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.
The majority of disease-associated genetic variants are thought to have regulatory effects, including disruption of transcription factor (TF) binding and alteration of downstream gene expres...
We recently determined that concurrent inhibition of autophagy, using the lysosomal inhibitor chloroquine (CQ), and of ERK, using a small molecule ERK inhibitor (ERKi), synergistically suppr...
There are known outcome disparities between Black and White patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs). Multiple retrospective series have found that Black patients have more adv...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a computer program designed to perform operations typical of human intelligence, such as self-learning. AI is taking over different fields in science; we alre...
Prostate cancer (PCa) affects one in nine men and is the most diagnosed solid tumor cancer among men in the United States. The introduction of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) biomarker b...
Individuals with Lynch syndrome (LS) are prone to develop early-onset mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) colorectal- and endometrial cancers due to germline pathogenic variants (PVs) in one of...
Targeted sequencing has many applications in cancer biomarker research, carrier screening and inherited disorders, drug development, mitochondrial DNA variant detection, human ID and paterni...
Date: September 29, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is one of the most widely used delivery vehicles in gene therapy. To ensure the safety...
Date: September 29, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) Development and evolution are controlled, to a large degree, by regions of genomic DNA called enhancers that encode...
Date: September 28, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) While COVID-19 continues to be the most pressing diagnostic focus for clinical laboratories, HIV remains a serious g...
Date: September 28, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) CRISPR/Cas gene editing technology has rapidly evolved over the last decade. Its versatility extends from creating t...
Date: September 22, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Optimizing platforms for surgical specimen collection and deep human phenotyping was used to enhance protein biomarke...
Date: September 21, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) This talk aims to describe a popular workflow that profiles specific brain cell types in healthy and diseased post-m...
Date: September 14, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) Virus-like particles (VLPs) are nanostructures that possess diverse applications in therapeutics, immunization, and...
Alphaviruses are enveloped RNA viruses that cause disease in humans ranging from acute febrile illness with rash and arthritis to lethal encephalitis. Like many other mosquito-borne viruses,...
Since its discovery in late 2019 the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has created a global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As of July of 2022, mo...
The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need for an efficient collaboration between scientists, policy makers and the general public to tackle the crisis. Infectious disease experts play a...
The global effort to sequence millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes has provided an unprecedented view of viral evolution. Characterizing how selection acts on SARS-CoV-2 is critical to developing...
Date: September 07, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is especially severe in aged populations. Resolution of the COVID-19 pandemic ha...
Critical in control of this pandemic is the ability to rapidly identify infectious individuals prior to their ability to infect others. With the introduction of better testing capacity and a...
This is a technical talk. Its objective is to provide details of virus sequencing, using SARS-CoV-2 as an example. Knowing the details, strengths, and limitations of virus sequencing will en...
In all organisms, innate immune pathways sense infection and rapidly activate potent immune responses while maintaining a high degree of specificity to prevent inappropriate activation (auto...
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. This presentation will summarise the epidem...
Date: September 06, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) provides comprehensive genomic information about disease, development, and other bi...
HIV-1 replicates in the body as a large viral population. Along with its high error rate during viral DNA synthesis and its short replication time (24 hours), the virus maintains sequence di...
Date: August 30, 2022 Time: 10:00am (CEST), 1:00am (PDT), 4:00am (EDT) Problem When it’s time for researchers to pick a protein or formulation, the best ones need to sweat it out at el...
Date: August 24, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00pm (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) Light field microscopy was first introduced in 2006, and allows users to capture the 4D light field within the microsco...
The majority of disease-associated genetic variants are thought to have regulatory effects, including disruption of transcription factor (TF) binding and alteration of downstream gene expres...
