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: June 21, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the plasma cell. Plasma cells are white blood cells that make antibodies that help to pro...
Date: June 21, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Predictive genomics is a powerful capability to help predict disease risk and understand drug response in order to improv...
Date: June 09, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) It is known that immune responses of pregnant women undergo recognized changes that ensure the mother does not reject the...
Date: June 02, 2022 Time: 8:30am (PST), 10:30am (CST), 11:30am (EST) Cardiac biomarkers like high-sensitivity Troponin I might play a major role in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases....
Date: June 01, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) The manufacturing process for cell and gene therapies is complex and can contain process-related impurities from multiple...
Date: May 31, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CEST) In February of this year Minnesota became the first state in the U.S. to screen every newborn for congenital CMV. This was...
Date: May 26, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) In early drug development, lead clone selection requires large number of clones screening in cell line development. Develo...
Date: May 17, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Gene therapeutics have great potential to treat many severe diseases in an unprecedented, targeted manner. The biopharmace...
Date: May 17, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) Monoclonal antibody (mAb) is generated from a single clone of an antibody-producing cell and recognizes one specific epitop...
Date: May 12, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Cell culture is key for efficient and reliable T cell workflows, be it activation/ and expansion, T helper cell polarizati...
Date: May 5, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) In a time when there is global urgency around producing and deploying as many COVID-19 vaccines as...
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that emerged in late 2019 has spread globally, causing a pandemic of respiratory illness designated coronavirus disease 2019...
With an increased need for surveillance in the present COVID-19 environment, saliva has stood out and demonstrated it's performance equivalence to existing sample collection techniques s...
Wastewater samples are challenging substrates for nucleic acid extraction, and choice of extraction method will determine the success of downstream analysis. Extraction methods must be able...
Since the initial COVID-19 outbreak, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated, resulting in a range of variants. SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, exemplified most recently with Omicron, need to be de...
The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has led to a worldwide pandemic. Beside respiratory symptoms, infected people may develop neurologic dysfunctions such as loss of smell and taste, also seizures, a...
With over 500 million COVID-19 cases and more than 6 million deaths, the COVID-19 pandemic remains a global health threat maintained by the impact of a changing virus. Emerging SARS-CoV-2 va...
The IHME COVID-19 Projection Model has been two years in the making, and this talk will share details on how it works and what it says about our current point in the COVID pandemic as well a...
The Sarbecoviruses encodes a large panel of highly heterogeneous, but related zoonotic, epidemic and pandemic coronaviruses that include SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV2, which have been associated wit...
The need for next-generation, broadly protective coronavirus vaccines is underscored by the accelerated pace at which human coronaviruses have been emerging, the evolution of the current pan...
During the first year of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, international monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA revealed that the virus accumulated roughly 2 mutations per month. Nonetheless, one nonsy...
This presentation will focus on the near- and medium-term future of COVID. COVID will become endemic, but what does this really mean? How will COVID affect longevity in the United States? Wh...
During COVID-19, he has been one of the leaders of institutional and community education around the disease. He has been part of numerous University initiatives including outreach to the Asi...
Diagnostics have never been more important or visible on the world stage as they are today in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Mara will speak about how COVID diagnostics have been...
Neurological manifestations, including headache, altered mental status, and stroke, are a major complication of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and cor...