Learn how scientists like Dr. Arturo Casadevall are working to both counteract the risks of fungi and discover innovative ways to harness their beneficial properties during a conversation led by NPR Short Wave reporter Emily Kwong.
From the delicious to the deadly, fungi—which share 50% of our DNA—present a wide range of benefits and threats to human health, many of which remain unexplored. Please join us as world-renowned infectious disease researcher and inventor Arturo Casadevall, chair of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses his new book, What If Fungi Win?, with Emily Kwong, founding reporter and co-host for NPR science podcast Short Wave. Hear why certain fungal infections take off, why they're so hard to treat, and why we will most certainly see more of them with climate change and treatment-resistant strains.
Dr. Casadevall's book explores how the 1990s AIDS epidemic's fungal complications drove his medical mycology work, how COVID-19's fungal incidences underscore the continuing threat to the immunocompromised, and how he and his Johns Hopkins University laboratory team are discovering ways to counter the threats posed by these cunning, hungry combatants.
Books will be available for purchase and signing from East City Bookshop at a reception following the program.
What If Fungi Win? is part of the Johns Hopkins Wavelengths series published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
This event is presented by the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums, the Office of Research, and Hopkins Press at JHU.
WHEN:
Tuesday, March 4
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Note: Doors open at 5:30 pm
WHERE:
Hopkins Bloomberg Center
555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
The Link [4th Floor]
