Follow a curation of discoveries and updates in immunology focusing on immune responses to infectious disease, structure and function, and developments in the defense against infection by watching and engaging in these webinars.
Date: November 09, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Myeloid cells comprise many subsets with diverse functions. They play an important role in health and diseases such as infections, c...
Date: November 3, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Developing and commercializing immunodiagnostic assays are challenging and time-consuming. Selecting the best combination of tools an...
Date: November 3, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) The reconstitution of a fully functional human immune system in mouse after engraftment of purified hCD34+ hematopoietic cells provid...
Date: October 28, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 09:00am (EDT) COVID-19 has spurred the development of a plethora of tests from various manufacturers. While molecular tests and rapid antigen tests...
Date: October 27, 2021 Time: 6:00 AM PDT, 9:00 AM EDT Etanercept is a recombinant Fc fusion protein therapeutic that has a complex distribution of post-translation modifications (PTM), such...
Date: October 26, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) A complex interaction among heterogenous immune and tumor cells within the tumorous tissue not only influences tumor progression, but...
Date: October 21, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Industry guidelines for host cell protein impurity analysis emphasize the importance of process-specific and product-specific assessm...
Date: October 20, 2021 Time:10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) As the prevalence of Diabetes continues to rise in many areas across the globe, healthcare providers continue to look for methods that...
Date: October 20, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Protein therapeutics is one of the major drug modalities in biopharma industry. With more and more elucidation of disease pathology,...
Date: October 14, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 5:00pm GMT Western blot analysis is a method widely used in the lab today because of its versatility in detecting and measuring spe...
The risk of mortality from COVID-19 follows a sharp age gradient, with older populations facing a thousand fold higher risk of death upon infection than children. At the same time, the COVID...
Vaccination and infection are two different paths to immunity. Understanding human immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 RNA vaccines is of interest for a panoply of reasons. mRNA vaccines have dem...
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss the value of infectious disease diagnostics. 2. Recognize the importance of home diagnostics. 3. Identify how better diagnostics leads to more resiliency to p...
As the pandemic continues to evolve, new tools are needed to fight it. The greatest needs revolve around the ability to screen asymptomatic individuals for COVID-19 and to simultaneously tes...
In this session we will use a set of reads enriched for viral sequences and sequences from wastewater treatment plants. Specifically the aim is to assemble whole SARS-CoV-2 genomes from such...
Since late 2020, several prominent SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern have emerged, harboring specific mutations which increase viral transmissibility Delta variant) and which appear to reduce t...
SARS-CoV-2 testing is now facing increasing challenges in the face of an ongoing pandemic with the emergence of new variants and waning vaccine immunity. Increasing evidence supports the cor...
One significant challenge with SARS-CoV-2 wastewater monitoring is the lack of optimized and standardized sample processing steps, from sample collection to RNA detection. Viral concentratio...
This presentation “SARS-CoV-2 Related Workflow and Solutions: Detection and Genotyping” will focus on strategies for the testing and detection of SARS-CoV-2, including multiplexe...
Severe SARS-CoV-2 infection often leads to development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), with profound pulmonary patho-histological changes post-mortem. In this study, we utiliz...
Join me, an applied epidemiologist with boots on the ground, as we review key discoveries learned from the reopening of sports, entertainment and the arts. The four pillars of reopening incl...
We use COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and mortality data and a deterministic SEIR (susceptible, exposed, infectious and recovered) compartmental framework to model possible trajectories o...
Date: October 13, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) Western blot analysis is a method widely used in the lab today because of its versatility in detecting and measuring specific target...
We’ll discuss the rapid discovery efforts to identify human monoclonal antibody drugs that protect against COVID-19. We will review the technologies used to find antibodies, the optima...
I will discuss the development of the “Midnight” panel for faster, simpler, and less expensive SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing. We show that using a multiplexed set of primers in co...
SARS-CoV-2 is an emergent virus. Specifically how it will adapt to human hosts and populations with growing immunity is unknown. Coronaviruses acquire substitutions more slowly than other RN...
Date: October 12, 2021 Time: 5:00pm (PDT), 8:00pm (EDT) 222 Learning Objectives 222 222 222 Webinars will be available for unlimited on-demand viewing after live event. LabRoots is approved...