The Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases partners with the Department of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases, the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and the Eshelman School of Pharmacy to present a monthly lecture on topics related to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Topics range from basic to translational and clinical science, and address mechanisms of resistance, clinical and molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO), as well as prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of infections caused by MDRO.
Seminars take place one Friday each month, from 9:15am-10:00am in Bioinformatics 1131. An email with a Zoom link is sent out weekly; sign up (at left) for email notices if you haven’t already.
Jennifer Halleran, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Ruminant Medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University. Her research is focused on enteric bacteria and antimicrobial resistance profiles in large animals.
Tessa Andermann, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, studies infectious diseases of immunocompromised patients. Dr. Andermann’s research focuses on how intestinal microbiome-host interactions impact infectious complications and other outcomes in patients with hematologic malignancies. Her goal is to develop microbiome-targeted therapies for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in these and other immunocompromised patient … Read more
Melinda Pettigrew, PhD, is Dean of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of respiratory tract infections, the microbiome, and the One Health threat of antibiotic resistance. The bacterial pathogens that she studies asymptomatically colonize mucosal surfaces, such as the tissues that line the inside of the nose, and … Read more
