JBL Symposium XXIV – 2021

COVID-19: Transformative Discoveries and Emerging Research Frontiers

Friday, October 29th, 2021

Virtual Symposium

Program

1:00-1:20 PM

Welcome: Zhi-Min Yuan, MD, PhD
Morningside Professor of Radiobiology
Department of Environmental Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Opening Remarks: Michelle A. Williams, ScD
Dean of the Faculty
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

1:20 PM-3:00 PM: Session 1:
Moderator: Zachary Nagel, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiation Biology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

1:20-2:10 PM
Eric Rubin, MD, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine
Adjunct Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
COVID-19: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It

2:10-3:00 PM
Michele Evans, MD
Deputy Scientific Director and Chief, Health Disparities Research Section
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
How COVID-19 Uncovered the Nation’s Glass Jaw: Health Disparities

3:00 PM-4:40 PM: Session 2:
Moderator: Kristopher Sarosiek, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiation Biology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

3:00-3:50 PM
Stanley Perlman, MD, PhD
Professor
University of Iowa Distinguished Chair
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Pediatrics
University of Iowa
Animals Models for COVID-19

3:50-4:40 PM
Jason McLellan, PhD
The Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Structure-Function Studies of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike and Development of COVID-19 Interventions