Jan. 14-16, 2026

Confirmed Keynote presenters

  Denise Cardo
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  Sara Cosgrove
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

  Scott Hultgren
Washington Univ.

Other confirmed presenters

   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
Univ. of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

   Chanu Rhee
Harvard Univ.

   Dean Scholl
Pylum Biosciences

  Ed Septimus
Harvard Medical School

  Holly Sutterlin
Prokaryotics

  Barbara Trautner
Washington Univ.

  Lanying Zeng
Texas A&M Univ.

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