Keynote Speaker 2026:
Ana Fernandez-Sesma
Dr. Fernandez-Sesma is a tenured Professor and the Chair of the Department of Microbiology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). Her research focuses on the modulation of innate immunity by viruses, like dengue, influenza and others. She participates in several multi-investigator OMICS projects to study human immune responses to infection and vaccination. She has co-authored over 100 publications in virology and immunology journals and served on the editorial board of Journal of Virology, mSphere and PLoS Pathogens.
Since 2022 she is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and in 2024 she was awarded the 2024 ACES-Margarita Salas award among other awards. She is the Chair of the 2025 “Viruses and Cells” Gordon Conference and serves in the Scientific council of the Institute Pasteur, Paris and of several other prestigious institutions.
We look forward to welcoming Prof. Fernandez-Sesma to the Lake District in 2026.