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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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: Narry Kim, D.Phil, Professor, Seoul National University; Director, Center for RNA Research at IBS, "The architecture of SARS-CoV-2 transcriptome"

9:05 am: Charles Margossian, PhD candidate, Department of Statistics, "Developing a Bayesian workflow to model the Covid-19 outbreak"

9:25 am: Andrey Simonov, PhD, Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School, "The persuasive effect of Fox News: non-compliance with social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic"

9:45 am: Amelia Alverson, Executive Vice President for University Development and Alumni Relations, Office of Alumni and Development, and Dimitra Koutsantoni, PhD, Director of University Corporate and Foundation Relations, Office of Alumni and Development, "Accessing philanthropic funds for COVID-19 research and beyond"

10:05 am: BREAK

10:15 am: Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Co-head, Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine, Health Policy Scholar, Baylor College of Medicine, "Preventing the next pandemic: vaccine diplomacy in an age of antiscience"

10:45 am: Kári Stefánsson, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Iceland; CEO and Founder, deCODE genetics, "COVID-19 in Iceland, the lessons learned"

11:15 am: Nathan Grubaugh, PhD, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, "Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in New England"

11:45 am: Harry Mamaysky, PhD, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Finance, "Financial markets and news about the coronavirus"

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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.