ICTS

Dr. Tracey Goldstein and Dr. Koen Van Rompay talk about the process of studying coronaviruses and other infectious diseases, the steps taken once an outbreak hits, and the ways in which this process could change for the better.

"Paleovirology” is the study of ancient extinct viruses (called “paleoviruses”) and the effects that these agents have had on the evolution of their hosts. Dr Harmit Malik (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA) talks about the computational and genetic techniques to identify such ancient viruses, or their evolutionary imprints, in our genomes, and novel insights into how to combat pathogenic viruses today.

This lecture was delivered as a part of the monthly public lecture series Kaapi With Kuriosity.

Dr. Richard Neher (MPI Tubingen) gives a talk on tracking and predicting the spread of a diseases from the point of applied evolutionary biology. This lecture was a part of the Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology, held at the ICTS-TIFR in December 2017.

Professor Carmen Molina-Paris (School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, UK) discusses how the governing rules of our immune system should be understood in terms of how molecules and cells interact and communicate in health and disease. This involves, along with the generation of new experimental and clinical data sets, a need to develop mathematical models that can describe immune dynamics at the molecular, cellular and population scales.

This lecture was delivered as a part of the monthly public lecture series Kaapi With Kuriosity.

This book brings together the latest research on the big impact that the smallest living things have on our every day life.

Pamela Bjorkman, the David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Bioengineering, at Caltech, speaks about viruses, antivirals, and vaccines in the context of SARS-CoV-2, the novel virus causing the current COVID-19 pandemic.