Neurobiology of the World ’ s Most Dangerous Animal
This is an NIH Director's Lecture. Speaker Leslie Vosshall is interested in the molecular neurobiology of mosquito host-seeking behavior. Female mosquitoes require a blood meal to complete egg development. In carrying out this innate behavior, mosquitoes spread dangerous infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue, Zika, Chikungunya, and yellow fever. Humans attract mosquitoes via multiple sensory cues including emitted body odor, heat, and carbon dioxide in the breath. The mosquito perceives differences in these cues, both between and within species, to determine which animal or human to target for blood-feeding. We have ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 26, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Virus Entry and Post-entry Events
We are pleased to announce that a conference on Virus-Cell Interactions: New Approaches and Technologies will be held virtually on October 13, 2021 from 10:00 am to 5:45 pm.
The HIV Dynamics and Replication Program (HIV DRP) is organizing this conference to showcase the latest research on virus – cell interactions, focusing on new approaches to understanding the mechanisms of viral pathogenesis and host antiviral defenses, with the goal of developing improved therapeutics against existing and emerging infectious diseases.
Confirmed speakers in this outstanding program include Sarah Butcher, Daniel DiMaio, Ekaterina ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 7, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Strategies for Development of Coronavirus Vaccines That Induce Broadly Reactive Neutralizing Antibodies
Speaker Barton Ford Haynes is Professor of Medicine Frederic M. Hanes Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Duke University. The Haynes lab is studying host innate and adaptive immune responses to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis (TB), and influenza in order to find the enabling technology to make preventive vaccines against these three major infectious diseases.For more information go tohttps://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/covid-19-sigAir date: 11/18/2021 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 21, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
COVID-19, International Law, and Data Governance
Speaker Alexandra L. Phelan is an Adjunct Professor in Global and Public Health Law and Ethics, Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) candidate and General Sir John Monash Scholar at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Professor Phelan ’ s doctoral research examines the global governance of infectious diseases, with a focus on Australian, Chinese and US laws relating to the health and human rights of vulnerable population groups. Professor Phelan ’ s research explores the key legal issues of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases – such as Ebola, Pandemic Influenza, MERS, and Zika Virus – in the face of press...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 21, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Evolutionary Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2
This is the annual Dewitt Stetten Jr. Lecture. Speaker Trevor Bedford, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division; Associate Professor, Herbold Computational Biology Program; and Associate Professor, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutch. Bedford uses powerful computers and complex statistical methods to study the rapid spread and evolution of viruses, including those that cause COVID-19, influenza, Ebola and Zika. Data gathered from these processes help researchers develop successful strategies for monitoring and controlling infectious diseases.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/walsAir...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 8, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Reading Between the Tweets: Social Technologies for Predicting and Changing Health Behavior
This talk is part of the Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series presented by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.
Social technologies — for example, social media, mobile apps, internet searching, and wearable sensors — and the data they produce are increasingly being used as tools in public health research and practice. More than half of the world (4.5 billion people) is using social media sites to create, share, and discuss content. Social media users are not just sharing trivial facts, but publicly telling the world personal things about their thoughts, behaviors, and clinical diagnos...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 3, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Subcommittee
Report from Division Director and Division StaffAir date: 9/13/2021 1:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Subcommittee - June 2021
Report from Division Director and Division StaffAir date: 6/7/2021 1:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 4, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Outbreak Preemption and Response in the Genomic and Information Age
COVID-19 Scientific Interest Group
Dr. Sabeti is a professor at Harvard University and at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, as well as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Her lab's research areas include: developing analytical methods to detect and investigate evolution in the genomes of humans and other species; examining host and viral genetic factors driving disease susceptibility to the devastating and deadly diseases; investigating the genomes of microbes; and determining the microbial cause of undiagnosed acute febrile illness. Just as COVID-19...
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 1, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Subcommittee
Report from Division Director and Division StaffAir date: 6/7/2021 1:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 25, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Outbreak Response in the Genomic and Information Age
Sabeti is a computational geneticist whose lab develops powerful methods and tools for advancing genome biology and medicine. She has created some of the most widely used algorithms to mine our genome for instances of human adaptation, and created powerful molecular tools to elucidate their underlying biology. She has contributed to widely varying fields — such as viral sequencing, information theory, rural disease surveillance, and education efforts in West Africa — to create comprehensive approaches for detecting, containing, and treating deadly infectious diseases.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/sigs/c...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 30, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Wolves reveal more about the spread of infectious diseases within social species
By modeling wolves in Yellowstone National Park, researchers have discovered that how a population is organized into social groups affects the spread of infectious diseases within the population. The findings may be applicable to any social species and could be useful in the protection of ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Subcommittee - January 2021
Report from Division Director and Division StaffAir date: 1/25/2021 12:30:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
COVID 19 Epidemiology and Transmission Dynamics: Contrasting South Africa, China and the U.S.
C é cile Viboud is a Staff Scientist based in the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health, where she is part of the Multinational Influenza Seasonal Mortality Study (MISMS). Viboud specializes in the mortality of infectious disease. Viboud was involved with epidemiological analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/sigs/covid-19-scientific-interest-groupAir date: 1/21/2021 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine Development Enabled by Prototype Pathogen Preparedness
Perhaps now more than ever, it is undeniable how integral vaccines have become to public health. Vaccines protect us from a whole host of infectious diseases, including chickenpox, measles and the seasonal flu. With a new threat at hand, scientists at the NIH swiftly developed a vaccine candidate against the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The pre-clinical effort was driven in part by Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett.Air date: 10/15/2020 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 5, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
