Residents and Fellows Research Day 2015 A Program of the Theresa and Eugene M. Lang Center For Research and Education May 20 Keynote Address Thoughts on the Origin of Microbial Virulence Arturo Casadevall, M.D., papers, Dr. Casadevall became Ph.D., has been named interested in problems with keynote speaker for Resident scientific enterprise and has and Fellows Research Day shown, with his collaborators, 2015. Currently Chair of the that misconduct accounts for Department of Molecular Micro- the majority of retracted biology and Immunology at the publications. He has suggested Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School a variety of reforms to the way of Public Health, Dr. Casadevall science is done. will discuss the rise of invasive From 2006-2014, Dr. fungal diseases as a major medi- Casadevall served as chair of cal problem and the effect of the Department of Microbi- global warming on fungal ology and Immunology at thermal tolerance, as fungal Montefiore Medical Center, species adapt to higher ambient Dr. Arturo Casadevall the University Hospital and temperatures. He will also speak academic medical center for about the search for new therapeutics and Einstein, and as director of the Division of about fungal thermal tolerance, a poorly Infectious Diseases from 2000-2006. understood complex trait, which is a promi- He has also served on numerous NIH sing new area for basic science research. committees including those that drafted the Dr. Casadevall’s major research interests NIAID Strategic Plan and the Blue Ribbon are in fungal pathogenesis and the mecha- Panel on Biodefense Research. In 2008, he nism of antibody action. He also has an active was recognized by the American Society of research program in the area of biodefense Microbiology with the William Hinton Award to understand the mechanisms of antibody- for mentoring scientists from under-represen- mediated neutralization of Bacillus anthracis ted groups. He has been elected to the AAAS toxins. Fellowship, the American Society for Clinical Currently, Dr. Casadevall is a member of Investigation, the American Academy of the National Science Advisory Board for Microbiology, the American Association of Biosecurity and co-chairs the NIAID Board of Physicians and the Institute of Medicine. Scientific Counselors. He is the editor-in-chief Dr. Casadevall received both his M.D. and of mBio, the first open-access general journal Ph.D. (biochemistry) degrees from New York of the American Society of Microbiology, and University. Subsequently, he completed his he is on the editorial board of the Journal of internship and residency in internal medicine Clinical Investigation and the Journal of at Bellevue Hospital in New York. He then Experimental Medicine. completed subspecialty training in infectious The author of more than 620 scientific diseases at Montefiore and Einstein. For information call Karen Hultberg, Administrative Director, 718-670-2840.