Speaker: Dr. Alexander McAdam, MD, PhD, D(ABMM), Harvard Medical School, Chief, Department of Laboratory Medicine, and 2025-2026 President of the American Society for Microbiology

Topic: Landmarks in Clinical Microbiology: an Editor's Perspective

Venue: University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), in the Skylight Room of The Commons Building

Speaker: Dr. Djikolngar Maouyo, PhD, PyroDex LLC Managing Director and President

Topic: Out of the Endotoxin Box: Addressing Pyrogen Diversity Challenges Using the Monocyte Activation Test (MAT)

Venue: University of Maryland Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology  (IMET), Baltimore

Speaker: ASM Distinguished Lecturer TBD 

Topic: TBD

Venue: TBD

Event: Annual ASM Maryland Branch Poster Session 

Speakers: 1st- and 2nd-Place Winners of the J. Howard Brown Outstanding Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards 

Venue: Medical School Teaching Facility (MSTF) Atrium, 1st Floor; University of Maryland-Baltimore, 685 W. Baltimore Street (entry from Health Sciences Facility I, HSFI), Baltimore, MD 21201