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KP Smith speaking at ESCMID 2020 in Paris

2/8/2020

KP is now a much sought after speaker on artificial intelligence and clinical microbiology diagnostics. Previous stop a couple of weeks ago in Switzerland speaking at Digitalization and Infectious Diseases Conference. In fall speaking at ASM Branch Meeting in Delaware. Hard to keep track of him.

Congratulations to Thao Truong!

2/7/2020

Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellow, KP Smith - Faculty Position!!!

2/7/2020

In July, KP will be joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology at the Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania (aka CHOP). Congratulations to KP!!!!!

Shade Rodriguez selected to present at RALI Grand Rounds next week!

11/7/2019

The title of her talk is: "Synergistic Activity of Colistin Plus Minocycline Against Klebsiella pneumoniae!"

Mount Monadnock

10/15/2019

Fall Foliage In New England. Mount Monadnock. 1..5 hours north of Boston.

KP Smith New ASM Blog Article

10/14/2019

The Origin of MacConkey Agar

Name this antimicrobial!

10/10/2019

Congratulations to KP Smith!

10/8/2019

Invited to give a lecture at the 30th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases aka ECCMID in Paris, April 2020!

Congratulations to Kate Zulauf!

10/8/2019

On her selection for a Infectious Disease and Basic Microbiological Mechanisms training grant (T32) position!

ASM Blog Entries from Current and Past Fellows

10/2/2019

Note, ASM is currently updating their website. There are many more articles that are currently offline, but will become available again by the end of 2019.

Thea Brennan-Krohn
AST for New Antibiotics: The Clinical Labratorian’s Dilemma
TMI: Deciding Whether to Include MIC Values in Susceptibility Reports
Just Small Adults? Pediatric Considerations in Clinical Microbiology
Combination Antibiotic Testing: When Two Drugs Are Better Than One (or Two).
Rabies and Roundworm: Raccoon-Associated Infectious Diseases
Diagnosing Measles in the Post-Elimination Era
Measles Vaccination and Infection: Questions and Misconceptions

Rose Lee
C. diff Diagnosis versus Detection: Why Tests Remain Ambiguous

KP Smith
Opening the Black Box of Phenotypic Carbapenemase Detection
Who Are the HACEK Organisms?
Predictive Value of Blood Culture Time to Positivity
Opening the Black Box of MALDI-TOF MS
The Origin of MacConkey Agar

Jennifer Tsang
The One Health of Animals, Humans, and Our Planet: It’s All Microbially Connected
Changing CO2 Levels Require Microbial Coping Strategies
Snow Is Coming - What’s That Have to Do with Microbes?
Does a Minimal Genome Exist
Yeast through the Years: from Hidden Fermenters to Synthetic Biology

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