Speakers
Matthew Sullivan, Erin Mordecai, Scott Weaver, Melanie Ott, David Edwards
Gladstone Institutes and QBI present the Infectious Diseases and Human Health Mini-Symposium Series, featuring the edition: “Resilience to Infectious Disease in a Warming World”.
This interdisciplinary symposium brings together leading experts in climate medicine, virology, and biogeochemistry to explore how a changing climate is reshaping human health and infectious disease risk.
Topics include the expansion of mosquito habitats and the shifting landscape of vector-borne diseases, the emergence of ancient and novel pathogens from changing environments, and the growing burden of heat-and air pollution-induced disease in vulnerable populations.
By connecting environmental change to biological and clinical outcomes, the symposium aims to foster dialogue, highlight emerging research, and identify pathways for prevention and resilience in a warming world.
1:30 PM: Welcome & Opening Remarks
1:35 PM: Matthew Sullivan, PhD – Ohio State University
"Planetary Virology: How Global Ocean Viruses Are Helping Us Better Understand Ourselves"
2:00 PM: Erin Mordecai, PhD – Stanford University
"Beyond Warming: How Climate Change is Transforming Vector-borne Disease"
2:25 PM: Scott Weaver, MS, PhD – Institute for Human Infections & Immunity
"Climate Change and Arboviral Disease Risk"
2:50 PM: Networking Break
3:35 PM: Melanie Ott, MD, PhD – Gladstone Institutes
"Climate, Cells, and Countermeasures: Rethinking Bunyavirus Infection Through the Host"
4:00 PM: David Edwards, PhD – Johns Hopkins University/ SC Therapeutics
"Heatwaves Threaten Airway Mucosal Collapse and the Deterioration of Respiratory and Cardiovascular Human Health"
4:25 PM: Closing Remarks