1 LDA-Columbia Lyme 2011 Conference Line-up

On October 1 and 2, there will be a combined LDA/Columbia-Lyme Conference held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Below is an outline of the conference speakers and topics...

Keynote Speaker: J. William Costerton, PhD
The Role of Biofilms in Chronic Bacterial Infections

Eva Sapi, PhD
Killing Borrelia: An impossible job?

Jason A. Carlyon, PhD
Interior Decorating: Anaplasma phagocytophilum Remodels Its Host Cell-Derived Vacuole into A Protective Niche

Richard Marconi, PhD, Co-Course Director
c-di-GMP Regulates Key Steps in the Enzootic Cycle of Tick-Borne Spirochetes

Chris Earnhart, PhD
Lyme disease vaccine: an update on recent progress

Dr. Ed Masters Memorial Lecture: Robert S. Lane, PhD
Diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. genospecies and genotypes in California, and Implications for human infection.

M. Karen Newell Rogers, PhD
A New Model of Intervention for Lyme Disease by Targeting Chronic Inflammation and Selective Aspects of Immune Activation

Robert Yolken, MD
Infections and Human Neuropsychiatric Diseases

Josep Dalmau, MD, PhD
Clinical spectrum and cellular mechanisms of autoimmunity to NMDA and other synaptic receptors

Dr. John Drulle Memorial Lecture: John Aucott, MD
Early microbiologic and immunologic events in Lyme disease

Reinhard K. Straubinger, PhD
Canine and equine Lyme borreliosis – The animals’ perspective of the disease.

Benjamin J. Luft, MD
Diagnostics: update on protein arrays and new Lyme assays

Brian Fallon, MD, Co-Course Director
What is Chronic Lyme Disease? Models and evidence

Andrew W. Walter, MD
Update on Ehrlichiosis and Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Children

Andrea Gaito, MD
Clinical Evaluation and treatment of Lyme Arthritis; An autoimmune perspective

Ingeborg Dziedzic, MD
What everyone should know about Eyes & Lyme Disease

Vijay Thadani, MD
Epilepsy update: Distinguishing Epileptic from Non-epileptic seizures

Steve Bock, MD
Complementary and Integrative Medical approaches to Chronic Tick-borne Disease

Elizabeth Maloney, MD
The treatment of Lyme disease - a critical review of the literature – lessons, gaps, and future research needs

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I think this conference holds more scientific weight to it than other Lyme disease-related conferences I've seen, so if anyone is going to be in Philly and attends, please take notes to share with us all.

(I won't be able to attend as I have a previous commitment scheduled before I knew this conference was going to be held at this time in October.)

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