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VISITING PROFESSORS SEMINARS
JULY 1, 2007 – JUNE 30, 2008
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International Symposium on Emerging Resistant Infections
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Daryl Hoban, Dr. Thomas Fritsche, Dr. Michael Mulvey, Dr. Laura Saward
Dr. Andrew Kropinski, Dr. Gregor Reid, Dr. Mary-Jane Ferraro, Dr. Robert Moellering
Dr. Daryl Hoban
Professor, University of Manitoba
Dr. Thomas R. Fritsche
Director of Clinical Laboratories, JMI
Laboratories
Chief, Nosocomial Infections and
Antimicrobial Resistance, National
Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health
Agency of Canada and Associate Professor,
Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba
Director, BioAnalytical Research in R&D,
Cangene Corporation
Dr. Michael Mulvey
Dr. Laura Saward
“Antimicrobial Resistance in Canadian
Hospitals – CANWARD”
“Antimicrobial Resistance in US Hospitals –
SENTRY”
“Community-acquired MRSA in Canada”
“Antibody-based Treatments of Infectious
Diseases”
Dr. Andrew Kropinski
Program Lead, Host and Pathogen
Determinants, Public Health Agency of
Canada and Professor of Microbiology and
Immunology, Queens University
“Bacteriophage Treatments in Infectious
Diseases”
Dr. Gregor Reid
Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and
Surgery, University of Western Ontario and
Assistant Director of the Lawson Health
Research Institute
“The Role of Probiotics in Prevention
Treatment and Augmentation of Standard
Therapy on Infection”
Dr. Mary-Jane Ferraro
Professor of Pathology and Medicine Harvard
Medical School and Director of Clinical
Microbiology Laboratories, Massachusetts
General Hospital
“Establishing Antimicrobial Breakpoints”
Dr. Robert Moellering
Shields Warren-Mallinckrodt Professor of
Medical Research, Harvard Medical School
and honorary physician Massachusetts
General Hospital
“New Antimicrobials for Treatment of Resistant
Infections”
Dr. Rich Lester
ID Fellow, University of Nairobi
“Innate Immunity Pathogenesis in HIV
Disease”
Dr. Tong-Jun Lin
Associate Professor
Departments of Microbiology & Immunology
and Pediatrics, University of Dalhousie
“ECR1-RCAN1 axis serves as a molecular
switch from activation to inhibition: A novel
mechanism to turn off high affinity IgE
receptor-activated signals”
Infectious Immunity Research Day
The event began with opening remarks from Dr. Sam Kung, Immunology followed by keynote speakers Drs. Volker Gerdts and
Narendra Chirmule, Trainee presentations and closed the day with poster presentations.
Dr. Volker Gerdts
VIDO, U of Saskatoon
“Novel approaches for development of early
childhood vaccines”
“Molecular Aspects of Vaccine Design: research
to development”
Dr. Narendra Chirmule
Executive Director, Amgen
Dr. Michel Tremblay
Canada Research Chair in Human ImmunoRetrovirology (Tier 1 Level), Full Professor,
Department of Medical Microbiology, Laval
University, Senior Scientist, Research Centre
in Infectious Diseases
“HIV-1 attachment to host cells is regulated by
multiple interactions between the virion and
the target cell surface”
Dr. Thomas Hobman
Professor, Cell Biology, University of Alberta
“Capsid proteins: Are they more than just
construction material for new virions?”
Dr. Robert Craigie
Co-sponsored with Dept. of
Physiology
Chief, Section on Molecular Virology
Laboratory of Molecular Biology National
Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney
Diseases, National Institutes of Health
“How HIV-1 and other retroviruses
commandeer the host cell to replicate their
genome”
Dr. Zhen Fu
Professor, Veterinary College, University of
Georgia
“Chemokines and interferons: the doubleedged sword in rabies pathogenesis”
Dr. Paul de Bakker
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Genetics)
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and
Genomics
“Human genetics and complex traits”