Developing a vaccine for Melioidosis:Probing the protective immune response

VALIDATE Summer Seminar

Developing a vaccine for Melioidosis: Probing the protective immune response

VALIDATE Summer Seminar by UCD - Zoom

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Prof Siobhán McClean and Dr Julen Tomás Cortázar discussed their progress towards a vaccine for Burkholderia pseudomallei, the bacterium that causes melioidosis. This event took place on Zoom.

 

Speakers: 

Prof Siobhán McClean is an Associate Professor at the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, UCD. Prof McClean has a research interest in host–pathogen interactions involving respiratory pathogens that cause opportunistic infections and in identifying vaccine antigens that are protective against Burkholderia pseudomallei.

Dr Julen Tomás Cortázar is a postdoctoral researcher at UCD. He is leading part of a project funded by the Wellcome Trust to develop a vaccine against melioidosis caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei.

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