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Featured Speakers

Alan Aderem, Ph.D.

Dr. Alan Aderem, ISB cofounder and Director, is an internationally recognized immunologist and cell biologist who plays a central role in defining the scientific direction of the Institute and is responsible for overseeing the integration of the wide variety of disciplines within the organization. Aderem also leads a scientific team investigating the roles of the immune system in health and disease.
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Lawrence Corey, M.D.

Dr. Corey is Senior Vice President of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) and Principal Investigator of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network. He is an internationally known expert on infectious diseases and in 2008 was selected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. His research is focused on the pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment of HIV and herpes virus infections, including the development of experimental vaccines against these viruses.
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Michael Katze, Ph.D.

Dr. Michael Katze is Professor of Microbiology and Associate Director and Core Staff Scientist at the Washington National Primate Research Center. Dr. Katze is recognized as a leader in applying genomic and proteomic technologies to the study of virus-host interactions and the interferon response. He heads a laboratory of over 30 individuals, including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research scientists, software engineers, and bioinformatics and information technology specialists.
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Rafick Sékaly, Ph.D.

Dr. Sékaly currently serves as Scientific Director of basic research and strategic planning and Director of the Laboratory of Microbiology and Immunology for the University of Montreal Hospital Research Center. He is regarded as one of the world’s leading immunologists, with extensive expertise in AIDS research, and has recently been named Director of the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Florida. Dr. Sékaly has also recently received considerable attention for his work combining targeted chemotherapy and highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) as an improved treatment for HIV/AIDS.
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Session Speakers

Betsy Ferguson, Ph.D.

Division of Neuroscience, Primate Genetics Program
Oregon Health and Science University
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Ashley Haase, M.D.

Department of Microbiology
University of Minnesota
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Nathaniel Heintz, Ph.D.

Laboratory of Molecular Biology
The Rockefeller University
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Wang Jun, Ph.D.

Bioinformatics Department
Beijing Genomics Institute
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Brandon Keele, Ph.D.

AIDS and Cancer Virus Program
National Cancer Institute
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Elaine R. Mardis, Ph.D.

Dept. of Genetics and Molecular Microbiology
Washington University
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Gregory Miller, Ph.D.

New England National Primate Research Center
Harvard Medical School
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Martha Neuringer, Ph.D.

Oregon National Primate Research Center
Oregon Health and Science University
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David O'Connor, Ph.D.

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Jeffrey Rogers, Ph.D.

Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
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Douglas Rosene, Ph.D.

Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Boston University School of Medicine
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Erika Sasaki, Ph.D.

Laboratory of Applied Developmental Biology
Department of Marmoset Research
Central Institute for Experimental Animals
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Gary Schroth, Ph.D.

Applications R&D
Illumina, Inc.
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Jay Shendure, Ph.D.

Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington
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Guido Silvestri, M.D.

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
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David Glenn Smith, Ph.D.

California NPRC
University of California, Davis
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Richard Weindruch, Ph.D.

Wisconsin NPRC
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Stuart Zola, Ph.D.

Director, Yerkes NPRC
Emory University
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