A.L. BORTREE LECTURE SERIES Department of Veterinary Science Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Center for Molecular Immunology and Infectious Disease Center for Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis College of Agricultural Sciences A.L. BORTREE LECTURE SERIES Andrew Pekosz Professor, Dept. of Environmental Health and Engineering Johns Hopkins University “Human influenza surveillance in two distinct geographic areas identifies variations in virus strains, disease severity and immune responses to infection” Andrew Pekosz received a BS from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Pekosz joined the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in July, 2007.He is an expert on the basic biology of influenza and other emerging or zoonotic virus infections. Dr. Pekosz is the co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Excellence in Influenza Research and Surveillance (JH-CEIRS) and Director of the Center for Emerging Viral Infectious Diseases (CEVID). He has authored more than 60 scientific papers, is on the editorial board for several journals and has served on a number of National Institute of Health scientific and policy review boards focused on biosafety and biocontainment. 01/17/2018 – 11:00am, W201 Millennium Science Complex Hosted by: Troy Sutton (tcs38@psu.edu) The Bortree Series Seminar of 2017-2018 has been supported in part by Eli Lilly and Company