The Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, the Department of Immunology and the Global Health Institute at Duke University and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore will convene a joint Symposium on Insights and Solutions for Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Jones Research Building on Research Drive onApril 22 and 23.
Symposium co-organizer Soman Abraham, PhD, who has research laboratories at Duke and Duke-NUS, anticipates that the symposium will help to further enhance ties and interactions between Duke and Duke-NUS faculty.
Barton Haynes, MD, professor of medicine and immunology and director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, and Bryan Cullen, PhD, professor of molecular genetics and microbiology, will give keynote presentations.
Linfa Wang, PhD, director of the Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS, will also present.
“Dr. Wang runs a BSL4 lab in Geelong, Australia, where his team is discovering new viruses on a regular basis,” said Joe Heitman, MD, PhD, James B. Duke Professor and chair of MGM. “He is the person who discovered that many new viruses that infect humans cross over from bats, and that you could culture novel viruses in bat tissue culture cells, as featured in the movie Contagion.”
See schedule and speaker list below.
Registration is not required.
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