Conference Schedule



09:10 – 09:40 Sean P. Colgan, University of Colorado School of Medicine, CO, USA
Autophagic control of intracellular Salmonella in intestinal epithelial cells

09:40 – 10:10 Ryan Charles Russell, University of Ottawa, Canada
Salmonella prevents autophagic degradation by targeting ER resident autophagy receptor FAM134B

10:10 – 10:40 Anup Kollanoor Johny, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
One health-driven antimicrobial shields against Salmonella



11:00 – 11:30 Linda J. Kenney, University of Texas Medical Branch, TX, USA
A ph-sensitive switch controls Salmonella virulence

11:30 – 12:00 Xuefei Huang, Michigan State University, MI, USA
Development of carbohydrate based broad spectrum Anti-salmonella vaccines

12:00 – 12:30 Dipshikha Chakravortty, Indian Institute of Science, India
Virulence factors, vacuolar niche, ecology and evasion success – Story of Intravacuolar pathogen



12:50 – 13:20 Beth McCormick, UMass Chan Medical School, MA, USA
Salmonella,
multidrug resistance, and cancer

13:20 – 13:50 Virginie Stevenin, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Multi-omic analyses of cancer-associated clinical Salmonella reveal a bacterial-induced host metabolic shift leading to cell transformation

13:50 – 14:20 Camila Valenzuela-Montenegro, Institut Pasteur, France
The Salmonella Typhimurium effector SifA controls bacterial dormancy in epithelial cells

14:20 – 14:50 Tim Johnson, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
Can we predict the next foodborne outbreak Salmonella strain? Combining genotype with phenotype to identify high-risk clones






09:10 – 09:40 Wenhan Zhu, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, TN, USA
Commensal iron acquisition modifies host nutritional immunity during Salmonella Infection

09:40 – 10:10 Alejandro Piña Iturbe, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile
Exploring variable susceptibility to bacteriophage killing within a subpopulation of multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis

10:10 – 10:40 Dmitri Kudryashov, Ohio State University, OH, USA
InSipArable partners: the nature of the very tight association of Salmonella Invasion Protein A (SipA) with actin

10:40 – 11:10 Jiqiang (Lanny) Ling, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Ribosome fidelity and heterogeneity in Salmonella



11:40 – 12:10 Elhanan Tzipilevich, MIGAL – Galilee Research Institute, Kiryat-Shmona, Israel
Salmonella interaction with the plant immune system and the implications for food safety

12:10 – 12:40 Ankit Pandeya, Oregon Health and Science University, OR, USA
Inflammasome activation mediated eicosanoid release from “Tuft cells” and downstream signaling in controlling enteric Salmonella infection

12:40 – 13:10 Marijke Keestra-Gounder, University of Colorado School of Medicine, CO, USA
Nitrate-mediated luminal expansion of Salmonella Typhimurium is dependent on the ER stress protein CHOP

13:10 – 13:40 Michael Joseph Shuster, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Salmonella Typhimurium infection inhibits macrophage IFNβ signaling in a TLR4-dependent manner

13:40 – 14:10 Martina Tambassi, Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Salmonella adaptation to swine goes through the decay of Salmonella pathogenicity Island I