Schedule released for Host-Pathogen Interactions Symposium on Sept. 17
The Host-Pathogen Interactions Symposium: Microbial Influences on Host Responses, will be held Sept. 17 at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences.
The schedule follows.
- 7 to 8:45 a.m., Registration and continental breakfast
- 8:45 to 9 a.m., John Mihelich, UND Interim Vice President for Research & Economic Development: welcome and opening remarks
- 9 to 10 a.m., John Gallin, M.D., National Institutes of Health: Lessons from Chronic Granulomatous Disease: Search for a NOX-2 Inhibitor to Treat Inflammation
- 10 to 11 a.m. Jenny Ting, University of North Carolina: Innate Immune Receptors: Roles in Inflammation, Cancer and the Microbiota
- 11 to 11:15 a.m., morning break
- 11:15 to 12 p.m. Nadeem Khan, UND: Inflammation and Barrier Cross-Talk in the Pathology of Influenza-Infected Lungs
- Noon to 1 p.m., lunch
- 1 to 1:45 p.m., Masfique Mehedi, UND: Determining RSV-Induced Pathophysiology in Human Airway Epithelium Model
- 1:45 to 2:30 p.m., Catherine Brissette, UND: Borrelia Burgdorferi Colonization of the Meninges: Implications for Neuroborreliosis
- 2:30 to 3:15 p.m. Bibhuti Mishra, UND: Macrophage Phenotypes in Health and Disease: Lessons from Helminth Infections
- 3:15 to 3:30 p.m., Marc Basson, M.D., UND SMHS Senior Associate Dean for Medicine and Research: closing remarks
- 3:30 to 5 p.m., Poster Session
- Break – coffee and cookies
The symposium is sponsored by the Center fo Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE).
