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OCT 19, 2022

Coronavirus Series

A novel coronavirus emerged in China in late 2019 and has since been officially named by the World Health Organization (WHO) as SARS-CoV-2. Labroots will be working to educate the community about this pathogen and the disease it causes, i.e. COVID-19, in an ongoing series of virtual events.

Our 2020 and 2021 virtual events in our ongoing Coronavirus Series, and this year's 1st event held on May 4, 2022 continue to be a tremendous success.  These past events are now available for on-demand viewing on the Labroots website. Our next set of presentations will go live on October 19, 2022.

In this year’s event you can learn more about:

  • Epidemiology of COVID-19 - Previous, Current, and Future Trends
  • Symptoms and Severity of the Disease
    • Variants and How the Virus Changed
  • Testing, Research, and Diagnostics
  • Prevention and Containment, and Transmission
  • Vaccines (Host Immune Response - Clinical Outcomes with Vaccines)
    • Future Vaccines - mRNA Promise for Other Infections and Diseases
  • Global Preparedness
  • Lessons Learned

The virus known as SARS-CoV-2 is a member of the coronavirus family and is zoonotic in origin. It is transmissible from animals to humans and is thought to have originated in bats like several other coronaviruses. Researchers are working to learn more about how this virus made the leap from animals to humans and the potential role of an intermediate species.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has already infected millions of people worldwide. In China, thousands have been killed, leading the World Health Organization to declare an international health emergency, one of only four that have ever been declared.

Researchers have found evidence that the virus can be transmitted by asymptomatic individuals and are working tirelessly to find ways to treat the fever, respiratory illness, cough, and breathing difficulties it causes.

This free event does not require any travel and will remain ongoing; webinars will continue to occur in the future as we find out more about this pathogen. The content will be available for unlimited, on-demand viewing and the global community will be able to interact using chat sessions and live-streaming. This seamless connectivity will be available on any desktop or mobile device so you can view, learn, and interact.

Call for Posters — Labroots seeks poster submissions from individuals, teams, laboratories, and companies for our virtual poster hall. Virtual poster sessions offer the opportunity to present data to a global audience via a PDF poster (and optional audio/video summary) and discuss results with interested colleagues across the globe through email and our networking lounge. Plan now to have your poster included in the Coronavirus Virtual Event Series and this virtual event. 

The deadline for electronic submission of your poster title, abstract, and poster PDF is Friday 14th of October 2022 at 5:00 pm PT. Submission is free. Submit your abstract here.

Continuing Education
Labroots is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. ® Program. By attending this virtual event series, you can earn 1 Continuing Education credit per presentation.

Connect with us!
When you attend the event remember to use the hashtag #LRcoronavirus to follow the conversation and connect with other members of the global Coronavirus research community! Follow @Labroots on Twitter and @LabrootsInc on Facebook to connect with our team and stay up to date with the latest Trending News in Coronavirus research. 


Speakers
  • Fan Liu, PhD

    Staff Engineer, Systems Design, Thermo Fisher Scientific
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Camilla Margaroli, PhD

    Department of Medicine; Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care University of Alabama at Birmingham
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Mara G. Aspinall

    Managing Director, Health Catalysts Group and Professor of Practice, Biomedical Diagnostics, Arizona State University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Amanda Grimm, PSM

    Senior Segment Marketing Manager-ADD, GenScript USA Inc
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Eric Morreale, PhD

    Director of Product Management at LGC Clinical Diagnostics
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sean Taylor, MBA, PhD

    North American Field Application Scientist Manager, GenScript USA, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Richard Michelmore

    Distinguished Professor and Director, The Genome Center, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California, Davis
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Ari Frenkel

    Chief Science Officer, Arkstone Medical Solutions
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Pedro Echave, PhD

    Global Leader, NGS Product Experts, PerkinElmer
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Patrick Ettenhuber, PhD

    Product Owner
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Daniela Weiskopf, PhD

    Research Assistant Professor, Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Corey Casper, M.D., MPH

    CEO, IDRI; Clinical Professor of Medicine and Global Health, University of Washington; Affiliate Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Manohar R. Furtado, PhD

    Director R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Genetic Testing Solutions
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jelena Feenstra, PhD

    Senior Manager, Global Scientific Communications, Thermo Fisher Scientific
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Arutha Kulasinghe, PhD

    NHMRC Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Tracy Fischer, PhD

    Associate Professor, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Division of Comparative Pathology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Andrew Noymer, PhD

    Epidemiologist and Population Health Scientist, Associate Professor, Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Manohar R. Furtado, PhD

    Director R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Genetic Testing Solutions
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Vanessa Lacey, PhD

    Staff Scientist, Molecular Biology, Clinical Applications, Thermo Fisher Scientific
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jonathan Shaffer, PhD, MBA

    Director, R&D, NGS Assay Technologies, QIAGEN
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dominic O'Neil, MS, MBA

    Director of Microbiome Product Development, QIAGEN
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Brian Krueger, PhD

    Associate Vice President, Research and Development, Laboratory Corporation of America
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim, FRS

    Director: CAPRISA, CAPRISA Professor of Global Health: Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sabra L. Klein, PhD

    Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and International Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Co-director, Center for Women's Health, Sex, and Gender Research
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Subodh Nimkar

    Senior Product Manager, Complete Genomics Facility, MGI
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ryan Farr, PhD

    Research Scientist, Host Response Team, Health and Biosecurity (H&B) at the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) , CSIRO
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Lillie Manley

    Scientist III, Clinical Sample Preparation R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD

    Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • James Crowe, MD

    Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Ann Scott Carell Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dominic O'Neil, MS, MBA

    Director of Microbiome Product Development, QIAGEN
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Colin Donohoe, PhD

    Senior Scientist, Research and Development at QIAGEN
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Hannah Saunders

    Manager, Clinical Sample Preparation R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jordan RoseFigura, PhD

    Director of Material Sciences, Swift Biosciences
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Erica Ollmann Saphire, PhD

    Professor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Michael Risley, PhD

    Chief Development Officer, Yourgene Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Marc Salit, PhD

    Director, Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology, Stanford University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nathan A. Ledeboer, PhD

    Professor and Vice Chair, Pathology; Medical Director, Medical College of Wisconsin
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kayvon Modjarrad, MD, PhD

    Director, Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Medical Officer, Civilian, Department of the Army, Associate Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Eugenia Z. Ong, PhD

    Senior Research Fellow, Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore
  • Paul Goepfert

    Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham Director, Alabama Vaccine Research Clinic (AVRC)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD

    Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, Tisch Cancer Center Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Anthony Tong, PhD

    Director of Product Management, BGI
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Harm van Bakel, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Walter Koroshetz, MD

    Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Abraham Flaxman, PhD

    Associate Professor, Health Metrics Sciences, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Shuting Xu, PhD

    Field Appication Scientist
    BIOGRAPHY
  • James Caffrey, PhD, MBA

    Director Strategic Marketing, Genomics, QIAGEN
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Eric Clement Arakel

    Global Project Manager for Sartorius
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nadine Rouphael, MD

    Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Executive Director, Hope Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ali H. Mokdad, PhD

    Chief Strategy Officer, Population Health, University of Washington; Director, Middle Eastern Initiatives Professor, Health Metrics Sciences Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ricardo Rajsbaum, PhD.

    Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Director, Center for Virus-Host-Innate Immunity (CVHII), Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School Cancer Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Arvind Kothandaraman

    General Manager, Specialty Diagnostics
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ali H. Mokdad, PhD

    Chief Strategy Officer, Population Health, University of Washington; Director, Middle Eastern Initiatives Professor, Health Metrics Sciences Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kei Sato, PhD

    Professor, The Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Yvonne (Bonnie) Maldonado, MD

    Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, Taube Endowed Professor of Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Professor of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Population Health, Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control and Attending Physician, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Joe Poh Sheng Yeong, MBBS PhD Mmed (Path)

    Associate Faculty, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (A*STAR) Singapore
  • Ralph S. Baric, PhD

    Kenan Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health and Microbiology and Immunology School of Medicine, University of North Carolina
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Stephen Jackson

    Associate Director, Product Applications Genetic Sciences Division, Thermo Fisher Scientific
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Stephen Jackson

    Associate Director, Product Applications Genetic Sciences Division, Thermo Fisher Scientific
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kartik Chandran, PhD

    Professor, Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jeremy Luban, MD

    Professor, David J. Freelander Chair in AIDS Research, Program in Molecular Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Peter Chin-Hong, MD

    Associate Dean, Regional Campuses, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Julia Han Noll, MS

    University of Pennsylvania
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Blythe Adamson, PhD, MPH

    Founder and Epidemiologist, Infectious Economics, LLC
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Gary Schroth, Ph.D.

    Vice President and Distinguished Scientist, Illumina
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Scott A. Rivkees, MD

    Professor of Practice and Vice Chair, Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice Brown University School of Public Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Amesh A. Adalja, MD

    Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Steve Angeloni

    Senior Field Applications Scientist, Luminex
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Meredith Ashby, PhD

    Director, Market Strategy for Microbial and Cancer Genomics, Pacific Biosciences
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Joseph M. Beechem, PhD

    CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER AND Senior Vice President Of Research and Development, NANOSTRING TECHNOLOGIES
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Aaron P. Benfield, PhD

    Senior Director, Molecular Applications
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Imre Berger

    Founder and Managing Director of the Max Planck Bristol Centre for Minimal Biology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Roumen Bogoev, MSc

    Head of Segment Marketing, GenScript USA
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Petter Brodin, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor and consultant physician Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sumit Chanda, PhD

    Director & Professor, Immunity & Pathogenesis Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jason Chen, MD

    Head of Virology Unit of KingMed Diagnostics
  • Sara Cherry, PhD

    Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Mark R. Denison, MD

    Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Professor at Vanderbilt University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sherry A. Dunbar, PhD, MBA

    Senior Director, Global Scientific Affairs
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Mark Dürkop, PhD

    CEO Novasign GmbH, Project Lead BOKU - Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Garth D. Ehrlich, PhD, FAAAS

    Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Professor of Otolarynology-Head and Neck Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Lorna Ewart, PhD

    EVP European Scientific Liaison Emulate, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jacqueline Fabius

    Chief Operating Officer, Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Gabriel Fernandez de Pierola

    General Manager - Genomics & Diagnostic Solutions Cytiva (formerly GE Life Sciences)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Matthew Flegal, BS, SRS

    Associate Director, Charles River Laboratories
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kevin Francis, PhD

    Divisional VP, Biology Solutions at PerkinElmer
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Deborah Fuller, PhD

    Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Division Chief, Infectious Diseases and Translational Medicine, Washington National Primate Research Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH

    Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine, UCSF, Director, UCSF-Gladstone Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD

    Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, Tisch Cancer Center Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Russell Garlick, PhD

    Chief Scientific Officer, LGC SeraCare
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dan Gibson, PhD

    CTO
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Joel Guthridge, PhD

    Assistant Member, Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Director of Translational Informatics, Clinical Resources, Biorepository and Human Phenotyping Cores, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rowshanak Hashemiyoon, PhD

    Clinical Scientist, Author, Consultant
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Klaus Hochleitner, PhD

    Global Technology Lead, Diagnostics, Cytiva
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Richard Hughes

    Associate Scientific Director at LGC
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Bill Hunt, MS

    Director, Microfluidics Product Management, Fluidigm
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H.

    Dean, Brown University School of Public Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Li Jiang, MD, PhD

    Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital Sichuan Provincial Center for Clinical Laboratories (SPCCL)
  • Yushen Jiang, MD

    Deputy Director of Central Lab of DIAN Diagnostics
  • Manzhu Kang, PhD

    Senior Scientist of Antibody Research Group at GenScript ProBio
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Krishna Kannan, PhD

    Staff Scientist
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Cris Kinross

    Global Market Development, Thermo Fisher Scientific
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Andrius Kočevas

    Product Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Geert Koene, PhD

    Biosearch Technologies Market Segment Manager MDx, LGC
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Arvind Kothandaraman

    General Manager, Specialty Diagnostics
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rob Kozak, PhD FCCM

    Clinical Microbiologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nevan Krogan, PhD

    Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF, Principal Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, Director of the Quantitative Bioscience Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Arutha Kulasinghe, PhD

    Peter Doherty NHMRC Early Career Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Mathis Laffenetre

    Life Sciences Technology Platform Metabolic Diseases Reagents Leader
  • Joel Lefferts, PhD, HCLD, DABCC

    Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Assistant Director, Clinical Genomics and Advanced Technology (CGAT) Laboratory
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ruben Luo, PhD

    NACCCA Board Secretary, Clinical Fellow of UC San Francisco
  • Katie Lyons, MS

    Sr. Scientist
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Christopher E. Mason, PhD

    Associate Professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Director of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Brian McNally, PhD

    Chief Commercial Officer, Molecular Biology Systems, BV
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Matthew J. Memoli, MD, MS

    Director, LID Clinical Studies Unit, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ali H. Mokdad, PhD

    Chief Strategy Officer, Population Health, University of Washington; Director, Middle Eastern Initiatives Professor, Health Metrics Sciences Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Stephen S. Morse, PhD, FAAM, F.A.C.E.

    Professor of Epidemiology, Director, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Certificate, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Miguel Muñoz-Ruiz, PhD

    PostDoc fellow at the Immunosurveillance Lab at the Francis Crick Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dorottya Nagy-Szakal, MD PhD

    Chief Medical Officer, Biotia, Research Assistant Professor, Department Cell Biology/College of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Janko Nikolich-Zugich, MD, PhD

    Bowman Professor and Head, Department of Immunobiology, Co-Director, University of Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Subodh Nimkar

    Senior Product Manager, Complete Genomics Facility, MGI
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sean Nolan

    Distinguished Engineer
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Christopher Norey, PhD

    R&D Leader, Cytiva (formerly GE Healthcare Life Sciences)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Brendan O'Farrell, PhD

    President and Co-Founder, DCN Diagnostics
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Erica Ollmann Saphire, PhD

    Professor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Joe Ostrand, Ph.D.

    Flow Cytometry Specialist, Miltenyi Biotec
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Shonali Paul, MBA

    Chief Operating Officer, CloudLIMS.com
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nicole Pecora, MD, PhD

    Assistant Professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester NY
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jamie Evelyn Phillips, MS, PhD

    Sr. Scientific Affairs Manager, Roche Diagnostic Corporation
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nicolas Pierre

    Life Sciences Technology Platforms Leader, Discovery Reagents
  • Gary Procop, MD, MS

    Medical Director & Co-Chair, Enterprise Laboratory Stewardship Committee, Enterprise Medical Operations, & Director of Microbiology, Virology, Mycology & Parasitology, Clevelaland Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Haley R. Pugsley, PhD

    Manager, Senior Scientist
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Andrew Quong, PhD

    Chief Science Officer, Fluidigm
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Patrick Raber, PhD

    Senior Manager, Research and Business Development
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jürgen A. Richt, DVM, PhD

    Regents Distinguished Professor at KSU, University Distinguished Professor, Director - Center on Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (CEZID), NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Darren Rowles

    President and CEO, Sona Nanotech
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Marc Salit, PhD

    Director, Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology, Stanford University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Gary P. Schroth, PhD

    Vice President and Distinguished Scientist, Illumina, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Robert E. Schwartz, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jeffrey Shaman

    Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Anupam Singhal

    Product Manager, Antibody Therapeutics, Berkeley Lights, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Thomas Snyder, PhD

    VP, Research, immunoSEQ Dx
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Marcello Stein

    Gobal Marketing Manager - Translational Immunology, Miltenyi Biotec
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Yi-Wei Tang, MD, PhD, F(AAM), FIDSA

    China Chief Medical Officer of Cepheid at the Danaher Diagnostic Platform in Shanghai
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Imad Tarhoni, MD, PhD

    Postdoctoral Fellow at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sean Taylor

    Manager of the Field Applications Group at GenScript USA, Inc
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jeray Thelwell

    Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Biotherapeutics Solution Specialists
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Todd Treangen, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kamala Tyagarajan, PhD

    Director, Flow Cytometry Assays & Application
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Chengbin Wang, MD

    Chairman of Chinese Society of Laboratory Medicine, Director of Clinical Laboratory of PLA General Hospital, Chief Physician
  • Linfa Wang, PhD

    Professor & Director, Emerging Infectious Diseases Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Susan R. Weiss, PhD

    Professor and Vice Chair Department of Microbiology, Co-Director, Penn Center for Research on Coronaviruses and Other Emerging Pathogens Perelman school of Medicine University of Pennsylvania
    BIOGRAPHY
  • David Wilson

    Commercial Director, Diagnostics, Avacta Life Sciences
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Leslie A. Wolf, PhD, HCLD (ABB)

    Division of Infectious Diseases | University of Louisville
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jun Wu, PhD

    Associate Professor, Pathology, Vice Director of Clinical Laboratory Medicine Center, Shanghai General Hospital, affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Frank Yang, MD, PhD

    Pathologist (ABP-AP/CP, Hem), Vice President of ADICON Medical Laboratories
  • Jiahui Yang, PhD

    Director, R&D, Sino Biological
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Pan Zhang, PhD

    Laboratory Director at BGI
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Susan Zolla-Pazner, PhD

    Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    BIOGRAPHY

Agenda

  • OCT 19, 2022 6:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: A Newcastle Disease Virus-Based COVID-19 Vaccine with Live Q&A

    Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD
    Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, Tisch Cancer Center Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 19, 2022 6:45 AM PDT

    Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibodies with GenScript's SARS-CoV-2 Surrogate Virus Neutralization (sVNT) Test

    Amanda Grimm, PSM
    Senior Segment Marketing Manager-ADD, GenScript USA Inc
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: GenScript
  • OCT 19, 2022 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: The Direct and Indirect Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children with Live Q&A

    Scott A. Rivkees, MD
    Professor of Practice and Vice Chair, Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice Brown University School of Public Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 19, 2022 8:15 AM PDT

    Influenza: An Underestimated Threat

    Dr. Ari Frenkel
    Chief Science Officer, Arkstone Medical Solutions
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • OCT 19, 2022 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: The Future of Covid-19: Expectations and Lessons with Live Q&A

    Ali H. Mokdad, PhD
    Chief Strategy Officer, Population Health, University of Washington; Director, Middle Eastern Initiatives Professor, Health Metrics Sciences Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 19, 2022 9:45 AM PDT

    Microbial Air Monitoring Facilitates Disease Surveillance and Outbreak Response

    Eric Clement Arakel
    Global Project Manager for Sartorius
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Sartorius
  • OCT 19, 2022 10:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: Natural History, Diagnosis and Monitoring: Lessons Learned with Live Q&A

    Yvonne (Bonnie) Maldonado, MD
    Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, Taube Endowed Professor of Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Professor of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Population Health, Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control and Attending Physician, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 19, 2022 12:00 PM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: Advancing Toward Recovery from Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (PASC): The NIH RECOVER Initiative with Live Q&A

    Walter Koroshetz, MD
    Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 19, 2022 1:00 PM PDT

    Panel Presentation: COVID-19 Testing: Results and Recommendations from the Coronavirus Standards Working Group

    Sponsored By: LGC Clinical Diagnostics
    Marc Salit, PhD
    Director, Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology, St...
    Eric Morreale, PhD
    Director of Product Management at LGC Clinical Diagnost...
  • OCT 19, 2022 1:30 PM PDT

    A Phase 1 Trial of Cyclosporine for Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19

    Julia Han Noll, MS
    University of Pennsylvania
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: NanoString Technologies
The following webinars will be readily on-demand when the event starts
  • Evolution of SARS-CoV-2

    Kei Sato, PhD
    Professor, The Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo
    BIOGRAPHY
  • mRNA Variant Vaccines as a Second Boost: results from the COVID-19 Variant Immunologic Landscape Trial (COVAIL Trial)

    Nadine Rouphael, MD
    Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Executive Director, Hope Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • SARS-CoV-2 Interactions with the Host Innate Immune Response and the Ubiquitin System

    Ricardo Rajsbaum, PhD.
    Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Director, Center for Virus-Host-Innate Immunity (CVHII), Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School Cancer Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sex Differences and Effects of Pregnancy on Symptoms and Severity of COVID-19

    Sabra L. Klein, PhD
    Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and International Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Co-director, Center for Women's Health, Sex, and Gender Research
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Variant-Resistant Antibody Recognition from a Global Consortium

    Erica Ollmann Saphire, PhD
    Professor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 04, 2022 6:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: Toward Universal Coronavirus Vaccines: From Concept to Clinic

    Kayvon Modjarrad, MD, PhD
    Director, Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Medical Officer, Civilian, Department of the Army, Associate Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 04, 2022 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: SARS-CoV2: Rapid Response Platforms for Pandemic Virus Control in the 21st Century

    Ralph S. Baric, PhD
    Kenan Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health and Microbiology and Immunology School of Medicine, University of North Carolina
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 04, 2022 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: After the Mandates End: Preparing for the Next COVID-19 Variant

    Abraham Flaxman, PhD
    Associate Professor, Health Metrics Sciences, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Keynote Presentation: Covid-19: Variants Have Changed the Endgame
    MAY 04, 2022 10:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: Covid-19: Variants Have Changed the Endgame

    Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim, FRS
    Director: CAPRISA, CAPRISA Professor of Global Health: Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 04, 2022 10:30 AM PDT

    Neuropathology of SARS-CoV-2 as Revealed by Spatial Biology

    Susanne Krasemann, MD, PhD
    Group Leader, Institute of Neuropathology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE; Head of the Core Facility, Experimental Pathology "Mouse Patho", UKE
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: NanoString Technologies
  • MAY 04, 2022 12:00 PM PDT

    Panel Presentation: Responding to SARS-CoV-2 Variants, such as Omicron: Detection and Surveillance

    Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
    Vanessa Lacey, PhD
    Staff Scientist, Molecular Biology, Clinical Applicatio...
    Jelena Feenstra, PhD
    Senior Manager, Global Scientific Communications, Therm...
  • MAY 04, 2022 1:30 PM PDT

    Panel Presentation: Advance your High-Throughput Workflow with Sample Preparation and Automation

    Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
    Hannah Saunders
    Manager, Clinical Sample Preparation R&D, Thermo Fisher...
    Fan Liu, PhD
    Staff Engineer, Systems Design, Thermo Fisher Scientifi...
    Lillie Manley
    Scientist III, Clinical Sample Preparation R&D, Thermo...
  • MAY 04, 2022 1:30 PM PDT

    Panel Presentation: Optimized Sample Processing and NGS Techniques for Wastewater-Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2

    Sponsored By: QIAGEN
    Jonathan Shaffer, PhD, MBA
    Director, R&D, NGS Assay Technologies, QIAGEN
    Dominic O'Neil, MS, MBA
    Director of Microbiome Product Development, QIAGEN
  • MAY 04, 2022 3:00 PM PDT

    Deep Spatiotemporal Insights into COVID-19: a Multi-organ Study

    Arutha Kulasinghe, PhD
    NHMRC Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: NanoString Technologies
The following webinars will be readily on-demand when the event starts
  • COVID: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?

    COVID: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?

    Andrew Noymer, PhD
    Epidemiologist and Population Health Scientist, Associate Professor, Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • COVID Testing: The Key to the Beginning, Middle & End of the Global Pandemic

    Mara G. Aspinall
    Managing Director, Health Catalysts Group and Professor of Practice, Biomedical Diagnostics, Arizona State University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Epistatic Interactions Among SARS-CoV-2 Spike Amino Acids Required for Viability of Variants of Concern

    Epistatic Interactions Among SARS-CoV-2 Spike Amino Acids Required for Viability of Variants of Concern

    Jeremy Luban, MD
    Professor, David J. Freelander Chair in AIDS Research, Program in Molecular Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Neuropathology of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Aged Non-human Primates

    Tracy Fischer, PhD
    Associate Professor, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Division of Comparative Pathology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Top 10 Lessons Learned from COVID with a Focus on Minority Populations and a Way Forward

    Peter Chin-Hong, MD
    Associate Dean, Regional Campuses, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 13, 2021 6:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: Discovery and Biology of Protective SARS-CoV-2 Human Monoclonal Antibodies

    James Crowe, MD
    Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Ann Scott Carell Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 13, 2021 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: Impact of New Escape Variants and Waning Immunity on the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Ali H. Mokdad, PhD
    Chief Strategy Officer, Population Health, University of Washington; Director, Middle Eastern Initiatives Professor, Health Metrics Sciences Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 13, 2021 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: Costly Closures: The Return on Investment in COVID-19 Prevention for Retail, School, Sports, and Entertainment

    Blythe Adamson, PhD, MPH
    Founder and Epidemiologist, Infectious Economics, LLC
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 13, 2021 10:30 AM PDT

    Altered MicroRNA Expression in COVID-19 Patients Accurately Identifies of SARS-CoV-2 Infection

    Ryan Farr, PhD
    Research Scientist, Host Response Team, Health and Biosecurity (H&B) at the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) , CSIRO
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: QIAGEN
  • OCT 13, 2021 10:30 AM PDT

    Spatial Transcriptomic Profiling of Severe COVID-19 Patients

    Camilla Margaroli, PhD
    Department of Medicine; Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care University of Alabama at Birmingham
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: NanoString Technologies
  • OCT 13, 2021 12:00 PM PDT

    A Virtual Conversation with Dr. John Moore: COVID Vaccines and Variants

    John P. Moore, PhD
    Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 13, 2021 1:30 PM PDT

    Panel Presentation: Advantage of Absolute Quantification of Digital PCR in Wastewater Monitoring QIAGEN's Workflow Solutions for SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance

    Sponsored By: QIAGEN
    Dominic O'Neil, MS, MBA
    Director of Microbiome Product Development, QIAGEN
    Colin Donohoe, PhD
    Senior Scientist, Research and Development at QIAGEN
  • OCT 13, 2021 1:30 PM PDT

    SARS-CoV-2 Related Workflow and Solutions: Detection and Genotyping​

    Manohar R. Furtado, PhD
    Director R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Genetic Testing Solutions
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • OCT 13, 2021 3:00 PM PDT

    Accelerating SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Surveillance with High-throughput NGS

    James Caffrey, PhD, MBA
    Director Strategic Marketing, Genomics, QIAGEN
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: QIAGEN
  • OCT 13, 2021 3:00 PM PDT

    SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibody Testing for Vaccine Efficacy Assessment

    Sean Taylor, MBA, PhD
    North American Field Application Scientist Manager, GenScript USA, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: GenScript
  • OCT 13, 2021 4:30 PM PDT

    Delivering Insights by Analyzing Metagenomic NGS Data

    Patrick Ettenhuber, PhD
    Product Owner
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: QIAGEN
  • New Diagnostic Tools to Fight the Pandemic - Screening and Syndromic Testing
    OCT 13, 2021 4:30 PM PDT

    New Diagnostic Tools to Fight the Pandemic - Screening and Syndromic Testing

    Arvind Kothandaraman
    General Manager, Specialty Diagnostics
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: PerkinElmer
The following webinars will be readily on-demand when the event starts
  • Rapid and Inexpensive Whole-Genome Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 Using the "Midnight" Panel

    Nikki Freed, PhD
    Lead at Auckland Genomics, University of Auckland, New Zealand
    BIOGRAPHY
  • SARS-CoV-2 Evolution: Addition by Subtraction

    Kevin R. McCarthy, PhD
    Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Research
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Infectious Disease Diagnostics: A Critical Pandemic Preparedness Tool

    Infectious Disease Diagnostics: A Critical Pandemic Preparedness Tool

    Amesh A. Adalja, MD
    Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Low-Dose mRNA-1273 COVID-19 Vaccine Generates Durable Memory Enhanced by Cross-reactive T Cells

    Daniela Weiskopf, PhD
    Research Assistant Professor, Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • COVID Policy in the Vaccine Era

    Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
    Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • APR 14, 2021 6:00 AM PDT

    A two-pronged approach to tackle COVID-19: Lessons learned from temporal and spatial expression analysis of infected tissue

    Sponsored By: NanoString Technologies
    Eugenia Z. Ong, PhD
    Senior Research Fellow, Duke-NUS Medical School Singapo...
    Joe Poh Sheng Yeong, MBBS PhD Mmed (Path)
    Associate Faculty, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biol...
  • APR 14, 2021 6:00 AM PDT

    Novel, high throughput test for detection of SARS-Cov-2 neutralizing antibodies

    Shuting Xu, PhD
    Field Appication Scientist
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: GenScript
  • APR 14, 2021 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: The impact of the New COVID-19 Variants and Vaccine Rollout on the pandemic

    Ali H. Mokdad, PhD
    Chief Strategy Officer, Population Health, University of Washington; Director, Middle Eastern Initiatives Professor, Health Metrics Sciences Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
    BIOGRAPHY
  • APR 14, 2021 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: What the NIH Serosurvey Tells Us So Far and Why We Should Try to Develop a Broadly Protective/Universal Beta-Coronavirus Vaccine

    Matthew J. Memoli, MD, MS
    Director, LID Clinical Studies Unit, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • APR 14, 2021 10:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: New Vaccine and Antiviral Strategies for COVID-19

    Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD
    Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, Tisch Cancer Center Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    BIOGRAPHY
  • APR 14, 2021 12:00 PM PDT

    New Challenges for SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostics: Viral Load Testing and Variant Strain Genotyping

    Sponsored By: LGC Seracare
    Russell Garlick, PhD
    Chief Scientific Officer, LGC SeraCare
    Nathan A. Ledeboer, PhD
    Professor and Vice Chair, Pathology; Medical Director,...
  • APR 14, 2021 12:00 PM PDT

    Solutions for SARS-CoV-2 Strain Lineage Surveillance

    Stephen Jackson
    Associate Director, Product Applications Genetic Sciences Division, Thermo Fisher Scientific
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • APR 14, 2021 1:30 PM PDT

    Automated Solutions for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Identification and Surveillance

    Sponsored By: BGI Americas
    Anthony Tong, PhD
    Director of Product Management, BGI
    Subodh Nimkar
    Senior Product Manager, Complete Genomics Facility, MGI
  • APR 14, 2021 1:30 PM PDT

    Molecular Testing for the Detection and Strain Identification of SARS-CoV-2

    Manohar R. Furtado, PhD
    Director R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Genetic Testing Solutions
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • APR 14, 2021 3:00 PM PDT

    NEXTFLEX® Variant-Seq™ SARS-CoV-2 Kit

    Pedro Echave, PhD
    Global Leader, NGS Product Experts, PerkinElmer
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: PerkinElmer
  • APR 14, 2021 3:00 PM PDT

    Quick and Easy Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 to Identify Variants of Concern

    Jordan RoseFigura, PhD
    Director of Material Sciences, Swift Biosciences
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Swift Biosciences
  • APR 14, 2021 4:30 PM PDT

    How RT-PCR Testing Allows Labcorp to Perform National SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Surveillance

    Brian Krueger, PhD
    Associate Vice President, Research and Development, Laboratory Corporation of America
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: PacBio
The following webinars will be readily on-demand when the event starts
  • Clarigene: a Pandemic Diagnostic Story

    Michael Risley, PhD
    Chief Development Officer, Yourgene Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Is SNP Genotyping a Better Approach for Monitoring for Known Variants of Concern

    Richard Michelmore
    Distinguished Professor and Director, The Genome Center, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California, Davis
    BIOGRAPHY
  • New Technologies for Accessible, Durable and Broadly Protective Coronavirus Vaccines

    Corey Casper, M.D., MPH
    CEO, IDRI; Clinical Professor of Medicine and Global Health, University of Washington; Affiliate Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • SARS-CoV-2 - Dynamics of the COVID-19 Epidemic

    Harm van Bakel, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    BIOGRAPHY
  • The Next Big Question: Genomic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2

    Gary Schroth, Ph.D.
    Vice President and Distinguished Scientist, Illumina
    BIOGRAPHY
  • The Rapid Development of COVID-19 Vaccines

    Paul Goepfert
    Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham Director, Alabama Vaccine Research Clinic (AVRC)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Keynote Presentation: Facial Masking for COVID-19: Transmission, Severity and Immunity
    DEC 03, 2020 6:00 AM PST

    Keynote Presentation: Facial Masking for COVID-19: Transmission, Severity and Immunity

    Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH
    Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine, UCSF, Director, UCSF-Gladstone Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Keynote Presentation: Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Immunity in Those Undiagnosed with COVID-19 in the U.S.
    DEC 03, 2020 7:30 AM PST

    Keynote Presentation: Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Immunity in Those Undiagnosed with COVID-19 in the U.S.

    Matthew J. Memoli, MD, MS
    Director, LID Clinical Studies Unit, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • New! PerkinElmer® RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 Solution Updates
    DEC 03, 2020 9:00 AM PST

    New! PerkinElmer® RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 Solution Updates

    Arvind Kothandaraman
    General Manager, Specialty Diagnostics
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: PerkinElmer
  • Transmission Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2: Inference and Projection
    DEC 03, 2020 9:00 AM PST

    Transmission Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2: Inference and Projection

    Jeffrey Shaman
    Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Keynote Presentation: COVID-19 Projections for the United States
    DEC 03, 2020 10:00 AM PST

    Keynote Presentation: COVID-19 Projections for the United States

    Ali H. Mokdad, PhD
    Chief Strategy Officer, Population Health, University of Washington; Director, Middle Eastern Initiatives Professor, Health Metrics Sciences Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Accelerating vaccine development using a next generation microfluidic CE platform
    DEC 03, 2020 10:30 AM PST

    Accelerating vaccine development using a next generation microfluidic CE platform

    Jeray Thelwell
    Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Biotherapeutics Solution Specialists
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: PerkinElmer
  • DEC 03, 2020 10:30 AM PST

    The Immunology of COVID-19: A dynamic immune signature for prognosis and spatial transcriptomics of lung tissue

    Sponsored By: NanoString Technologies
    Arutha Kulasinghe, PhD
    Peter Doherty NHMRC Early Career Fellow at the Queensla...
    Miguel Muñoz-Ruiz, PhD
    PostDoc fellow at the Immunosurveillance Lab at the Fra...
  • DEC 03, 2020 12:00 PM PST

    Advancing SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostics Through Standardization and Quantitation

    Sponsored By: LGC Seracare
    Russell Garlick, PhD
    Chief Scientific Officer, LGC SeraCare
    Marc Salit, PhD
    Director, Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology, St...
  • Using an ARIES® Laboratory Developed Test for SARS-CoV-2 to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Louisville, KY
    DEC 03, 2020 1:30 PM PST

    Using an ARIES® Laboratory Developed Test for SARS-CoV-2 to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Louisville, KY

    Leslie A. Wolf, PhD, HCLD (ABB)
    Division of Infectious Diseases | University of Louisville
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Novel SARS-Cov-2 Neutralization Antibody test, performance and applications
    DEC 03, 2020 3:00 PM PST

    Novel SARS-Cov-2 Neutralization Antibody test, performance and applications

    Roumen Bogoev, MSc
    Head of Segment Marketing, GenScript USA
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: GenScript
  • An Iterative Approach to Structure-based in silico to in vivo Development of Combinatorial Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Therapy
    DEC 03, 2020 4:30 PM PST

    An Iterative Approach to Structure-based in silico to in vivo Development of Combinatorial Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Therapy

    Garth D. Ehrlich, PhD, FAAAS
    Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Professor of Otolarynology-Head and Neck Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
The following webinars will be readily on-demand when the event starts
  • COVID-19 RNA and DNA vaccines

    COVID-19 RNA and DNA vaccines

    Deborah Fuller, PhD
    Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Division Chief, Infectious Diseases and Translational Medicine, Washington National Primate Research Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Development, assessment and commercialization of serological SARS CoV-2 tests - an interdisciplinary success story

    Development, assessment and commercialization of serological SARS CoV-2 tests - an interdisciplinary success story

    Mark Dürkop, PhD
    CEO Novasign GmbH, Project Lead BOKU - Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Immunity, Aging and COVID-19 : where do we stand?

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

    Janko Nikolich-Zugich, MD, PhD
    Bowman Professor and Head, Department of Immunobiology, Co-Director, University of Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NGS Workflows for Studying Infectious Disease

    NGS Workflows for Studying Infectious Disease

    Gary P. Schroth, PhD
    Vice President and Distinguished Scientist, Illumina, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Putting COVID-19 Into Context

    Putting COVID-19 Into Context

    Amesh A. Adalja, MD
    Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Recent insights into SARS-CoV-2 intra-host population dynamics

    Recent insights into SARS-CoV-2 intra-host population dynamics

    Todd Treangen, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Keynote Presentation: The American Response to COVID-19: what went right, what went wrong
    SEP 17, 2020 6:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: The American Response to COVID-19: what went right, what went wrong

    Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H.
    Dean, Brown University School of Public Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Keynote Presentation: IHME Covid-19 projections for the US: Strategies to reduce the spread
    SEP 17, 2020 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: IHME Covid-19 projections for the US: Strategies to reduce the spread

    Ali H. Mokdad, PhD
    Chief Strategy Officer, Population Health, University of Washington; Director, Middle Eastern Initiatives Professor, Health Metrics Sciences Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Coronaviruses: History, Biology and Innate Immune Antagonism
    SEP 17, 2020 9:00 AM PDT

    Coronaviruses: History, Biology and Innate Immune Antagonism

    Susan R. Weiss, PhD
    Professor and Vice Chair Department of Microbiology, Co-Director, Penn Center for Research on Coronaviruses and Other Emerging Pathogens Perelman school of Medicine University of Pennsylvania
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Preclinical Optical Imaging of Infectious Diseases
    SEP 17, 2020 9:00 AM PDT

    Preclinical Optical Imaging of Infectious Diseases

    Kevin Francis, PhD
    Divisional VP, Biology Solutions at PerkinElmer
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: PerkinElmer
  • Purification of cells from SARS-CoV-2 convalescent samples and potentially infectious materials with fluorescent-activated cell sorting
    SEP 17, 2020 9:00 AM PDT

    Purification of cells from SARS-CoV-2 convalescent samples and potentially infectious materials with fluorescent-activated cell sorting

    Joe Ostrand, Ph.D.
    Flow Cytometry Specialist, Miltenyi Biotec
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Miltenyi Biotec
  • Keynote Presentation: Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 antivirals through large-scale repositioning studies
    SEP 17, 2020 10:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 antivirals through large-scale repositioning studies

    Sumit Chanda, PhD
    Director & Professor, Immunity & Pathogenesis Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Host and Viral Transcriptomes During COVID-19 Infection
    SEP 17, 2020 11:00 AM PDT

    Host and Viral Transcriptomes During COVID-19 Infection

    Christopher E. Mason, PhD
    Associate Professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Director of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction
    BIOGRAPHY
  • SEP 17, 2020 11:00 AM PDT

    Innovative Reagent Solutions in Virology Research

    Sponsored By: PerkinElmer
    Mathis Laffenetre
    Life Sciences Technology Platform Metabolic Diseases Re...
    Nicolas Pierre
    Life Sciences Technology Platforms Leader, Discovery Re...
  • Lung-Chip - Accelerating Study of Viral Infection and Therapeutics
    SEP 17, 2020 11:00 AM PDT

    Lung-Chip - Accelerating Study of Viral Infection and Therapeutics

    Lorna Ewart, PhD
    EVP European Scientific Liaison Emulate, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Emulate
  • Advanced NGS solutions for SARS-CoV-2 monitoring and insights
    SEP 17, 2020 12:00 PM PDT

    Advanced NGS solutions for SARS-CoV-2 monitoring and insights

    Cris Kinross
    Global Market Development, Thermo Fisher Scientific
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • Antibody therapy against SARS-CoV-2: A Global Collaboration
    SEP 17, 2020 12:00 PM PDT

    Antibody therapy against SARS-CoV-2: A Global Collaboration

    Erica Ollmann Saphire, PhD
    Professor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Important considerations for choosing a SARS-CoV-2 assay
    SEP 17, 2020 12:00 PM PDT

    Important considerations for choosing a SARS-CoV-2 assay

    Arvind Kothandaraman
    General Manager, Specialty Diagnostics
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: PerkinElmer
  • Keynote Presentation: SARS-CoV-2 Susceptibility, Transmission and Reinfection in Domestic Cats
    SEP 17, 2020 1:00 PM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: SARS-CoV-2 Susceptibility, Transmission and Reinfection in Domestic Cats

    Jürgen A. Richt, DVM, PhD
    Regents Distinguished Professor at KSU, University Distinguished Professor, Director - Center on Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (CEZID), NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence
    BIOGRAPHY
  • SEP 17, 2020 2:00 PM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: The formation of an International Collaborative Network to find COVID-19 Therapeutics

    Jacqueline Fabius
    Chief Operating Officer, Quantitative Biosciences Insti...
    Nevan Krogan, PhD
    Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF,...
  • Discovery of a druggable pocket in SARS-CoV-2 Spike: New avenue to defeat COVID-19?
    SEP 17, 2020 3:30 PM PDT

    Discovery of a druggable pocket in SARS-CoV-2 Spike: New avenue to defeat COVID-19?

    Imre Berger
    Founder and Managing Director of the Max Planck Bristol Centre for Minimal Biology
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: GenScript
  • Repurposing in COVID-19: Can we identify new antivirals
    SEP 17, 2020 3:30 PM PDT

    Repurposing in COVID-19: Can we identify new antivirals

    Sara Cherry, PhD
    Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
    BIOGRAPHY
  • SEP 17, 2020 3:30 PM PDT

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

    Sponsored By: LGC Seracare
    Russell Garlick, PhD
    Chief Scientific Officer, LGC SeraCare
    Richard Hughes
    Associate Scientific Director at LGC
    Joel Lefferts, PhD, HCLD, DABCC
    Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicin...
  • SEP 17, 2020 4:30 PM PDT

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

    Sponsored By: Adaptive Biotechnologies
    Sean Nolan
    Distinguished Engineer
    Patrick Raber, PhD
    Senior Manager, Research and Business Development
    Thomas Snyder, PhD
    VP, Research, immunoSEQ Dx
  • Ultra-fast one-step RT-PCR protocol for the detection of SARS-CoV-2
    SEP 17, 2020 4:30 PM PDT

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

    Brian McNally, PhD
    Chief Commercial Officer, Molecular Biology Systems, BV
    BIOGRAPHY
The following webinars will be readily on-demand when the event starts
  • Insights into SARS-CoV-2 Biology

    Insights into SARS-CoV-2 Biology

    Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD
    Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, Tisch Cancer Center Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Testing for SARS-CoV-2: The Cleveland Clinic Experience

    Testing for SARS-CoV-2: The Cleveland Clinic Experience

    Gary Procop, MD, MS
    Medical Director & Co-Chair, Enterprise Laboratory Stewardship Committee, Enterprise Medical Operations, & Director of Microbiology, Virology, Mycology & Parasitology, Clevelaland Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • The detection, characterization, and surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 viral genome using hybridization capture-based NGS assay

    The detection, characterization, and surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 viral genome using hybridization capture-based NGS assay

    Dorottya Nagy-Szakal, MD PhD
    Chief Medical Officer, Biotia, Research Assistant Professor, Department Cell Biology/College of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • JUN 17, 2020 6:00 AM PDT

    Enhanced, rapid NGS tools for viral research

    Cris Kinross
    Global Market Development, Thermo Fisher Scientific
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • JUN 17, 2020 6:00 AM PDT

    Rapid Development of Multiplex Serological Assays for COVID-19 Beyond

    Steve Angeloni
    Senior Field Applications Scientist, Luminex
    Nicole Pecora, MD, PhD
    Assistant Professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicin...
  • JUN 17, 2020 6:00 AM PDT

    Role of serology in the next phase of COVID-19 investigation and response

    Linfa Wang, PhD
    Professor & Director, Emerging Infectious Diseases Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: GenScript
  • JUN 17, 2020 7:30 AM PDT

    Advanced solutions for viral detection and immune monitoring

    Sponsored By: Standard BioTools
    Joel Guthridge, PhD
    Assistant Member, Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Dir...
    Petter Brodin, MD, PhD
    Associate Professor and consultant physician Science fo...
  • JUN 17, 2020 7:30 AM PDT

    Development of Luminex Based Serological Test for COVID-19 Diagnosis and Monitoring

    Imad Tarhoni, MD, PhD
    Postdoctoral Fellow at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago
    BIOGRAPHY
  • JUN 17, 2020 7:30 AM PDT

    Effective RNA extraction for COVID-19 testing

    Sponsored By: Cytiva
    Gabriel Fernandez de Pierola
    General Manager - Genomics & Diagnostic Solutions Cyti...
    Christopher Norey, PhD
    R&D Leader, Cytiva (formerly GE Healthcare Life Science...
  • JUN 17, 2020 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: Another New Coronavirus?: The Coronaviruses of the 21st Century

    Stephen S. Morse, PhD, FAAM, F.A.C.E.
    Professor of Epidemiology, Director, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Certificate, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • JUN 17, 2020 10:30 AM PDT

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