COVID-19 SYMPOSIUM
SAVE THE DATE: FRIDAY, JUNE 4
We welcome all faculty, staff, and trainees to join us for our COVID-19 symposiums. For general symposium information, please visit our main symposium page.
Past COVID-19 Symposia & Webinars
Contact sara.salmon@hsc.utah.edu for zoom event information, or recordings of past talks.
Past Symposia
Thursday, July 30: Office of Undergraduate Research 2020 Virtual Summer Symposium - Special Session on COVID-19 Research
Past Webinars
Wednesday, July 8 @ 2-3 pm: NIH Director’s Emergency Transformative Research Award
Monday, May 18, 2020 @ 2-3 pm: Understanding the basics: NIAID FOAs PAR-20-178 & PAR-20-177
COVID-19 Flash Talks
Contact sara.salmon@hsc.utah.edu for zoom event information, or recordings of past talks.
Past Talks
Friday, March 5th, 2021 @ 12-1 pm - COVID-19 Flash Talks
Friday, February 5th, 2021 @ 12-1 pm - COVID-19 Flash Talks
- Angie Fagerlin, PhD, Department of Population Health Sciences, "What are people thinking? The public's perspectives on COVID-19, governmental guidelines, and vaccines"
- Dorothea Rosenberger, MD, PhD, Department of Anesthesiology, "International Collaboration and the importance of databases in Critical Care Medicine: ISARIC/WHO-ESICM Unite - MGH Boston"
- Julio Delgado, MD, MS, Department of Pathology, "COVID-19 Antibody Testing"
- Diane Pataki, MS, PhD, Department of Biology
- Adam Spivak, MD, Department of Internal Medicine & Pathology, "Early Treatment of COVID-19"
Friday, January 8th, 2021 @ 12-1 pm - COVID-19 Flash Talks
- Jon Rainier, Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, "A PROTAC Approach to Inflammatory Diseases"
- James Tabery, Ph.D., Internal Medicine, Philosophy & Pediatrics, "COVID Conspiracies: How we Got Here, Where We're Going"
- Andrew Smith, Ph.D., Psychiatry, "Mental Health Risks at the OUtset of the Pandemic among Healthcare Workers and Emergency Responders"
- Kristi Warren, Ph.D., Internal Medicine, Pumonary Division, "Sex Differences in COVID-19"
- Dongngang Truong, MD, Pediatrics, "Metagenomics Evaluation of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Associated with COVID-19 (MIS-C)"
Friday, December 4th, 2020 @ 12-1 pm - COVID-19 Flash Talks
- Kevin Shah, MD, FACC, Internal Medicine, "COVID-19 and Risk Prediction for the Cardiovascular System"
- Sarang Kim Yoon, DO, MOH, Family and Preventative Medicine, "RECOVER: COVID-19 in Healthcare Workers and First Responders"
- Leslie Francis, JD, PhD, College of Law & Department of Philosophy, "Anti-discrimination under the Affordable Care Act and COVID-19"
- Rebecca Overbury, MD, MS, Internal Medicine, "Assessing Cytokine Profiles and COVID Serology in Patients on Immunosuppression to Guide Care Recommendations"
- J.D. Smith, PhD, Population Health Sciences, "Network Interventions for Managing the COVID-19 Pandemic and Sustaining Economy"
Friday, November 6, 2020 @ 12-1 pm - COVID-19 Flash Talks
- Torri Metz, MD, MS, Department of Obstetrucs and Gynecology, "Maternal Morbidity and Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic: MFMU GRAVID Study"
- Christy Porucznik, PhD, MSPH, Department of Family and Preventative Medicine, "The C-HEaRT StudyL Family-Based, Community Surveillance in Utah and New York City"
- Eric Schmidt, PhD, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, "Targeting SARS Proteases"
- Matthew Samore, MD, Department of Epidemiology, "SAS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Utah: Results from the HERO Project"
- Aaron Petrey, PhD, Department of Pathology, "Cytokine Release Syndrome in COVID-19: Innate Immune, Vascular, and Platelet Pathogenic factors Differ in Severity of Disease and Sex"
Friday, October 2, 2020 @ 12-1 pm - COVID-19 Flash Talks
- Monisha Pasupathi, PhD, Psychology, "College, Interrupted: How are narrative processes related to the impact of Covid-19 on AY 2019-2020 Freshman"
- Jennifer Weidhaas, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Jim VanDerslice, PhD, Family and Preventative Medicine, "Correlation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater with COVID-19 disease burden in sewersheds"
- Julio Facelli, PhD, Biomedical Informatics, "National COVID Cohort Collaborative at the University of Utah"
- Srinivasan Beddhu, MD, Internal Medicine, "Long-term Impact of COVID-19 on Physical and Cognitive Function Outcomes and Healthcare Resource Utilization in Older Veterans"
- David DeFranza, PhD Candidate, Arul Mishra & Himanshu Mishra lab, Marketing, "Religion and reactance to COVID-19 mitigation guidelines"
Thursday, August 6, 2020 @ 3-4 pm - COVID-19: Neuroscience implications
- Ana Beatriz DePaula-Silva, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology
- Michelle Schober, MD, MS, Pediatrics
- K.C. Brennan, MD, Neurology
- Andrew Prescot, PhD, Radiology and Imaging Sciences
- Deborah Yergelun-Todd, PhD, Psychiatry, moderator
Friday, August 21, 2020 @ 12-1 pm - COVID-19: Health Disparities and Vulnerable Populations
Friday, June 19, 2020 @ 12-1pm
- Kelly Baron, PhD, MPH, DBSM, Family and Preventive Medicine, “Sleep, diet and physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic”
- Vicente Planelles, PhD, Pathology, “Pseudotyperetroviruses for the analysis of coronavirus humoral immunity“
- Sonia Salari, PhD & Sharon Talboys, PhD, MPH, Family and Consumer Studies & Family and Preventive Medicine, ”Domestic Violence in the Age of COVID-19: Understanding consequences of stay at home orders”
- Rajeshwary Ghosh, PhD, Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, “Boosting Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy Accelerates Degradation of Proteins Generated by SARS-CoV-2”
- Cheenu Raghuraman, PhD, Biology, “Characterizing cell types in the mouse lungs by constellation pharmacology”
Friday, May 15, 2020 @ 12-1pm
- Ramesh Goel, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, “Coronavirus in our municipal waste waters- what does this mean?“
- Rachael Jones, PhD, CIH, Family and Preventive Medicine, “Assessing Healthcare Workers’ Exposures to SARS-CoV-2 and Exposure Controls“
- Albert Park, MD, Surgery, ”What is in the air? A Surgeon's Dilemma.”
- Colleen Fitzgerald (Kondo lab), Psychiatry, “Peripheral Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 and In Vivo Brain Metabolism in COVID-19”
- Jakob Jensen, PhD, Communication, “Tracking weekly perceptions of COVID communication from March 12th - July 14th”
Friday, April 24, 2020 @ 12-1pm
- Sara Grineski, PhD, Sociology, “Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Undergraduate Research Experiences“
- Jim Hotaling, MD, MS, FECSM, Surgery, ”Impact of Cancelling Elective Surgical Cases on ICU and Hospital Capacity during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
- Christopher Gregg, PhD, Neurobiology & Anatomy, “How artifical intelligence analyses of behavior will enable COVID-19 crisis discoveries and solutions“
- Kevin Hicks, PhD, Biochemistry, “MIDAS: A Systematic Platform for Revealing the SARS-CoV-2 protein-metabolite interactome”
- Divya Chandrasekhar, PhD, City and Metropolitan Planning, “Complexities in emergency response for concurrent but variant disasters"
Friday, March 20, 2020 @ 9-11am
- Daniel Leung, MD, MSc, "Clinical Decision Support for COVID-19: Putting Epidemiology into Diagnostic and Prognostic Prediction"
- Tracey Lamb, PhD, "COVID and Malaria predisposition"
- Stephen Goldstein, PhD, "Evolution by recombination in SARS-CoV-2-like viruses & Investigating a novel host-targeted translation inhibitor as a coronavirus antiviral"
- Con Yost, MD, "NETosis and COVID-19"
- Lindsay Keegan, PhD, "Scenario-Based Projections for SARS-CoV-2"
- Saveez Saffarian, PhD, "Physics of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Survival Outside A Host And Implications For Seasonal Dependence of COVID-19 Outbreak"
- Dmitri Kapitonov, DO, PhD, "Bifunctional cysteine-constrained cyclic peptides (cystimers) targeting S, M, E and N proteins of CoVID-19"
- Debbie Eckert, PhD and Michael Kay, PhD, "Targeting a Vulnerable Intermediate of Coronavirus Entry with D-Peptides"
- Vicente Planelles, PhD, "A BSL2+ compatible assay to understand CoV neutralization by antibodies"
- Fred Adler, PhD, "The impact of viral and immunological interactions on the COVID-19 epidemic"
- Kevin Watt, MD, PhD, "Optimal Dosing of Drugs to treat COVID-19: Translating Bench Experiments into Bedside Dosing Recommendations"
- Jessica Kramer, PhD, "The role of mucus in COVID-19 infections"