Time zone: (Eastern Time US & Canada)
Day 1 | Monday, June 1, 2026
09:00 – 09:10 Zoom Joining & Introduction to Salmonella 2026
Session Chair: Will be updated soon…
09:10 – 09:40 Amit Awasthi, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, India
Fangchinoline drives NOS2-dependent host immunity to restrict intracellular enteric pathogens
09:40 – 10:10 Dipshikha Chakravortty, IISC, Bangalore, India
TBA…
10:10 – 10:40 Neha Dhiman, IISER Mohali, India
Salmonella modulates the lysosomal biogenesis pathway for building its replicative vacuolar niche
10:40 – 11:10 Mariola J Ferraro, University of Florida, FL, USA
Cannabinoid signaling in host defense: Lessons from Salmonella infection
11:10 – 11:20 Break
Session Chair: Will be updated soon…
11:20 – 11:50 Brian Coombes, McMaster University, Canada
Overcoming immune evasion and antibiotic tolerance in iNTS using bacterial and host-directed strategies
11:50 – 12:20 Kishore Alugupalli, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, TurboVax Inc., PA, USA
Preclinical model systems to identify effective typhoid vaccines
12:20 – 12:50 Jorge Canas, University of Florida, FL, USA
Antigen presenting cell responses to macrophage-derived extracellular vesicle intra-nasal immunization against murine typhoid fever
12:50 – 13:00 Break
Session Chair: Will be updated soon…
13:00 – 13:30 John Brumell, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada
Proximity labelling reveals VPS13C as a regulator of Salmonella-containing vacuole fission
13:30 – 14:00 Basel Abuaita, Louisiana State University, LA, USA
Fatty acids augment Salmonella enterica susceptibility to host defenses by targeting the lipopolysaccharide composition
14:00 – 14:30 Damian Gatica Mizala, University of Chile, Chile
The ERphagy receptor FAM134B/RETREG1 is targeted by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to promote infection
14:30 Day 1 Closing Remarks
Day 2 | Tuesday, June 2, 2026
09:00-09:10 Day 2 Opening Remarks
Session Chair: Will be updated soon…
09:10 – 09:40 Pedro Escoll, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
Decoding the bioenergetic logic of infection using mitochondrial signals and single-cell AI
09:40 – 10:10 Christopher Schubert, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Metabolic strategies of Enterobactericeae in gut colonization
10:10 – 10:40 Jennifer Ronholm, McGill University, Canada
Interactions between Salmonella enterica ser. Typhimurium and the Microbiome
10:40 – 11:10 Kanchan Jaswal, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA
The yeast cell wall modulates macrophage response to Salmonella
11:10 – 11:20 Break
Session Chair: Will be updated soon…
11:20 – 11:50 Yosra Helmy, University of Kentucky, KY, USA
Tracking human clinical Salmonella in Kentucky: genomic diversity, lineage dynamics, and antimicrobial resistance trends
11:50 – 12:20 Casey Fowler, University of Alberta, Canada
The evolution and diversity of AB-type toxins in Salmonella
12:20 – 12:50 Jeongmin Song, Cornell University, NY, USA
Glycan-mediated molecular interactions in bacterial pathogenesis
12:20 – 13:20 Siena Joy Glenn, Washington State University, WA, USA
The impact of disrupted chemotaxis on Salmonella virulence