8:00 AM

Check-in

9:00 AM

Welcoming Remarks

Rob Miller
CETI Director

James Holloway
UNM Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Garnett Stokes
UNM President

9:30 AM

Eric “Sam” Loker
CETI Director, 2003 – 2018
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biology Department , University of New Mexico

Hitting where it hurts: new insights on parasitic castration as mediated by larval digenetic trematodes

10:00 AM

Harel Dahari
CETI Mentee, 2009 – 2014
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago

Hepatitis D virus and HBsAg dynamics in the era of new antiviral treatments

10:30 AM

Rob Miller
CETI Director
CETI Co-Director, 2003 – 2018
Professor, Biology Department, University of New Mexico

Three domains are better than two and other oddities during the evolution of mammalian immune systems.

11:00 AM

Break

11:15 AM

Melanie Moses
CETI Mentee, 2007 – 2011
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico

SIMCoV: simulating viral spread and immune response in the lung

11:45 AM

Michelle Steinauer
CETI Pilot Project Awardee, 2011 – 2013
Associate Professor, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences

Genome wide association study of an African snail vector of schistosomiasis identifies genes associated with resistance to infection by Schistosoma mansoni

12:15 PM

Ruy Ribeiro
CETI Mentee, 2006 – 2008 
Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Two decades (more!) of viral dynamics modeling to understand virus biology 

12:45 PM

Lunch

1:45 PM

Si-Ming Zhang
CETI Mentee, 2003 – 2007
Research Professor, Biology Department, University of New Mexico

Genomics and Genetics of snail resistance to schistosomes

2:15 PM

Lydia Tapia
CETI Mentee, 2011 – 2014
Professor & Chair, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico

2:45 PM

Michelle Baker
CETI Mentee, 2003 – 2007
Senior Research Scientist, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Marsupial immunology to antiviral immunity in bats: Insights into the evolution of the mammalian immune system

3:15 PM

Break

3:30 PM

Eric Denkers
CETI Project Leader, 2016 – 2018
Professor, Biology Department, University of New Mexico

New Lessons in Immunology from the Millennial Parasite

4:00 PM

Irene Salinas
CETI Mentee, 2011 – 2014
Professor, Biology Department, University of New Mexico

Evolution of mucosal immune systems in vertebrates

4:30 PM

Closing Remarks