Confirmed keynote presenters: David Andes, Univ. of Wisconsin; Susan Huang, Univ. of California, Irvine; Joseph Kuti, Hartford Hospital; Preeti Malani, Univ. of Michigan; and Suzanne Walker, Harvard Univ. Other confirmed presenters include: Tomefa Asempa, Center for Anti-Infective Research and Development Hartford CT;  Ritu Banerjee, Vanderbilt Univ.; Mariette Barbier, West Virginia Univ.; Taylor Blackburn, Emory Univ.; Jovan Borjan, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Christina Boucher, Univ. of Florida; Travis Carlson, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio; James Chappell, Rice Univ.; Nathalie Chen, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Shane Cristy, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center Houston; Herbert DuPont, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center Houston; Taryn Eubank, Univ. of Houston; Vance Fowler, Duke Univ.; Kevin Garey, Univ. of Houston; Danielle Garsin, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center Houston; Kimberly Hanson, Univ. of Utah and ARUP Laboratories;  Mina Henes, Emory Univ.; Jessica Howard-Anderson, Emory Univ.; Melissa DePaoli Johnson, Duke Univ.; Andre Kalil, Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center; Alex Kang, Houston Methodist Research Institute; Sanjat Kanjilal, Harvard Medical School; Natalie Mackow, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Flor Munoz, Baylor College of Medicine; Masayuki Nigo, Houston Methodist & Weill Cornell Medical College; Nathan Raabe, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Krishna Rao, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor; David Roach, Harvard Univ.; Michael Statlin, Weill Cornell Medical College; Pranita Tamma, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Henok Tegene, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital; Victor Torres, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Michael Woodworth, Emory Univ.; Yan Xiong, The Lindquist Institute. More information can be found on the conference website.