Meghan May – Summer Infections in the Northeast

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Goals of the Presentation:

Discuss the many clinical manifestations of summer illnesses in the Northeast. 2. Identify the infectious agents responsible for the most noteworthy summer infections. 3. Assess the present recommended

Dr. May joined the University of New England College of Medicine’s Department of Biomedical Sciences in 2013. She was previously appointed as a postdoctoral fellow and then a research assistant professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology at the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute from 2010 to 2013 (holding the Fisher Endowed Chair of Biological Sciences from 2012 to 2013). Dr. May received her B.S. in Microbiology from the University of New Hampshire, as well as her M.S. and Ph.D. in Pathobiology and Bacteriology from the University of Connecticut. Her study focuses on the evolution of virulence, not just to discover how new illnesses emerge and where they originate from, but also to anticipate what new diseases may emerge in the future – pathogen forecasting. She investigates this by studying bacteria (particularly Mycoplasma), parasites (particularly Filaria worms), and viruses (especially Zika). She also investigates infection-mediated pain, investigates uncommon clinical ID cases, and attempts to develop innovative antibiotic resistance and Lyme disease diagnostic assays. In her leisure time, she writes for a broad public readership blog and provides infectious illness articles to local and national print media. Dr. May is a Co-Principal Investigator on a National Institutes of Health research grant, the past chair of the American Society for Microbiology’s Division G, the chair of the International Research Programme in Comparative Mycoplasmology’s Molecular Genetics Team, and an elected member of the International Committee for Prokaryotic Systematics (Mollicutes Taxonomy Subcommittee). She also provides professional consultations in clinical microbiology and mycoplasmology for the American Society of Microbiology’s international laboratory capacity (LabCAP) program and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. She has 35 peer-reviewed papers and 10 invited book chapters to her credit, as well as multiple platform talks at national and international gatherings.

Dr. May has no financial interests.

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