COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and the Pandemic

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Note: The guest speakers are among the leading scientists in diverse areas relevant to COVID-19. Some of these scientists are employed by biopharmaceutical companies; the selection of these speakers is not meant as an endorsement of these companies or their products. 

lec #	TOPIC & DaTE	SPEAKER
1	COVID-19 and the Pandemic 9/8/2021	Dr. Bruce D. Walker, Director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
2	Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic 9/15/2021	Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
3	Coronavirus Biology 9/22/2021	Dr. Britt Glaunsinger of HHMI and UC Berkeley
4	Target Cells and the Innate Response 9/29/2021	Dr. Shiv Pillai of the Ragon Institute, MGH, and Harvard
5	Public Health 10/5/2021	Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
6	COVID-19: Looking Ahead at 2022 10/13/2021	Dr. Salim S. Abdool Karim of Columbia University
7	The Patient 10/20/2021	Dr. Victoria Clark of Whitehead Institute and MGH
8	Vaccination through the Ages: From Smallpox to COVID-19 and Beyond 10/27/2021	Dr. Arup Chakraborty of MIT
9	Adaptive Immunity and Immune Memory to Sars-CoV-2 and COVID-19 11/3/2021	Dr. Shane Crotty of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology
10	The COVID-19 Clinic 11/10/2021	Dr. Amy Barczak of the Ragon Institute and MGH
11	Understanding the Structure of the Virus 11/17/2021	Dr. Andrew Ward of DISCoBio at The Scripps Research Institute
12	No class 11/24/2021
13	COVID-19 Vaccine Development 12/1/2021	Dr. Dan Barouch of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Ragon Institute
14	Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies to Speed Pandemic Responses  12/8/2021	Dr. Laura Walker of Adimab