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”.