2025 Microbiology Symposium

We are excited to announce the annual Rutgers-wide Microbiology Symposium, which will be held on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at Trayes Hall, Douglass Student Center. This year’s focus, "New Themes in Microbiology: Highlighting Our Junior Faculty," promises a day filled with insightful speakers and dynamic student poster sessions.

If you are interested in participating in the poster sessions, please submit your poster titles using the sign-up link below.
   
Program Chairs Jeff Boyd, and Max Haggblom
Sponsor: Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
   
Register to attend by April 28.
Sign up for poster sessions by April 25.
   
Speakers:
   • NICHOLAS J. BESSMAN - Center for Immunity and Inflammation, Rutgers Health New Jersey Medical School “Understanding the determinants of probiotic Bifidobacteria colonization and persistence in the gut”
   • SANTIAGO CUESTA - Cell and Developmental Biology; Rutgers New Brunswick “A Molecular Perspective of the Role of Gut Microbiome in Addiction.”
   • JENN SUN - Biochemistry and Microbiology; Rutgers New Brunswick “Dynamics of insect-microbiome interaction influence vectorial capacity”
   • ROHAN MADDAMSETTI - Biochemistry and Microbiology; Rutgers New Brunswick
   “Emergence of population-level feedback control by transposon-plasmid coevolution”
   • ZACHERY R. LONERGAN - Biochemistry and Microbiology; Rutgers New Brunswick “Nitric Oxide: Molecular Tuner of Microbial Life”
   • BENEDICT (BEN) BORER - Marine and Coastal Sciences; Rutgers New Brunswick “Bio-enhanced calcite dissolution in marine snow particles: evidence from microfluidic stable isotope experiments”
   • JUAN BONACHELA - Ecology Evolution and Natural Resources; Rutgers New Brunswick
   “Viral plasticity and its effects on the ecology and evolution of microbe-virus interactions”
   • TINA LIU - Molecular Biology and Biochemistry; Rutgers New Brunswick “Mechanisms and applications of CRISPR-associated signaling pathways”
   • BOBBY BROOKE HERRERA - Immunity and Infections Diseases; Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School “Pre-existing Yellow fever virus immunity provides T cell protection against dengue virus infection without neutralizing antibodies”
   • MING-YI CHOU - Department of Plant Biology; Rutgers New Brunswick “Disease suppressive microbiome in amenity turfgrass”