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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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: Katherine Fischkoff, MD, MPA, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Critical Care, Department of Medicine & Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR, Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Associate Director of Clinical Ethics, NYP, Columbia University Medical Center, "Clinical Ethics Consultations During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a New York City Medical Center"
8:55 am: Beata Turonova, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Dr. Martin Beck, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt & Mateusz Sikora, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Dr. Gerhard Hummer, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, "In situ structural analysis of SARS-CoV-2 spike reveals flexibility mediated by three hinges"
9:25 am: Cornelia Bergmann, PhD, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Lerner Research Institute/CCF, "Murine CoV CNS infection: Exploring B recruitment and local immunity"
9:55 am: BREAK
10:05 am: Kyeong-Ok Chang, DVM, MS, PhD. Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, "Development of Small Molecule Inhibitors Against 3C-Like Protease of SARS-CoV-2"
10:35 am: Ami Patel, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, "Preclinical development of a DNA vaccine targeting SARS-CoV-2"
11:05 am: Daniel Lucey, MD, MPH, Senior Scholar, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Adjunct Professor of Medicine-Infectious Diseases, Georgetown University Medical Center, "COVID Vaccine Trials on 6 Continents"
Please register in advance for the September 23rd Symposium 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 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.