March 26-28, 2015
Location: T Bar M Resort and Conference Center (tbarm.com)
2549 Highway 46 West, New Braunfels, Texas 78132

Registration has begun!  Click here to register now for the 2015 Spring Meeting.

Please mark your calendars to attend the 2015 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 26^th to 28^th. The conference will include both Faculty and Student oral presentations, in 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 2015 Goldschmidt lecture, held on Friday evening. We will close the meeting on Saturday morning, with a session dedicated to Educational topics.

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.

Registration has begun!  Click here to register now for the 2015 Spring Meeting.

Registration

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 13th; below is a list of our Registration fees to help you organize your budget.

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. Other hotels in the New Braunfels area can also be found on the www.hotels.com website.

Please Note: A late fee of $25 will be assessed for all registrations after March 13th, 2015.

2015 Spring Meeting Pricing

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Please Note: A late fee of $25 will be assessed for all registrations after March 13th, 2015.

Student Competition

There will be four categories of student competition and awards.  The categories will be at the Undergraduate and Graduate level, both for Posters and Oral Presentations.  If you or your students submit an abstract, 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 or a 15-min talk.  We will accept Abstract submissions until March 13^th.

Upload a one-page abstract to our website here. 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

Please indicate whether you are interested in a poster or an oral presentation. Student oral presentations will be limited to 15 minutes in length. Posters should not be larger than 48 inches wide.

Your picture may be used on our website.

Abstract Submission Form

DEADLINE: March 13^th, 2015

Cancellations and Refunds

If a cancellation is received before or on March 13th, a registration refund will be processed. If cancellations are received after March 13^th, full payment will be expected, and refunds will not be processed.

More information regarding Registration, Abstract submission and Student Speaker presentations will be posted on our website (txasm.org).

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me:  M. Gabriela Bowden, email: bowdenm@uhd.edu

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!