8th International Conference on Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis
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Full NameTitleInstitution
Anastasia Litvintseva, PhDResearch Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center 
Teun Boekhout, PhDSenior ScientistCBS-KNAW Fungal Diversity Centre
Wieland Meyer, PhDAssociate ProfessorSydney Medical School, Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Westmead Millenium Institute for Medical Research
Tom Mitchell, PhDAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center
Dee Carter, PhDHead of Microbiology, Associate ProfessorDiscipline of Microbiology, School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney
Bettina Fries, MDAssociate ProfessorDepartments of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology; Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhDProfessorAlbert Einstein College of Medicine
Kirsten Nielsen, PhDAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota
Peter Espenshade, PhDAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Cell Biology, Center for Metabolism and Obesity Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Peter Williamson, MD, PhDChief, Translational Mycology SectionLaboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Tamara Doering, MD, PhDProfessorWashington University School of Medicine
John R. Perfect, MDProfessor of Medicine, Acting ChiefDivision of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center
Jim KronstadProfessorThe Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia
K. June Kwon-Chung, PhDChief, Molecular Microbiology SectionLaboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health
Alexander Idnurm, PhDAssistant ProfessorSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri - Kansas City
Xiaorong Lin, PhDAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Biology, Texas A & M University
Christina Hull, PhDAssociate ProfessorDepartments of Biomolecular Chemistry and Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Wisconsin
Yong-Sun Bahn, PhDAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Biotechnology, College of Life Science & Biotechnology, Yonsei University
Ping Wang, PhDAssociate ProfessorThe Research Institute for Children
Robin May, PhDSenior Lecturer & Lister FellowSchool of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston
Andrew Alspaugh, MDAssociate ProfessorDuke University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Mycology Research
Anna Vecchiarelli, PhDProfessorDepartment of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Science, Microbiology Section, University of Perugia
Christopher H. Mody, MD, FRCPC, FCCP, FACPProfessor and ChiefDepartments of Internal Medicine and Microbiology and Infectious Disease, University of Calgary
Stuart M. Levitz, MDProfessorMedicine and Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Tom Kozel  
Kazuyoshi Kawakami, MD, PhDProfessorDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Mycology and Immunology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
Floyd L. Wormley, Jr., PhDAssociate ProfessorMicrobiology & Immunology, Department of Biology, South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Texas at San Antonio
Gottfried Alber, DVMProfessorInstitute of Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Universität Leipzig
Michal Olszewski, DVM, PhDAssistant ProfessorDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School; and VA Medical Center Ann Arbor Research Service
Liise-Anne Pirofski, MDMitrani Professor and Professor of MedicineBiomedical Research, Microbiology and Immunology Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center
Peter Pappas, MD, FACPProfessor of Medicine, Principal Investigator, Mycoses Study Group Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Karen Bartlett, PhDAssociate ProfessorSchool of Environmental Health, University of British Columbia
Sharon Chen, PhDScientific ChairWestmead Hospital, Clinical Mycology Laboratory
Françoise Dromer, MD, PhDAssociate Professor, Molecular Mycology UnitInstitut Pasteur
Jason E. Stajich, PhDAssistant ProfessorUniversity of California Riverside, Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology
Fred Dietrich, PhDAssociate ProfessorIGSP's Center for Applied Genomics & Technology, Duke University Medical Center
Jennifer Lodge, PhDWashington University in St. Louis
Angela Gelli, PhDAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California Davis
Marcio Rodrigues, PhDAssociate ProfessorMicrobiology Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Hiten Madhani, MD, PhDProfessorBiochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF
Thomas Patterson, MDDirectorSan Antonio Center for Medical Mycology
Tania C. Sorrell, MDProfessor and Director, Sydney Medical School Foundation FellowSydney Institute for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity and Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Sydney Medical School; Senior Physician in Infectious Diseases, Sydney West Area Health Service
Nelesh Govender, MD, FCPathSA, MMed, DTM&H, Dip HIV ManHead: Mycology Reference UnitNational Institute for Communicable Diseases, a Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa
Thomas Harrison, MD Infectious Diseases, St. George's Hospital Medical School
David Boulware, MD, MPH, DTM&HAssistant Professor; Associate Director of Global HealthInfectious Disease & International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota
Shigeru Kohno  
John Bennett, MDChief, Clinical Mycology Section; Director, Infectious Disease TrainingNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Ekaterina Dadachova, PhDAssociate ProfessorNuclear Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Sylvia and Robert S. Olnick Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research
Yun Chang, PhD National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease