Eastern PA ASM

There’s still time to nominate a deserving colleague for a prestigious ASM award. Deadline for nominations is June 28, see ASM.org @ASMicrobiology #ASMawards #MicrobialSciences

Join us for our 788th monthly meeting and the Norman Willett Memorial Lecture with keynote speaker Prof Amy Cheng Vollmer, Swarthmore College, 5-6pm, June 14. Virtual program details on our website, epaasm.org @ASMicrobiology #PhiladelphiaScience

Please join us for our 787th monthly meeting on 5-24, organized by the student chapter. Shantanu Bhatt, PhD from St Joseph’s Univ is the featured speaker as well as student talks beginning at 4pm. See epaasm.org for details @ASMicrobiology #PhiladelphiaScience

ASM Awards and Prizes – Nominate a Colleague Now - see asm.org/Browse-By-Cont… for a full list of available awards and process for nominations @ASMicrobiology

Now, more than ever, is the time to celebrate the efforts of Clinical Microbiologists worldwide. Happy Lab Week! Celebrate with us. Share #WhyClinMicroMatters #IAmClinMicro #LabWeek2021

Please join us for our 786th Monthly Meeting featuring Fabio Bagnoli PhD, Project Leader at GSK Vaccines - Monday, April 26, 2021 “Staphylococcus aureus – the immune evader” see epaasm.org for details. @ASMicrobiology #PhiladelphiaScience

We are excited that @ASMicrobiology and @FEMSMicro have joined to launch #WorldMicrobeForum. This all-new, online meeting is uniting the global microbial science community like never before to advance science. Abstracts now open and hope you attend. worldmicrobeforum.org

Please join us for the 785th monthly branch meeting on March 22 featuring #UPenn Kyle Rodino, Ph.D. on next gen sequencing in clinical microbiology, see our website for details @ASMicrobiology #PhiladelphiaScience epaasm.org/educational-ev…

Please join us for the 784th Monthly Branch Meeting - Feb 22, 2021 at 5pm featuring Isabelle Coppens PhD from Johns Hopkins “The secret of the intracellular tenure of Toxoplasma gondii “ see epaasm.org for virtual meeting details. @ASMicrobiology

Please join us for the 783rd monthly Branch Meeting of the Eastern PA Branch ASM, featuring Prof John Mekalanos PhD, Harvard Med School. Details about this virtual meeting on our website, epaasm.org @ASMicrobiology #PhiladelphiaScience

A very good article- How Confident Can You Be in a Coronavirus Test? - The New York Times nytimes.com/2020/12/23/ups…

Please join us for the 29th Annual Philadelphia Infection and Immunity Forum on Friday, December 4, featuring three internationally recognized scientists as well as student and postdoc presentations. For program details and live streaming information. see epaasm.org/educational-ev…

Rapid Testing Is Less Accurate Than the Government Wants to Admit - our own branch member, Matt Pettengill @Microetry is quote in the article @ASMicrobiology propublica.org/article/rapid-…

Please join us for our 782nd Monthly Branch Meeting on Nov 23 at 5pm featuring Dan Portnoy Ph.D., UC Berkeley, “How intracellular pathogens sense their intracellular environment to activate virulence gene expression”, epaasm.org for details. @ASMicrobiology

Congrats to our own Sunny Shin, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology, recipient of the Michael P. Nusbaum Graduate Student Mentoring Award at Penn.

Join us on Monday Oct 26 for our 781st Monthly Branch Meeting featuring #UPenn Joe Zackular Ph.D. who will talk about his lab’s research on C difficile pathogenesis. See epaasm.org for meeting info. @ASMicrobiology #PhiladelphiaScience

Videos from our 100th year Eastern PA Branch anniversary meeting are now posted on our website. Feel free to enjoy a bit of the history of microbiology in Philadelphia epaasm.org @ASMicrobiology #PhiladelphiaScience

Please join us on our YouTube channel this Monday, September 21 at 4pm for our 100th Year Anniversary program of the Eastern PA Branch ASM, established in 1920. For more information, see our website, epaasm.org and link to the live streaming event. @ASMicrobiology

Please join us for our 779th Monthly Meeting at 5pm on June 8 (virtual) featuring Sandra Hartmann who will present "E-learning approaches to microbiology and infectious diseases eduction" see epaasm.org for more information @ASMicrobiology