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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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: Andreas Thiel, PhD, Professor & Chair, Regenerative Immunology and Aging , BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, Talk Title TBD
9:05 am: Dara M. Steinberg, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology, Oncology & Stem Cell Transplantation, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, “Pediatric consultation liaison psychology services during the COVID-19 pandemic: pivoting to provide care”
9:35 am: David Ho, MD, Director, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Medicine, Director, Wu Family China Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, "A Simple, Cheap, and Rapid Test to Re-Open Columbia"
10:05 am: Gerald McInerney, PhD, Associate Professor, Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden, “An alpaca nanobody neutralises SARS-CoV-2 by blocking receptor interaction”
10:35 am: BREAK
10:40 am: Vineet Menachery, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, "Deletion of the Furin Cleavage Site Attenuates SARS-CoV-2 Pathogenesis"
11:10 am: Anthony Fehr, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, “On the Battlefront: Host PARPs vs the Coronavirus Macrodomain”
11:40 am: Samuel Resnick, MD/PhD Candidate, Laboratory of Alex Chavez, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, “Inhibitors of coronavirus 3CL proteases protect cells from protease-mediated cytotoxicity“
12:00 pm: Dennis Burton, PhD, Professor & Chair; Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Scripps Research Institute, “Neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 vaccine design”
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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 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.