June 24, 2024
CEEZAD/CEZID presents special seminar with Courtney Woolsey
Submitted by Christine Huncovsky
The COBRE Center on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, or CEZID, and the Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases, or CEEZAD, is hosting Courtney Woolsey, assistant professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, in a special seminar presentation.
Woolsey will present "Rapid-Acting and Durable Vaccines Against Priority Pathogens" at 1:30 p.m. Monday, June 24, in the Mara Conference Room on the fourth floor of Trotter Hall. The seminar will also be available via Zoom.
Woolsey's research focuses on understanding the immunopathology of emerging and re-emerging viruses requiring maximum biocontainment, BSL-4. She employs advanced immunological tools such as spectral cytometry/sorting and spatial biology to dissect natural and vaccine-mediated host immunity to these pathogens. The overall objective is to harness this knowledge to improve medical countermeasures. Her specific interests include generating rapid-acting and durable recombinant Vesicular stomatitis virus (rVSV)-based vaccines, characterizing how these vaccines elicit early and sustained protection, and exploring mech-anisms of virus persistence and sequelae.
The CEZID seminar series is organized within the diagnostic medicine and pathobiology department in the College of Veterinary Medicine and is hosted by CEZID director, Juergen Richt.