Lecturers and Topics

The American Society for Microbiology Branch Lectureships (ASMBL) Program 2012-2013 Roster is now available! Each Branch is allowed one ASM Branch Lecturer per program year (July 1-June 30). Branches – After making arrangements directly with Lecturers to participate in Branch meetings, please complete and submit a Lecturer Confirmation Form to ASM Headquarters

Click here for a Lecturer Confirmation Form 
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For detailed descriptions of topics, contact and biographical information, please click on speaker's name below.

Or click here for a printable pdf list (2011-2012)
Or click here for a printable pdf list (2012-2013)

Lecturers with ('12) after their name are available to deliver ASMBL lectures from July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2012.
Lecturers with ('13) after their name are available to deliver ASMBL lectures from July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2013.
Lecturers with ('14) after their name are available to deliver ASMBL lectures from July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2014.

  • Gertrude C. Buehring, Ph.D. ('13)

    Is Human Breast Cancer Caused by a Bovine Virus? Viruses that Cause Human Cancer: How Do We Establish the Causation?

  • Nancy E. Freitag, Ph.D. ('14)

    The Listeria monocytogenes Transition from Environmental Bacterium to Human Pathogen Listeria monocytogenes Cardiac Infections: Acquisition of Novel Bacterial Replication Niches Listeria monocytogenes as a Model for Exploration of Gram-positive Virulence Factor Secretion How Anesthetics Increase Host Susceptibility to Bacterial Infection Chitinases as Bacterial Virulence Factors

  • Richard J. Kuhn ('13)

    Insights into Alphavirus Assembly and BuddingRole of Membranes in Dengue Virus InfectionStructure and Function in FlavivirusesPreparing Microbiology Students for Diverse Career Trajectories

  • Petra Anne Levin ('14)

    Spatial and Temporal Mechanisms Governing Bacterial Cell Division Carbon Sensing and Cell Size Cell Size and Cell Cycle Progression in Bacteria

  • Maria L. Marco ('14)

    You Are What You Eat: Diet, Prebiotics, Probiotics and Health The Indigenous Plant Microbiota as Drivers of Fresh Produce Food Safety Olives, Lactics, -omics and Approaches to Guide "Wild" Plant Fermentation

  • Janice Matthews-Greer ('13)

    Clinical Virology OverviewHPV Update: Genital HPV in AdolescentsMolecular Diagnostics for Infectious DiseaseRespiratory Virus UpdateDiarrhea Virus Update

  • D. Scott Merrell ('14)

    Helicobacter pylori Colonization and Pathogenesis  Transcriptional Regulation by the Ferric Uptake Regulator (Fur) Novel Drug Targets to Treat Chronic Infections Caused by H. pylori Molecular Epidemiology Related to Virulence Factor Polymorphisms and Disease Progression

  • Joseph Petrosino ('14)

    The Human Microbiome: An Underappreciated Organ Important for Human Health The Human Microbiome: Disease Associations Leading Toward Diagnostics and Therapeutics Etiologic Agent Discovery Using Viral and Bacterial Metagenomics Tadpole Diagnostics: A Platform for Sensitive Detection of Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease (Biod/EID) Pathogens Comparative Genomics of Francisella tularensis (Ft): Toward Rationally Designed Live Attenuated Vaccines

  • Susan M. Rosenberg ('14)

    Evolving Responsively: Stress-induced Mutation What Bacteria Are Teaching Us about Cancer Mutation Storms The Rebirth of Thymineless Death

  • Michael A. Saubolle, Ph.D. ('14)

    Instructive Infectious Diseases Cases Aerobic Actinomycetes The Laboratory in the Practice of Infectious Diseases The Future of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory

  • Kellogg J. Schwab ('14)

    Noroviruses: What Is in that Glass of Water or Ham Sandwich? Sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Interventions in Low Income Countries: Evidence-based Theory and Practice for Practical Solutions Water and Public Health on the Front Lines: Availability, Treatment and Emerging Threats

  • Tom G. Schwan ('13)

    Epidemiology of Tick-borne Relapsing Fever in North AmericaEpidemiology of Tick-borne Relapsing Fever in AfricaAdaptations of Spirochetes for Acquisition and Transmission by Ticks

  • Yousif Shamoo ('13)

    Evolutionary Fates Within a Microbial Population: The Essential Role for Protein Folding During Natural SelectionExperimental Evolution as a Tool for Completing the Link Between Genomics, Biochemistry and Prediction in Antibiotic ResistanceCorrelating Changes in Structure and Function of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron TetX2 to Fitness During Adaption to Minocycline

  • Mark S. Smeltzer ('14)

    Staphylococcus aureus: Would the Real Pathogen Please Stand Up? Bad to the Bone: Staphylococcus aureus as a Musculoskeletal Pathogen Nanotechnology: A Tiny Solution to the Big Problem of Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm Associated Infections? Extracellular Proteases: Forcing Staphylococcus aureus to Expose Itself

  • Amy Cheng Vollmer ('13)

    The Universal Stress Protein in E. coli Using Bacteria as Environmental Biosensors Using Microbiology as a Vehicle for Teaching Science LiteracyPreparing Microbiology Students for Diverse Career Trajectories

  • Jue D. ("Jade") Wang, Ph.D. ('13)

    Prevention of Conflict Between Replication and TranscriptionThe Interface Between Replication Elongation and its Cellular EnvironmentPost-Genomic Insights into the Alarmone and Genome Stability

  • Jeffrey Wilusz, Ph.D. ('14)

    How Viruses Interface with the Cellular RNA Decay Machinery to Promote a Productive Infection There’s More to mRNA Polyadenylation than Meets the Eye – A Novel Role for the Oncoprotein Nucleophosmin Don’t Kill the Messenger: RNA Stability as a Key Regulator of Gene Expression from Bacteria to Mammals

  • Floyd L. Wormley Jr. ('14)

    Host Immune Responses Against Pulmonary Fungal Pathogens Potential for the Development of Vaccines Against Mycoses in Immune Compromised Individuals Induction of Protective Immunity Against Experimental Pulmonary Cryptococcosis in Immune Compromised Hosts


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