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Health Sciences Building (155 College Street), Room 208
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  • October 23, 2019 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Join the CVPD and special guest Dr. Scott Gray-Owen who will give a seminar on The Design and Build Approach: Engineering vaccines to confer broad protection against Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Please register for a ticket via Eventbrite.

Biography:

Professor Gray-Owen’s research aims to understand how the pathogenic Neisseria, which includes the bacteria that cause the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea and rapidly progressing invasive meningococcal meningitis, colonize human tissues and evade the otherwise effective immune response. His research group works to describe how these bacteria and their host respond to each other, and to differentiate between protective and pathogenic immune responses during infectious disease. These studies have led to their development of ‘humanized’ mouse models of neisserial colonization that provide new insights regarding the mucosal lifestyle of pathogenic Neisseria, to their discovery of a bacterial metabolite that triggers an innate inflammatory response via a previously unrecognized ‘microbial sensor’ pathway, and to their development of novel vaccines with the potential to broadly protect against neisserial colonization and disease.

About the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases:

With leadership housed at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, we are developing an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers, educators and public health advocates. Our vision is to catalyze cutting-edge research and education that maximizes the health benefits of immunization for everyone.

We aim to contribute locally and globally to healthy communities through excellence in interdisciplinary vaccine-preventable disease and immunization research and education.