2016 Meeting Presentations
The MSGERC Biennial Meeting Agenda included topics on Cryptococcosis, Endemic Mycoses, Aspergillosis and Candida and the Mycobiome. Please enjoy the recorded lectures and handouts from this outstanding workshop meeting below.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Welcome and Keynote Speakers
Welcome Remarks
Peter Pappas, MD
Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Keynote Presentations
Mycology – Historical Overview; Slides
John E. Bennett, MD
Chief, Clinical Mycology Section
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Mycology Today: Advances in genetics, genomics, and species recognition in human fungal pathogens.
Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD
Chair and James B. Duke Professor
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Mycology in the Future
Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Q&A and Discussion of Keynote Sessions
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Plenary Lectures: Cryptococcus
Organisms/Biology: Biology of Cryptococcus neoformans: Focus on Capsule
Tamara L. Doering, MD, PhD
Washington University Medical School
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Cryptococcosis: Changing Epidemiology?
Sharon Chen, PhD, MBBS, FRCPA, FRACP
Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology
Associate Professor, Sydney Medical School
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cryptococcal Meningitis Update from Resource-Limited Setting Perspective:
Epidemiology, Treatment and Prevention
Thomas Harrison, MA, MBBS, MPH, MD, FRCP
Professor of Infectious Diseases
St Georges University of London
London, United Kingdom
Cryptococcus Facilitated Discussion with Q&A
Plenary Lectures: Endemic and Other Mycoses
Phylogenetics of Pathogenic Environmental Fungi
Director, Programs and Operations
Transitional Genomics Research Institute
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Hot Topics in Veterinary Mycology
Jane Sykes, BVSc, PhD, DACVIM
University of California, Davis
Davis, California, United States
Blasto/Endemics:Discovering New and Disentangling Old Dimorphic Fungal Pathogens: Global Agents of Blastomycosis & Emmonsiosis
Ilan Schwartz, MD, FRCPC
Doctoral Student and Post-Graduate Resident
University of Manitoba / University of Antwerp
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
George Thompson, MD
Associate Professor
University of California, Davis
Sacramento, California, United States
Endemic and Other Mycoses: Facilitated Discussion with Q&A
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Plenary Lectures: Aspergillus and Other Molds
Epidemiology and Resistance in Aspergillosis
Nathan Weiderhold
Associate Professor
UT Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Oxygen and the Pathogenesis of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis
Robert A. Cramer, MS, PhD
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Clinical Considerations: Aspergillus and other Molds
Thomas Walsh, MD
Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York City, New York, United States
Aspergillus & Other Molds: Facilitated Discussion with Q&A
Plenary Lectures: Candida and the Mycobiome
Mahmoud Ghannoum, PhD
Professor
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Efforts to Develop a Vaccine for Candida: Scientific and Developmental Challenges
Jack Edwards, MD
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute
Torrance, California, United States
Bench to Bedside Study of Systemic Candidiasis: Is it Time for a Precision Medicine Clinical trial in Mycology?
Mihalis Lionakis, MD, ScDChief, Fungal Pathogenesis Unit
NIAID/NIH
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Fungal Infections In Children: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Prevention
Theo Zaoutis, MD, MSCE
Professor of Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Slides
Candida Auris - Slides
Tom Chiller, MD, MPHTM
Chief, Mycotic Diseases Branch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Candida and the Mycobiome: Facilitated Discussion with Q&A
