NIAID-DVI: Dengue Cohort Studies in Thailand -- Tim Endy

As a intermittent blogger...or rather any type of blogger, I get an absolute thrill when I see my pageviews jump from a few dozen to a couple hundred at any given time especially since my blog goes "inactive" if I've nothing to say (ie. no conference, no workshop, no training to write about or I'm being lackadaisical about reviewing literature on a blog). On October 9th I hit 244 pageviews...and when I checked today I saw that on Oct 13th I had 488...it was indeed thrilling. The last time I experienced a thrill such as this was when I got into the thousands after I live-blogged the Workshop on Genomics Blog Series in Jan 2013.

It's always nice to know one's blog is proving useful from time to time...

Back to NIAID-DVI!

Human immune responses to dengue infection: lessons from cohort studies in Thailand
Tim Endy
State University of New York Upstate Medical University

Tim Endy like Dr. Kuhn is another one of those individuals in the field I could listen to for hours and not get bored. He's been a long time collaborator of my postdoc mentor, MAJ Jarman and WRAIR, where I work now. He also a retired COL did a stint at AFRIMS in Bangkok and is highly involved and I would contend a pillar in dengue work in Thailand.

Additionally, it's always exciting when someone you look up to in your field uses figures you generated in his presentation...huzzah!

That all being said...

NIAID-DVI: Pediatric Dengue Cohort Study -- Eva Harris

Neutralizing antibody responses in the Nicaraguan Pediatric Dengue Cohort Study
Eva Harris
Division of Infectious Diseases & Vaccinology
SPH, UC Berkley

So I've always enjoyed talks by Eva Harris...she's always very animated and excited about her work and she almost always has an overwhelming amount of information to show--scientific sensory overload at times...you wish you could just have copies of the slides or write faster to catch everything she says. She has a very active group, active collaborations, so she usually has  a lot to say in a short time. But y'know when you've been involved in work in a country for 23+ years...you're going to have a lot to say. 

I first heard Eva talk at ASTMH about Molly OhAinle's work which came out in 2011 in Science and Translational Medicine...