Crossing the mucus barrier: Defining how pathogenic bacteria penetrate intestinal mucus to infect their hosts and cause disease
As part of our Monday seminar series, we are delighted to welcome our speaker:
Talk title: Crossing the mucus barrier: Defining how pathogenic bacteria penetrate intestinal mucus to infect their hosts and cause disease
Dr. Bruce Vallance PhD, Bsc
Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
CH.I.L.D Foundation Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology
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How to join
The event will be in person only, no need to register.
MSB 2170
Medical Sciences Building
University of Toronto
1 King’s College Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 1A8
Details are sent to the LMP community in the Friday events bulletin.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact lmp.seminars@utoronto.ca.
Speaker: Dr. Bruce Vallance
Dr. Bruce Vallance completed his PhD training at McMaster University's Intestinal Disease Research Program and his post-graduate studies on bacterial pathogenesis at the University of British Columbia. Based on his expertise in the study and modeling of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Dr. Vallance was recruited as faculty to the University of British Columbia where he has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts in journals that include Science, Nature Medicine, Immunity, and Gastroenterology, addressing the mechanisms underlying Inflammatory Bowel Diseases as well as the role played by enteric bacteria in driving health or disease within the gastrointestinal tract. For this work, Dr. Vallance was named the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology's Young Investigator in 2007 and received the CAG’s Research Excellence Award in 2016. Since 2011 he has held the CHILD Foundation Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology. Dr. Vallance is also the director of the Gut4Health Microbiome Core, co-lead of the TRIANGLE research training program and co-lead of the newly formed Canadian National Organoid Network.
