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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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, Andrew Marks, MD, Introductory remarks

8:35 am: Marcus Pereira, MD, MPH, Medical Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases, CUIMC, "COVID-19 in solid organ transplant patients: clinical characteristics and outcomes at NYP"

8:55 am: Rajiv Sethi, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University, "Who is dying, and why?"

9:15 am: Lex van Geen, PhD, Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, "Comparing 2019 and 2020 mortality in rural Bangladesh"

9:35 am: Barney Graham MD, PhD, Deputy Director, Vaccine Research Center, Chief, Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory and Translational Science Core, NIAID, "Rapid vaccine development for COVID-19"

10:05 am: BREAK

10:15 am: Jeff Shaman, PhD, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, "Modeling the differential effects of intervention timing on COVID-19 spread in the United States"

10:45 am: Eva Cheung, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, CUIMC, "COVID-19 multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children"

11:05 am: Timothy Caulfield, LLB, LLM, Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Public Health, University of Alberta, "Does debunking work? Correcting COVID-19 misinformation on social media"

11:35 am: Benjamin tenOever, PhD, Fishberg Professor of Medicine, Icahn Scholar and Professor of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, "Cellular recognition and response to SARS-CoV-2 and its contribution to COVID-19"

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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.