ICAAC Live Feed
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The 52th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) got underway today in San Francisco, and once again we’re fortunate to have videos of press conferences being webcast live and archived via MicrobeWorld’s Youtube channel.
You can visit MicrobeWorld for a complete schedule and links to the embedded videos, but briefly the 10 interview/press conferences scheduled over the next three days are:
ICAAC Live 2012 San Francisco
Schedule
(Please note topics, guests and times are subject to change. This page may be updated frequently prior to ICAAC.)
Sunday, September 9
10:00 a.m. PDT - Seasonal Flu Vaccine and Pandemic Flu Severity
Danuta Skowronski, BC Center for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
10:45 a.m., PDT - HIV Infection and Cardiovascular Health
Daniel Pearce, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, United States
Charles Hicks, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States
12:00 noon, PDT - ICAAC Overview Briefing
M. Lindsay Grayson, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
- Craig E. Rubens, Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Seattle, WA
- Michael J. Pucci, Achillion Pharmaceuticals, New Haven, CT
1:00 p.m., PDT - Measles: What's Next?
Jane Seward, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
Gaston De Serres, Institute National de Santé Publique du Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Monday, September 10
10:30 a.m., PDT - Universal Influenza Vaccine Update
Wendy Keitel, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
Zachary Shriver, Visterra, Inc., Cambridge, MA, United States
12:00 noon, PDT - Vaccine to Prevent Norovirus Infection
John Treanor, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States
1:00 p.m., PDT - Do Cranberries Prevent UTIs? Suzanne Geerlings, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2:00 p.m., PDT - ICAAC Live: This Week in Microbiology with Vincent Racaniello
Vincent Racaniello, Columbia University Medical Center, NY, United States
Michael Schmidt, Medical University of South Carolina, SC, UNited States
John Brownstein, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA, United States
William Bishai, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, MD, United States
Victor Nizet, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, CA, United States
Tuesday, September 11
9:30 a.m., PDT - Antibody Therapies for C. difficile
Sylvia Wong, Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
David Humphreys, UCB Pharma, Slough, United Kingdom
10:30 a.m., PDT - Emergence of Animal-Origin H3N2 Influenza
Lyn Finelli, CDC, Atlanta, GA, United States
11:30 a.m., PDT - The Emerging Role of Social Media in Public Health
John Brownstein, Children's Hospital Boston & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
You can follow the ICAAC conference, and ask questions of these speakers, via Twitter by following, or using the #ICAAC hashtag, or by directing your question to @ASMNewsroom.
