The Garvan Institute and the Weizmann Institute of Science will hold a joint webinar on 11 June.
The program is split into a general session for the public, and an earlier session for our scientific audience. You are welcome to attend both; and by registering for the webinar you can use the same link for both sessions.
General session: 6:30pm-7:15pm AEST
- The virtual seminar will feature Professor Noam Sobel and Chef Yuval Ben-Neriah.
Scientific session: 4:00pm-6:00pm AEST
- This will cover our work on COVID-19 in detail, and the progress we're making researching this disease.
Olfaction at the epicentre of COVID-19
Professor Noam Sobel (Head, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science).
Innovating in times of crisis
Chef Yuval Ben-Neriah - acclaimed Israeli chef.
16:00 |
Opening remarks |
16:05 |
How the host genetics effects underlying severity of COVID-19response act at a cellular level |
16:20 |
Dissecting the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 by scRNA-seq |
16:35 |
Genetic determinants of the host immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection |
16:50 |
Next-generation sequencing in COVID-19 diagnostics |
17:05 |
Discovering Therapeutic Antibodies for COVID-19 |
17:20 |
Deciphering role of anti SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in mediatingthe clinical outcome among COVID-19 patients |
17:35 |
Computational approaches for nanopore sequencing analysis of SARS-CoV-2 |
17:50 |
Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies in recovered patients |
Please register your interest below. You'll need to register in order to receive the Zoom details and password, which will be sent closer to the 11th of June.