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  • Tuesday, Jul 25th
    10:15 – 10:30 CST
    O1.2 - The contribution of the vaginal microbiota to treatment failure following first-line antibiotics for bacterial vaginosis
    Location: Chicago 8
    Primary Presenter: Erica L. Plummer, PhD (she/her/hers) – Monash University and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Tuesday, Jul 25th
    10:45 – 11:00 CST
    O1.4 - Sexual transmission of urogenital bacteria in heterosexual partners: whole metagenome sequencing evidence from a sexual network study
    Location: Chicago 8
    Primary Presenter: Kayla A. Carter, PhD, MPH (they/them/theirs) – Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Tuesday, Jul 25th
    10:45 – 11:00 CST
    O3.4 - Evolutionary insights into syphilis epidemiology - applying Treponema pallidum genomics in high- and low-income settings
    Location: Chicago 10
    Primary Presenter: Mathew A. Beale, PhD – Wellcome Sanger Institute
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Tuesday, Jul 25th
    11:00 – 11:15 CST
    O1.5 - Secreted Proteases from Bacterial Vaginosis-Associated Bacteria Target Human MMP-8 and Modulate Endocervical Barrier Function
    Location: Chicago 8
    Primary Presenter: Karen V. Lithgow, PhD – University of Calgary, Canada
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Tuesday, Jul 25th
    14:45 – 15:00 CST
    O4.2 - gyrA mutations in Mycoplasma genitalium contribute to moxifloxacin failure – a new target for resistance-guided therapy
    Location: Chicago 8
    Primary Presenter: Gerald Murray, PhD – University of Melbourne
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Tuesday, Jul 25th
    15:00 – 15:15 CST
    O4.3 - MgSeq: Enabling M. genitalium identification and antimicrobial resistance detection in genital and extra-genital samples from female sex workers in Ecuador using multiplex PCR and nanopore sequencing
    Location: Chicago 8
    Primary Presenter: Claire Broad (she/her/hers) – St George's, University of London
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Tuesday, Jul 25th
    15:00 – 15:15 CST
    LB1.3 - Evaluating immunological responses of mRNA-based Chlamydia vaccines
    Location: Michigan A+B
    Primary Presenter: Wei He, n/a – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Tuesday, Jul 25th
    15:45 – 16:00 CST
    O4.6 - Idiopathic nongonococcal urethritis may be due to emerging and spontaneously cleared pathogens
    Location: Chicago 8
    Primary Presenter: David E. Nelson, PhD – Indiana University Schol of Medicine
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Wednesday, Jul 26th
    10:15 – 10:30 CST
    O9.2 - Treponema pallidum Proteomic Analysis to Inform Syphilis Vaccine Development
    Location: Chicago 10
    Primary Presenter: Simon Houston, PhD – University of Victoria, Canada
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Wednesday, Jul 26th
    10:30 – 10:45 CST
    O9.3 - Syphilis and the Host; multi-omic analysis of host cellular responses to Treponema pallidum provides novel insight into syphilis pathogenesis
    Location: Chicago 10
    Primary Presenter: Sean Waugh, BSc (Hons) – University of Victoria, Canada
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Wednesday, Jul 26th
    10:45 – 11:00 CST
    O7.4 - Neisseria gonorrhoeae diagnostic escape from a gyrA-based test for ciprofloxacin susceptibility and the impact on zoliflodacin resistance
    Location: Chicago 8
    Primary Presenter: Daniel H. Rubin – Harvard School of Public Health
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Wednesday, Jul 26th
    10:45 – 11:00 CST
    O9.4 - Syphilis vaccine development: Generating a stable and efficacious multi-epitope vaccine chimera through protein engineering
    Location: Chicago 10
    Primary Presenter: Alloysius Gomez, BSc – University of Victoria, Canada
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Wednesday, Jul 26th
    11:00 – 11:15 CST
    O9.5 - Persons with Early Syphilis Make Antibodies that Differentially Recognize Extracellular Loops of Treponema pallidum Outer Membrane Proteins
    Location: Chicago 10
    Primary Presenter: M. Anthony Moody, MD – Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke Univerity, Durham, North Carolina, USA
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Wednesday, Jul 26th
    11:15 – 11:30 CST
    O8.6 - InSignia®: A molecular viability test for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae
    Location: Chicago 9
    Primary Presenter: Nicole E. Lima, n/a – SpeeDx Pty Ltd
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Wednesday, Jul 26th
    13:23 – 13:27 CST
    YI3 - Development of a novel human oral tissue model of gonorrhoea
    Location: Sheraton Ballroom
    Primary Presenter: Tamara Matthyssen, MBiomedSc (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Wednesday, Jul 26th
    13:28 – 13:37 CST
    YI4 - A large-scale drug screen identifies novel therapeutics that target the syphilis pathogen Treponema pallidum
    Location: Sheraton Ballroom
    Primary Presenter: Kathryn A. Hayes (She/They) – Virginia Tech
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Wednesday, Jul 26th
    13:43 – 13:47 CST
    YI6 - Effect of antibiotic treatment on commensal Neisseria species load and presence in the oropharynx.
    Location: Sheraton Ballroom
    Primary Presenter: Sem Vellema, MD (he/him/his) – Maastricht University Medical Center+
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Wednesday, Jul 26th
    15:15 – 15:30 CST
    O11.4 - Characterisation of meningococcal vaccine-induced antibodies to Neisseria gonorrhoeae
    Location: Chicago 9
    Primary Presenter: Kate L. Seib, BSc (Hons), PhD (she/her/hers) – Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Wednesday, Jul 26th
    15:45 – 16:00 CST
    LB2.6 - Development of a Cas13a-based Point-of-Care Test for Neisseria gonorrhoeae Detection and Gyrase A Genotype Determination
    Location: Michigan A+B
    Primary Presenter: Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Thursday, Jul 27th
    10:30 – 10:45 CST
    O14.3 - Improving syphilis screening by early detection using Treponema pallidum Transcription Mediated Amplification assay
    Location: Superior A/B
    Primary Presenter: Helene Zondag, PhD – Public Health Service of Amsterdam
    Basic & Translational Science
  • Thursday, Jul 27th
    10:45 – 11:00 CST
    O15.4 - Characterising CD4+ T cell responses to Chlamydia trachomatis in highly exposed young South African women
    Location: Sheraton 1
    Primary Presenter: Rubina Bunjun, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
    Basic & Translational Science