Infectious Diseases and Human Health Seminar
Virus-host interactions shape the evolutionary landscape of viruses and lead to the emergence of viral variants with unique adaptations to the host. Understanding the evolutionary trajectory of viruses infecting humans is critical for the development of vaccines, therapeutics and other public health measures.
This symposium will explore several topics including dynamics and prevention of viral spillover events, discovery of cryptic viral variants in the human population, high-throughput characterization of viral variants and building models to map viral evolutionary trajectories, and deciphering the evolutionary landscape of host immunity-virus arms race. The symposium will include a wide array of viruses including coronaviruses, influenza, and HIV.
Confirmed Speakers:
Jesse Bloom (Professor, Fred Hutch Cancer Center; Investigator, HHMI)
Marc Johnson (Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology; Bond Life Sciences Center Investigator; University of Missouri, School of Medicine)
Karla Kirkegaard (Violetta L. Horton Research Professor of Genetics, Stanford University)
Angela Phillips (Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF; Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, HHMI)
Taha Taha (Research Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Virology)
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Infectious Diseases and Human Health Seminar is a collaborative series hosted by the Gladstone Institute of Virology, BioFulcrum, Quantitative Biosciences Institute, and the Host Pathogen Map Initiative at UC San Francisco.
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