11th UCDAVIS

Annual Research Retreat on Host-Microbe Interaction

October 19-20, 2017, Granlibakken Conference Center, Tahoe City, CA

Organizers

Satya Dandekar

Andreas Bäumler

Registration

The registration deadline is September 15th. Poster presentations are welcome!

Please contact Karryn Doyle at kddoyle@ucdavis.edu for information about registering

Topics

The meeting covers a broad range of topics stretching from microbial physiology to

the host immune system, including work on bacteria, viruses, parasites, vectors,

microbial communities and the immune responses of plants, mammals and

invertebrates

Oral Presentations by Students and Postdocs

Phylicia Robins, Pharmacology

Dustin Heeney, Food Science & Technology

Meixiang Zhang, Plant Pathology

Robert Blundell, Plant Pathology

Li-Hung Chen, Plant Pathology

Elizabeth Hammond, Pathology Microbiology & Immunology (CCM)

Tatiana Paredes-Santos, Pathology Microbiology & Immunology

TBN (Hartigen O-Connor lab), Pathology Microbiology & Immunology

Guochun Jiang, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

April (Jun Yuh) Tsai, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Esther Rincon-Gila, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

Carly Hennessey, Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology

Cintia Sagawa, Plant Pathology & Plant Sciences

TBN (Eisen lab), Evolution & Ecology (GC)

Faculty Speakers

Priya Shah, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Yael Litvak, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Loubna Tazi, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Ishita Shah, Food Science & Technology

Colin Reardon, Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology

Bennett Penn, Medicine

T32 AMID-sponsored Keynote Speaker

Eric Skaar, Vanderbilt University