100+ Years of Virology and Immunology & Schoolwide Celebration: Bloomberg School Recognized As Historic Site

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will be formally recognized by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) as a historic site on Friday, May 3, 2024.

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1:30 - 2:00 p.m.  MMI Alumni & Guests Arrive/Registration  
                            Enter at Monument St. entrance 

2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Celebration of 100+ Years of Virology and Immunology

Sommer Hall E2014/E3018 

Welcome - Gary Ketner, Virologist, MMI Professor, Master of Ceremonies 
Diane Griffin, Professor and former Department Chair, University Distinguished Professor

Keynote Address: Bernard Roizman, ScD '56 "Honoring 100 Years of Virology" 

Tribute to Virologist Keerti Shah, former MMI Department Chair, Remarks by Pavitt Gravitt PhD '02, Deputy Director, Center for Global Health, National Cancer Institute, NIH 

Tribute to Immunologist Noel Rose and former MMI Department Chair, Remarks by Daniela Čiháková, Associate Director, Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Joint Appointment MMI 

Highlights of Current Science by MMI Faculty 

• Peetz Family Professor, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Nicole Baumgarth, Director, Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and Education Institute 
• Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Jane Carlton, Director, Malaria Research Institute 
• Associate Research Professor, Gilbert Otto Professor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Radamés J.B. Cordero
• Associate Professor Kim Davis 
• Assistant Professor Conor McMeniman
• Professor Sean Prigge 
• Feinstone Assistant Professor Jotham Suez 

3:30 - 4:00 p.m. Tours of MMI Labs and MMI Library 

4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Schoolwide Ceremony: Bloomberg School Recognized as Milestones in Microbiology Historic Site
 
 

Sommer Hall E2014/E3018 

Gary Ketner, Master of Ceremonies 

Ellen J. MacKenzie, PhD ’79, ScM ’75
Dean, Bloomberg School of Public Health; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
The Founding of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene 

Arturo Casadevall
Alfred and Jill Sommer Professor and Chair, W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

David Celentano
Professor and Dr. Charles Armstrong Chair, Department of Epidemiology

Celebrated Historic Events at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

First Departments of Virology and Immunology, First Virology Course
Joseph Margolick, Professor, MMI; Director, Immunology Core

The Legacy of David Bodian, Isabel Morgan, and Howard Howe 
J. Marie Hardwick, David Bodian Professor, Vice Chair of Research, MMI

Fred Bang – “Horseshoe crab blood coagulation & bacterial endotoxin”
Jack Levin, Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

Discovery of RSV by Chanock, Roizman, Myers, and Finberg
Diane Griffin

Unveiling and Presentation of the ASM Plaque 
Virginia Miller, President, American Society for Microbiology
Professor, Genetics and Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Colleen Puterbaugh, Archivist, Center for the History of Microbiology Archives 

5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Reception 

Schoolwide Celebration in the First Floor Gallery 

Bloomberg School Historic Firsts 

Since the founding of the School 1916, faculty members and their teams in what are now the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology (MMI) and the Department of Epidemiology, have contributed multiple historical “firsts,” pivotal scientifics discoveries, and advancements in microbiology.

1916 - First independent, multidisciplinary school of public health

1916 - First Department of Immunology

1922 - First course on virology (then called filterable viruses)

1925 - First Department of Virology (Filterable Viruses)

1941-1947 - First delineation of paralytic poliovirus pathogenesis by David Bodian, Howard Howe, and Isabel Morgan

1944-1949 - First identification of the three pathogenic poliovirus serotypes that were incorporated into effective vaccines by Isabel Morgan, David Bodian, and Howard Howe

1953 - First demonstration that Gram-negative bacteria induced rapid coagulation of the hemolymph from horseshoe crabs, by Frederik B. Bang. This observation is the basis for the near-universally used, life-saving Limulus amebocyte lysate assay for endotoxin.

1957 - First isolation of human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) by Robert Chanock, Bernard Roizman, Ruth Myers, and Laurence Finberg

What does the designation Milestones in Microbiology mean? Read a brief explanation here.