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Celebrating 18 Years of Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale on the Occasion of Jorge Galán’s 60th Birthday

October 10, 2016

The Department of Microbial Pathogenesis is pleased to invite our colleagues and friends to attend a symposium commemorating 18 years of Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale University, being held on the occasion of Dr. Jorge Galán’s 60th birthday. Following the symposium there will be a reception open to all participants at the Peabody Museum.

The all-day symposium will take place on Friday, October 14, 2016 The Anlyan Center Auditorium, 300 Cedar Street.

Invited speakers:

James Bliska, Stony Brook University

Barbara Burleigh, Harvard University

Pascale Cossart, Institute Pasteur

Gordon Dougan, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, ETH Zurich

Ralph Isberg, Tufts University

Roberto Kolter, Harvard University

Samuel Miller, University of Washington

Lalita Ramakrishnan, University of Cambridge

Hesper Rego, Yale University

Michael Starnbach, Harvard University

Gabriel Waksman, Birkbeck College and University College London

Topics include Microbial Invasion, Microbial Diversity, Specialized Secretion Systems, Inflammation and Immunity, Vaccine Development, and Intestinal Colonization.

Register for this event at https://medicine.yale.edu/micropath/events/symposium.aspx

Submitted by John Curtis on October 10, 2016