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“From the Staphylococcal Cell Wall to Nucleotide Signalling and Halfway Back” — Imperial College London’s Angelika Gründling, PhD

Date: May 30, 2024
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Location: Hybrid: In-Person and Zoom (Audience limited to Tufts Members and Affiliates; please contact CIMAR@tufts.edu for more details.)
Levy CIMAR Science Lunch

Please join us for a Levy CIMAR Seminar from Angelika Gründling, PhD, a Professor of Molecular Microbiology at Imperial College London whose research combines genetic, biochemical, and structural approaches to provide mechanistic insight into cell wall synthesis and nucleotide signaling pathways in Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes. Prof. Gründling will present “From the Staphylococcal Cell Wall to Nucleotide Signalling and Halfway Back” on Thursday, May 30th, at 12 noon in M&V 412 (4th floor, 136 Harrison Ave.) and on Zoom (details to come).

Prof. Gründling is spending a sabbatical year in the Rudner and Bernhardt Labs at Harvard Medical School, where her research goal is to fill gaps in the understanding of how the bacterial membrane is built. Please click the following links to learn more about Prof. Gründling’s work at Imperial College London or about her sabbatical research at Harvard.

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Please join us for a seminar from Brown University’s Christina Cuomo, PhD, a Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology who works to identify mechanisms of virulence and drug resistance that can be used to guide and refine treatment decisions. Dr. Cuomo will present on “Genomic Epidemiology and Evolution of Drug Resistance in Candida auris” on Thursday, March 28th, at 12 noon both in person and by Zoom (details to come).

Dr. Cuomo and team utilize genomic approaches to study the evolution of human fungal pathogenic species, taking comparative, population genomic, and microevolutionary approaches to identify genes and variants associated with phenotypes linked to virulence and drug resistance and to characterize how genome structure evolves.

Dr. Cuomo is also the Director of the Fungal Genomics Group and Associate Director in the Genomic Center for Infectious Diseases at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Dr. Cuomo’s work at the Broad has led to major insights into the unique features of pathogenic species, how genomes evolve, variation with pathogen populations, antifungal drug resistance, and genes involved in host interaction.

You can learn more about her research here and here.

We are excited to announce that Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir, PharmD, MPH, AAHIVP will present on “The Intersection of Racism, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Vaccine Equity” for a Black History Month seminar sponsored jointly by Micro DEI, the Levy CIMAR, and the Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. This talk will take place on Thursday, February 29th, 2024 at 12 Noon both in person and by Zoom (details to come). 

Among her many titles, Dr. Abdul-Mutakabbir is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at UC San Diego’s Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and in the Division of the Black Diaspora and African American Studies. Her research in mitigating antimicrobial resistance has led her to be recognized by the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases as one of their 30 under 30 outstanding young scientists, for their ECCMID 2021 31st annual meeting.  She is also dedicated to magnifying and rectifying health inequities in minoritized communities. To that point, she currently serves as the Lead Pharmacist and Educator for Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement-Health Equity Collaborative and was the 2023 recipient of the Infectious Disease Society of American Clinical Practice Innovation Award.

Dr. Abdul-Mutakabbir’s talk will provide an overview of health equity principles, inequities observed in AMR, and the link to vaccine inequities.She will explore a framework on how to incorporate equity into different facets of practice, both within and outside of the realm of infectious diseases practice.

You can learn more about Dr. Abdul-Mutakabbir here. You can also download a flyer for the event here. The event’s hosts are Aimee Shen, PhD, PhD Candidate Adrianne Gladden-Young, and Micro DEI.

Our December 14th Levy CIMAR Science Seminar will explore antimicrobial resistance from both clinical and basic science perspectives. We will hear from two speakers this month: Tufts Medical Center’s Kap Sum Foong, MD, an Attending Physician with expertise in antimicrobial stewardship and infection control, and Juan Hernandez-Bird, a PhD candidate in the laboratory of CIMAR’s Ralph Isberg, PhD, studying how the bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii evolves antibiotic resistance. Please join us on Thursday, December 14th, at 12 noon in Behrakis Auditorium (1st floor, Jaharis Building, 150 Harrison Ave., Boston) and by Zoom (details to come).

Dr. Foong will present on “Uncovering Antibiotic Allergy in Massachusetts Long-Term Care Facilities: Reporting Patterns and Impact on Antibiotic Prescribing.” He was recently awarded the IDSA’s Leaders in Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Stewardship and Public Health (LEAP) Fellowship for his project, “A Point Prevalence Survey of Antibiotic Allergy Labels Among Long Term Care Facility Residents in Massachusetts – Variation by Race/Ethnicity and Impact on Antibiotic Patterns.” He is partnering with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for this research. (Learn more about Dr. Foong here.)

Mr. Hernandez-Bird will present on “Applying the Mouse Pneumonia Model of Acinetobacter baumannii for the Evolution and Characterization of Colistin-Selected Mutants.” His research in the Isberg Lab looks at how A. baumanii evolves drug resistance in the context of an in-vivo infection, and how the presence or absence of an immune response affects this process. Mr. Hernandez-Bird was a Levy CIMAR Featured Trainee in 2020. You can learn about his current work here.

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