The annual fall meeting for the Theobald Smith Society was held in November 2024 on the campus of Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Eighty-six branch members from across New Jersey attended the meeting, composed of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral trainees, faculty members, and government and industry professionals. This report highlights the breadth and diversity of research conducted by American Society for Microbiology members in the Theobald Smith Society and celebrates their groundbreaking discoveries.
Keywords: applied microbiology; branch meeting; cellular biology; clinical microbiology; environmental biology; infectious diseases; microbiology; molecular biology.