COVID-19 Virtual Symposium - May 11, 2022

Columbia University researchers and clinicians are invited to join these regular virtual symposia on COVID-19.

Columbia University researchers and clinicians are invited to join these regular virtual symposia on COVID-19. Researchers and clinicians at all career stages are welcome to educate themselves about Columbia’s efforts against this unprecedented threat to our society.

Please register here with your Columbia UNI.

**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium. Videos and written summaries of select talks are available on the COVID-19 Virtual Symposia Archive.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions or comments.


Symposium Agenda

8:30 am: Andrea Califano, PhD, Stephen Goff, PhD, Eric Greene, PhD, Andy Marks, MD, Introductory Remarks

8:35 am: Cameron A. Myhrvold, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Associated Faculty, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Detecting viruses with CRISPR

9:05 am: Kei Sato, PhD, Professor, Division of Systems Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan, Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 – Delta, Omicron, and more greek alphabet(s)?

9:35 am: Robert A. Seder, MD, Chief, Cellular Immunology Section
Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, mRNA-1273 or mRNA-Omicron boost in vaccinated macaques elicits similar cross-reactive B cell expansion, neutralizing antibodies and protection against Omicron​​​​​​​

10:05 am: BREAK

10:15 am: James R. Heath, PhD, President and Professor, Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Factors that Anticipate Post Acute COVID-19 Sequelae​​​​​​​

10:45 am: Stavros Lomvardas, PhD, Herbert and Florence Irving Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Department of Neuroscience, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain and Behavior Institute, Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Jerome L.Green Science Center, Columbia University, Disruption of nuclear architecture as a mechanism for COVDI-19 induced anosmia​​​​​​​

11:15 am: Eleanor Murphy, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical, Psychology (in Psychiatry), Division of Epidemiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on psychological wellbeing, psychiatric symptoms, and coping activities among individuals according to their psychiatric history, and depression risk​​​​​​​

​​​​​​11:45 am: Dan Barouch, MD, PhD, William Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, Director, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

11:45 am: ​​​​​​​END

Register here.

Symposium Organizers:

Andrea Califano, PhD, Departments of Chemical and Systems Biology
Stephen Goff, PhD, Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Eric Greene, PhD, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Andrew Marks, MD, Departments of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics and Molecular Physiology (in Medicine)

The organizers would like to thank volunteers from Columbia Researchers Against COVID-19 for their help in symposium logistics, the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research for web support and the Mailman School of Public Health for webinar support.


About the Symposium Series

Sharing the latest in COVID-19 research at Columbia

Columbia University researchers and clinicians are invited to join these regular virtual symposia on COVID-19. Researchers and clinicians at all career stages are welcome to educate themselves about Columbia’s efforts against this unprecedented threat to our society.

Symposia are held monthly Wednesdays unless otherwise noted.

Due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium. Select videos from the most recent symposium, and summaries of all previous symposia, are available below. Videos of previous symposia are available to watch on YouTube.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions or comments.