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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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: Ben Neuman, PhD, Professor of Biology, Head of Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, Texarkana, "Life in a sea of corona-like viruses"
9:05 am: Dong-Yan Jin, PhD, Clara and Lawrence Fok Professor in Precision Medicine. University of Hong Kong, "Beneficial effect of combinational methylprednisolone and remdesivir in the hamster model of SARS-CoV-2 infection"
9:35 am: Yuguo Li, PhD, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering. University of Hong Kong, "Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: Respiratory and fecal aerosols"
10:05 am: BREAK
10:15 am: David Glass, MD, Vice President of Research. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.g, "The intersection between Aging- and Covid19-perturbed mechanisms"
10:45 am: Jürgen A. Richt, DVM, PhD, Regents Distinguished Professor, KBA Eminent Scholar, Director, Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD), Kansas State University, "SARS-CoV-2 in Companion Animals: Susceptibility, Transmission and Reinfection in Domestic Cats"
11:15 am: Irwin Redlener, M.D., Founding Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness , Director, Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative, Senior Research Scholar, Earth Institute at Columbia University & NBC/ MSNBC Public Health Analyst, "Covid-19: Current Status and What We Need to Know Now"
11:45 am: Cong Liu, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Laboratory of Dr. Chunhua Weng, Department of Biomedical Informatics & Jay Lee, PhD, Staff Associate, Laboratory of Dr. Chunhua Weng, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, "Severity Prediction for COVID-19 Patients via Recurrent Neural Networks"
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.