Public Lecture for Darwin Day

Lecture
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Date
February 17 (Wed) at 9:00 - 10:00, 2021 (JST)
Speaker
  • Catherine Beauchemin (Deputy Program Director, iTHEMS / Professor, Department of Physics, Ryerson University, Canada)
Venue
  • via Zoom
Language
English

Japan, February 17, 2021, 09:00 AM JST
Canada/USA, Feb 16, 2021, 07:00 PM Eastern Time

Through mutations and genetic reassortment, a virus can mutate and the resulting virus variants can evade our drugs, our vaccines, and our body's own immune response. Using specific viruses like influenza, HIV or SARS-CoV-2 (the virus responsible for COVID-19) as examples, I will introduce the basics of how viruses replicate, and the processes via which mutations arise.

*Detailed information about the seminar refer to the Prof. Beauchemin’s email.