Special AMR Seminar with Dr. Eric J Nelson MD, PhD         

Co-hosted with McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity 

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Friday, November 21, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Hybrid event | Registration required
 

Free In-Person: Karp Conference Room 501
Goodman Cancer Institute, 1160 Pine Avenue
(also access via 3649 Promenade Sir William Osler entrance, 5th floor) 
Light lunch following presentation
Online: via zoom

Program:

“Defending against AMR: Is there more than one puck on the ice? “
Dr. Eric J Nelson, MD, PhD, MS, FAAP
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Emerging Pathogens Institute
University of Florida

Using cholera as a model system, the seminar will pitch a new paradigm for conceptualizing disease severity as a function of predator/prey dynamics between virulent bacteriophage and bacterial pathogens. The proposal accounts for antibiotic exposure and resistance PLUS bacteriophage and bacteriophage resistance. The presentation will hopefully catalyze a rich discussion on antimicrobial resistance mitigation, phage therapy and diagnostic development.

Learning objectives:
Fundamentals in cholera pathogenesis
Bacteriophage biology, therapy and diagnostics
AMR among enteric pathogens
Predator/prey theory

About the Speaker:

Eric Nelson MD PhD MS FAAP is a tenured Associate Professor and physician-scientist at the University of Florida. Clinically, Dr. Nelson serves as an inpatient pediatrician. Scientifically, Dr. Nelson is the principal investigator of a large NIH (USA) funded laboratory at the Emerging Pathogens Institute (UF). He was trained at Stanford University and Tufts University. The mission of his collaborative team is to determine pathways to better respond to large-scale infectious disease outbreaks globally from clinical, public health, and scientific perspectives. To do this, Dr. Nelson has collaborations in Asia, Africa and Haiti where they conduct interventional clinical trials on novel approaches to address this challenge.