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: November 15, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CET) Recent advances in stem cell technologies, synthetic development and organoid biology are enabling us to create more a...
Date: November 09, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST), 7:00pm (CET) Over four billion prescriptions are issued each year in the US, many of which will cause adverse drug reactions and/or...
Date: November 09, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CET) The field of cell and gene therapy is rapidly growing. In particular, the use of lentiviruses in CAR-T applications is...
Date: November 08, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CET) Developing safe and effective CAR T cell therapies is a challenging task. That’s why thinking translational earl...
Date: November 8, 2022 Time: 1:00pm (SGT), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00am (CET) Antibodies are vital tools in many of the laboratory techniques that are used...
Date: November 3, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) In this webinar, our speakers will provide an introduction into the epidemiology of influenza A/B, RSV, COVID-19, Aden...
Date: October 13, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Most known immune checkpoints exert their effects upon protein-protein interactions, such as the PD1 checkpoint on CD...
Date: November 2, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00pm (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) As part of the immune response, inflammation plays a vital role in the host defense and is dictated by the balance bet...
Date: November 01, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CET) Our laboratory developed the Pig-a gene mutation assay as a means to simply and reliably evaluate the potential mutage...
Date: November 1, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 5:00pm (CET) Rapid and efficient organism identification and antimicrobial susceptibility reports are paramount for patient survival...
Date: November 01, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 1:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) This webinar will focus on sub-micron particle analysis utilizing high sensitivity violet side scatter detection. We w...
Date: October 26, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) To control and monitor the epidemiology and diffusion of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV...
Date: October 25, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CEST) Candida auris is a multi-drug resistant yeast that continues to be a global threat for infection and transmission in h...
Date: October 20, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Bacterial and viral infections produce a wide range of similar signs and symptoms leading often to the inappropriate u...
Date: October 20, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Over the past three decades, baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) has become one of the most powerful and robus...
COVID-19 remains a global health emergency with limited treatment options, lagging vaccine rates, and inadequate healthcare resources in the face of an ongoing calamity. The disease is chara...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, SARS-CoV-2 molecular testing continues to play a central role managing patient care and supporting epidemiological studies or developing new anti-virals a...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of most Americans. The consequences on the future health of the nation are unknown but likely profound. Well known is the condition known in the...
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss the methods used to diagnose COVID-19. 2. Define the preventive approaches to COVID-19. 3. Discuss the treatment strategies for COVID-19....
Date: October 19, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) In this webinar, we will introduce the generation and applications of Biocytogen’s severely immunodeficient (B-N...
SARS-CoV-2 spreads through airborne transmission. Aerosols containing live virus are dispersed when an infected person exhales and then continue to accumulate indoors, putting others at risk...
At the global level, mobility is above pre-COVID levels, and mask use is at the lowest level since mid-March 2020. The move away from social distancing combined with the spread of the BA.5 O...
In light of the recent pandemic, less attention has been given to more common viruses like influenza. Scientists believe influenza may have been around before the 16th century and probably c...
In the US, there are about 75 million individuals less than 18 years of age. COVID-19 has had a major impact on the pediatric population, as there have been more than 13.5 million documented...
SARS-CoV-2 vaccine efficacy testing is now facing increasing challenges in the face of an ongoing pandemic with the emergence of new variants and waning vaccine immunity. Evidence supports t...
The host antiviral innate immune response protects the host against infection. Like with other viruses, the host recognizes SARS-CoV-2 infection and triggers a series of signaling cascades t...