

Viroholics 2020 Friday Seminars (COVID19-Edition)
March 20 | Efrem Lim PhD, Assistant Professor, Bodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics; School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University – Title: "SARS-CoV-2 surveillance at ASU and Arizona" (not recorded) |
March 27 | Brenda Hogue PhD, Professor, Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines and Virotherapy; School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University – Link to Presentation: “Virus-like Particles - a platform for coronavirus vaccines” |
April 3 | Alexandra Lucas MD, Professor, Biodesign Virginia D. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics at Arizona State University – Link to Presentation: “Fighting fire with fire: Virus-derived immune modulators for treating severe viral infections” |
April 10 | Matthew Frieman PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine – Link to Presentation: “Therapeutic developments for emerging coronaviruses” |
April 17 | Darryl Falzarano PhD, Research Scientist II & Adjunct Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization - International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac), University of Saskatchewan – Link to Presentation: “Animal models of SARS-CoV-2 for vaccines and therapeutics” |
April 24 | Vineet Menachery PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UTMB Health – Link to Presentation: “Age-dependent coronavirus disease” |
May 1 | Marion Koopmans DVM, PhD, Head of the Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC - The Netherlands – Link to Presentation: “Precision public health: assessing the role of real-time whole genome sequencing and serology for decision support in COVID-19 epidemic response in The Netherlands” |
May 8 | Adolfo Garcia-Sastre PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Director, Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York – Link to Presentation: “What respiratory viral pathogen research has taught us about COVID-19” |
May 15 | Ralph Baric MD, PhD, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Department of Epidemiology; Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – Title: “Epidemic and Pandemic Coronaviruses” (not recorded) |
May 22 | Stanley Perlman MD, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Professor of Pediatrics, University of Iowa Health Care, Carver College of Medicine – Link to Presentation: “COVID-19: What do we know about the human immune response, and what do we need to know?” |
May 29 | Mark Denison MD, Director, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center – Link to Presentation: “Why Basic Science Matters: Developing Antivirals against COVID-19 and Future Pandemic Coronaviruses” |
June 5 | Kanta Subbarao MBBS, MPH, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Doherty Institute – Link to Presentation: “Vaccines and Immunotherapy for COVID-19: lessons from SARS and other respiratory viruses” |
June 12 | Tom Gallagher PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago – Link to Presentation: “Coronavirus – Cell Entry Mechanisms” |
June 19 | Arizona COVID-19 Genomics Union: Paul Keim PhD (NAU), Brendan Larsen (UA), Hayley Yaglom, MS, MPH (TGen), and Jason Ladner PhD (NAU) – Link to Presentation: “Defining the Pandemic at the State Level: Sequence-Based Epidemiology of the SARS-CoV-2 virus by the Arizona COVID-19 Genomics Union (ACGU)” |
June 26 | Janko Nikolich-Zugich MD, PhD, Bowman Professor and Head, Department of Immunology; Co-Director, University of Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson – Link to Presentation (pending): “Immune response to viral infections in older adults: a backdrop to understand (parts of) host:SARS-CoV-2 interaction outcomes” (not recorded) |