Platform Presentations of Selected Infectious Disease Abstracts

Co-Moderator(s)

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  Rangaraj Selvarangan, PhD D(ABMM)

  Childrens Mercy Kansas City, United States

Co-Moderator (Early Career)(s)

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  Jeffrey SoRelle, MD (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor
  Pathology
  UT Southwestern
  Dallas, Texas, United States

Presentations:

• 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM MST

  Enhancing Broad-Spectrum Infection Detection in Whole Blood through Deep-Learning Assisted Multiplex Digital PCR and High-Resolution Melt Analysis
  

  Poster Presenter: Pei-Wei Lee – Johns Hopkins University
• 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM MST

  Whole Genome Sequencing and Phylogenetic Analysis of 43 Candida auris Isolates
  

  Poster Presenter: Marie Smithgall, MD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM MST

  Validation of a Multiplex Fragment Analysis-Based COVID-19 Test (CoVarScan) against Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Subvariants.
  

  Poster Presenter: Ken Zhu (he/him/his) – UTSW
• 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM MST

  Detecting Periprosthetic Joint Infection by mWGS Using the Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION
  

  Poster Presenter: Lauren Wainman, MS, PhD (she/her/hers) – Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center