Journal of IiMER Volume 10 Issue 1 June 2016 IIMEC11 PRESENTERS and schizophrenia, examines the role of viruses and immune responses in the pathogenesis of these disorders. ABSTRACT: Not available at time of going to press – will be added later. Professor Maureen Hanson Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, New York, USA Maureen Hanson is Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Previously she was on the faculty of the Department of Biology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where she also completed her Ph.D. degree. While most of her prior research has concerned cell and molecular biology in plant cells, she began a research program on ME/CFS after noting at a 2007 IACFS meeting the paucity of molecular biologists studying the illness. Her lab was part of the 2012 multicenter study organized by Ian Lipkin's group at Columbia University to assess the actual role of XMRV in ME/CFS. Dr. Hanson has a current project to examine the microbiome of ME/CFS patients and controls, in collaboration with Dr. Ruth Ley (Cornell Microbiology) and Susan Levine, M.D. (Manhattan, NY). Dr Levine is also collaborating with Dr. Hanson on an immune cell gene expression project that involves Dr. Fabien Campagne and Dr. Rita Shaknovich at Weill Cornell Medical School in New York City. Dr. Hanson's third project concerns analysis of blood samples from individuals performing a two-day cardiopulmonary exercise test at Ithaca College under the supervision of Dr. Betsy Keller ABSTRACT: The Search for Biomarkers in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Maureen R. Hanson (presenter), Ludovic Giloteaux, Julia Goodrich, Anthony Walters, Susan Levine, Ruth Ley Invest in ME (Charity Nr. 1114035) www.investinme.org Page 68 of 77
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