Dr. Terry Phillips received his Ph.D. in analytical immunochemistry from the Faculty of Medicine, University College, University of London and a D.Sc. from the same institution for research into regulatory pathways of the immune system. Following formal training in clinical immunology and immunopathology he became a WHO field officer in the Sudan before immigrating to McGill University in Canada to study immune responses in cancer patients. He became an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Georgetown University Medical Center in 1977 and in 1980 became an Associate Professor and Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at George Washington University Medical Center, where he directed the clinical immunology and transplant immunology laboratories. Here he started to develop novel miniature systems for diagnosis and prognosis testing. In 2000, he was invited to join the National Institutes of Health to establish a research group focused on the development of new approaches to clinical diagnosis and bedside care. Dr. Phillips' current research interests are in analytical immunochemistry at the ultramicro level. He has devised several procedures and instrument modifications in order to enable analysis of samples at the sub-nanogram concentration level. For over 30 years, he has been involved in three main areas of research: immunochemical analysis of immune regulatory pathways, especially cytokines and neuropeptides; the development of new instrumentation and techniques in bioseparation science; and the development of new approaches to wildlife disease diagnosis and conservation. He has developed a number of analytical techniques based on affinity and immunoaffinity isolation such as high-performance immunoaffinity chromatography, recycling immunoaffinity chromatography for multi-analyte analysis, immunoaffinity capillary electrophoresis, clinical lab-on-a-chip systems and in-line immobilized receptor sensors. He has authored over 200 articles, 28 chapters and 5 books. Dr. Phillips serves on several editorial boards in cancer research, nephrology, and bioseparation science and currently is an editor for the Journal of Chromatography B and a Guest Editor for Electrophoresis. Additionally, he has served on several federal and private review boards and has consulted for the U.S. and British Navy, the World Health Organization, and the World Wildlife Fund. He currently acts as an immunological consultant to the Smithsonian Institute.

This lecture will cover work performed by my laboratory in cooperation with a number of Zoos on defining the immune system of Tree Kangaroos and their responses to infections, especially avian tuberculosis. The work will outline the approaches taken to investigate and characterize the immune system of an exotic species for use in diagnosis of infectious diseases in that species.