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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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: Ravi Gupta, PhD, Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Cambridge, TBD
9:05 am: David Ho, MD, Founding Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Helen Wu Professor of Medicine, Columbia University, Increased Resistance of SARS-CoV-2 Variants B.1.351 and B.1.1.7 to Antibody Neutralization
9:05 am: J.T. Poirier, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, Preclinical Therapeutics Program, Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Genome-scale Identification of SARS-CoV-2 and Pan-coronavirus Host Factor Networks
10:05 am: BREAK
10:15 am: Lex van Geen, PhD, Lamont Research Professor, Geochemistry Division, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Comparison of 2019 and 2020 mortality in rural Bangladesh in relation to COVID-19: An update based on a second round 12,000 phone calls
10:45 am: Zijun Wang, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Michel C. Nussenzweig Lab, The Rockefeller University, mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and circulating variants
11:15 am: Michael Snyder, MD, FACS, Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics, Director, Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Detection of COVID-19 using Wearables
11:45 am: Pei-Yong Shi, PhD, John Sealy Distinguished Chair in Innovations in Molecular Biology, Vice Chair for Innovation and Commercialization, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, SARS-CoV-2 Biology and Countermeasure Development
12:15 pm: END
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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 monthly 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.