November 19, 2024 MassCPR Symposium: Biology of Endemic, Emerging, and Even Submerging Viruses

This annual symposium includes presentations talks on the pathology and infectious mechanisms of endemic, emerging, and submerging viruses. The event is moderated by Drs. Jeremy Luban and Megan Orzalli and sponsored by Harvard Medical School, UMass Chan Medical School, and the Maxwell Finland Fund.
00:00:00 Welcome Remarks: Jeremy Luban, MD (UMass Chan Medical School)
Keynote 1 of 2: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, DVM (University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Tokyo, Japan) “Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses in US Cattle”
Session 1 Speakers
Jonathon "JJ" Stone, PhD Candidate (Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine)
"Comparative Pathology of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Naturally Infected New England Wildlife"
David J. Bean, PhD Candidate (Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine) "Correlates of Heterotypic Immune Protection Against Coronavirus Related Disease"
Shira Weingarten Gabbay, PhD (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Rockefeller University) "The Dark Proteome of Human Viruses"
Keynote 2 of 2: Eva Harris, PhD (University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health) “Immunological Underpinnings of the Complex Interplay between Dengue and Zika viruses: Insights from a Longitudinal Flavivirus Cohort in Nicaragua”
Session 2 Speakers
Wanyu Li, PhD Candidate (Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) "Shifts in Receptor Recognition in a Submerging Alphavirus"
Milky K. Abajorga, PhD Candidate (UMass Chan Medical School) "Evolution of piRNA-guided Retroviral Silencing in Wild Koalas"
Erika N. Weiskopf, PhD Candidate (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"A Viral Trojan Horse: HIV-1 Nuclear Entry Through the Nuclear Pore Complex"
Closing Remarks: George Q. Daley, MD, PhD (Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University)