Columbia University in the City of New York

May 20, 20208:30 am
Symposium

COVID-19 Virtual Symposium: May 20

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

May 20th, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm at Online

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**Please note: due to intellectual property concerns including the showing of unpublished data, only Columbia affiliates may attend the live symposium.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

 

Symposium Agenda

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

8:35 am: Mary Marshall Clark, "What we are learning: The NYC COVID-19 Oral History Narrative and Memory Archive"

8:55 am: Mark Denison, MD, Vanderbilt University, "Targeting the coronavirus replicase for antivirals including remdesivir"

9:25 am: Max Crispin, DPhil, University of Southampton, "Site-specific glycan analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 spike"

9:55 am: Daniel Freedberg, MD, "Famotidine and COVID-19"

10:15 am: BREAK

10:35 am: Stanley Perlman, MD, PhD, University of Iowa, "Mouse models for COVID-19 and CoV immune responses"

11:05 am: Nevan Krogan, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, "Genome wide screening and interactome"

11:35 am: Adolfo García-Sastre, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, "In search of new therapies against COVID-19"

12:05 pm: Bernard Chang, MD, PhD, "Mental health on the frontline"

 

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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.

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