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Science of Infectious Disease
An infectious disease can be defined as an illness due to a pathogen or its toxic product, which arises through transmission from an infected person, an infected animal, or a contaminated inanimate object to a susceptible host. There are several scientific practices in place to identify and/or treat an infectious disease.
JUN 07, 2022 | 10:00 AM
Date: June 07, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) On December 8th, 2021 the CDC released new recommendations for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for the prevention of HIV i...
JUN 02, 2022 | 8:30 AM
Date: June 02, 2022 Time: 8:30am (PST), 10:30am (CST), 11:30am (EST) Cardiac biomarkers like high-sensitivity Troponin I might play a major role in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases....
JUN 02, 2022 | 8:00 AM
Infectious diseases present a great challenge to global health and its economy. The 2020 SARS- CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the importance of rapid identification, characterization and surveil...
MAY 31, 2022 | 11:00 AM
Date: May 31, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CEST) In February of this year Minnesota became the first state in the U.S. to screen every newborn for congenital CMV. This was...
MAY 18, 2022 | 7:30 AM
Microfluidic Tech has served millions of lives through the Biotech industry, whether in life science research or clinical diagnostics. Most of these technologies are spawned at academic and...
MAY 18, 2022 | 5:30 AM
Cancers are genetic diseases driven by recurrent sets of somatic mutations. Different mutations associate statistically with distinct disease risks and can therefore be useful prognostic mar...
MAY 04, 2022 | 10:30 AM
With over 500 million COVID-19 cases and more than 6 million deaths, the COVID-19 pandemic remains a global health threat maintained by the impact of a changing virus. Emerging SARS-CoV-2 va...
APR 19, 2022 | 5:30 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Infectious disease monitoring on Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) platforms offers rapid turnaround times and low cost. Tracking low frequency intra-host variants provides important insigh...
MAR 31, 2022 | 11:00 AM
Date: March 31, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CET) Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues are the most widely used clinical sample types in histology and molecular...
MAR 24, 2022 | 8:00 AM
Date: March 24, 2021 Time: 08:00am (PDT), 11:00pm (EDT) Simply enough, we want to treat our cells well. Afterall, we want them to tell us their stories in basic research or work for us in th...
MAR 23, 2022 | 11:55 PM
Cannabis science is rapidly evolving and cannabis microbiology is often misinterpreted or even forgotten. In and industry without standardization there’s a lack of consistency, and at...
MAR 16, 2022 | 7:00 AM
Date: March 16, 2022 Time: 07:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEDT) During this webinar, we will provide an overview of the current landscape of sepsis management and the impact of rapid...
MAR 09, 2022 | 8:00 AM
Date: March 09, 2021 Time: 08:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CEST) Bioengineering technologies hold enormous potential to solve many of our world’s pressing problems. However, they...
MAR 08, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: March 08, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CEST) SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19, a potentially lethal viral infection that can cause sever...
FEB 24, 2022 | 10:00 AM
Date: February 24, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST) One of the largest global public health crises is the rise of antimicrobial-resistant infections. Globally, over 700,000 people die...
JAN 25, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: January 25, 2022 Time: 8:00am (CET) 9:00AM (SAST) Globally, in 2020, 38 million people were living with HIV with an additional 1.5 million newly i...
JAN 13, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: January 13, 2022 Time: 09:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) Recently, the Infectious Disease Society of America released guidance on how to approach treatment of infections caused by multidrug...
JAN 11, 2022 | 8:00 AM
Date: January 11, 2022 Time: 08:00am (PST), 11:004am (EST) Connectivity of laboratory equipment is progressing rapidly. While it started with the possibility to export data from the equipmen...
DEC 14, 2021 | 6:00 AM
Date: December 14, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PST), 9:00am (EST) Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus and is a leading cause of acute viral hepatitis worldwide. The...