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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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: Alexander Gorbalenya, PhD, DSci. Professor Emeritus of Applied Bioinformatics in Virology, Leiden University Netherlands,"A comparative genomics perspective on SARS-CoV-2"
9:05 am: Antonio Bertoletti, MD , Professor, Division Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-Nus Medical School, Singapore, "Early induction of SARS-CoV-2 specific T cells associates with rapid viral clearance and mild disease in COVID-19 patients"
9:35 am: Adrian Hayday, PhD, Kay Glendinning Professor, Department of Immunobiology, King's College & Senior Group Leader, Francis Crick Institute, London, "Inflexions at 50 in the COVID-19 immune signature"
10:05 am: BREAK
10:15 am: Anna Pyle, PhD, Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry, Yale University, "Discovering the RNA regulatory elements in the SARS-CoV-2 Genome"
10:45 am: Susan Baker, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago, "Coronaviruses evade host sensors by trimming their RNA"
11:15 am: Alessandro Vespignani, PhD, Director of Network Science Institute and Sternberg Family Distinguished Professor, Physics, Computer Science and Health Sciences, Northeastern University, "Computational epidemiology at the time of COVID-19"
11:45 am: Tom Gallagher, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago, "Coronavirus Membrane Fusion"
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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.