COVID-19 Virtual Symposium - August 26, 2020

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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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: Jesse Bloom, PhD, Associate Professor, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center, Affiliate Associate Professor, Genome Sciences & Microbiology, University of Washington, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, "The evolutionary potential of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike"

9:05 am: Bette Korber, PhD, Laboratory Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "The D614G mutation in Spike: increased infectivity and neutralizing antibody sensitivity and the underlying mechanism"

9:35 am: Craig Wilen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and of Immunobiology; Medical Director, Immune Monitoring Core Facility, Yale School of Medicine, "Genome-wide CRISPR screen identifies host genes essential for SARS-CoV-2 infection"

10:05 am: BREAK

10:15 am: A. David Paltiel, PhD, Professor, Yale School of Public Health/Yale School of Management & Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, "COVID-19 and higher education: What is the test we need to open college campuses?"

10:45 am: Jason McLellan, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, "Structure-based Design of Prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 Spikes​​​​​​​"

11:15 am: Jingyue Ju, PhD, Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacology, Director, Center for Genome Technology and Biomolecular Engineering, Columbia University, "Nucleotide Analogues as Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 Polymerase, a Key Drug Target for COVID-19​​​​​​​"

11:45 am: Jingyue Ju, PhD, Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacology, Director, Center for Genome Technology and Biomolecular Engineering, Columbia University, "Nucleotide Analogues as Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 Polymerase, a Key Drug Target for COVID-19"

 

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 bi-weekly on 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.