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» Home » World TB Day – March 24, 2011

World TB Day – March 24, 2011

2011-03-11

The Centre for TB Research, the BC Centre for Disease Control, the Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Life Sciences Centre invite you to attend World TB Day, 2011.

Location: Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall

Poster Event: 9-3 in the West Atrium

Symposia: 10-12:30 in LSC 1416

Speakers:

  • Intro NGDI-UBC – Kishor M. Wasan, R. PH, Ph.D., UBC
  • Katherine Yam, CTBR – “Characterization of HsaC, a ring-cleaving dioxygenase, in the cholesterol catabolic pathway of M. tuberculosis.”
  • Victoria J Cook, MD, FRCPC. BC CDC – “Tuberculosis Control in the Aboriginal Communities of British Columbia”
  • Dennis Wong, CTBR – “Interplay between Mycobacterium tuberculosis tyrosine phosphatase and host cellular pathways”
  • Kevin Elwood, MD, FRCPC BC CDC – “TB- Festina  lente?”
  • Prof. Robert E.W. Hancock, Ph.D., UBC – “Systems Biology approaches to understand infections. Designing new therapeutic and vaccine approaches for TB”

Session Chair: Santiago Ramón-García, Ph.D., CTBR

Keynote presentation: 3-4 pm LSC3

  • Pam Chedore, Head of Mycobacteriology at the Central Public Health Laboratory, Ontario – “Strengthening TB Laboratory Capacity in the Developing World – Challenges and Opportunities”.
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