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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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: Stephen Goff, PhD, Andrea Califano, PhD, Eric Greene, PhD, Andy Marks, MD, Introductory Remarks
8:35 am: David Ho, MD, Founding Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Helen Wu Professor of Medicine, "SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibodies"
9:05 am: Jeremy Luban, MD, Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, David J. Freelander Chair in AIDS Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, "Structure & function of the SARS-CoV-2 D614G Spike protein variant"
9:35 am: Nevan Krogan, PhD, Professor, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Director, Quantitative Bioscience Institute (QBI), Investigator, J. David Gladstone Institute, University of California San Francisco, "Applying systems approaches to SARS-CoV-2 research reveals targets for drug repurposing"
10:05 am: Sumit Chanda, PhD, Director and Professor, Immunity and Pathogenesis Program, Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, "Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 antivirals through large-scale repositioning studies"
10:35 am: BREAK
10:45 am: Viviana Simon, MD, PhD, Professor, Microbiology, Medicine, Infectious Disease, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, "Mount Sinai goes viral: SARS-CoV2 surveillance in NYC"
11:15 am: Susan Weiss, PhD,Professor and Vice Chair - Department of Microbiology, Co-Director - Penn Center for Research on Coronaviruses and Other Emerging Pathogens, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, "Coronavirus antagonism of double stranded RNA induced antiviral pathways"
11:45 am: Paul Bieniasz, PhD, Professor, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, "Neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in convalescent donors"
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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 weekly on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted. Links to register for upcoming symposia are posted below.
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.