Speakers - Kenneth Rainin Foundation

Speakers

Researchers, clinicians and industry professionals will share a range of perspectives and their latest work into solving Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

  • Galit Alter, PhD

    Galit Alter, PhD

    Professor of Medicine, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

    Dr. Alter’s work focuses on the development of systems biology tools to define the correlates of immunity against infectious diseases that ravage the globe including HIV, malaria, Tuberculosis, Ebola, Influenza and many others.
  • Bonnie Bassler, PhD

    Bonnie Bassler, PhD

    Professor, Princeton University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

    The Bassler lab studies cell-to-cell communication and collective behaviors in bacteria. This process is called quorum sensing.
  • Isaac Chiu, PhD

    Isaac Chiu, PhD

    Professor, Harvard Medical School

    The Chiu laboratory combines immunology, neurobiology and microbiology to investigate how bacteria interact with nociceptors to produce pain, and how these neurons modulate the immune response during inflammation.
  • Wendy Garrett, MD, PhD

    Wendy Garrett, MD, PhD

    Professor, Harvard University

    The Garrett lab is interested in mucosal immunology and the gut microbiota. Their studies address key questions relevant to the pathophysiology of both Inflammatory Bowel Disease and colorectal cancer.
  • Elaine Hsiao, PhD

    Elaine Hsiao, PhD

    Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Director, UCLA Goodman Luskin Microbiome Center

    The body contains trillions of microbes that impact health and disease. The Hsiao Lab aims to understand how they influence brain and behavior.
  • Rustem Ismagilov, PhD

    Rustem Ismagilov, PhD

    Professor, California Institute of Technology

    The Ismagilov lab focuses on interactions of microbes with humans and developing novel technologies to enable high-resolution quantitative measurements and computational analyses necessary to understand a wide range of complex systems.

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