This week’s Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar Series will include a Tuesday seminar with a Visiting Faculty presentation by Hojoon Sohn, PhD, MPH held on Tuesday, January 23rd from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET in BSPH W1030 – Anna Baetjer or via Zoom | Add to calendar.
“The development process of South Korea’s TB big data: challenges, usefulness, and opportunities “
Hojoon Sohn, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine & Department of Human Systems Medicine
Seoul National University College of Medicine
Hojoon is an infectious disease epidemiologist with multidisciplinary expertise in health economics. His research focuses on streamlining health economic and epidemiology methods in modeling, clinical trials, and implementation science disciplines for Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS. Since moving to Korea, Hojoon‘s research has also expanded into the development and analyses of big data exclusively curated for TB and cancer patients in Korea. Through these datasets, Hojoon and his research team aim to understand the patterns of health care utilization, costs, and long-term consequences of TB (and cancer), and examine the effects and impact of healthcare policies.
Join via Zoom – **New link w/ Passcode**
https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/95876655337?pwd=ZXRBbUtIanpiOWI5Y0ZLbWRxTndtdz09
Meeting ID: 958 7665 5337
Passcode: 087010
RSVP for lunch by Monday, 1/22 by 12pm.
The weekly Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar Series is held on Thursdays from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET. This week’s seminar will be virtual only – we will not meet in-person. Add to calendar.
“Impact of tuberculosis in children after recovery”
Leonardo Martinez, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Boston University, School of Public Health
The January TRAC Seminar Series is presented by the Clinical Core and will focus on Pediatric TB.
Join via Zoom – **New link w/ Passcode**
https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/99512605810?pwd=NitKVjhqOFRCVURneE12Z2FzN21DQT09
Meeting ID: 995 1260 5810
Passcode: 107907
The weekly Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar Series is held on Thursdays from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET in CRB-2, 1M.13 or via Zoom.
“Pediatric TB Case Discussion”
Nicole Salazar-Austin, MD, ScM
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Nicole Salazar-Austin is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr Salazar-Austin’s research focuses on both developing and combining existing biomedical interventions in tuberculosis with novel health care delivery models to improve implementation of TB treatment and prevention among children, adolescents, and pregnant women with and without HIV worldwide.
Evan Shirey, MD
Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellow
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Evan Shirey is Clinical and Research Fellow in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Shirey’s research interests include identification of risk factors for TB infection among children and adolescents, and utilization of implementation science methodology to improve delivery of TB treatment and prevention.
The January TRAC Seminar Series is presented by the Clinical Core and will focus on Pediatric TB.
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, 1/10 by 12pm.
The weekly Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar Series is held on Thursdays from 12:30 – 1:30 PM ET in CRB-2, 1M.13 or via Zoom.
“Of mice and men, humanized mouse as models of TB and TB/HIV co-infection”
Yazmin B. Martinez-Martinez, PhD, MS
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr. William Bishai Lab
Center for Tuberculosis Research
School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Johns Hopkins University
The November/December 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 Wednesday, 12/13 by 12pm.
The weekly Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar Series is held on Thursdays from 12:30 – 1:30 PM ET in CRB-2, 1M.13 or via Zoom.
“From enzymology and metabolism to a novel antibiotic strategy”
Luiz Pedro Sorio de Carvalho, PhD
Professor of Chemistry
The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology
University of Florida Health
The November/December 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 Wednesday, 12/6 by 12pm.
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.
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https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/99512605810?pwd=NitKVjhqOFRCVURneE12Z2FzN21DQT09
Meeting ID: 995 1260 5810
Passcode: 107907
RSVP for lunch by Wednesday, 11/29 by 12pm.
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.
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.
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.
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
