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ASM works with the subreddit team to organize quasi-monthly Ask Me Anything (AMA) discussions, in which expert panelists respond to questions from the Reddit community. AMA discussions are open to the public and cover a wide range of technical knowledge. Topical AMAs organized by ASM touch on all parts of microbiology, from vaccines and disease, to microbiomes, to medical diagnostics.


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2023


AMA Panel:

  • , Research Scientist, Biology Program, NYU Abu Dhabi.
  • , Professor and Canada Research Chair in, Climate Change °®¶¹´«Ã½, Faculty of Science—Biological Sciences, University of Alberta.
  • , Distinguished Professor, School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong Universty.

AMA Panel:

  • , Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia and Genomics Specialist, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control.
  • , Associate Professor, Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Iowa State University.
  • , Professor, Department of Molecular °®¶¹´«Ã½ and Immunology, School of Medicine and Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri.

AMA Panel:

  • , Institute of Immunology & Immunotherapy, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham.
  • ,  Investigator, The Lundquist Institute; Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Principal, NovaDigm Technologies.
  • , Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical °®¶¹´«Ã½ & Immunology, University of Wisconsin.
  • , Senior Scientist, Inflammation, Immunology and Immunotherapeutics, O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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AMA Panel:

  • , Professor, Department of °®¶¹´«Ã½, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
  • , Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Disease, Department of Population Health, University of Georgia.
  • Jana Broadhurst, M.D., Ph.D., DTMH, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and °®¶¹´«Ã½, University of Nebraska Medical Center.
  • , Professor, Department of Virology, Immunology and °®¶¹´«Ã½, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University.

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AMA Panel:

  • , Postdoctoral Researcher, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans.
  • ,  Assistant Professor, Yale University School of Medicine; Medical Director, Headache Center of Excellence, Va. Connecticut Healthcare System.

AMA Panel:

  • , Assistant Professor of °®¶¹´«Ã½, Department of Biology, Utrecht University.
  • , Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.
  • , Director of the International Culture Collection of (Vesicular) Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Associate Professor of Forest Pathology and Mycology, West Virginia University.
  • , Infectious Diseases Physician and Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Duke University.

AMA Panel:

  • Phil Stewart, Ph.D., Rocky Mountain Laboratories.
  • Tom Schwan, Ph.D., Rocky Mountain Laboratories.

2022

AMA Panel:

  • , Research Microbiologist, Immunology and Pathogenesis Branch, Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • Haley Bridgewater, Ph.D. Candidate, Tinker Vaccine Development Laboratory, Boise State University.
  • , Assistant Adjunct Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California Irvine.

AMA Panel:

  • , Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan.
  • , Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota.
  • Michael Schmidt, Ph.D., Professor of °®¶¹´«Ã½ and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina.

AMA Panel:

  • , Associate Professor and Preeminent Scholar, University of Florida.
  • , Postdoctoral Fellow, Natural Resources and Society, University of Idaho.
  • , Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines.
  • , Associate Professor of Soil Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • ,  Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida.

AMA Panel:

  • Christy Hutson, Ph.D., M.S.,  Branch Chief, Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • , Director, Infectious Disease Laboratory, National Jewish Health.
  • Rodney E. Rohde, Ph.D., M.S., SM(ASCP)CM, SVCM, MBCM, FACSc,  Regents' Professor, Texas State University System, University Distinguished Chair & Professor, Clinical Laboratory Science.
  • Rachel L. Roper, Ph.D., Professor, °®¶¹´«Ã½ & Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University.

AMA Panel:

  • , Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
  • , Professor of Medicine and °®¶¹´«Ã½ & Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine.
  • , Ph.D. Student, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore.
  • , Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine.
  • , Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University.

AMA Panel:

  • , Dean, College of Nursing & Health Sciences, Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
  • Ericka Hendrix, Ph.D., MB(ASCP)CM, Associate Professor/Program Director, School of Health Professions, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
  • Cristian Lozano, MLS(ASCP)CM (u/LabMicroDCLS), University of Kansas Medical Center.
  • , Legislative Attorney at the Legislative Analysis and Public Policy Association.
  • Rodney E. Rohde, Ph.D., M.S., SM(ASCP)CM, SVCCM, MBCM, FACSc, Regents' Professor, Texas State University System, University Distinguished Chair & Professor, Clinical Laboratory Science.
  • , Medical/Scientific Consultant for diagnostic laboratories.

AMA Panel:

  • , Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University.
  • , Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University.
  • , Staff Scientist, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health.

AMA Panel:

  • , Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine.
  • , Penn Presidential Associate Professor of Immunology, University of Pennsylvania.
  • - Founder and Managing Partner, Bridges to Development; Immediate Past President of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene [ASTMH].
  • , Director, Neglected Tropical Disease Support Center.
  • , Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma.
  • , Assistant Professor, Adult and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital.

2021

AMA Panel:

  • , Medical student, Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine.
  • Sonja Borndörfer, Student, University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf.
  • Mireya Duran- Medical Laboratory Scientist, Texas Health (Dallas).
  • , Administrator, Monarch Butterfly Friends Hawaii.
  • , Ph.D. Student, University of Miami.

AMA Panel:

  • Srishti Baid, Doctoral Student, University of Kansas.
  • Jose Bazan, D.O., Infectious Diseases Physician, Associate Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
  • , Laboratory Director, Orange County Public Health Laboratory.
  • , Professor, Webster Family Chair in Viral Pathogenesis, University of Otago.
  • , Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

AMA Panel:

  • Brian Lovett, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Researcher, West Virginia University.
  • , Graduate Student, Indiana University.
  • , Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University.
  • , Assistant Professor, Oregon State University.

AMA Panel:

  • , Professor, Department of °®¶¹´«Ã½ and Cell Science, University of Florida.
  • , Professor for Interactive Microbiome Research, Medical University of Graz.
  • , Geomicrobiologist, Planetary Protection Lead, Astromaterials Acquisition & Curation Office, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division, NASA Johnson Space Center.
  • , Postdoctoral Research Associate in Space °®¶¹´«Ã½, University of Edinburgh (UK).

AMA Panel:

  • , Disease Ecologist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies.
  • , Chief, Laboratory Sciences Branch, U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center.
  • Greg Gray, M.D., MPH, Professor of Medicine and Global Health, Duke University.
  • Tara Smith, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Kent State University College of Public Health.

AMA Panel:

  • Azeem Ahmad, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Marian University.
  • , Ph.D. Student, Department of °®¶¹´«Ã½ & Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University.
  • , Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
  • Maria Fernanda Mojica, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Case Western Reserve University.
  • , ORISE Public Health Policy and Regulatory Research Fellow, U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

AMA Panel:

  • Christy Clutter, Ph.D., Contributing writer, American Society for °®¶¹´«Ã½.
  • , Washington Research Foundation Distinguished Investigator & Assistant Professor, Institute for Systems Biology.
  • , Postdoctoral Fellow, Hsiao Lab, UCLA.
  • , Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois Chicago.
  • , Endowed Chair in Human Microbiome and Probiotics, Lawson Health Research Institute.

AMA Panel:

  • , Associate Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine.
  • , Associate Professor, African Studies Center International Institute; °®¶¹´«Ã½ and Immunology Department, University of Michigan Medical School.
  • , Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Research; Professor of °®¶¹´«Ã½ and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh.
  • , Affiliate, Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security.                                                               

2020

AMA Panel:

  • Brianne R. Barker, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology, Drew University.
  • , Associate Professor, African Studies Center International Institute; °®¶¹´«Ã½ and Immunology Department, University of Michigan Medical School.
  • , Assistant Professor, Department of °®¶¹´«Ã½ and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.

AMA Panel:

  • Amanda Harrington, Ph.D., D(ABMM), Director, Clinical °®¶¹´«Ã½ Laboratory; Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Pathology; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Loyola University Chicago.
  • Melissa Miller, Ph.D., D(ABMM), F(AAM), Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Director, Clinical Molecular °®¶¹´«Ã½ Laboratory; Director, Clinical °®¶¹´«Ã½ Laboratory, University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
  • , Vice President, Marketing, Association for Supply Chain Management.
  • , Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, Association for Supply Chain Management.
  • Susan Butler-Wu, Ph.D., D(ABMM), SM(ASCP), Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, and Director of Clinical °®¶¹´«Ã½ at LAC+USC Medical Center.