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.
Jake Choby, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. He focuses on antibiotic resistance research in Gram-negative pathogens, a growing challenge and a leading cause of death globally. As new antibiotics are introduced, clinical isolates develop resistance through genetic or phenotypic changes, making the antibiotic less effective. Conventionally, if a … Read more
Dr. David van Duin is the founding Director of the Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases Program, which provides consultative Infectious Diseases care to patients with transplants, malignancies, and burns. His primary research interests are antibacterial resistance in gram-negative bacilli and infections in vulnerable immunocompromised patient populations. He leads the consortium on resistance against carbapenems in Klebsiella … Read more
Dr. David Weiss received his PhD in Microbiology from New York University in 2004. Working under Dr. Arturo Zychlinsky, he studied how Toll-like Receptors work together to fight bacterial infections. He completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University under Drs. Stanley Falkow and Denise Monack, studying virulence mechanisms of Francisella and the role of the … Read more
Dr. Siddhartha “Sid” Thakur is the Executive Director of Global One Health Academy and Professor of Molecular Epidemiology at the College of Veterinary Medicine at NC State. He is responsible for expanding NC State’s One Health research, education, and engagement efforts and developing evidence-based recommendations for tackling current and future global threats. He is an … Read more
Jose Munita is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Director of International Research, Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Genomics (CARMiG), UTHealth, Houston, TX. His ESI grant supports VENOUS, which is a prospective, multi-site observational cohort study to evaluate the outcomes of patients with bloodstream infections due to vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). In addition, parallel collection of … Read more
Preeti N. Malani, MD, MSJ, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and a Special Advisor to the President. In addition, Dr. Malani is Deputy Editor and Director of Editorial Equity for JAMA and the JAMA Network. From 2017 to 2022, she served as the University of Michigan’s Chief Health Officer. … Read more
Brian Conlon is an Associate Professor. Antibiotic tolerance and antibiotic resistance are major challenges, resulting in growing numbers of deaths worldwide each year. The Conlon Lab focuses on antibiotic tolerance and resistance in the infection microenvironment. Here, nutrient availability, interactions between the pathogen and the host, as well as co-infecting or commensal microorganisms, can have … Read more
