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.
As of March 2021, SARS-CoV-2 has infected 115 million people and caused over 2.56 million deaths. The emergence of mutants associated with changes to transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has shown tha...
Dr. Jordan RoseFigura from Swift Biosciences will present on the technology created to enable this research that covers 99.7 % of the SARS-CoV-2 genome from limited viral titers. Including a...
This presentation will focus on strategies for the design and validation of robust assays for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, including nucleic acid extraction, multiplexed qPCR assays, and int...
Several SARS-CoV-2 variants are circulating globally. The most prominent variants of concern, including the B.1.1.7, B.1.351 and B1.1.28 lineages, not only carry a constellation of genetic m...
The COVID19 pandemic continues to be a major epidemiological challenge across the globe. Part of the challenge, often seen with viruses, is that the nucleic acid genome quickly mutates, prod...
Even as COVID-19 vaccines are being deployed around the world, the clinical laboratory will continue to play a major role this year helping to control the pandemic by diagnosing new infectio...
Despite available vaccines and treatments, COVID-19 continues to impose a major burden in the world, as a leading cause of hospitalizations and deaths. We and others have been working in te...
Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and delayed implementation of diagnostics have led to poorly defined viral prevalence rates. To address this, we analyzed seropositivity in US adults who ha...
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) uses a hybrid modeling approach to generate Covid19 forecasts. The model incorporates elements of statistical and disease transmission...
Developing an in vitro diagnostic device is often a complex and demanding process. Doing so in the midst of a pandemic and the IVD global supply chain stretched like never before, with proje...
Vaccines to prevent COVID-19 were developed within 1 year after the identification of SARS-CoV-2 as the causative virus. There are now 3 vaccines that are FDA approved via Emergency Use Auth...
Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, key vulnerable populations in the United States and across the world lack access to effective vaccines. IDRI has developed technology that addresses s...
At UC Davis we have implemented rapid, inexpensive, high throughput testing for SARS-Cov-2 using technology repurposed from the agricultural biotechnology sector. As part of Healthy Davis To...
Despite a continuous decline of corona virus cases, the broad rollout of multiple vaccines, and the start of a return to normalcy, concerns of SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks continue to linger on the...
Date: April 13, 2021 Time: 07:00am PST Trends continue towards the development of more sophisticated and physiologically relevant 3D in vitro models, such as stem cell-derived models, organo...
Date: April 06, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) The discovery of the reproducibility crisis has called into question a worrying number of scientific results over the last few years. In...
Date: April 01, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Generating therapeutic antibodies is far more challenging than obtaining antibodies that merely recognize their targets. Engineering po...
Date: March 25, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Flow cytometry has expanded to have more users, more data, and multiple instrument types. While this has lead to more quantitative data...
Date: March 24, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PST), 10:00am (EST), 3:00pm (CET) Multiplex immunofluorescence IHC is a powerful technique to address the increasing research needs in immuno-oncology t...
Date: March 23, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) The chromatin regulators CBP and p300 maintain gene expression programs through lysine acetylation of chromatin and transcriptional reg...
DATE: March 18, 2021 TIME: 8:00am PDT Sequencing of bulk cells, single cells, and nuclei is opening doors in the understanding of complex biological processes....
Date: March 16, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PST) Scientific progress and breakthroughs today are often too expensive for most institutions to acquire. Each year, the National Institutes of Health (N...
DATE: March 09, 2021 TIME: 08:00am PST The COVID-19 pandemic has placed urgency on precise analysis of rare antigen- and virus-specific T cells. At Miltenyi Biotec, we offer a complete workf...
Date: March 11, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) g the toxicity profile of a compound is a necessity across industries and the various stages of drug development. Early stage mechanism...
Date: February 11, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST) Nanobodies are single-domain antibodies derived from heavy-chain-only antibodies (HcAbs) commonly found in camelids, consisting sole...
Date: February 10, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Uncovering the interactions between the immune system and cancer cells or pathogens is key for understanding and controlling both ca...
Date: February 3, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) This introduction webinar will provide you with an overview of the general immuno-oncology (IO) research field...