7.00 | Fall 2020 | Undergraduate

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

9/1/2020

Dr. Bruce D. Walker of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
2

Coronavirus Biology

9/8/2020

Dr. Britt Glaunsinger of the University of California, Berkeley
3

Virology and Lessons from the AIDS Pandemic

9/15/2020

Dr. David Baltimore of Caltech
4

Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic

9/22/2020

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
5

Viral Immunology

9/29/2020

Dr. Michel Nussenzweig of The Rockefeller University
6

Target Cells and the Innate Response

10/6/2020

Dr. Shiv Pillai of the Ragon Institute and MGH
7

The Patient

10/20/2020

Dr. Victoria Clark of Whitehead Institute and MGH
8

Epidemiology

10/27/2020

Dr. Michael Mina of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
9

Immunology: T Cells

11/3/2020

Dr. Arlene Sharpe of Harvard Medical School
10

Vaccines

11/10/2020

Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett of the National Institutes of Health
11

Immunology: Antibodies

11/17/2020

Dr. Akiko Iwasaki of Yale Medical School
12

Small Molecule Therapeutics

11/24/2020

Dr. James Bradner of the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)
13

Therapeutics Discovery

12/1/2020

Dr. Skip Virgin of Vir Biotechnology
14

Rapid Research Response in a Pandemic

12/6/2020

Dr. Eric Lander of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

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