Columbia University in the City of New York

Apr 8, 20208:30 am
Symposium

COVID-19 Virtual Symposium: April 8

Columbia University researchers and clinicians are invited to join these regular virtual symposia on COVID-19.

April 8th, 8:30 am – 12:00 pm at Online

**This week's symposium is currently at capacity. A recording will be available to view on YouTube after the symposium has concluded.**

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 (password will be provided to registrants)

**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium. Videos of the talks approved by the speakers for release will be posted after the symposium.**

 

Symposium Agenda

8:30 am: Andrea Califano, PhD and Andrew Marks, MD, Introductory remarks

8:35 am: David Brenner, PhD, "Far-UVC light: A potentially safe and effective approach for reducing person-to-person SARS-CoV-2 transmission"

8:50 am: P. Somasundaran Ponisseril, PhD, and P. Patra, PhD, "Decontamination strategies to mitigate the spreading of viruses using Foam spray"

9:05 am: Wellington Cardoso, MD, PhD, "Human airway epithelial cultures as a platform to study viral respiratory diseases"

9:20 am: Gerard Ateshian, PhD, and team, Speaking on multi-patient shared ventilator

9:35 am: Megan Sykes, MD, "Human immune system mouse models ready for adaptation to COVID-19 research"

9:50 am: Krzysztof Kiryluk, MD, and Wendy Chung, MD, PhD, COVID19 Biobank Update

10:00 am: BREAK

10:25 am: Sam Sia, PhD, "Point-of-care COVID diagnostics"

10:40 am: Jeff Shaman, PhD, "Direct observation of multiple sequential infections with endemic coronaviruses"

10:55 am: Jeffrey Kysar, PhD, “Rapid response to design and manufacture face shields”

11:10 am: Ken Shepard, PhD, and Andreas Hartel, PhD, "Function and structure of SARS-CoV-2 E protein and blocker identification"

11:25 am: Szabolcs Marka, PhD, "How Experimental and Theoretical Physics Contribute to the Crisis on Hand"

11:40 am: Robert Winchester, MD, "The search for HLA alleles associated with adverse outcomes toSARS-CoV-2 infection: certain HLA allotypes bind a disproportionally small number of SARS-CoV-2 peptides"

 

 

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The videos of the first symposium on April 1 are available on YouTube and written summaries are available here.

 

Symposium Organizers:

Andrea Califano, PhD, Departments of Chemical and Systems Biology
Eric Greene, PhD, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Andrew Marks, MD, Departments of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics and Molecular Physiology (in Medicine)

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