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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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 Antigenic Evolution of Human Coronaviruses
9:05 am: David Ho, MD, Founding Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Helen Wu Professor of Medicine, Columbia University, Increased Resistance of SARS-CoV-2 Variants B.1.351 and B.1.1.7 to Antibody Neutralization
9:35 am: Eric Snijder, PhD, Professor of Molecular Virology, Head of the Section Research of the Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University, Netherland, The Coronavirus Escape Room
10:05 am: BREAK
10:15 am: Andrew Hayward, MBBS, BSc, MSc, DTMH, MD, FPHM, FRSB, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Inclusion Health Research, University College London, London, UK, Coronavirus and Inequalities
10:45 am: Jeff Shaman, PhD, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, Burden and characteristics of COVID-19 in the United States during 2020: implications for vaccine distribution
11:15 am: Elizabeth Middleton, MD, Associate Director, MICU, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
University of Utah, COVID19 and Clots: The Contribution of Platelets and Immunothrombosis
11:45 am: END
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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.