Dr. Michael Ratcliffe.

Dr. Michael Ratcliffe has been Professor and Chair of the Department of  Immunology at the University of Toronto since 2001 and is a world authority on avian immunology. He has contributed numerous scientific discoveries particularly in B cell biology over the course of his career and is the senior author on many publications in the field.  Dr. Ratcliffe was President of the Canadian Society for Immunology from 2001 to 2003 and is a former President of the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies.  Prior to moving to the University of Toronto, Dr. Ratcliffe was a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at McGill University from 1986 to 2001.  Dr. Ratcliffe was a Research Fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London from 1983 to 1986 and a Member of the Basel Institute for Immunology from 1980 to 1983.  He received his B.Sc. from Glasgow University and his Ph.D. from University College, London.

Dr. Sherie Morrison.

Dr. Sherie Morrison received her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1963 and 1966. After working as a part-time postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, University of California at Berkeley and Albert Einstein College of Medicine she joined the faculty of the Department of Microbiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1974 where she remained until 1988, rising to the rank of Professor. In 1988 she joined the faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles where, following ten years as Department Chair, she is currently Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics.  Her long-time research interest has been the functional properties of antibodies and novel antibody-related proteins.