ALL SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED – 11th Annual CEND Symposium

The Henry Wheeler Center for Emerging & Neglected Diseases (CEND) Annual Symposium aims to strengthen connections between scientists working on infectious diseases of global health importance and the broader global health research, product development, and advocacy communities.

 

Breakfast will be served 8:30 AM to 9:00 AM. Coffee will be served throughout the day and lunch will be provided. Following the speakers, a networking reception and poster session will be from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM.

 

Call for Posters!

 

Posters are invited in topics relevant to the theme of the symposium. You may submit a poster title and abstract during your registration or via email with your name and affiliation toi.m.charles@berkeley.edu

 

Poster titles and abstracts must be submitted by December 28, 2018

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SPEAKERS:

 

Aydogan Ozcan | University of California, Los Angeles

Mobile Imaging and Sensing Technologies for Diagnostics

 

Eric Brown | McMaster, Toronto

A Systems Approach to Antibiotic Drug Discovery

 

Judy Sakanari | University of California, San Francisco

Discovering New Drugs to Treat Neglected Parasitic Diseases

 

Lisa Diamond | Pinpoint Science

Detecting Pathogens in Seconds – Novel Nanosensor Technology for Accurate, Low-Cost Diagnostics

 

Manuela Raffatellu | University of California, San Diego

Learning from Bacterial Competition in the Host to Develop Antimicrobials

 

Peter Hotez | Baylor School of Medicine

TBD

 

Peter Smith | Genentech

Optimized Arylomycins are a New Class of Gram-negative Antibiotics

 

Rangarajan Sampath | FIND Geneva

Development and implementation of In Vitro Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases in Resource Poor Environments

 

Thomas Nutman | NIAID

Immunologic Underpinnings of Immune Tolerance in Human Filarial Infections