Speaker: Dr. Andrew Pekosz, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair, W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomburg School of Public Health Title: Virus Surveillance and the Identification of Novel Genetic Mutations that Facilitate Virus Circulation Website: https://pekoszlab.com/
Speaker: Cynthia Guidos, PhD, Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto Title: How Notch Signaling Regulates Effector Cell Fate Choice during Agonist Selection of Innate T Cell Lineages Website: https://www.sickkids.ca/en/staff/g/cynthia-guidos/
Speaker: Simon J. Draper, DPhil, Professor of Vaccinology and Translational Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, England Title: Advances in Vaccines and Antibodies for Blood-Stage Human Malaria Website: https://www.jenner.ac.uk/research/malaria-programme-blood-stage-vaccines
Connally Ballroom at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center
3:00pm
Speaker: Dr. Peter Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and Co-Director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development
Title: Global Vaccinations and "The Anti-Poverty Vaccines": Science vs. Anti-Science
Speaker: Siri Tahtinen, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Genentech, San Francisco Topic: IL-1 Family Members as Key Regulators of the Inflammatory Response to RNA Vaccines
Speaker: Timothy Whitehead, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder Topic:Data-Driven Engineering Using High-Throughput Measurements of Antibody Function