Duke graduate student Marcel Frenkel (in red), Dr. Annika Scheynius of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and Meta Kuehn, professor of biochemistry at Duke, discuss microbial pathogens during the Duke-Duke/NUS symposium on "Insights and Solutions for Emerging Infectious Diseases, April 22-23.
The conference included speakers from around the world and about 30 colleagues from Duke/NUS in Singapore. Organizers said the symposium will help develop more interactions between faculty at Duke and Duke/NUS.
Dr. Barton Haynes, MD, professor of medicine and immunology and director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, and Bryan Cullen, professor of molecular genetics and microbiology, gave keynote presentations.
Other presenters included Linfa Wang, director of the Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke/NUS, whose lab is discovering new viruses and advancing understanding about how viruses pass to humans from non-human species.
Among the topics covered were disease mechanism, pathogen evolution, immune responses and vaccine development strategies.
The conference was convened the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, the Department of Immunology and the Global Health Institute at Duke and the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore.
Below, Dr. Aravinda de Silva of UNC-Chapel Hill lectures on dengue virus.
Photos by Kevin Seifert.
