The 2025 IIZD Symposium

This event on March 19-20, 2025 will bring together top zoonotic disease experts, researchers, and curious minds to discuss the latest discoveries. 

For those who are submitting an abstract for the symposium, please make sure to fill out this form!

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM | Robert R. Marshak Public Lecture

Peter Jay Hotez MD, PhD of Baylor College of Medicine will present the Robert R. Marshak Public Lecture, "Vaccines and Immunizations in a Time of Global Boiling and Anti-Science," to open the symposium.

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Co-hosted by

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Peter J. Holtz

Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM

Distinguished experts from across the country will showcase their latest breakthroughs in zoonotic disease research.

Featured invited speakers included:

  • Christine Johnson, VMD, MPVM, PhD, UC Davis
    On the Frontlines: Surveillance for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Marc Johnson, PhD, University of Missouri
    Flush with Data, Using Wastewater Surveillance to Monitor Expected and Unexpected Pathogens
  • Erin Mordecai, PhD, Stanford University
    More Than Warming: Climate Change is Transforming the Landscape of Vector-Borne Diseases
  • Salvador Almagro Moreno, PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Emergence and Evolution of Bacterial Pathogens: Deciphering a Complex Phenomenon
  • Bill Petri, MD, PhD, University of Virginia
    Immunologic Mechanisms of FMT for Recurrent C. difficile Infection
  • Jürgen Richt, DVM, PhD, Kansas State University
    Title TBD
  • Mark Wilber, PhD, University of Tennessee
    Challenges and Opportunities When Identifying Pathogen Reservoirs in Wildlife Communities

We will also feature talks by the 2024 Martin and Pamela Winter Infectious Disease Fellows:

  • Raegan Petch, Bates Lab
    Mutations That Positively Affect Bandavirus Glycoprotein Function on VSV
  • Daana Roach, Hamilton Lab
    LCN2 Contributes to an Altered Secretory Environment in the Intestinal Epithelium in Crohn's Disease
  • Helen Stillwater, Weiss Lab
    Clade C MERS Coronaviruses Circulating in Northern Africa Differentially Activate the Innate Immune Response

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Questions about the event? Contact Lisa Mattei, PhD, Senior Research Investigator at lmattei@upenn.edu.