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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
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
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
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
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
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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July 18-20, 2025
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Registration is open through June 11 for the 2025 Innovations Symposium.
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