2025 Meeting Agenda

MORNING PROGRAM

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Check-In & Registration | Breakfast & Poster Setup

9:00 AM – 9:10 AM

Opening Remarks | Auditorium 101

• Leonard L. Williams, Ph.D., MBA – Professor & Director, CEPHT

• Amira Ayad, Ph.D. – President-Elect, NC-ASM

9:10 AM – 10:00 AM

Keynote Lecture: Sam Brown, Ph.D., ASM Distinguished Lecturer (ASMDL)

• Topic: Can We Reverse the Rise of Antibiotic Resistance?

10:10 AM – 10:40 AM

Rishipal Bansode, Ph.D (CEPHT-NC A&T)

• Topic: Dietary Polyphenols and Allergy: From Cellular Mechanisms to Emerging Gut Health Perspectives

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

Morning Break | Visit Sponsor & Vendor Tables | Networking | 2nd Floor Lobby

ORAL PRESENTATION SESSIONS - MORNING BLOCK

Poster & Oral Presentations Schedule

NC-ASM 2025 Abstract Booklet

11:00 AM – 12:20 PM

Concurrent Oral Sessions (3 Rooms)

• Room 107: Immunology, Host-Microbe Interactions & AMR (IHM)

• Room 108: Virology, Mycology & Emerging Microbes (VME)

• Room 109: Environmental & Food Microbiology (EFM)

Poster Session 1 (IHM, MCB) | 2nd Floor Lobby

MIDDAY PROGRAM

12:20 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch Break | Visit Sponsor & Vendor Tables | Networking

12:45 PM – 1:20 PM

NC-ASM Board Lunch Meeting

ORAL PRESENTATION SESSIONS & GUEST TALKS - AFTERNOON BLOCK

Poster & Oral Presentations Schedule

NC-ASM 2025 Abstract Booklet

1:30 PM – 2:10 PM

Invited Speaker Sessions

1:30 PM – 1:50 PM: Rachel N. DuMez-Kornegay, Ph.D (UNC-Chapel Hill)

• Topic: Elucidating the host response to the consumption of Kombucha.

1:50 PM – 2:10 PM: Jude Ewunkem, PhD (WSSU)

• Topic: Bacterial Adaptive Responses to Green and Chemically Synthesized Nanoparticles: Implications for Resistance Development

2:10 PM – 4:00 PM

Concurrent Oral Sessions (3 Rooms)

• Room 107: Immunology, Host-Microbe Interactions & AMR (IHM)

• Room 108: Immunology, Host-Microbe Interactions & AMR (IHM)

• Room 109: Molecular, Cellular & Biotechnology & AI Applications (MCB), Clinical & Public Health Microbiology (CPM), and Immunology, Host-Microbe Interactions & AMR (IHM)

Poster Session 2 (EFM, CPM, VME) | 2nd Floor Lobby

CLOSING PROGRAM

4:20 PM – 5:30 PM

Awards Ceremony & Recognitions | Auditorium 101

• Student Poster and Oral Presentation Awards

• Sponsor Recognition

• NC-ASM Officer Acknowledgments

5:30 PM

Mix & Mingle | Closing Remarks