Dr. Zabrina Brumme received her PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2006 and subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard’s Ragon Institute. She is currently a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and the Laboratory Director at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Her research integrates molecular biology, epidemiology and computational approaches to examine questions at the interface of HIV-1 virology, immunology and pathogenesis with the ultimate goal of providing new avenues for vaccine design and strategies to eradicate viral reservoirs.