NGEC Workshop 2010

2010 Keynote Speakers

Dr. Bruce Torbett
The Scripps Research Institute
Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine
10550 North Torrey Pines Road, MEM-131
La Jolla, CA 92037

Email: betorbett <at> scripps <dot> edu
Phone: (858) 784-9123
Fax: (858) 784-7714

Bruce E. Torbett received his Ph.D. in Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed his postdoctoral research at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of Molecular and Experimental Medicine and Immunology Microbial Sciences, The Scripps Research Institute and in the Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California.

Dr. Torbett studies HIV-1 vector entry and gene delivery to human hematopoietic cells, myeloid development, and co-evolution of HIV-1 protease and its substrate, gag-pol. He and his group’s have made numerous contributions to these fields, including the demonstration that HIV vectors target human hematopoietic stem cells, disruption of the expression of the HIV-1 entry portal, CCR5, through gene delivery protects and allows expansion of T cells in the presence of an ongoing infection, and the regulatory role of the transcription factor, PU.1, in myeloid differentiation.
 

 
Dr. Toni Cathomen
Hannover Medical School
Experimental Hematology, OE 6960
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
30625 Hannover, Germany

Email: cathomen <dot> toni <at> mh-hannover <dot> de
Phone: +49 511 532 5170
Fax: +49 511 532 5121

Toni Cathomen received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and conducted postdoctoral research in Zurich and at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, CA. He was Assistant Professor of Molecular Virology at Charité Medical School in Berlin and has recently been appointed to Associate Professor of Genome Engineering at Hannover Medical School, Germany.