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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.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 12:00 PM –1:00 PM PT
A broad-spectrum oral lipid nucleoside antiviral to combat emerging and contemporary viruses
Aaron Carlin
Associate Professor | Pathology and Medicine
Associate Director | Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
Director | Emerging Virus BSL-3 Research Program
Assistant Director | Medical Scientist Training Program
UC San Diego
Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 12:00 PM –1:00 PM PT
Improving Sepsis Care Through Artificial
Intelligence: What the UCSD Experience Can Teach Us
Gabriel Wardi
Associate Professor
Emergency Medicine
UC San Diego
Tuesday, November 26, 2024, 12:00 PM –1:00 PM PT
Breast Milk Infectious Disease Test via GFET-aptamer Biosensor
Sandra Leibel
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Human Milk Institute
UC San Diego
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
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, MD PhD D(ABMM)
Assistant Professor, Clinical Pathology
Associate Director, Microbiology Laboratory
UC San Diego
Tuesday, June 11, 2024, 11:00 AM –12:00 PM PT
Building the Plane While Flying: Antiviral Drug Discovery in the Time of COVID
Sumit Chanda, PhD
Professor
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
Scripps Research
https://youtu.be/hyAVHcYYngY
Click here to view flyer
Monday, April 8, 2024, 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM PT
Using past influenza studies to forecast future antibody responses
Tal Einav, PhD
Assistant Professor
Laboratory for Computational Immunology
Center for Vaccine Innovation
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
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
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)
Monday, December 11, 2023, 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM PT
“Disarming immunity: Understanding how Zika virus subverts cell-mediated immunity.”
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
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 4:00 PM — 5:00 PM PT
“Seq&Treat: targeted next-generation sequencing for drug-resistant TB diagnosis.”
Anita Suresh
Head of Genomics & Sequencing, FIND
https://www.finddx.org
https://www.finddx.org
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.”
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
Thursday, September 14, 2023, 3:30 PM — 4:15 PM PT
“Accelerating Innovation in Public Health from the Lab to the Last Mile.”
Global Head
Global Public Health R&D
Johnson & Johnson
Tuesday, August 29, 2023, 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM PT
“Who is translating? Who is listening? Values and praxis in translational research.”
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
Tuesday, July 25, 2023, 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM PT
“Rapid Response Research: Getting the Public Back in Public Health.”
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
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.”
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
Friday, May 12, 2023, 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM PDT
"Potential for Augmenting Public Health through IoT."
Benjamin L. Smarr, PhD
Assistant Professor
Shu Chen - Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering and the Halicioglu Data Science Institute
UC San Diego
Thursday, April 27, 2023, 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM PDT
"Of mice and men: The role of neutrophils in ARDS immunopathogenesis."
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, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care,
Sleep Medicine & Physiology
UC San Diego
Friday, March 24, 2023, 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM PDT
"Homelessness as Context and Mirror for Infectious Disease Pandemics."
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
Friday, February 24, 2023, 2:00 PM — 3:00 PM PST
"Computational Methods in Viral Molecular Epidemiology."
Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
UC San Diego
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."
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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