The Friday Conference Series encourages in person attendance, presented in Bioinformatics Room 1131.
The Institute partners with the Department of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases and the Center for AIDS Research on a weekly conference series featuring distinguished clinicians and scientists from UNC, local universities, and other national and international institutions. The topics are varied and appeal to professionals in infectious disease, epidemiology, public health, microbiology, biostatistics and other global health-related disciplines.
This conference takes place each Friday, September through May, from 9:15-10:15am, in the Bioinformatics Conference Room #1131.
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Bill Miller, MD, PhD, is an infectious diseases epidemiologist and member of the Institute with a focus on the intersection of HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and substance use. Also trained as an infectious diseases physician, he has worked globally and domestically to prevent transmission of HIV and STIs, and improve the care of people with … Read more
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Becky White, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of HIV Services, North Carolina Department of Corrections. Her work is focused on treatment and prevention of HIV/STDs in incarcerated persons and African-Americans.
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Neil Ferguson is Professor of Mathematical Biology and Head of Department for the London Center for Neglected Tropical Disease Research at the Imperial College London. His research aims to improve understanding of the epidemiological factors and population processes shaping infectious disease spread in human and animal populations. A key practical focus is the analysis and optimisation of intervention … Read more
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR, is a member of the Institute, an NIH-funded physician-scientist and principal investigator in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology Lab (IDEEL). Her research lies at the interface of clinical and molecular studies on malaria. Earlier in her career, she studied multi-drug resistant malaria and relapses due to vivax malaria in Southeast Asia. … Read more
Emily W. Gower, PhD, is Associate Professor of Opthamalogy and Epidemiology, working in global health and ocular epidemiology. Her primary area of research interest is in improving trichiasis surgery outcomes for individuals with trachoma, which is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. She has led multiple clinical trials in Africa, and an ongoing clinical … Read more
Yonatan H. Grad, MD, PhD, is the Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Grad’s work uses interdisciplinary methods, including basic microbiology, mathematical modeling, and epidemiology, to study how pathogens evolve and spread through populations, with publications in Science, … Read more
