NIH FDA COVID-19 SIG Lecture Series- Professor Wendy Barclay
Dr. Barclay joined Imperial College in May 2007, moving with her research group from the University of Reading where she had previously been based since 1995. She had graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and had undertaken my PhD at the Common Cold Unit, Salisbury under the joint supervision of Dr David Tyrrell and Dr Fred Brown, studying the human immune response to rhinovirus. Dr. Barclay acquired molecular virology skills as a postdoctoral fellow first in the laboratories of Professor Jeff Almond at Reading and then working with Dr Peter Palese at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.Dr. Barcl...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The dark side of DNA - how the immune system senses DNA as a danger signal
Zhijian “ James ” Chen ’ s research into complex cellular biochemistry has led to the discovery of pathways and proteins that trigger immune and stress responses. Chen has identified proteins, such as the mitochondrial protein MAVS, that are crucial to the body ’ s defense against RNA viruses such as influenza and Ebola. Now, Chen and his team are dissecting a signaling pathway involving a novel DNA sensor – cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase, or cGAS – which activates an interferon response that may play a role in immune defense against pathogens and malignant cells, as well as in autoimmune diseases such as lupu...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 26, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Influenza Pathogenesis and Therapeutics in Vulnerable Populations
Established in 1950 in honor of former NIH Director Rolla E. Dyer, M.D., a noted authority on infectious diseases, this lectureship, now part of the Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series, features internationally renowned researchers who have contributed substantially to medical as well as biological knowledge of infectious diseases. The Dyer Lecture is the oldest continuous lecture series at the NIH.
Stacey Schultz-Cherry, PhD, is a Full Member and Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases at St Jude Children ’ s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN as well as Senior Associate Dean for the St Jude Graduate School of...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIH – FDA COVID SIG Lecture with Donna Farber, Ph.D.
Donna Farber, Ph.D., is the George H. Humphreys, II Professor of Surgical Sciences (in Surgery), Chief, Division of Surgical Sciences and Professor of Microbiology& Immunology at Columbia University. from the speaker: " Research in the laboratory is focused on immunological memory and specifically on memory T cells as essential mediators of protective immunity. While it was previously thought that memory T cells mediate their protective responses through rapid migration and surveillance through tissues, it is now become clear that localization and establishment of non-circulating memory T cells resident in tissue sites is ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIH – FDA COVID SIG Lecture with Ali Ellebedy, WUSTL
Ali Ellebedy, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Pathology& Immunology at WUSTL. His research interests are: Defining the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate memory B cell heterogeneity and fate; Understanding the rules for eliciting broadly neutralizing B cell responses against rapidly evolving pathogens, such as influenza viruses.Air date: 5/18/2023 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIH – FDA COVID SIG Lecture with Malik Peiris
In 2003, Professor Peiris and his research team discovered SARS-CoV, a novel coronavirus, as the etiological agent for SARS. He joined The University of Hong Kong in 1995, and is now Chair of Virology at the School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. He co-directs the WHO H5 Reference Laboratory and the WHO SARS-CoV-2 reference laboratory at The University of Hong Kong. Currently, he serves on many Hong Kong and WHO advisory committees, including the WHO International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on COVID-19.
He is a clinical and public health virologis...
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Interpreting the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19 SIG
SARS-CoV-2 has undergone rapid antigenic evolution over the last few years. I will discuss how the patterns of SARS-CoV-2 evolution compare to other human respiratory viruses. I will also discuss how high-throughput deep mutational scanning experiments can help us interpret the ongoing evolution and get some idea of what might come next Presentation objectives: Explain the different ways that human respiratory viruses evolve in response to immune pressure. Explain how deep mutational scanning can be used to understand the effects of viral mutations. Explain how experimental data can be used to interpret and to...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 9, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
COVID-19 SIG talk with Jesse Bloom
Dr. Jesse Bloom studies evolution using viruses and viral proteins as models. Specifically focusing on the fast-evolving influenza virus, Bloom aims to understand how mutations in viral genes shape the pathogen ’ s ability to infect and spread. He uses computational biology and real-world data to build evolutionary models and examine different scales of viral evolution, from evolution within a single host to evolution on a global scale. In doing so, Bloom addresses both fundamental and translational questions, including those with relevance to developing more effective seasonal flu vaccines.For more information go tohttp...
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 29, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Socio-Cultural Responses within India during Times of Pandemic Disease
Focusing on the history of India, Dr. Mathew will explore the complex and underappreciated ways in which Indian folk-beliefs, myth, superstition, related stories (witnessed and fictional) and local traditions, have combined to inform the experience of epidemic and pandemic disease, including in the main, but not limited to, cholera, plague, influenza and COVID-19. Drawing on collections of the NLM and other institutions, he will investigate how these complex belief systems intersect with different kinds of information about these diseases, revealing how every new outbreak is accompanied with information that did not exist ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 23, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Narratives of Pandemics Past: Archival Approaches to Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic
The last two years have produced a new fascination with historical epidemic moments. This pandemic of COVID-19 has required us all to become conversant in epidemiology, fields of public health and also histories of medicine. From the 1918/-1920 Influenza pandemic to smallpox and polio eradication campaigns to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, journalists, social scientists and historians have sought historical analogues to our present pandemic moment. Archives have been a critical lens into understanding our current moment. Drawing on material from the U.S. National Library of Medicine as well has his own research on the history of i...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 9, 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
Demystifying Medicine 2021 - COVID-19 and Influenza
Demystifying MedicineAir date: 1/12/2021 4:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 6, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Demystifying Medicine 2021 - COVID-19 and Influenza.
COVID-19 and Influenza Anthony Fauci, MD (NIAID)Jeffrey Taubenberger, MD, PhD (NIAID)Air date: 1/12/2021 3:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 28, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
