Valley Fever Seminar Series: David Ojcius, UC Merced

The Health Sciences Research Institute and Sierra Health Foundation are hosting a Valley Fever Seminar series. All talks are from 1 - 3 p.m., and are free and open to the public. 

• March 12 — David Ojcius, UC Merced, in Social Sciences and Management Building Room 217, "Inflammasome Activation by the Fungal Pathogen Aspergillus Fumigatus"
   
• March 14 — Nathan Stockamp, UCSF-Fresno, Social Sciences and Management Building Room 317, "Clinical Aspects of Valley Fever"
   
• April 2 — Clarence Cryer, California Correctional Health Care Services, Classroom and Office Building Room 322, "The Impact of Valley Fever on the Correctional Health Care Setting"
   
• April 11 — Antje Lauer, CSU Bakersfield, Social Sciences and Management Building Room 317, "Ecology of Coccidioides"
   
• April 16 — Herb Boro, Cocci Study Group, Classroom and Office Building Room 322, "Valley Fever Basics," plus updates from the 2914 Cocci Study Group Meeting
   
• April 23 — David Filip, ValleyFeverSurvior.com, Social Sciences and Management Building Room 366, "Public and Medical Misinformation on Valley Fever"
   
• April 30 — Kirt Emery, Kern County Public Health, Classroom and Office Building Room 322, "The Ebb and Flow of Coccidioidomycosis in Kern County"
   
• May 1 — Anita Sil, UCSF, Social Sciences and Management Building Room 317, "Regulation of Cell Shape and Virulence in Thermally Dimorphic Fungi;" and John Taylor, UC Berkeley, "Coccidioides Species Outside a Living Host: Saprophytic or Saprozooic?" 
   
• May 7 — Sarah M. Rios, UC Santa Barbara, Classroom and Office Building Room 322, "Undocumented Accounts of Valley Fever: Farmworkers in the Central Valley"
   
• May 14 — Erin Gaab, UC Merced, Social Sciences and Management Building Room 317, "Preliminary Perspectives of Children with Valley Fever"
   
• May 21 — Leslie Wilson, UCSF, UCSF-Fresno, Room TBD, "Economic Impact of Valley Fever in California"