Neonatal Microbiome and Immunology
Barbara Warner
Washington University, USA
Dr. Warner completed her medical school training at the University of Cincinnati, and her training in Pediatrics and Neonatology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She she stayed on as faculty until 2007 when she was recruited to Washington University in St Louis where she is now Professor of Pediatrics. Her research interest is in the role of the infant gut microbiome in health and disease. She has served as principal and co-investigator on a number of NIH and privately funded projects in this area, including the Human Microbiome Project examining the role of the preterm gut microbiome in common morbidities including necrotizing enterocolitis and late onset sepsis. She is currently expanding her work to include examination of the gut microbiome in newborn infant immune health and nuerodevelopment.
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ANCIENT DNA & OUTBREAKS
Eske Willerslev
Center for Geogenetics,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
POLIO ERADICATION
Hamid Jafari
Center for Global Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA
PNEUMOCOCCAL SEROTYPE REPLACEMENT
Shamez Ladhani
St George’s Unversity Hospital
University of London, UK
THE FIRST DECADE OF AFRICAN ARV
Mar Pujades-Rodriguez
Institute of Biomedical & Clinical Scienes
University of Leeds, UK