Session 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlXBdb6kHGQ
Session 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMrcoiG6T4Y
Session 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ_enyWisV4
Keynote: D. Branch Moody, MD (Harvard), “Molecular Discoveries in the M. tuberculosis Cell Envelope”
Early Career Scientist: Megan Maerz, PhD candidate (UW), “Understanding γδ T cell responses to BCG vaccination”
David Horne, MD, MPH, “Systemic inflammation predicts bacillary aerosolization and infectiousness in pulmonary tuberculosis in Kenya"
Early Career Scientist: Aparajita Saha, MBBS, (UW), “Diminished TB-specific T cell responses during pregnancy in women with HIV and further alteration by isoniazid preventive therapy.”
Early Career Scientist: Jennie I. Ruelas Castillo, PhD candidate (John Hopkins University), “The heme oxygenase-1 metalloporphyrin inhibitor stannsoporfin enhances the activity of a novel regimen for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in a murine model”
Early Career Scientist: Sara Cohen, PhD (Seattle Children’s) “Prior Mycobacterium tuberculosis exposure enhances the efficacy of subunit vaccination”
Early Career Scientist: Amala Bhagwat, PhD (Seattle Children’s), “Aminothiazoles kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis via copper-dependent inhibition of enolase”
Early Career Scientist: Manuja Sharma, PhD candidate (UW) “TBscreen: A Passive Cough Classifier for Tuberculosis Screening with a Controlled Dataset”
Bioinformatics Panel Session, Andrew Fiore-Garland, PhD (Fred Hutch), moderator
John Aitchison, PhD (Seattle Children’s), Nitin Baliga, PhD, MSc (Institute for Systems Biology), Shuyi Ma, PHD (Seattle Children’s), Stewart Chang (BMGF)
Christoph Grundner, PhD (Seattle Children’s) “PE/PPE proteins: Ins and outs of mycobacterial outer membrane transport”
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