Kjersti Marie Aagaard, Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine "Feeding Babies and Bugs." Co-sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Jay Lennon, Ph.D. Indiana University "Microbial seed banks: ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy."

Julie Pfeiffer, Ph.D. University of Texas "Transkingdom interactions that influence infection." Co-sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Natacha Ruiz, Ph.D. The Ohio State University "Powering transport of lipopolysaccharides across the bacterial cell envelope with ABCs."

Andrew Darwin, Ph.D. NYU Langone Health "Links between C-terminal proteolysis, cell wall metabolism and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa."