Conferences and Symposia
UGA - CDC Research Forum
Thursday, September 4, 2008
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
CDC, Global Communications Center, Room 254/255
1600 Clifton Road N.E., Atlanta
Ths is an opportunity for scientists at CDC and UGA to explore collaborative partnerships between scientists at the two institutions in the fields of 1) public health, 2) veterinary medicine, and 3) ecology. The Research Forum will serve to facilitate interchange and collaboration between CDC and UGA scientists and promote a new, collaborative research seed grants program.
Global Health through Research
Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases Annual Symposium
Friday & Saturday, September 19-20, 2008
Georgia Center for Continuing Education
Athens, GA
Confirmed Invited Speakers:
- Juan Jose Cazzulo (Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas, San Martín, Argentina) - Trypanosoma cruzi biochemistry
- George Dimopoulos (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) - Mosquito immunity
- Jean-François Dubremetz (University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France) - Toxoplasma cell biology & host cell interaction
- William Gause (New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ) - Immunity to nematodes
- Paul Kaye (University of York, York, UK) - Immunity to Leishmania
- Malcolm McConville (University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia) - Leishmania metabolism & cell biology
- Artur Scherf (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) - Plasmodium falciparum pathogenesis & antigenic variation
- Andy Waters (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK) - Plasmodium development in the insect vector
- Elizabeth Winzeler (Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA) - Plasmodium genomics and postgenomics
Registration Deadline: August 10
Abstracts deadline: September 1
More Information: http://www.ctegd.uga.edu/symposium.php