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This drug development program is designed to create a family of broad-spectrum, pan-coronaviral drugs that respectively inhibit multiple key enzymes required for viral replication. By target...
The presentation will provide a review of major emerging zoonotic virus outbreaks from Hendra virus in 1994 in Australia to SARS-CoV-2 in China 2019 and our latest findings on bat biology an...
The University of Louisville Infectious Diseases Laboratory (IDL) is a high-complexity, CLIA-certified laboratory in Louisville, KY. The IDL adopted the Luminex ARIES® platform in 2016 f...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a grip on worldwide health and global economics. Advancing molecular diagnostics is central to the diagnosis and prevention efforts surrounding the de...
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in December 2019 and has spread globally, causing a pandemic of respiratory illness designated coronavirus disease 20...
When producing a quality vaccine, all manufacturers must confirm the purity as well as the stability of their formulation and final product. Sample quantity and measurement time are often th...
Cases and deaths continue to increase steadily in most states. The pace of increase is faster than we expected, leading us to revise upward IHME forecast of deaths and cases into the future....
Dynamic models of infectious disease systems are often used to study the epidemiological characteristics of disease outbreaks, the ecological mechanisms and environmental conditions affectin...
Date: December 3, 2020 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Scientific cameras used in applications such as light sheet microscopy and calcium/voltage imaging put a large emphasis on high speed...
To execute COVID-19 testing strategies effectively, labs need to procure reliable components of the workflow without interruption – from reagents to equipment and consumables at the sc...
Learning Objectives: 1. Define SARS-CoV-2 immunity, antibody testing, and discuss what is known about the meaning of these tests 2. Identify challenges in doing research during social distan...
This talk goes over the importance of face masks as a pillar of COVID-19 pandemic control. First, we review the epidemiologic evidence for how face masks reduce COVID-19 transmission from st...
Antibody tests are important tools to assess the efficacy of vaccine candidates and to derive suitable vaccination modalities. High specificity and sensitivity are of great importance for th...
SARS-CoV-2 had spread with speed unknown in recent history across the globe, sickening >50M people and killing over 1M. By far the most of the severe cases and deaths were registered amon...
The fast spread and deadliness of SARS-CoV-2 has sparked much interest in understanding the underlying genomics and evolutionary patterns of this 30,000bp Coronavirus. Since the first report...
Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) has been a key technology during the COVIID-19 pandemic and has helped researchers characterize the SARs-CoV-2 genome, perform strain-typing for molecular ep...
Learning Objectives: 1. Learn what RNA and DNA vaccines are and why they are ideal vaccine strategies to respond rapidly to pandemics 2. Understand the key requirements of an effective vacci...
In this talk, Dr. Adalja will discuss the coronavirus family in general highlighting its history. Emphasis will be placed on why this viral family has pandemic potential. Learning Objectives...
DATE: December 2, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PDT Pluripotent stem cell (PSC) research is a continuously evolving field that beholds great promises for the future. The great application potential of P...
DATE: December 1st, 2020 TIME: 01:00 PM - PDT, 3:00 PM - Bogotá / Ciudad de México, 5:00 PM - Buenos Aires / Sao Paulo La anemia es un trastorno que afecta principalmente c&eac...
Date: September 30, 2020 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Learning Objectives Why is Stewardship important? What are the core elements of stewardship and microbiology's role Importance...
Date: November 19, 2020 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST) 98% of in-patients will undergo a diagnostic test during a hospital stay.[1] With the increased focus on the accuracy of diagnostic...
DATE: November 19, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PT, 12am ET Knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of therapeutically relevant targets has become an essential step in the pipeline of drug discove...
Date: November 19, 2020 Time: 8:00am PST, 11:00am EST Monoclonal antibody-based drugs have shown great potential as a treatment for several cancers. At Miltenyi Biotec, we offer a complete wo...
DATE: November 19, 2020 TIME: 7am PST Congenital CMV is the most frequent infectious cause of neonatal malformation in developed nations. Yet, this disease is largely under-recognized by hea...
Two aspects of the Cost of Quality are important in the medical laboratory—the theory behind the quality cost types and the application of those cost types to laboratory activities. Th...
This drug development program is designed to create a family of broad-spectrum, pan-coronaviral drugs that respectively inhibit multiple key enzymes required for viral replication. By target...
