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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By examining the host response to SARS-CoV-2 infection we gain valuable insights into viral pathogenesis and COVID-19 progression. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small (18-22nt), non-coding...
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...
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...
Date: September 28, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Standardization and reproducibility are prerequisites for peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) generation from donor or patient...
Date: Spetember 14, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Pneumonia remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The use of broad-spectrum antibiotics is associated with the developmen...
Date: September 13, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Sepsis is the most common cause of mortality in many hospitals and is most often caused by blood stream infections. The major contr...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has increased awareness about sex-specific differences in immunity and outcomes following respiratory virus infections. Strong evidence of a male bias in COVID-...
Influenza viruses represent a significant burden to human health. In order to limit respiratory viral disease, new approaches that can prevent viral infection and spread are needed. We have...
Self-amplifying RNA replicons are promising candidates for next generation vaccines against human coronaviruses with pandemic potential. Self-amplification of RNAs in host cells generates mo...
For centuries, humans have become infected with endemic circulating Coronaviruses (hCoV), typically repeatedly throughout life. To understand how these respiratory infections establish CD4 T...
Flaviviruses are pathogens of global public health concern. They include dengue virus (DENV), West Nile virus (WNV), and zika virus (ZIKV). There are no approved US Food and Drug Administrat...
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases (AD, PD) are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders. Despite their debilitating effects and increasing prevalence in society, no cur...
Several age-related neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by the deposition of aberrantly folded proteins. The histopathological hallmark of synucleinopathies is the deposition of É‘-...
Date: August 24, 2021 Time: 2:00pm (GMT), 4:00pm (CEST) Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) are found in high global seroprevalence. Infections usually are asymptomatic or man...
Date: August 11, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker widely used to assess the risk of bacterial infection and to aid in antibiotic stewardship in patie...
Date: July 28, 2021 Time: 7:00am PDT Bacterial persistence is a potential cause of antibiotic therapy failure. Antibiotic-tolerant persisters originate from phenotypic differentiation within...
Date: June 22, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as one of the principal public health problems of the 21st century. It threatens the effectiv...
Date: June 17, 2021 Time: 11:00am PDT, 8:00pm CET BACKGROUND Kidney transplant recipients and patients on hemodialysis are immunocompromised populations excluded from vaccine trials. Data ar...
Date: June 16, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT) Large-scale wastewater surveillance can be used to help communities monitor infection dynamics for SARS-CoV-2. Wide-spread implementatio...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By examining the host response to SARS-CoV-2 infection we gain valuable insights into viral pathogenesis and COVID-19 progression. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small (18-22nt), non-coding...
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...
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...
Date: September 28, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Standardization and reproducibility are prerequisites for peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) generation from donor or patient...
Date: Spetember 14, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Pneumonia remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The use of broad-spectrum antibiotics is associated with the developmen...
Date: September 13, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Sepsis is the most common cause of mortality in many hospitals and is most often caused by blood stream infections. The major contr...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has increased awareness about sex-specific differences in immunity and outcomes following respiratory virus infections. Strong evidence of a male bias in COVID-...
Influenza viruses represent a significant burden to human health. In order to limit respiratory viral disease, new approaches that can prevent viral infection and spread are needed. We have...
Self-amplifying RNA replicons are promising candidates for next generation vaccines against human coronaviruses with pandemic potential. Self-amplification of RNAs in host cells generates mo...
For centuries, humans have become infected with endemic circulating Coronaviruses (hCoV), typically repeatedly throughout life. To understand how these respiratory infections establish CD4 T...
Flaviviruses are pathogens of global public health concern. They include dengue virus (DENV), West Nile virus (WNV), and zika virus (ZIKV). There are no approved US Food and Drug Administrat...
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases (AD, PD) are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders. Despite their debilitating effects and increasing prevalence in society, no cur...
Several age-related neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by the deposition of aberrantly folded proteins. The histopathological hallmark of synucleinopathies is the deposition of É‘-...
Date: August 24, 2021 Time: 2:00pm (GMT), 4:00pm (CEST) Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) are found in high global seroprevalence. Infections usually are asymptomatic or man...
Date: August 11, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker widely used to assess the risk of bacterial infection and to aid in antibiotic stewardship in patie...
Date: July 28, 2021 Time: 7:00am PDT Bacterial persistence is a potential cause of antibiotic therapy failure. Antibiotic-tolerant persisters originate from phenotypic differentiation within...
Date: June 22, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as one of the principal public health problems of the 21st century. It threatens the effectiv...
Date: June 17, 2021 Time: 11:00am PDT, 8:00pm CET BACKGROUND Kidney transplant recipients and patients on hemodialysis are immunocompromised populations excluded from vaccine trials. Data ar...
Date: June 16, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT) Large-scale wastewater surveillance can be used to help communities monitor infection dynamics for SARS-CoV-2. Wide-spread implementatio...
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