16th Annual Minisymposium on Pathogenic Human Viruses

Thursday, April 12, 2018

9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
103 Bryan Research Building

Continental breakfast in the lobby at 8:30 a.m.

Adolfo García-Sastre, Ph.D.
Director, Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute and Professor of Microbiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
“Evolutionary Landscape of the Host Tropism of the Influenza Virus NS1 Protein”

Terry Dermody, M.D.
Professor and Chair of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
“A New Viral Trigger for Celiac Disease”

~Coffee Break~

Ana Fernandez-Sesma, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
“Dengue Virus Modulation of Innate Immunity: Beyond the STING”

Wes Sundquist, Ph.D.
Samuels Professor of Biochemistry
University of Utah
“Harnessing and Inhibiting the ESCRT Pathway”