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TRAC Seminar Series

Please join us for the weekly Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar Series from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET in CRB-2, 1M.13 or via Zoom

“Updates from the Union Meeting”

Carrie Tudor, PhD, MPH, RN

Carrie Tudor has worked in global health for over 20 years on various global health projects throughout Asia and Africa. She earned a BSN and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and a MPH from Emory University. Following her PhD, she completed a Fogarty Global Health Post-doctoral research fellowship at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for TB and HIV (now the African Health Research Institute). Her research interests are focused on the occupational risk factors for TB among healthcare workers, airborne infection prevention and control, and preventing TB and other infections in healthcare workers.

Tudor is the TB Project Director for the International Council of Nurses working to build the capacity of nurses related to TB/MDR-TB and patient-centred care in China, the Russian Federation, and seven sub-Saharan African countries.

Join via Zoom – **New link w/ Passcode**
https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/99512605810?pwd=NitKVjhqOFRCVURneE12Z2FzN21DQT09
Meeting ID: 995 1260 5810
Passcode: 107907

RSVP for lunch by Wednesday, 11/29 by 12pm.

TRAC Visiting Faculty Seminar

This week’s Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar Series will be held on Tuesday, November 7th from 12:30 – 1:30 PM ET in CRB-2, 1M.13 or via Zoom | Add to Calendar

“Innate-adaptive immune crosstalk in the tuberculosis lung “

Jyothi Rengarajan, PhD

Dr. Jyothi Rengarajan is a Professor of Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine and the Emory Vaccine Center. Her research program centers on understanding the mechanisms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis and host immunity to infection in animal models and humans. Using a combination of functional genomics, proteomics, microbiologic and immunologic approaches, her group studies M. tuberculosis mechanisms involved in evading host immunity and novel strategies for developing vaccines and therapeutics for TB. Dr. Rengarajan also conducts translational patient-based research through collaborative partnerships in the U.S, South Africa, India and Brazil to study human immunity to latent and active TB. Her research has identified human biomarkers of latent, active and clinically resolved TB that could improve TB diagnostics and accelerate monitoring response to anti-TB treatment. In addition, her group is interested in understanding how HIV co-infection perturbs latency to drive progression to TB disease in humans and how SIV perturbs innate and adaptive immunity in a rhesus macaque model of M. tuberculosis infection.

The November TRAC Seminar Series is presented by the Microbiology, Immunology, Animal Modeling & Imaging (MIAMI) Core.

Join via Zoom – **New link w/ Passcode**
https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/99512605810?pwd=NitKVjhqOFRCVURneE12Z2FzN21DQT09
Meeting ID: 995 1260 5810
Passcode: 107907

RSVP for lunch by Monday, 11/6 by 12pm.

TRAC Seminar Series

Please join us for the weekly Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar Series from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET in CRB-2, 1M.13 or via Zoom

“On the interface between chemical kinetics and population biology: How to design drug dosing strategies”

Pia Abel-zur Wiesch, PhD

Pia Abel-zur Wiesch received her PhD from ETH Zurich under the mentorship of Sebastian Bonhoeffer, and was awarded a medal for completing an outstanding thesis in 2011. From 2012 through 2015, she completed postdoctoral work with Ted Cohen at Harvard and Yale, with funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, German Academic Exchange Service, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. From 2015 through 2017, she held a role as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Public Health. During this time and through 2020, she acted as a Young Associate Investigator with the EMBL Network, based at Norwegian Arctic University in Tromsø. In 2016 she was awarded the Young Research Talent Award by the Norwegian Research Council, including grant funding of ~1million USD, and in 2018 was awarded a “starting grant” of 2.3 million USD by philanthropist Trond Mohn. She participated and participates in four Horizon 2020 EU Consortia. In 2020 and 2021, she held position of Associate Professor of Biology and Early Career Chair of Systems Pharmacology, at Penn State University. She then joined the Norwegian National COVID response and is now a Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, an Affiliate Professor at the University of Siegen, Germany and an Academic Affiliate at Penn State.

The October TRAC Seminar Series on “Computational Models in TB” is presented by the Bioinformatics, Modeling & Biostatistics Core.

Join via Zoom – **New link w/ Passcode**
https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/99512605810?pwd=NitKVjhqOFRCVURneE12Z2FzN21DQT09
Meeting ID: 995 1260 5810
Passcode: 107907

RSVP for lunch by Wednesday, 10/25 by 12pm.

TRAC Seminar Series

Please join us for the weekly Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar Series from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET in CRB-2, 1M.13 or via Zoom. | Add to Calendar

“Quantifying the impact of cellular organization and movement on immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A agent-based modeling approach”

Elsje Pienaar, PhD
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering
Purdue University

Dr. Pienaar is an Assistant Professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. She earned her MS and PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and did postdoctoral work in Microbiology, Immunology and Chemical engineering at the University of Michigan as well as at Linköping University, Sweden. Her laboratory uses computational simulations of within-host pathogen, immune and drug dynamics to optimize treatment of infectious diseases. Current projects in the lab include TB, HIV, Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections and Ebola virus.

The October TRAC Seminar Series on “Computational Models in TB” is presented by the Bioinformatics, Modeling & Biostatistics Core.

Join via Zoom – **New link w/ Passcode**
https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/99512605810?pwd=NitKVjhqOFRCVURneE12Z2FzN21DQT09
Meeting ID: 995 1260 5810
Passcode: 107907

RSVP for lunch by Wednesday, 10/18 by 12pm.

TRAC Seminar Series

Please join us for the weekly Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar Series from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET. This week’s meeting will be virtual-only via Zoom. | Add to Calendar

This week’s seminar will be **Zoom Only**, we will not meet in person.

TB Policy Updates from the UN High-Level Meeting and Beyond

Madlen Nash, MSc
Assistant Director of Policy & Engagement, SMART4TB
Johns Hopkins University

Madlen Nash is the Assistant Director of Policy & Engagement for SMART4TB where she guides global and nation-specific policy recommendations and ensures representation of affected communities in research and policy translation. Her work in TB over the past decade has spanned academic, government and non-profit sectors. While at the McGill International TB Centre her research focused on the evaluation of innovative diagnostics for TB and HIV. More recently, Madlen co-founded a non-profit that supports communities to lead responses to their own health crises. Madlen holds an MSc in Epidemiology from McGill University.

Join via Zoom – **New link w/ Passcode**
https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/99512605810?pwd=NitKVjhqOFRCVURneE12Z2FzN21DQT09
Meeting ID: 995 1260 5810
Passcode: 107907

TRAC Seminar Series

Please join us for the weekly Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar Series from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET in CRB-2, 1M.13 or via Zoom. | Add to Calendar

This week’s seminar will feature presentations from Tess Ryckman, PhD & Alex Richards, PhD.

“Quantifying progression and regression across the spectrum of pulmonary tuberculosis”

Alex Richards, PhD
Research Fellow
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Alex Richards is a research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She completed a PhD in mathematical modelling of tuberculosis, aiming to understand the natural history of tuberculosis infection and disease through the use of historical and contemporary literature. Her current research includes using modelling to further understand the natural history of disease, the effects of treatment and the impact of gendered differences in TB.

“Infectious & clinical TB trajectories: Bayesian modeling with case finding implications”

Tess Ryckman, PhD
Instructor, Division of Infectious Disease
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Tess’s research includes the use of mathematical modeling, economic evaluation, and policy analysis to inform infectious disease programs and policies and shed light on disease natural history and transmission. She is primarily focused on tuberculosis epidemiology and policy and has a particular interest in prevention and active case finding interventions.

The October TRAC Seminar Series on “Computational Models in TB” is presented by the Bioinformatics, Modeling & Biostatistics Core.

Join via Zoom – **New link w/ Passcode**
https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/99512605810?pwd=NitKVjhqOFRCVURneE12Z2FzN21DQT09
Meeting ID: 995 1260 5810
Passcode: 107907

TRAC Seminar Series

Please join us for the weekly Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar Series from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET in CRB-2, 1M.13 or via Zoom: https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/92237457953 | Add to Calendar

Graham Mooney, PhD
Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins University

Graham Mooney, PhD is an associate professor at JHU in the Department of the History of Medicine (School of Medicine) and Department of Epidemiology (Bloomberg School of Public Health). He is interested in the history of public health, particularly the control and management of infectious diseases. His first book, Intrusive Interventions: Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England 1840-1914 was published in 2015. He is currently working on a history of public health in Baltimore since World War 2.

The September TRAC Seminar Series on “Tuberculosis: Historical, Social, and Ethical Considerations” is presented by the Administrative Core.

TRAC Seminar Series

Recommended resources and works cited:

Click here to view a list of recommended resources as well as citations from Dr. Merritt’s 9/21 presentation.

Articles discussed during Dr. Merritt’s presentation:

Taylor HA, Dowdy DW, Searle AR, Stennett AL, Dukhanin V, Zwerling AA, Merritt MW. Disadvantage and the Experience of Treatment for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). SSM Qual Res Health. 2022 Dec;2:100042. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100042. Epub 2022 Jan 28. PMID: 35252955; PMCID: PMC8896740.

Dowdy DW, Zwerling AA, Stennett A, Searle A, Dukhanin V, Taylor HA, Merritt MW. Measuring Stigma to Assess the Social Justice Implications of Health-Related Policy Decisions: Application to Novel Treatment Regimens for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis. MDM Policy Pract. 2020 Apr 26;5(1):2381468320915239. doi: 10.1177/2381468320915239. PMID: 32440569; PMCID: PMC7227142.

Maria W. Merritt, PhD
Core Faculty, Berman Institute of Bioethics
Associate Professor, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University

My doctoral education was in philosophy, with a post-doctoral fellowship in bioethics. I’m interested in issues of public health ethics in international health. My methods combine philosophical inquiry and (in collaboration with social scientists) qualitative research to understand and address ethical issues as informed by the perspectives of people experiencing them. My current research agenda focuses on ethical aspects of the search for climate solutions.

The September TRAC Seminar Series on “Tuberculosis: Historical, Social, and Ethical Considerations” is presented by the Administrative Core.

TRAC Seminar Series

Margo A. Peyton, MD
Resident Physician
Department of Neurology, Mass General Brigham

Margo A. Peyton is a resident of the Mass General Brigham Neurology Program. Prior to medical school at Johns Hopkins, she worked in film and television story development for DreamWorks Animation. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in JAMA, Intima, and the Boston Society of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. Her research on Arnold R. Rich was completed as part of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Scholarly Concentration program.

The September TRAC Seminar Series on “Tuberculosis: Historical, Social, and Ethical Considerations” is presented by the Administrative Core.

TRAC Seminar Series

Olivia Kates, MD, MA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Disease, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Kates is an  Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins in Transplant Infectious Diseases and a bioethicist with the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins. She studies ethical challenges in infectious diseases and organ transplantation, including pre-transplant vaccination requirements, liver transplantation for people who consume alcohol, and xenotransplantation, and is currently working with a multi-disciplinary group to develop ethically informed guidelines for TB isolation.

The September TRAC Seminar Series is presented by the Administrative Core.