Speakers
Keynotes
Michel Nussenzweig, MD, PhD
The Rockefeller University
Zanvil A. Cohn and Ralph M. Steinman Professor
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Senior Physician
Lalita Ramakrishnan, FRS, FMedSci, PhD
University of Cambridge
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow
Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Physician
Sonia Shah
Author “Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Sonia Shah is a science journalist and prize-winning author, currently at work on a forthcoming book on migration for Bloomsbury Press. Her 2017 book, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond has been called “superbly written,” (The Economist), “bracingly intelligent” (Nature), “provocative” and “chilling,” (New York Times), a “lively, rigorously researched and highly informative read,” (Wall Street Journal) and “absorbing, complex, and ominous,” (Publishers Weekly). It was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and as a finalist for the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in science/technology, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society Award.
Shah was born in 1969 in New York City to Indian immigrants. Growing up, she shuttled between the northeastern United States where her parents practiced medicine and Mumbai and Bangalore, India, where her extended working-class family lived, developing a life-long interest in inequality between and within societies. She holds a BA in journalism, philosophy, and neuroscience from Oberlin College, and lives with molecular ecologist Mark Bulmer and has two sons, Zakir and Kush.
NOMIS Center Faculty Speakers
Janelle Ayres
Associate Professor
NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Helen McLoraine Developmental Chair
Susan Kaech
Professor and Director
NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
NOMIS Chair
Greg Lemke
Professor
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
Françoise Gilot-Salk Chair
Björn Lillemeier
Associate Professor
NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center
Ye Zheng
Associate Professor
NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
