Kresge G2, Harvard Chan School

This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Lelia Chaisson, Research Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2. Attending either in-person or Zoom requires registration with the following link. Register here. Lelia Chaisson, PhD, MSc, is Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a core faculty member of the UIC…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Trevor Bedford, Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2 and does not require registration. Register for the Zoom here. Trevor Bedford is a Professor in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an Affiliate…

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This webinar will be presented by Claire Duvallet, Founding Staff Data Scientist at Biobot. Register here. Claire is a founding data scientist at Biobot Analytics, a startup transforming sewers into public health observatories. As a technical lead on Biobot’s data science team, Claire provides high-level technical guidance across a variety of projects and programs at Biobot. In her role, she works closely with the data science team as a contributor…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Carlos Grijalva, Professor in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology - Departments of Health Policy and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2. Attending either in-person or Zoom requires registration with the following link. Register here. Carlos Grijalva's research interests include the study of vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases, the evaluation of medications safety and effectiveness, and…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2. Attending either in-person or Zoom requires registration with the following link. Register here. Dr Tonkin-Hill’s research at the University of Oslo focuses on microbial genomics and the development of computational and statistical tools to track the evolution and transmission of pathogens. In particular,…

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Jon Zelner, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health Talk title: Can household-targeted interventions meaningfully reduce the risk of TB infection and disease risk in high burden contexts? Biography: Jon Zelner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and he received his PhD in Sociology and Public Policy from…

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  Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, MD, PhD, Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University Talk title: Surveilling the gut bacterial pathogen landscape: Insights into multi-drug resistance Biography: Dr. Anne-Catrin Uhlemann is the Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Her laboratory investigates the evolution of bacterial pathogens such as Staphylococcus aureus and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae.

 Kendall Hoyt, PhD, Assistant Professor, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University Talk title: Building a better public private partnership for biosecurity: lessons from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations Biography: Kendall Hoyt is an Assistant Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth where she studies U.S. biodefense policy, global health policy, and biomedical R&D strategy. She is also a lecturer at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College where…

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  Sunetra Gupta, PhD, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford Talk title: Immune driven pathogen evolution   Biography: Sunetra Gupta is an acclaimed novelist, essayist and scientist. In October 2012 her fifth novel, So Good in Black, was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. In 2009 she was named as the winner of the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award for her scientific achievements. Sunetra, who lives…

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