Events

Meet the scientists seeking new insights on COVID-19. CIC lightning talk webinars bring together researchers studying wide-ranging aspects of the current pandemic, to share their research and answer questions from our community. Learn more about their ongoing efforts in the fight against COVID-19, including opportunities for collaboration.

Join us on Monday, April 24th at 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. (ET), to hear from the following speakers:

• Ellen Foxman, Yale University. Host response-based screening for unexpected or emerging respiratory viruses. Funded by NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
   
• Niema Moshiri, University of California, San Diego. Massively scalable reference-guided Multiple Sequence Alignment of viral genomes. Funded by NSF Division of Environmental Biology (DEB).
   
• Ioannis Paschalidis, Boston University. Predictive Models of COVID-19 Severity and Patient Outcomes. Funded by NSF Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase 1.
   
• Jeffrey Townsend, Yale University. Infection by SARS-CoV-2 with alternate frequencies of mRNA vaccine boosting. Funded by NSF Division of Environmental Biology (DEB).
   
• Chang-Yu Wu, University of Miami. Environmental Surveillance to Assess Aerosol Transmission Pathways of COVID-19 Enabled by On-The-Spot Sampling and Detection. Funded by NSF Division of Chemistry, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET).

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