Upcoming Works in Progress Presentations

Padmini Salgame, PhD, Rutgers University. "Identifying Tuberculosis Biomarkers and Host Immune Protective Mechanisms against Mycobacterium tuberculosis across the disease Spectrum" January 10, 2025 10-11am, RSPH CNR 2001 & Zoom [Download Flyer] [Add to Calendar]

About the monthly TB-WIP Series:

The Emory/Georgia TRAC hosts a monthly “TB Works in Progress” (TB-WIP) conference usually on the 3rd Friday of the month at 9am, where investigators present about current TB research and public health initiatives. Please contact the TRAC administrative core at TRAC@emory.edu for more information 

Past Presentations:

Amit Reddi, PhD, Georgia Tech. "Illuminating the Mechanisms of Mycobacterial Heme Acquisition and Utilization Pathways" December 13, 2024. [Download Flyer]

P: Union Meeting Practice Talks. A series of short presentations by Emory/Georgia TRAC trainees and faculty as a practice for their presentations at The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2024 in Bali, Indonesia. November 1, 2024 [Download Flyer ]

Louis Hopkins, PhD Candidate, Emory University. "CD40-induced modulation of TB immunity through the lens of the CD155-TIGIT receptor axis" October 18, 2024 [Download Flyer]

Cynthia Whitney, MD, MPH, Professor, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. "Findings from CHAMPS: In-depth Investigations of Causes of Child Deaths in High-mortality Settings" September 20, 2024 [Download Flyer]

Jeffrey Collins, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine.  "Plasma metabolite signatures to diagnose TB disease and monitor treatment response: from discovery to translation." August 16, 2024 [Download Flyer]

Kristin Nelson, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology Department, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. "Routine Contact Patterns Relevant for Airborne Transmission of Respiratory Infections in Four Countries: The Globalmix Study." July 19, 2024[Download Flyer ]

Anne Spaulding, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Epidemiology Department, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. "Swabbing Tongues vs. Collecting Sputum to Isolate Mtb in a Mozambican Prison Mass Screening." June 20, 2024 [Download Flyer ]

Aniruddh Sarkar, PhD. Assistant Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and lead of the Micro/Nano Bioelectronics Lab at Emory University.  "Antibody-omics for Tuberculosis Biomarker Discovery and Point-of-Care Diagnostics." May 17, 2024  [Download Flyer]

Samhita Kumar, MPH, Doctoral Student, Global Health & Development Program Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health."Integrating mental health and tuberculosis care systems in Montserrado County, Liberia." April 19, 2024 [Download Flyer]

Joshua D. Doyle, MD, PhD and Subhadra Nandakumar MS, PhD presented "Closing TB GAPs for People Living with HIV: TB Guidance for Adaptable Participant-Centered Service." February 23, 2024 [Download Flyer]

Matthew Magee, PhD, MPH presented "Preliminary Results from a Post-TB Study of Non-Communicable Diseases from the Country of Georgia." January 19, 2024 [Download Flyer]

Dr. Sarita Shah, Dr. Kenneth Castro and Samhita Kumar (Emory) folling their attendance of the United Nations High Level Meeting on TB presented 'UNITED NATIONS HIGH LEVEL MEETING ON TB - What does it mean for ending TB?' December 15, 2023 [Download Flyer]

Dr. Abdullaat Kadyrov and Dr. Gulmira Kalmambetova of the National TB Program in Kyrgyzstan present an overview of the TB program and current research activities in-country [Download Flyer]

Dr. Anneka Hutton (Emory) presented "Spatial Insights into Tuberculosis: Unraveling Infection Patterns in Human Tissue"

TRAC Special Seminar in collaboration with the Emory Global Diabetes Center "The Intersection of Tuberculosis and Diabetes"

Dr. Alex Rosenthal of NIAID "TB Portals Presentations"

Sophie Joseph of Lindo Labs at Emory dept of Anthropology "Genomic Evidence for Adaptation to Tuberculosis in the Andes Before European Contact" [Paper]

Dr. Anant Madabushi "Abstract Interpreter of Maladies: AL for Precision Medicine"

Dr. Chetan Seshadri, MD of the Seattle TRAC presented "'Resistance' to M. tb Infection: a Tale of Two Cohorts"

Dr. Abdullaat Kadyrov and Dr. Gulmira Kalmambetova of the National TB Program in Kyrgyzstan presented an overview of the TB program and current research activities in-country [Download Flyer]

ID Seminar featuring frequent TRAC Collaborator Dr. Francesca Conradie from South Africa "A brave new world: new Options for the treatment of Rifampicin Resistant TB"  [View flyer]

Dr. Kristin Nelson presents "Thinking Ahead: Implementation of New and Repurposed TB Vaccines" [view flyer]

Dr. Peter Cegielski and Joanne Wu (Emory): "Food for thought: Nutritional Status and Risk of Tuberculosis Compared with Other Infectious Diseases"

Dr. Leo Martinez (BU, inconjunction with the Emory Alliance for VAccine Epidemiology) "Infant BCG vaccinaiton and the risk for TB throughout the lifetime"

Dr. Juliette Sekandi (UGA) "Harnessing Digital Technologies to Support Treatment Adherence and Completionof Treatmentin Patients with Tuberculosis Disease in Uganda"

Dr. Liliana Salvador (UGA) "Mycobacterium Bovis Cross-species transmission and genomic signatures across scales"