ICAAC 2012: Streaming & Archived Videos

 

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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.

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