet Iwelunmor, Agatha Wapmuk, Ucheoma Nwaozuru, and Oliver Ezechi
17. Determining the mechanistic basis for Irgm1 mediated control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
Sumanta Naik, Michael E. McNehlan, Yassin Mreyoud, Rachel L. Kinsella, Asya Smirnov, Chanchal Sur Chowdhury, Samuel R. McKee, Neha Dubey, Reilly Woodson, Darren Kreamalmeyer, Christina L. Stallings
18. Physiologic and Beneficial Translocation and Dissemination of Live Gut-Resident Bacteria is Protective Against Systemic Sepsis in Early Life.
Sreeram Udayan, Phillip I Tarr, Chyi-Song Hsieh, Rodney D Newberry
19. A ketogenic diet enhances fluconazole efficacy in murine models of systemic fungal infection.
Blake Sells, Julia Palmucci, Jennifer Tenor, John Perfect
20. NLRP3 INFLAMMASOME DRIVES HOST RESPONSE IN MYELOID CELLS DURING S. AUREUS INFECTION.
Saumya Bhagat, Chun Wang, Luke O’Connor, Deb Veis, Gabriel Mbalaviele
21. Quantitative insights into SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Syrian hamsters using barcoded viruses.
Reed Trende, Tamarand Darling, Tianyu Gan, David Wang, Jacco Boon
22. Mechanisms of dissemination and virulence in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.
Zanetta Chang, Tamara L. Doering
23. Importin receptors regulate NLRP6 inflammasome signaling.
Qingyu Sheng, Zhen Cui phD, Chen Shen phD
24. Phenolic glycolipid restricts antigen presentation and CD4 T cell responses leading to acute susceptibility during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in Atg5fl/fl-LysM-Cre mice.
Rachel Kinsella, Joy C. Valenta1, Fong-Fu Hsu2, Christina L. Stallings1
25. Characterization of Rift Valley Fever Virus Glycoprotein interactions with LRP1.
David Price, Farheen Fatma, Griffin Brown, Tom J. Brett, Amy L. Hartman, Gaya K. Amarasinghe, and Daisy W. Leung
26. Engage or Eliminate: the duality of host CEACAM interactions with Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
Alaullah Sheikh, Debayan Ganguli, James M Fleckenstein
27. Different approaches to create transgenic hookworms.
SUMAN BHARTI, Kumar Sachin Singh, Sergej Djuranovic, Makedonka Mitreva
28. Early Infection Transcriptomics of Whipworm in Vivo and In Vitro Colonoids.
Hyeim Jung, Joseph F. Urban Jr, Makedonka Mitreva
29. Exploring the Paragominus kellicotti life cycle proteome: implications for the discovery of new diagnostic targets.
Lucia Sanchez Di Maggio, Bruce A. Rosa, Robert W. Sprung, Young Ah Goo, Makedonka Mitreva, R. Reid Townsend, Gary J. Weil, Peter U. Fischer.
30. Cholesterol 25-hydroxylase promotes survival and modulates immune cell recruitment to the lung during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
Andrew Roth, Yuqin Wang, William J. Griffiths, and Jennifer A. Philips
31. Signaling Lymphocyte Activation Molecule Family Member 1 (SLAMF1) promotes protective immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
G V R Kishna Pasad, SJ Grigsby, E Mittal, G Erkenswick-Watsa, C Portal-Celhay, N. Jain, A Martinot, JD Ernst, JA Philips
32. Phthiocerol dimycocerosate (PDIM) promotes growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vivo by counteracting autophagy.
Ekansh Mital, Ekansh Mittal, G. V. R. Krishna Prasad, Sandeep Upadhyay, Jully Sadadiwala, Andrew Olivec, Guozhe Yang, Christopher M. Sassetti, and Jennifer A. Philips
35. Murine norovirus infectivity and stability is regulated by tissue of origin via modulation of the viral capsid.
Somya Aggarwal, Forrest C. Walker, Harshad Ingle, Sanghyun Lee, Jana Gawron, & Megan T Baldridge
33. Decreasing Blood Culture Contamination Rates in a Rural Emergency Department
Maria Johnson, Priya Patel, Ashley Ayers
34. HANDSHAKE ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP FOR ADULT SURGICAL PATIENTS
Abby Kosharek, Elizabeth Neuner, PharmD, BCIPD; Emily Welch, PharmD, BCPS; Spenser January, PharmD, BCPS, BCTXP; Alice Bewley, MS; Kevin Hsueh, MD; Sena Sayood, MD