What If Fungi Win? A Conversation with Dr. Arturo Casadevall

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. Could fungal pathogens outsmart us before we find ways to combat them? Dr. Arturo Casadevall takes up this question in conversation with Eric Niiler.

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, , with Eric Niiler, a science/climate reporter at The Wall Street Journal.

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. 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 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, November 12
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]

Note: This is an in-person event only; a recording of the event will be available through on a future date.

Host or Publisher Johns Hopkins Wavelengths & JHU Sheridan Libraries