Our team at the ASTMH annual meeting

Last week, 5 members of our group attended the Annual Meeting of the ASTMH (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) in New Orleans. We experienced some amazing Cajun food, street Jazz, and of course, the charms of the French Quarter. Some highlights from our group:

• Postdoc Shubhi Trivedi presented her work on respiratory immunity after intestinal infection
• Internal Medicine Resident Melissa Pender presented her work on clinical predictors differentiating causes of traveler’s diarrhea, a collaborative work with investigators at AFRIMS (Thailand) and CIWEC (Nepal)
• Tai Diep, our collaborator at the Pasteur Institut in Ho Chi Minh City, presented our work on use of dried blood spots in cholera serosurveillance.
• We kicked off our “Bayesian Diagnostics for Pediatric Diarrhea” project in a meeting with our funder (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) and collaborators (Brown University, University of Florida, University of Maryland)