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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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: Andrew J. Pollard, FRCPCH PhD FMedSci, Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity,
Department of Paediatrics, Fellow, St Cross College, University of Oxford, Development of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine
9:05 am: Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Nucleoside -- Modified mRNA Therapeutics
9:35 am: Heinrich Hoffmann, PhD, Research Associate, The Rockefeller University, Bill Schneider, PhD, Research Associate, The Rockefeller University, CRISPR screens identify TMEM41B as a pan-coronavirus and pan-flavivirus host factor
10:05 am: BREAK
10:15 am: Pawel Muranski, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Columbia University, T cell Responses Against SARS CoV2 and Human Coronaviruses in Healthcare Workers and Patients with Hematological Disorders
10:45 am: Nels Elde, PhD, Associate Professor of Human Genetics, The University of Utah, Recombination-driven coronavirus evolution
11:15 am: Breck Baldwin, PhD, Research Scientist, Statistics, Columbia University, CoDatMo: Creating a Common Epidemiological Framework with Bayesian Models
11:45 am: 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.