INVITED SPEAKERS
Jorge E. Galán, DMV, PhD
Salmonella host cell interactions through its type III secretion systems
Lucille B. Markey Professor of Microbiology, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Professor of Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
Dr. Jorge E. Galán is a graduate of National University of La Plata, Argentina where he completed his Veterinary Science degree in 1982. Dr. Galán earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Cornell University in 1986 and completed his postdoctoral studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Before coming to Yale in 1998, Dr. Galán was an Associate Professor at SUNY Stony Brook within the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. Dr. Galán was the Chair of the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis at the Yale University School of Medicine from 1998 until 2022. He is currently the Lucille B. Markey Professor of Microbiology in the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Professor of Cell Biology at the Yale University School of Medicine.
Dr. Galán is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences in 1990, the Searle Scholar Award in 1991, the National Institutes of Health MERIT award in 2000 and 2015, the Hans Sigrist Prize in 2002, the Alexander M. Cruickshank Award in 2010, and the Robert Koch Prize in 2011. He is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and a member of the USA National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of several Scientific Advisory Boards and has authored more than 200 publications in the field of bacterial pathogenesis and molecular biology. He has trained more than 100 Graduate Students and Postdoctoral fellows.
Dr. Galán has made numerous contributions to the field of bacterial pathogenesis. He has pioneered the study of the cell biology of infection and the mechanisms of pathogenesis of the enteric pathogens Salmonella spp. and Campylobacter jejuni. His work has led to the understanding of mechanisms by which these pathogens enter and replicate within mammalian cells and has established paradigms applicable to other pathogens.
Niki Moutsopolous. DDS, PhD
Integrating omics approaches to compile a high dimensional atlas of human oral mucosal tissues
Associate Scientific Director
TT/ACI Faculty Development
Oral Immunity & Infection Section
NIH/NIDCR
Dr. Moutsopoulos received a D.D.S. degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Greece in 1998, completed her specialization in periodontology at the University of Maryland, and obtained a Ph.D. in immunology while working in the laboratory of Dr. Sharon Wahl at NIDCR. Dr. Moutsopoulos has worked as a clinical fellow at the NIH under the mentorship of Dr. Steven Holland (LCID/NIAID). In the past more than a decade, Dr. Moutsopoulos has been an independent investigator building a clinical and translational program focused on basic oral immunology and susceptibility to the common human inflammatory disease periodontitis through the study of patients with monogenic immune defects. She is currently a Senior Clinical Investigator and Chief of the Oral Immunity and Infection Section of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, at the NIH in Bethesda MD.
She also serves as the associate scientific director of NIDCR focused on mentoring of tenure track faculty.
Work in the News:
NIDCR NEWS 2021: A Census Inside your mouth
Nature reviews in Immunology/Research Highlight; Oral Mucosal Atlas
NIDCR NEWS 2021: Disarming a Blood-Clotting Protein Prevents Gum Disease in the Mouth
Science; Perspective; Fibrin Sparks Inflammation in the Oral Mucosa