Dr. Haile Debas, the executive director of the UC San Francisco Global Health Sciences and the director of the University of California Global Health Institute, will give the keynote address titled "Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Health Challenges in the 21st Century."

The symposium is being hosted by the Center for Disease Vector Research (CDVR) and the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB) at UC Riverside.

"The CDVR is unique in that it consists of faculty and students who study insect vectors of pathogens of humans and plants as well as the pathogens themselves," said Peter Atkinson, the CDVR's director. "The IIGB through its core genomics and bioinformatics facilities and trained staff has the state of the art DNA sequencing and bioinformatics capacity to participate at the cutting edge of this important research field."

The symposium is open to the public. A registration fee of $60-100 includes refreshments, lunches, poster session and an evening reception on March 27. Reporters may attend the entire symposium at no charge.

As part of the symposium, a poster session will be held in the Genomics Building to highlight vector biology research of graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty.

Source: University of California - Riverside