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