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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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, Andrea and Sagi will update patient RNAseq data availability
8:40 am: Kizzmekia Corbett, PhD, Senior Research Fellow and Scientific Lead, Coronavirus Vaccines & Immunopathogenesis Team, Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, United States, "SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine design enabled by prototype pathogen preparedness"
9:10 am: Walter Mothes, PhD, Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis, Co-Leader, Cancer Microbiology, Yale School of Medicine, United States, "Real-time conformational dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 spikes on virus particles"
9:40 am: Bruno Canard, PhD, Senior Researcher, Viral Replication: Structure, Mechanisms, and Drug Design, CNRS-Aix Marseille University, France, "The outstanding SARS-CoV RNA synthesis machinery"
10:10 am: BREAK
10:15 am: Rory de Vries, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands, "Intranasal fusion inhibitory lipopeptide prevents direct contact SARS-CoV-2 transmission in ferrets"
10:45 am: Rob E. Schwartz, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology. Weill Cornell Medicine, United States, "Development of Stem Cell/Organoids Models for COVID-19 Disease Modeling"
11:15 am: Bronwyn MacInnis, PhD, Director of Pathogen Genomic Surveillance, Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program, Broad Institute, United States, "Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in the Boston area: disparate consequences of importations and superspreading events"
11:45 am: Tom Lane, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, University of California, Irvine, United States, "Exploring the roles of microglia in host defense and disease in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection of the CNS"
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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.