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Tropical Medicine Seminars and Events

Seminars will be held from noon to 1:00 PM in Tidewater Room 1201 or in J. Bennett Johnston Room 504.

Tropical Medicine Seminar Series - Fall 2009



Oct 19	The Tulane Sierra Leone Field Course: Tropical Medicine in Action Dr. Frederique Jacquerioz and Dr. Daniel Bausch TW 1201
Oct 5	Modern Vaccine Adjuvants for Mucosal immunity John D. Clements, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Director, Tulane Center for Infectious Diseases JBJ 504
Sept 28	Médecins Sans Frontières: Tropical Medicine in Action Dr. Armand Sprecher, Public Health Specialist, MSF Belgium TW 1201
Sept 21	Will the REAL Avian Influenza Reservoir Please Stand Up? Dr. Town Peterson, University of Kansas TW 1201
Feb. 6 Feb. 13	Spring 2009 Applying Knowledge and Tools of Human Genetic Variation to Intervention Strategies for Drug-Resistant Malaria Dr. Christian Happi, Harvard School of Public health, Boston, MA, and University of Ibadan, Nigeria TW1201 Progress Toward Development of a Lethal Ovitrap for Dengue Control Dr. Dawn Wesson, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine TW 1201
Feb. 27	Eradicating Polio in Nigeria Dr. Oyewale Tomori, DVM, PhD, Redeemer's University, Lagos, Nigeria TW 1201
March 6	The Ecology of Highland Malaria Dr. John Carlson, MD, PhD, Clinical Fellow, Section of Allergy and Immunology, Tulane University School of Medicine TW 1201
March 13	Life and Legend of a Leader in Tropical Virology Dr. Karl M. Johnson video, Discussion to follow by Dr. Daniel Bausch - Department of Tropical Medicine TW 1201
March 18	Microbe Hunting in the 21st Century Dr. Ian Lipkin, Tulane National Primate Research Center JBJ Building 504
March 24 April 8	Retroviral Mediated Transgenesis of the Human Blood Fluke, Schistosoma mansoni Kristine J. Kines, Department of Tropical Medicine and the Biomedical Sciences Program, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, JBJ Building 504 Investigations of the rDNA Second Internal Transcribed Spacer among the subfamily Culicinae (Culicidae) with emphasis on genera Aedes, Ochlerotatus and Orthopodomyia in North America Brian Byrd, Department of Tropical Medicine Program Tulane University Health Sciences Center, JBJ Building 504
April 17 April 24	100 Years of Research on Chagas: New Tools for the Control of an old Disease Eric Dumonteil, PhD, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico TW1201 RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Blood Feeding Preference, Blood Meal Success, and Intra-Taxon Diversity of Culex Erraticus in Sonso Lagoon, Colombia Ian Mendenhall , Doctoral Candidate, Department of Tropical Medicine Program TW1201

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Department of Tropical Medicine
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
1440 Canal Street, Suite 2210, New Orleans, La 70112
Phone 504.988.3558 Fax 504.988.7313

Banner image by Jim Gathany, courtesy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.