The next Distinguished Scientist Seminar will be presented by Dr. Andrés Vázquez-Torres, associate professor of microbiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colo.
His seminar, titled “Adaptive Tolerance to Antibiotics Through the Nitrosylation of Quinol Cytochrome Oxidases,” will take place on Oct. 28, 2010, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium on USA’s main campus.
Dr. Vázquez-Torres’ laboratory focuses on using cellular, molecular and biochemical approaches to understand the role that mononuclear phagocytes play in the host response to intracellular pathogenic microorganisms.
Dr. Vázquez-Torres earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1996 and his D.V.M. degree from the University of Cordoba in Spain in 1998. He completed 5 years of postdoctoral research training at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he became a faculty member in 2001.
He has received many awards and honors throughout his career, including the Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Award in 2004 from the American Society of Microbiology and the American Academy of Microbiology.
In addition, Dr. Vázquez-Torres is the recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases Award. He has received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 2002, 2004 and 2005. Dr. Vázquez-Torres has served as a reviewer for numerous journals and as a study section member at NIH.
For more information on Dr. Vázquez-Torres’ research, visit http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/medicalschool/departments/Microbiology/faculty/departmental/Pages/VAZQUEZ-TORRES.aspx.
