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FEATURED SPEAKERS

 10th Annual Conference on New & Reemerging Infectious Diseases
April 19-20, 2007

College of Veterinary Medicine

2001 South Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, Illinois

 

Marta Guerra, DVM, MPH, PhD, Dipl. ACVPM (opening speaker)
Senior Staff Veterinary Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Presenting:  “Investigations and responses at CDC: epidemiology in action”

Roberto Docampo, MD, PhD
Sanford Orkin Eminent Scholar, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia

Presenting: “Novel targets for the treatment of Trypanosomiasis”

J. Stephen Dumler, MD
Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Presenting: "Novel pathogens, novel pathogenetic mechanisms: Anaplasma

phagocytophilum"

Douglas Goodin, PhD
Director, Remote Sensing Research Laboratory, Department of Geography, Kansas State University

Presenting: "Landscape hierarchy and spatial scale:  a framework for the ecology of  zoonotic disease"

Helen Jost, PhD
Department of Veterinary Science and Microbiology, University of Arizona

Presenting: "The unusual toxins of Arcanobacterium haemolyticum"

Tamara Maier, PhD
Department. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin
Presenting: "Analysis of Francisella tularensis Himar1-based transposon mutants defective for replication in macrophages"

Les Real, PhD
Asa Griggs Candler Professor, Department of Biology, Emory University
Presenting:  "Spatial dynamics and molecular ecology of emerging infectious diseases"

Read the recent Emerging Infectious Diseases coverage of the Ninth Annual Conference on New & Reemerging Infectious Diseases.