BRIDGE Fellows RSVP to attend this workshop led by Dr. Mitchell Feldman, Co-PI of the BRIDGE Project.
Dr. Raul Andino-Pavlovsky: Nature Immunology (Editorial Board) & PLOS Pathogens (Section & Associate Editor). Dr. Andino is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology. He studies several processes of the replication cycle of RNA viruses, including the mechanism of RNA replication, expression, and RNA packaging. His lab (http://andino.ucsf.edu/) has also developed a method of adapting positive-stranded RNA as a vaccine vector to express antigenic determinants derived from diverse pathogens.
Dr. Nadav Ahituv: Nature Genetics (Editorial Board). Dr. Ahituv is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences. Research in Ahituv Lab (https://pharm.ucsf.edu/ahituv) focuses on understanding the role of regulatory sequences in human biology and disease. Through a combination of comparative genomic strategies, regulatory element analysis, human patient samples, massively parallel sequencing and mouse and fish genetic engineering technologies, Dr. Ahituv is working to elucidate mechanisms whereby genetic variation within these sequences lead to changes in human phenotypes.
Dr. Sheri Weiser: PLOS Medicine (Editorial Board). Dr. Weiser is an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine. Her research examines the relationships between poverty, HIV-related health behaviors, and health outcomes in underserved populations in resource-rich and resource-poor settings. She is particularly interested in the role of targeted food assistance and sustainable food production strategies in improving models of HIV care delivery to underserved populations. http://profiles.ucsf.edu/sheri.weiser
The panel discussion will be facilitated by Dr. Mitchell Feldman, Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of General Internal Medicine and Co-PI of the BRIDGE Project. Dr. Feldman is a Professor in the School of Medicine, Associate Vice Provost of faculty mentoring and the co-director of the Mentor Development Program of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at UCSF. http://profiles.ucsf.edu/mitchell.feldman