Microbial Ecology in States of Health and Disease Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix E: Speaker Biographies
Appendix E: Speaker Biographies
Pages 513-522
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in order to protect tissue integrity, the GI tract is a major site of induction of T cells and dendritic cells with regular functions. Martin J
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Blumberg serves on the Executive Advisory Committee of the Department of Medicine and is the incoming Chair of the Biomedical Research Institute at BWH. He has served as a member of the Immunology Sciences Study Section of NIAID, a member on the National Commission of Digestive Diseases of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
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Dr. Carey is a past President of the American Physiological Society and past Chair of the Nutrition and Obesity Section of the American Gastroenterological Association, and he was a Program Director at the National Science Foundation from 2010 to 2011, working in the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems.
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Gérard Eberl, Ph.D., received his doctorate from the University of Lausanne in 1995 and completed postdoctoral training at the Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research in Lausanne and at the Skirball Institute at New York University. In 2005, he started the Lymphoid Tissue Development Unit at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and became Senior Investigator in 2010.
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Larry Forney, Ph.D., has scientific expertise in the evolutionary ecology of rokaryotes, and his research program focuses on studies of the human micro p biome, the adaptive evolution of prokaryotes, microbial community dynamics, and the biogeography of microorganisms. Although formally trained in microbial physiology, his interests have expanded over the years to encompass various other topics pertinent to understanding the development and distribution of microbial diversity on temporal and spatial scales.
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In 2008 he received the Young Investigators Award from the International Society of Microbial Ecology. Current major fields of research are the human virome and coral reef microbiology.
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Dr. Segre is a leader in the NIH Roadmap Human Microbiome Project, communicating with multiple media sources to promote the concept of humans as ecological landscapes.
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He is on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science magazine, is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy for Microbiology. His laboratory is known for taking genetic, genomic, and structural approaches to defining mechanisms of immunity, chronic viral infection, viral virulence, and the pathogenesis of cancer, infection, and inflammatory diseases.
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In 2002, Dr. Zasloff was named Dean of Research and Translational Science at Georgetown University, tasked with the integration of the basic science conducted at Georgetown with the clinical environment of the Medical Center.
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