Denise Cardo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Sara Cosgrove, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Scott Hultgren, Washington Univ. Additional presenters include: Robert Atmar, Baylor College of Medicine; Carolyn Cannon, Texas A&M Univ.; Kathleen Chiotos, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; James Dunn, Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine; Hana El Sahly, Baylor College of Medicine; Jeremiah Faith, Mount Siani; Anthony Flores, Vanderbilt Univ.; Mary Healy, Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine; Wesley Hoffman, Houston Methodist Research Institute ; Natasha Kirienko, Rice Univ.; Anthony Maresso, Baylor College of Medicine; Despoina Mavridou, Univ. of Texas; Jonathon McNeil, Baylor College of Medicine; Eleftherios Mylonakis, Houston Methodist Research Institute; Timothy Palzkill, Baylor College of Medicine; Diana Proctor, UTHealth Houston; Chanu Rhee, Harvard Univ.; Edward Septimus, Memorial Hermann, Harvard Medical School; Dean Scholl, Pylum Biosciences; Holly Sutterlin, Prokaryotics; Barbara Trautner, Washington Univ.; Donald Yealy, Univ. of Pittsburgh; andLanying Zeng, Texas A&M Univ.