Join us in Seattle for a one-day seminar.
WMIC Workshop on Imaging of Infection and Inflammation
Friday, September 14, 2018
08:00 – 15:00
Room 603
Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Description:
The Workshop on Imaging of Infection and Inflammation will focus on the latest developments in molecular imaging of infection and inflammation, spanning preclinical development to first-in-human studies. A panel to discuss the challenges in securing NIH funding as well as an interactive demonstration on biosafety containment techniques for small animal will be presented. The overall goals of this workshop are to bring together individuals from multiple scientific disciplines, promote collaborations and to develop new imaging techniques for infection and inflammation with the intent of clinical translation. Please join us and contribute to the discussions.
Program Schedule
08:00-08:15 Introduction
Sanjay K. Jain, Johns Hopkins University
Christopher Palestro, Long Island Jewish Medical Center and Catherine A. Foss, Johns Hopkins University (Moderators)
08:15-08:30 Imaging Bacterial Infection using Maltotriose based probes: preclinical updates
Gayatri Gowrishankar, Stanford University
08:30-08:45 Maltodextrin based Optical imaging probes
Niren Murthy, UC Berkley
08:45-09:00 MRI detection of bacteria using endogenous bacCEST
Guanshu Liu, Johns Hopkins University
09:00-09:15 New approaches of Nuclear Imaging of Tuberculosis ‐ Good Clinical Practice and First‐in‐Human investigations
Thomas Ebenhan, University of Pretoria, South Africa
09:15-09:30 First-in-human evaluation of 11C-trimethoprim to image bacterial infection: Study design and early results
Mark Sellmyer, University of Pennsylvania
9:30-11:00 Break
Charles H. Manning, Vanderbilt University and Liz Tucker, Johns Hopkins University (Moderators)
11:00-11:15 Molecular Imaging to study Ebola virus pathophysiology
Dima A. Hammoud, NIH
11:15-11:30 18F-FDG PET imaging in High consequence Viral infections
Reed Johnson, Integrated Research Facility (NIH/NIAID)
11:30-11:45 Imaging Lung Transplant rejection
Delphine Chen, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
11:45-12:00 Immuno‐PET in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Anna Wu, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
12:00-12:10 PET imaging in Neuro-HIV
Sanhita Sinharay, NIH
12:10-12:30 Interactive Demo: Biosafety “Barriers” in the Laboratory
Alvaro A. Ordonez and Sanjay K. Jain, Johns Hopkins University
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Panel Discussion on NIH funding
Sanjay K. Jain, Johns Hopkins University and Dima A. Hammoud, NIH (Moderators)
Panelists: Karen A. Lacourciere, NIH/NIAID
Program Officer
Respiratory Disease Branch, NIH/NIAID/DMID
Gayatri Gowrishankar, Stanford University and Thomas Ebenhan, University of Pretoria, South Africa (Moderators)
14:00-14:10 Brain 18F-FDG PET imaging in Ebola infected monkeys
William Schreiber-Stainthorp, NIH
14:10-14:20 18F-FAC PET visualizes brain infiltrating leukocytes in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis
Peter Clark, UCLA
14:20-14:30 PET and Antimicrobial Distribution: Does the Drug Reach the Bug?
Alvaro A. Ordonez, Johns Hopkins University
14:30-14:40 Challenges in Neurotherapeutics: Insights into Antimicrobial Pharmacokinetics using PET
Liz Tucker, Johns Hopkins University
14:40-14:50 Immune Cell Tracking with Magnetic Particle Imaging
Prashant Chandrasekharan, UC Berkley
14:50-15:00 Targeting the Complement pathway to image Bacterial infections
Catherine Foss, Johns Hopkins University