SIS2026 Speakers

Anne Sperling, PhD
Professor, Medicine- Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Virginia

Qiwei Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
University of Virginia

Matthew Gardner, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory School of Medicine
Researcher, Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory School of Medicine
Emory National Primate Research Center Researcher

Christian P. Larsen, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Surgery
Emory School of Medicine

Kay Chung, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Brent Hanks, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department Medicine, Oncology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Emily Moser, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department Medicine
University of Florida
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Scripps

Allison Bayer, PhD
Associate Professor, Department Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine
University of Florida
Scripps

Isidoro Cobo, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Maria Grant, MD
Professor; Eivor and Alston Callahan, MD, Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Ruben Martinez Barricarte, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Genetics
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation

Mark R. Boothby, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation

Erika J. Crosby, PhD
Assistant Professor in Surgery
Assistant Professor in Integrative Immunobiology
Assistant Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute