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PREPARE Institute Seminar Series

 

The UC San Diego PREPARE Institute offers a virtual Seminar Series on SARS-CoV-2 and topics related to pandemic preparedness.  

Thursday, October 24, 2024, 12:00 PM –1:00 PM PT

Connected: A Review of the University of California System COVID Response After-Action Report

Carrie Byington

Carrie Byington
Professor (Clinical)
Department of Pediatrics
Human Milk Institute
UC San Diego


Wednesday, September 4, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PT

Next generation sequencing for pathogen detection in bronchial lavage specimens.

Ahnika Kline

Ahnika Kline, MD PhD D(ABMM)
Assistant Professor, Clinical Pathology
Associate Director, Microbiology Laboratory
UC San Diego

https://youtu.be/r8sZ_bknS_M

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Tuesday, June 11, 2024, 11:00 AM –12:00 PM PT

Building the Plane While Flying: Antiviral Drug Discovery in the Time of COVID

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Sumit Chanda, PhD
Professor
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
Scripps Research

https://youtu.be/hyAVHcYYngY

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Monday, April 8, 2024, 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM PT

Using past influenza studies to forecast future antibody responses

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Tal Einav, PhD
Assistant Professor
Laboratory for Computational Immunology
Center for Vaccine Innovation
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

https://youtu.be/T8V4_5qU0II

POSTER_PREPARE_Seminar_08APR2024_Einav.pdf

 


Friday, February 2, 2024, 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM PT

Chikungunya-virus-specific CD4+ T cells are associated with chronic chikungunya viral arthritic disease in humans

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Daniela Weiskopf, PhD
Research Assistant Professor

Center for Vaccine Innovation
La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI)
 
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases and
Global Public Health
School of Medicine, University
of California, San Diego (UCSD)


https://youtu.be/90rmTLnKAh0

 

 Poster_PREPARE-Seminar_02FEB2024_Weiskopf.pdf


Monday, December 11, 2023, 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM PT

“Disarming immunity: Understanding how Zika virus subverts cell-mediated immunity.”

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Aaron F. Carlin, MD, PhD, D(ABMM)
Associate Professor, Pathology and Medicine
Clinical Associate, Molecular Microbiology
Director, UCSD Emerging Virus BSL-3 Research Program
UC San Diego

https://youtu.be/E4fotoqoy2Y

 

 PREPARE-Seminar_11DEC2023_Carlin_Poster.pdf

 


Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 4:00 PM — 5:00 PM PT

“Seq&Treat: targeted next-generation sequencing for drug-resistant TB diagnosis.”

 Anita Suresh

Anita Suresh
Head of Genomics & Sequencing, FIND
https://www.finddx.org

 https://youtu.be/u4AuuwCOzlQ

  

PREPARE-Seminar_29NOV2023_Suresh_Poster.pdf

  


Monday, October 30, 2023, 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM PT

“Resilient Shield: a CDC Center for Forecasting and Analytics, Reference Design for Public Health Integration and Convergent Intelligence.”

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Eliah Aronoff- Spencer, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
Director, Center for Health Design and Health Initiatives, UC San Diego Design Lab
Director, Distributed Health Lab, Qualcomm Institute
UC San Diego 

 

https://youtu.be/dw3W_TXAFtk

 

PREPARE-Seminar_30OCT2023_AronoffSpencer_Poster.pdf

 


Thursday, September 14, 2023, 3:30 PM — 4:15 PM PT

“Accelerating Innovation in Public Health from the Lab to the Last Mile.”

 Ruxandra Draghia-Akli

Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, MD, PhD
Global Head
Global Public Health R&D 
Johnson & Johnson

 

https://youtu.be/SJwIBbMgYfY

 

PREPARE-Seminar_14SEP2023_Draghia-Akli_Poster.pdf

 


Tuesday, August 29, 2023, 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM PT

“Who is translating? Who is listening? Values and praxis in translational research.”

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller, PhD, MSPH
Associate Professor
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health (HWSPH) 
Secondary appointment in School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and Global Public Health
Director of the Health Equity and Global Health Justice Research Group, HWSPH
Faculty in the Center on Gender Equity and Health

 

https://youtu.be/QGHg9GqLkC0

 

PREPARE-Seminar_29AUG2023_FieldingMiller_Poster.pdf 

 

 


Tuesday, July 25, 2023, 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM PT

“Rapid Response Research: Getting the Public Back in Public Health.”

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John W. Ayers, PhD, MA
Vice Chief of Innovation, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
Deputy Director of Informatics, Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute
Affiliate Scientist, The Qualcomm Institute
UC San Diego

 

https://youtu.be/BTYPICiwLIc

 

PREPARE-Seminar_Ayers_25JUL2023_Ayers_Poster.pdf

 


Thursday, June 29, 2023, 1:30 PM — 2:30 PM PDT

“From Bog to Bedside: The Story Behind IPATH, the First Dedicated Phage Therapy Program in North America.”

 Steffanie Strathdee

Steffanie Strathdee, PhD
Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences
Harold Simon Distinguished Professor
UCSD Department of Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Innovative Phage Applications & Therapeutics (IPATH) https://ipath.ucsd.edu
Author: The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save her Husband from a Deadly Superbug

 

https://youtu.be/TcI6v5BJIgk

 

PREPARE-Seminar_29JUN2023_Strathdee.pdf

 

 


Friday, May 12, 2023, 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM PDT

"Potential for Augmenting Public Health through IoT."

 Benjamin L. Smarr

Benjamin L. Smarr, PhD
Assistant Professor
Shu Chen - Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering and the Halicioglu Data Science Institute
UC San Diego

 

https://youtu.be/cFviLGJvYOA

 

PREPARE-Seminar-Poster_12MAY2023_Smarr.pdf

 

 


Thursday, April 27, 2023, 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM PDT

"Of mice and men: The role of neutrophils in ARDS immunopathogenesis."

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Laura E. Crotty Alexander, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine & Physiology
UC San Diego
Section Chief, Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine
VA San Diego Healthcare System

Jorge Masso-Silva
Jorge Masso-Silva, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care,
Sleep Medicine & Physiology
UC San Diego
 

https://youtu.be/Hx7F2BkSf-4

 

PREPARE-Seminar-Poster_V2_27APR2023_Crotty-Alexander_Masso-Silva.pdf

 

 


Friday, March 24, 2023, 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM PDT

"Homelessness as Context and Mirror for Infectious Disease Pandemics."

 Leslie R. Lewis

Leslie R. Lewis, PhD, MPH
Continuing Lecturer, Urban Studies & Planning
Director of Education and Community Engagement, Homelessness Hub at UC San Diego
Director of Urban Health and Equity Initiatives, Bioregional Center for Sustainability Science, Planning and Design
UC San Diego

 

https://youtu.be/Jw4x_aVg3gg

 

 PREPARE-Seminar_Lewis_24MAR2023.pdf

 

 


Friday, February 24, 2023, 2:00 PM — 3:00 PM PST

"Computational Methods in Viral Molecular Epidemiology."

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Niema Moshiri, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
UC San Diego

 

https://youtu.be/t7GH-A8lXjU

 

PREPARE-Seminar_Moshiri_24FEB2023.pdf

 

 


Thursday, December 8, 2022, 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM PT

"The use of CBPR for addressing vaccine hesitancy among Latinx and Black communities in Southern California."

 Argentina E. Servin

Argentina E. Servin MD, MPH 
Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
Director, Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH)
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science
UC San Diego

 

https://youtu.be/BTwUfeQfrdg

 

 PREPARE-Seminar-Poster_Servin.pdf

 

 


 

Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 2:00 PM — 3:00 PM PT

"Multiantigen synthetic poxvirus-based vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 and Monkeypox."

 

Flavia Chiuppesi, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Dept. of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Beckman Research Institute
City of Hope  

 

 https://youtu.be/yA8loTcAu5Y

 

 

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM PT

"Substance Use-related Epidemics in North America: A Tale of Two Crises and Two Futures."

 

Dan Werb, PhD
Associate Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
UC San Diego
Associate Professor
Institute for Health Policy, Management & Evaluation
University of Toronto

  

https://youtu.be/Nce9uGnm7aI

 

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Thursday, September 22, 2022, 2:00 PM — 3:00 PM PT

"Meaningful engagement of diverse partners to address COVID-19 testing and vaccination uptake for underserved communities: strategies and lessons learned."

 

Borsika Rabin, PhD, MPH, PharmD
Nicole Stadnick, PhD, MPH
UC San Diego


Bill Oswald, PhD
Paul Watson, Jr., MSHS
Global Action Research Center

 

https://youtu.be/RBAPCwnOHd

 

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Monday, August 22, 2022, 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM PT

"The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants in interrupted transit in Tijuana."


Ietza Bojorquez, MD, PhD, MSc
Department of Population Studies
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

 

https://youtu.be/wD58BVi0avw

 

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Tuesday, June 21, 2022, 2:00 PM — 3:00 PM PT

"Agent-based Models: Applications to modeling infectious disease spread and evaluating mitigation strategies."

 

Ravi Goyal, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
UC San Diego

 

https://youtu.be/fTZpO_Lu5zY

 

 PREPARE-Seminar-Poster_21JUN2022_Goyal.pdf

 


  

Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 3:00 PM — 4:00 PM PT

"Collaborating with the Innate Immune System to Treat Multidrug-Resistant Superbugs."

 

Victor Nizet, MD​
Distinguished Professor and Vice-Chair for Basic Research,​
Department of Pediatrics​
Chief, Division of Host-Microbe Systems & Therapeutics​
Distinguished Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences​
UC San Diego

 

https://youtu.be/HvWeRUf8BVE

 

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 4:00 PM — 5:00 PM PT

"Discovery and functional interrogation of SARS-CoV-2 protein-RNA interactions."

 

Joy Xiang, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Cellular Molecular Medicine
Yeo Lab
UC San Diego

 

https://youtu.be/l39Z6PMt6M8.

 

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Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 3:00 PM — 4:00 PM PT

"Defining correlates of protection and markers of disease progression during SARS-CoV-2 infection."

 

Gene S. Tan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases
J. Craig Venter Institute
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
UC San Diego

 

https://youtu.be/qqX1ueajuR4