Keynote Speaker

This year we are excited to have Dr. Britt Glausinger as our keynote speaker. Dr. Glausinger is a Professor & Chair of the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, as well as a Professor of Molecular Therapeutics/MCB and the Class of 1963 Endowed Chair at the University of California, Berkeley, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She has studied virus-host interactions in DNA viruses for the past 30 years and is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. Research in her lab is centered on virus-host interactions that influence gene expression, primarily in the context of herpesvirus infection. This encompasses viral repurposing and alteration of the cellular gene regulatory machinery to promote viral replication, as well as cellular responses to viral invasion. Her lab has a particular focus on mechanisms by which viral proteins control host and viral RNA synthesis, processing, and mRNA turnover through interactions with mammalian gene expression machinery.