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.

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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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 main Symposium page.**

Symposium Agenda

8:30 am: Andrea Califano, PhD, Eric Greene, PhD, Andy Marks, MD, Introductory remarks

8:35 am: Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, PhD, Lee Shau-kee Professor and Director of the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, Peking University, "In search of the COVID-19 cure: neutralizing antibodies via single cell genomics"

9:05 am: David Brenner, PhD, Higgins Professor of Radiation Biophysics and Environmental Health Sciences, Director of the Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University, "Far-UVC light to limit airborne viral transmission: An update"

9:25 am: Christian Münch, PhD, Emmy Noether Group Leader – Protein Quality Control & Quantitative Proteomics, Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University Medical School, Talk title to come

9:55 am: Cindy Veldhuis, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Nursing, Columbia University, "Mental health in the time of COVID-19"

10:15 am: BREAK

10:25 am: Stuart Weisberg, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University
and Thomas Connors, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University, "Distinct antibody responses in adult and pediatric COVID-19 disease"

10:45 am: Margaret Crosby-Arnold, PhD, Professor, Department of History, Southern University, Louisana, "American on the brink: ‘Race,’ COVID-19 and more"

11:15 am: Alex Butler, Medical Student Researcher, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University and Chunhua Weng, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, "Clinical research in the time of COVID-19: the COVID-19 Trial Finder"

11:35 am: Seema Shah, JD, Associate Professor, Founder’s Board Professor of Medical Ethics, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Associate Director of Research Ethics, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL, "Challenge studies to address COVID-19: The importance of investing in--but not greenlighting--a controversial option"

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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)

The organizers would like to thank volunteers from Columbia Researchers Against COVID-19 for their help in symposium logistics, the Zuckerman Institute for web support and the Mailman School of Public Health for webinar support.