The 2017 symposium took place during National Postdoc Appreciation Week on Thursday, September 21, 2017. The symposium included:
- Plenary speaker - Prof. David Weiss; Associate Professor, Emory Vaccine Center and Dept. of Medicine/Div. of Infectious Diseases and Director of Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center
- Poster session
- Selected oral presentations by postdocs:
- Todd Everson
- Jennifer Gander
- Laura Hansen
- Matthias Kreuzer
- Grace Sanghee Lee
- Jianing Li
- Kathryn Oliver
- Tim Rutkowski
- Ryan Smith
- Evonne Woodson
- Best Poster Awards:
- Donald Noble
- Guoqing Qian
- Paja Sijacic
- Baotong Zhang
- Deborah Barany
- Waaqo Daddacha
- Nitasha Kumar
- Ben Perry
- Derrick Morton
- Brandon Carpenter
- Best Image Awards:
- 1st place: Ariel Diaz
- 2nd place: Alejandra Valdivia
- 3rd place: Sandii Constable
- Best Mentor Awards:
- Grace Pavlath
- Eric Ortlund
- Roy Sutliff
- Garry Bassell
- Sheila Rauch
- Dean Jones