12:30pm    Welcome

                Eric Rubin, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, HSPH

                Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

                Padmini Salgame, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine,

                New Jersey Medical School 

12:45pm    "Models for Tuberculosis:  Are Primates Pre-eminent?"

                JoAnne L. Flynn, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Immunology,

                School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

1:15pm                   

                                            "(Milk: It Does a Body Good.),

                                                        Vitamin D: It Does an Immune System Good"    

                                                        Robert Modlin, M.D., Klein Professor of Dermatology and

                Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics at the

                David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

1:45pm      Break

2:00pm      Mary K. Hondalus, D.V.M., Ph.D.

                Assistant Professor, University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

                “Redox Homeostasis in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis”

                Adrie JC Steyn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology,

                University of Alabama at Birmingham

2:45pm      "In Tuberculosis, Are Some Bacteria More Equal Than Others?"

                Sarah Fortune, M.D., Assistant Professor of Immunology & Infectious

                Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health

3:15pm      Break

3:30pm      Panel Discussion: What are the Big Questions Going Forward?  

                Scott Snapper, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine,

                Harvard Medical School

                John McKinney, Ph.D., Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Bacteriology,

                Global Health Institute in the School of Life Sciences at the EPFL  

                Igor Kramnik, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Immunology &

                Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health 

                Megan Murray, M.D., M.P.H, Sc.D., Associate Professor of Epidemiology,

                Harvard School of Public Health  

                John Chan, M.D., Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program, 

                Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and of Medicine,

                Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University 

4:55pm      Closing Remarks and Adjournment

                William R. Jacobs, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology & Immunology;

                Professor of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine 

5:10pm      Reception in the Kresge Cafeteria immediately following

5:10pm                   

Reception