A summary of the main themes and findings presented at the ASM Intermountain Branch meeting (2024)

Abstract

The annual meeting for the Intermountain Branch was held in April 2024 on the campus of Brigham Young University. There were 127 branch members from Utah, Idaho, and Nevada who attended the meeting and were composed of undergraduate students, graduate or medical students, and faculty. This report highlights the diversity of, and the emerging trends in, the research conducted by American Society for Microbiology members in the Intermountain Branch.

Keywords: applied microbiology; branch meeting; cellular biology; clinical microbiology; environmental biology; infectious diseases; microbiology; molecular biology; phages.

Fig 1

A pie chart showing the distribution of faculty participants, representing 12 different institutions in the Intermountain region.

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A bar chart showing the numbers of student participants by institution and a higher overall number of undergraduates than graduate students participating in the meeting.

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A pie chart showing the proportions and numbers of attendees from each of three categories—undergraduate, graduate, or faculty.

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A pie chart displaying the three categories of presentations given by the 75 presenters at the conference, including 10 oral, 59 posters, and 6 lightning presentations.