2020 Research Program Schedule: St. Jude/PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Conference

Breakfast

Welcome and Announcements
Elaine Tuomanen, MD St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Buddy Creech, MD, MPH Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Frontier Lectures in Infectious Diseases

Enterovirus Acute Flaccid Myelitis 
Kevin Messacar, MD, University of Colorado

Towards an HIV Cure: Immune-based Latency Reversal
Ann Chahroudi, MD, PhD
Emory University School of Medicine

Looking for the Bacterial Stem Cell-specialized Bacterial Hideouts for Colonization and Persistence
Manuel Amieva, MD, PhD, Stanford University

Keynote Address
Pneumococcus: New Affairs of the Heart and Developing Brain
Elaine Tuomanen, MD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Introduction of 2020 John H. Erskine Lecture in Infectious Diseases
Elaine Tuomanen, MD

2020 John H. Erskine Lecture in Infectious Diseases
Quorum-Sensing Communication; From Viruses to Bacteria to Eukaryotes
Bonnie Bassler, PhD, Princeton University

State-of-the-Art Symposium Update on Coronavirus

Coronavirus-Pest or Pestilence
Mark Denison, MD, Vanderbilt University

Oral Abstract Presentations by PIDS and St. Jude/PIDS Fellowship Award Recipients

Single-cell RNA Sequencing Analysis of Zika Virus infection in Human Stem Cell Derived Neuroprogenitor Cells and Cerebral Organoids
Karen Ocwieja, MD Children's Hospital Boston

Restriction of Rhinovirus Infection Depends on Early Interferon Induction
Jennifer Rathe, MD, Seattle Children’s Hospital

Human Intestinal Tract Serves as an Unrecognized Route of Infection for EV-D6-8
Megan Culler Freeman, MD, PhD – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Antibodies to Peptides Representing Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein Reflect Acquisition of Naturally Acquired Immunity in Malian Adults and Children
Deanna Friedman-Klabanoff, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine 

Microbial Cell Free DNA Sequencing for Prediction of Culture-Negative Infection Events in Children with Cancer
Katy Goggin, MD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

• K-awards:
  Kevin Messacar, MD, University of Colorado
  Kathryn Edwards, MD, Vanderbilt University
• Negotiation:
  Natasha Halasa, MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University
  Adam Ratner, MD, PhD, New York University
• Academic Advancement:
  Anne Blashke, MD, PhD, University of Utah
  Archie Chatterjee, MD, PhD, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine

Global Health Session

Welcome and Introduction
Miguela A. Caniza, MD and James Carlucci, MD, MPH

Luminaries in Global Health Research

Considerations in Global Health
Coleen Cunningham, MD
Duke University

20 Years of Studying Malaria Transmission and Immunity: The Very Slow Path to Learning Something Useful
Chandy C. John, MD, MS

Global Network Session
Elizabeth Schlaudecker, MD, MPH, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

• Clinical Research: Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, University of Maryland
• Basic Research: Chandy C. John, MD, MS, Indiana University
• Policy: Coleen Cunningham, MD, Duke University
• Infection Prevention: Miguela Caniza, MD, MPH, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
• Education: Troy Moon, MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University
• Clinical Care: Andrea Berry, MD, University of Maryland