Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/28/2019 - 03/30/2019
All Day
Location
T Bar M Resort and Conference Center
Please mark your calendars to attend the 2019 Texas Branch Spring Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. This meeting will be held at the T Bar M Resort and Conference Center in New Braunfels, Texas on March 28th to the 30th. The conference will include both Faculty and Student oral presentations, on topics that range from Environmental to Clinical Microbiology. We will also have an afternoon dedicated to undergraduate and graduate student poster presentations, and will award prizes to the best talks and posters in each category. The highlight of our meeting will be the 2019 Goldschmidt lecture, held on Friday evening. We will close the meeting on Saturday morning, with a careers session for students and a session dedicated to educational topics for faculty.
This Conference is geared toward undergraduate students and first- and second-year graduate students. It is a great opportunity for students to develop their presentation skills and interact with faculty from all around Texas in a very friendly and relaxed environment.
Program and Abstract Book:
The meeting program and abstract book can be reviewed and downloaded here.
Registration:
Note: Cabins have sold out for 2019 Spring Meeting. Registrations after 3/26 will not include a cabin.
We try to keep registration fees low, to encourage Faculty members to bring as many students as possible. We will accept early registrations until March 7th (a late fee of $25 is added to all categories after the end of early registration).
The registration fee includes housing in the cabins (bunk beds), Thursday dinner, all meals on Friday and breakfast on Saturday. Please bring your own bedding, towels and toiletries. If you are interested in hotel accommodations, TBarM offers private hotel rooms and condos. Please contact TBarM (www.tbarm.com) for current rates and reservations [Block of rooms for our group will be held only until 2/28/19]. Other hotels in the New Braunfels area can also be found on the www.hotels.com website.
Please note: Vendor registration is available here.
Cancellations and refunds:
If a cancellation is received before or on March 7th, a registration refund will be processed. If cancellations are received after March 7th, full payment will be expected, and refunds will not be processed.
Student Competition:
There will be four categories of student competition and awards. The categories will be at the Undergraduate and Graduate levels, both for Posters and Oral Presentations.
Please be sure to indicate on the form if you are an undergraduate or graduate student and if you would like to present your work as a poster (not larger than 48 inches wide) or a 15-min talk. We will accept Abstract submissions until March 14th.
First, review the sample abstract submission for formatting.
Upload a one-page abstract via the abstract submission form.
PLEASE name your abstract file as follows:
u (undergraduate) or g (graduate) or p (post-doc) followed by last name and first name initial.
For example: John Smith undergraduate student will save his abstract file as: usmithj ; Mary Jones graduate student will save her abstract file as: gjonesm. Your abstract should use Times New Roman 12-pt. font and be in .doc or .pdf format (unfortunately we cannot accept .docx at this time) and contain the following elements (see sample file here):
- Title
- Author(s) with presenting author indicated by “*” (NOTE: only one student author can receive discounted registration. Only the presenting author will be judged for student awards.)
- Affliation, City, ST
- Abstract body (maximum of 2,200 characters in body of abstract)
Notice to all attendees: By registering for this meeting, you acknowledge that photographs will be taken during the conference and your picture may be used on websites or social media.
Please distribute this announcement to anyone else you think might be interested in attending the conference.
Thank you, and I hope you’ll join us in New Braunfels!
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us:
Trish Baynham, patricib@stedwards.edu
Jennifer Hennigan, Jennifer.Hennigan@hsutx.edu
!! Note: Cabins have sold out for 2019 Spring Meeting. Registrations after 3/26 will not include a cabin. !!
