Immunology Webinars

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.

DEC 03, 2020 | 12:00 AM

Development, assessment and commercialization of serological SARS...

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...

Speaker: Mark Dürkop, PhD

Presented at: Coronavirus Series

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DEC 03, 2020 | 12:00 AM

Immunity, Aging and COVID-19 : where do we stand?

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...

Speaker: Janko Nikolich-Zugich, MD, PhD

Presented at: Coronavirus Series

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DEC 03, 2020 | 12:00 AM

NGS Workflows for Studying Infectious Disease

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...

Speaker: Gary P. Schroth, PhD

Presented at: Coronavirus Series

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DEC 03, 2020 | 12:00 AM

Putting COVID-19 Into Context

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...

Speaker: Amesh A. Adalja, MD

Presented at: Coronavirus Series

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DEC 02, 2020 | 8:00 AM

Optimize your bioprocess - From shaker to bioreactor

DATE: December 2nd, 2020 TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00pm EDT Bioreactors and shakers are used to cultivate microorganisms, plant, insect, and mammalian cells in different volumes. Upscaling of pr...

Speaker: Ines Hartmann , David Solbach

Sponsored By: Eppendorf

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NOV 19, 2020 | 8:00 AM

From discovery to functional assays: therapeutic antibody research...

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...

Speaker: Dr. Susanne Bethke

Sponsored By: Miltenyi Biotec

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NOV 18, 2020 | 8:00 AM

Whole-organ mapping using AI and light sheet microscopy

DATE: November 18, 2020 TIME: 08:00am PDT We develop and implement technologies to solve some of the major bottlenecks in biomedical research. In particular, we establish new imaging approac...

Speaker: Ali Ertürk

Sponsored By: Miltenyi Biotec

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NOV 16, 2020 | 8:00 AM

Targeted single-cell RNA sequencing enables genome-scale CRISPR...

Date: November 16, 2020 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) CRISPR screening has become the prime discovery tool in modern biomedical research and drug discovery. At the same time, most screen...

Speaker: Wieland Keilholz, Ph.D. , Pawel Zajac, Ph.D. , Dr. Tilmann Buerckstuemmer

Sponsored By: Illumina

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NOV 13, 2020 | 10:00 AM

Immune profiling of hospitalized COVID-19 patients

Date: November 13, 2020 10:00am PST, 1:00pm EST Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is currently a global pandemic, but human immune responses to the virus remain poorly understood....

Speaker: Josephine Giles Ph.D.

Sponsored By: Beckman Coulter Life Sciences

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NOV 12, 2020 | 10:00 AM

FcRn Affinity Column Chromatography for Therapeutic mAb Characterization

Date: November 12, 2020 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST) Fc receptor based affinity chromatography is a new emerging field of Fc functionality analytics. FcRn affinity columns separate anti...

Speaker: Tilman Schlothauer, Ph.D

Sponsored By: Roche CustomBiotech

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NOV 12, 2020 | 12:00 AM

The Importance of Tissue Chemistry in Immunity-Oncology

Cancer cells can acquire immune resistance resulting in a loss of immunosurveillance. Tumor cells can upregulate PDL-1 which binds to PD-1. This complex inhibits CD8 Tumor Infiltrating cells...

Speaker: Thomas M. Grogan, MD

Presented at: DISCOVERY Global User Symposium

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NOV 10, 2020 | 7:00 AM

Move Forward with Automation

DATE: November 10, 2020 TIME: 7:00am PDT, 10:00am EDT Automation can provide tremendous benefits such as increased pipetting precision and accuracy, productivity, and throughput. Numerous wo...

Speaker: Paulina Kocjan , Kirk Mantione, PhD

Sponsored By: Eppendorf

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NOV 09, 2020 | 10:00 AM

TARGETED PROFILING OF CRITICALLY ILL SARS-CoV-2 SUBJECTS: FROM...

Date: November 9th, 2020 Time: 10:00am PDT SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread rapidly with critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), where the mortality rate is reported...

Speaker: Douglas Fraser

Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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NOV 05, 2020 | 9:00 AM

Cell-based Assays to Functionally Characterize Immunotherapy and...

DATE: November 5, 2020 TIME: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) With accelerating development and approval of cell therapies, biologic drugs, and antiviral treatments comes a need for more robust a...

Speaker: Chris Langsdorf

Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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NOV 04, 2020 | 11:00 AM

Developing flow-based analytical methods for gene-edited CAR-T...

DATE: November 4th, 2020 TIME: 11:00am PST As cell therapies become more complex, the need for robust analytical tools to characterize such products as they enter the clinic has increased in...

Speaker: Aaron Edwards

Sponsored By: Miltenyi Biotec

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OCT 29, 2020 | 6:00 AM

Single-cell sequencing to investigate epigenetic mechanisms in...

Date: October 29, 2020 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT), Chronic inflammation can occur as a result of a combination of genetic predispositions and environmental factors. Epigenetic modifica...

Speaker: Thomas Ayers, Ph.D. , Pawel Zajac, Ph.D. , Dr. Adam Cribbs

Sponsored By: Illumina, Dolomite Bio

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OCT 21, 2020 | 11:00 AM

The benefit of using an independent Quality Control

Using an independent Quality Control material provides several advantages over a first- or second-party QC. This presentation will describe some actual lab QC troubleshooting steps used and...

Speaker: Abobaker Mohamed Yagoot, MT (ASCP), MLT (CMLTO)

Presented at: A Bio-Rad Quality Control Virtual Conference

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OCT 20, 2020 | 9:00 AM

Understanding how in vitro macrophage assays drive IO drug development...

DATE: October 20th, 2020 TIME: 08:00am PT, 11:00am ET Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are key cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) with diverse immune functions that have a major in...

Speaker: Thibaut Janss, PhD

Sponsored By: Miltenyi Biotec

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OCT 08, 2020 | 7:00 AM

Protect your cells with proper pipetting - How liquid handling...

DATE: October 8, 2020 TIME: 7:00am PDT, 10:00am EDT, 4:00pm CEST How often do you pipette in your cell culture lab every day? Usually, we do it so often that we tend stop thinking about ho...

Speaker: Nadine Mellies, PhD , Jessica Wagener, PhD

Sponsored By: Eppendorf

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SEP 22, 2020 | 9:00 AM

Mitigating risks and optimizing security of supply in diagnostics

DATE: September 10, 2020 TIME: 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT...

Speaker: David Raw

Sponsored By: Cytiva

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SEP 22, 2020 | 7:00 AM

Cells in Motion - How to optimize your shake flask and bioreactor...

DATE: September 22, 2020 TIME: 7am PDT, 10am EDT, 4pm CEST Shakers and bioreactors are established versatile systems for cultivating microorganism, plant, and animal cells......

Speaker: Ines Hartmann , Ankita Desai

Sponsored By: Eppendorf

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SEP 17, 2020 | 4:30 PM

COVID-19 T-Cell Data: Mapping Out SARS-CoV-2 Antigen & T-Cell...

T cells are the adaptive immune system’s first responders to any virus, circulating in the blood to detect and quickly multiply to attack the virus, and also support the development of...

Speaker: Sean Nolan , Patrick Raber, PhD , Thomas Snyder, PhD

Presented at: Coronavirus Series
Sponsored By: Adaptive Biotechnologies

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SEP 17, 2020 | 4:30 PM

Ultra-fast one-step RT-PCR protocol for the detection of SARS-CoV-2

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in demand for population scale pathogen screening. The most sensitive and reliable method for detecting SARS-CoV-2 remains reverse transcription PCR (RT-PC...

Speaker: Brian McNally, PhD

Presented at: Coronavirus Series

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SEP 17, 2020 | 3:30 PM

SARS-CoV-2 Testing Today and a New Serology Approach For High...

Richard Hughes: New immunogenicity strategies to meet the needs of a developing pandemic Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the subject of serological testing for anti-viral antibodi...

Speaker: Russell Garlick, PhD , Richard Hughes , Joel Lefferts, PhD, HCLD, DABCC

Presented at: Coronavirus Series
Sponsored By: LGC Seracare

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SEP 17, 2020 | 3:30 PM

Repurposing in COVID-19: Can we identify new antivirals

There are an urgent need for antivirals to treat the newly emerged SARS-CoV-2. We set out to develop cell-based screens to repurpose existing drugs for use against SARS-CoV-2. Our goal was t...

Speaker: Sara Cherry, PhD

Presented at: Coronavirus Series

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SEP 17, 2020 | 3:30 PM

Discovery of a druggable pocket in SARS-CoV-2 Spike: New avenue...

COVID-19 has developed into a crisis of global proportions. COVID-19 is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Key to SARS-CoV-2 therapeutic development is u...

Speaker: Imre Berger

Presented at: Coronavirus Series
Sponsored By: GenScript

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SEP 17, 2020 | 2:00 PM

Keynote Presentation: The formation of an International Collaborative...

Learning Objectives: 1. Understanding the integral value of collaboration for advancement in scientific research; how to establish and grow academic, Pharma, and industry connections 2. Lear...

Speaker: Jacqueline Fabius , Nevan Krogan, PhD

Presented at: Coronavirus Series

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