Academia Europaea webinar on ‘New perspectives on COVID-19’#
26th January 2021, 14:00 CEST, 13:00 GMT
About the webinar#
This webinar on ‘New Perspectives on COVID-19’ will consist of 6 presentations by Members of Academia Europaea, who have all recently published papers on various biomedical aspects of COVID-19. The presentations will address a wide range of issues, including the genetics of the disease, how the virus enters cells, a focus on the vulnerable lipid envelope of the virus, how to explain the mysterious silent hypoxemia that gives rise to uncompensated low oxygen levels in the blood, a new ion channel target in the airways and how to understand the psychiatric aspects of COVID-19. The short presentations will be followed by a discussion session moderated by Ole Petersen.
This webinar is aimed at an international audience, in particular researchers, biomedical students, clinicians, and professionals in the healthcare and biomedical fields.
Confirmed speakers#
Ole Petersen is Professor of Physiology in the School of Biosciences
at Cardiff University. Professor Petersen is Vice-President of Academia Europaea and Director of the AE Cardiff Knowledge Hub. He is Chief Editor of American Physiological Society’s Open Access flagship journal ‘Function’ which was launched in 2020.
Valerie O’Donnell is Professor of Biochemistry and Co-Director of Cardiff University
's Systems Immunity Research Institute.
Giuseppe Novelli is Professor of Medical Genetics and President of the University of Rome Tor Vergata
.
José López-Barneo is Professor of Medical Physiology and Biophysics. He is Director of the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville
.
Bernard Rossier is Emeritus Professor and former Director of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and former Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne
.
Alex Verkhratsky is a Professor of Neurophysiology at the University of Manchester
.
