Richard Gallo, MD, PhD
Professor & Founding Chair
Dept. of Dermatology
Skin Innate Immunity, Cathelicidin AMPs

Ajit Varki, MD
Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Sialic Acids and Siglecs in Bacterial Host-Pathogen Interactions

Michael Karin, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology
Innate Immunity, NFkB/IKK and Inflammasome Signaling

Partho Ghosh, PhD
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
M Protein Structure-Function and GAS Pathogenesis

Pieter Dorrestein, PhD
Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Pharmacy
Imaging Mass Spectrometry in Bacterial Interactions

Jack Dixon, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology and Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Structural and Functional Biochemistry of Bacterial Toxins

Ethan Bier, PhD
Professor of Biological Sciences
Anthrax and Cholera Toxins Endosome Recycling and Cell Junctions

Christopher Glass, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Cholesterol Metabolism and Phagocyte Innate Immune Function

William Fenical, PhD
Distinguished Professor Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Antibiotic Discovery from Deep Ocean Actinomycetes

Laura Crotty Alexander, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
HIF regulation of asthma
Cigarette smoke and pulmonary innate immune defense

Edmund Capparelli, PharmD
Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy
Developmental Pharmacology and PK/PD of Pediatric Antimicrobial Therapy

Jeffrey Esko, PhD
Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Role of Proteoglycans in Bacterial Host-Pathogen Interactions

Bernhard Palsson, PhD
Galletti Professor of Bioengineering
The Systems Biology of Bacterial Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence

Emily Troemel, PhD
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Innate Immune Responses to Bacterial  Toxins

Michael Burkart, PhD
Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Novel Drug Targets for Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens

Liangfang Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor of Nanoengineering
Biomimetic Nanoparticles to Treat and Prevent  Bacterial Infections

Hal Hoffman, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Inflammasome function in innate immune defense vs. pathogens

David Gonzalez, PhD
Asst. Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmacy
Mass spectrometry approaches to host-pathogen interactions

George Liu, MD, PhD
Professor and Chief Infectious Diseases
Staphyloxanthin and other MRSA immune evasion factors

Mark Walker, PhD
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
Molecular Pathogenesis and Evolution of Streptococcal Virulence

Randall Johnson, PhD
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
HIF-1 Regulation of Innate Immunity and Inflammation

Eric Oldfield, PhD
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Medicinal chemistry of virulence factor inhibition in S. aureus

Toby Lawrence, PhD
Center for Immunology
Marseille-Luminy, France
Effects of bacterial toxins on macrophage immune and inflammatory responses

Emanuel Hanski, PhD
Hebrew University
Jerusalem, Israel
Genetic Regulation of Group A Streptococcal Virulence

Bernard Beall, PhD
CDC Streptococcus Laboratory
Atlanta, Georgia
Molecular epidemiology and genetics of GAS

Malak Kotb, PhD
University of North Dakota
Group A Streptococcal Virulence and Immunity

Ze'ev Ronai, PhD
Sanford-Burnham Institute
La Jolla, CA
Autophagy and macrophage innate immune function

Kelly Doran, PhD
Department of Biology
San Diego State University
Bacterial interactions with the blood-brain barrier

Suzan Rooijakkers, PhD
University Medical Center
Utrecht, Netherlands
Bacterial interactions with serum and the complement system

Annelies Zinkernagel, MD, PhD
University of Zurich Hospital
Zurich, Switzerland
Molecular pathogenesis of GAS infection

Maren von Köckritz-Blickwede, PhD
University of Hannover
Hannover, Germany
Roles of neutrophil extracellular traps in antibacterial immunity

Shauna McGillivray, PhD
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas
Innate Immune Resistance Factors of Bacillus anthracis

Ramy Aziz, PhD
Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt & UCSD
Comparative genomics of GAS virulence factors

Jamey Marth, PhD
University of California, Santa Barbara & Sanford-Burnham
Glycoprotein Remodeling in Sepsis, Ashwell-Morell Receptor Function

Nina van Sorge, PharmD, PhD
University Medical Center
Utrecht, Netherlands
Streptococcal group carbohydrate antigens

Mona Johannessen, PhD
Arctic University of Norway
Tromsø, Norway
Staphylococcal immune evasion virulence factors

Altermune Technologies
Irvine, CA and London, England
Chemically programmed immunity
vs. antibiotic-resistant pathogens

Aerpio Therapeutics
Cincinnati, Ohio
HIF-1 boosting agents for wound
healing and antibacterial defense

Cellics Therapeutics
San Diego, CA
Biomimetic nanoparticles as a sepsis therapeutic

Cidara Therapeutics
San Diego, CA
Cloudbreak^TM technology vs.
fungal and bacterial pathogens

Roche Pharma Research & Early Development (pRED)
Basel, Switzlerland
Antibiotic drug discovery

InhibRx
San Diego, CA
Novel immunotherapies for
antibiotic-resistant pathogens