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Infection is a disease caused by a pathogenic microorganism (e.g., bacteria, viruses) able to invade tissue.
DEC 03, 2020 | 12:00 AM
SARS-CoV-2 had spread with speed unknown in recent history across the globe, sickening >50M people and killing over 1M. By far the most of the severe cases and deaths were registered amon...
DEC 03, 2020 | 12:00 AM
The fast spread and deadliness of SARS-CoV-2 has sparked much interest in understanding the underlying genomics and evolutionary patterns of this 30,000bp Coronavirus. Since the first report...
DEC 03, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) has been a key technology during the COVIID-19 pandemic and has helped researchers characterize the SARs-CoV-2 genome, perform strain-typing for molecular ep...
DEC 03, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Learning Objectives: 1. Learn what RNA and DNA vaccines are and why they are ideal vaccine strategies to respond rapidly to pandemics 2. Understand the key requirements of an effective vacci...
DEC 03, 2020 | 12:00 AM
In this talk, Dr. Adalja will discuss the coronavirus family in general highlighting its history. Emphasis will be placed on why this viral family has pandemic potential. Learning Objectives...
NOV 20, 2020 | 12:00 PM
Date: September 30, 2020 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Learning Objectives Why is Stewardship important? What are the core elements of stewardship and microbiology's role Importance...
NOV 19, 2020 | 10:00 AM
Date: November 19, 2020 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST) 98% of in-patients will undergo a diagnostic test during a hospital stay.[1] With the increased focus on the accuracy of diagnostic...
NOV 19, 2020 | 7:00 AM
DATE: November 19, 2020 TIME: 7am PST Congenital CMV is the most frequent infectious cause of neonatal malformation in developed nations. Yet, this disease is largely under-recognized by hea...
NOV 19, 2020 | 9:00 AM
Date: November 19, 2020 Time: 12:00am (PDT), 9:00am (CET), 4:00pm (SGT) We present split-FISH, a multiplexed fluorescence in situ hybridization method that leverages a split-probe design to...
NOV 18, 2020 | 8:00 AM
DATE: November 18, 2020 TIME: 08:00am PDT We develop and implement technologies to solve some of the major bottlenecks in biomedical research. In particular, we establish new imaging approac...
NOV 17, 2020 | 8:00 AM
Date: November 17, 2020 Time: 8:00am COVID-19 is a complex pathological condition caused by infection with SARS-CoV. Different features have been observed in patients with a severe dis...
NOV 16, 2020 | 5:00 AM
DATE: November 16, 2020 TIME: 05:00am PST, 2:00pm CET It may be impossible to stop the inexorable move towards pandemic levels of diabetes, but we can improve the glycaemic control in our pa...
NOV 13, 2020 | 10:00 AM
Date: November 13, 2020 10:00am PST, 1:00pm EST Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is currently a global pandemic, but human immune responses to the virus remain poorly understood....
NOV 12, 2020 | 12:00 PM
As many parts of the northern hemisphere move into the colder months and indoors, SARS CoV-2 has begun a second infection wave that has exceeded the first surge of cases in many global regio...
