Friday, October 20th, Agenda:

9:00 AM - Sign In and Coffee (1680) 

9:15AM - Opening Remarks 
Betsy Foxman, PhD (Hunein F. and Hilda Maassab Endowed Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (MAC-EPID))

9:20AM - Symposium Overview

Host (position, University of Michigan)

9:30 AM -"Understanding CA-MRSA—A Journey from Epidemiology to Genomics and Back"
Kyle Popovich, MD (Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Rush Medical College, Rush University)

10:30 AM - Break (1680)

11:00 AM -  "In pursuit of a selfish carbapenemase gene through patients, plasmids and plumbing"

Amy Mathers, MD, D(ABMM) (Associate Professor, Medicine and Pathology, University of Virginia)

12:15 PM - Luncheon/Discussions (1680)

1:30 PM - "Using genomics to understand the spatial spread of pathogens"

Caroline Buckee, BSc, MSc, DPhil (Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health)

2:30 PM - Coffee Hour (1680)