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2025 CeZAP Infectious Disease Research Symposium
October 17, 2025 
Mark your calendars. More details coming soon.

 

Keynote Speaker: Vincent Rancaniello, Ph.D. Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Columbia University

Registration and Abstract Submission:

We invite you to attend the 2025 CeZAP Infectious Disease Research Symposium! We welcome abstract submissions from students, post-docs, and faculty on all of our thematic research areas listed below. Slots are avaiable for both oral and poster presentations. 

CeZAP Thematic Research Areas:

  • Antimicrobial Countermeasures (vaccine and drug)
  • Computational Biology and Disease Modeling
  • Ecology and Epidemiology
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Host-Pathogen Interactions
  • Human Dimension of Infectious Diseases
  • Immunology
  • Pathogen Identification and Disease Diagnostic
  • Public Health and Clinical Microbiology
  • Vector Biology and Vector-borne Diseases
  • Zoonotic Diseases

Click HERE to Submit Your Abstract
Submission deadline is August 29, 2025

Click HERE to Register
Registration is FREE but you must sign up by Sept 15th. You must also register if you submit an abstract

Important Dates:

  • Registration and abstract submission OPEN
  • Abstract submission deadline – August 29, 2025
  • Registration deadline – Sept 15, 2025
  • Oral/poster presentation notifications - mid-Sept, 2025
  • 2023 CeZAP Infectious Disease Research Symposium - October 17, 2025

 

Watch the recap of last year’s symposium to relive the highlights and get excited for what's ahead. Stay tuned—full event details coming soon!

2025 CeZAP Symposium Planning Committee

  • Kylene Kehn-Hall, Director of CeZAP, Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
  • Jonathan Auguste, Associate Director of CeZAP, Associate Professor, Department of Entomology
  • Sarah Gouger, Program Coordinator of CeZAP
  • Coy Allen, Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
  • Shannon Carney, ID IGEP affliated student, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
  • Tom Ewing, Professor, Department of History
  • Soumi Gosh, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry
  • Chloe Lahondere, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry
  • Hanh Lam, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
  • Leah Lejune, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mathematics
  • Emily Mevers, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
  • Kirsten Nielsen, Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
  • Marcel Shams Eddin, ID IGEP affiliated student, Department of Biological Sciences
  • Xiaogang Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
  • James Weger, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
  • Kush Yadav, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology