Webinar Series on Emerging and Re-emerging Viruses
The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as the most crucial global health calamity of the century faced by man. Efforts to slow down the transmission of the disease focusses primarily on testing & treating the patients, quarantining suspected persons through contact tracing, restricting large gatherings and maintaining complete or partial lock down. A new class of corona virus, known as SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) has been found to be responsible for this disease outbreak and global research to combat COVID-19 is fast progressing.
In this context, Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment (KSCSTE), Thiruvananthapuram in association with the Institute of Advanced Virology (IAV), Thiruvananthapuram organizes a webinar series on “Emerging and Re-emerging Viruses’ which focuses primarily on understanding the virus biology, host immune responses, development of therapeutics and the containment measures taken globally and by Kerala against COVID-19.
| Speakers |
| Dr. B. Ekbal Member, Kerala State Planning Board |
| Dr. Gowri Sankar Associate Principal Scientist Merck, USA Former Lead Immunologist, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Dr. Stalin Raj Associate Professor in Virology IISER Trivandrum |
| Dr. Koen Van Rompay Full Research Virologist California National Primate Research Centre California University Davis, USA |
| Dr. E. Sreekumar Principal Scientist, Pathogen Biology, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) Thiruvananthapuram |
| Dr. Rajendra Pilankatta Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Central University of Kerala Kasargod, Kerala |
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