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Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

W. Ian Lipkin, M.D., John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, professor of neurology and pathology, college of physicians and surgeons; director, center for infection and immunity, Columbia University

Speaker bio(s)

The field of microbial diagnostics has burgeoned with the advent of high throughput sequencing platforms and bioinformatics programs that enable rapid identification and molecular characterization of known and novel agents, investments in global microbial surveillance that include wildlife and domestic animals as well as humans and recognition that viruses may be implicated in chronic as well as acute diseases. Dr. Lipkin will review methods for viral surveillance and discovery, strategies and pitfalls in linking discoveries to disease and point to opportunities for improvements, and the use of social media and medical informatics that will further advance clinical medicine and public health.

 

Dr. Lipkin is internationally recognized for the development of genetic methods for microbial surveillance and discovery. He directs the NIH Center for Diagnostics and Discovery, is a member of the advisory committee to the director of the NIH and is scientific director of the Joint Research Laboratory for Pathogen Discovery in the Chinese Centers for Disease Control. His contributions include the first use of genetic methods to identify an infectious agent; implication of West Nile virus as the cause of the encephalitis in North America in 1999; invention of MassTag PCR and the first panmicrobial microarray; first use of deep sequencing in pathogen discovery; and molecular characterization of more than 700 viruses. He has been active in translating science to the public through print and digital media and was chief scientific consultant for the Steven Soderbergh film Contagion.

 

Dr. Lipkin received his medical training at Rush Medical College, was an intern in medicine at Presbyterian Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, and had residencies in medicine at the University of Washington and in neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Institute of Scripps Clinic. He had a faculty appointment at the University of California, Irvine, from 1990 until 2002, when he moved to Columbia.

 

His honors include Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, Kinyoun Lecturer National Institutes of Health, Oxford University Simonyi lecturer, the Mendel Medal and Bernard Fields lecturer.

 

Open to

Public

Reception

Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge

Contact

Linda Hanssler

Phone

(212) 327-7714

Sponsor

Linda Hanssler
(212) 327-7714
lhanssler@rockefeller.edu

Readings

http://librarynews.rockefeller.edu/?p=3853