MassCPR Symposium 2024

Sponsored by Harvard Medical School, the Maxwell Finland Fund, and the Warren Alpert Foundation.

This annual symposium will be dedicated to the pathology and infectious mechanisms of endemic, emerging, and submerging viruses. The event is sponsored by UMass Chan Medical School, Harvard Medical School, and the Maxwell Finland Fund.

Featured Speakers

  • 2024 Symposium Chair:

    Jeremy Luban

  • Moderators:

    Jeremy Luban
    Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology
    UMass Chan Medical School

    Megan Orzalli
    Assistant Professor in Medicine
    UMass Chan Medical School

  • Opening Remarks

    Michael F. Collins
    Chancellor
    UMass Chan Medical School

  • Keynote Talk I

    Yoshihiro Kawaoka
    Professor
    Influenza Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Institute of Medical Science, Infections and Advanced Research Center, University of Tokyo, Japan
    Director, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses in US Cattle

  • Session I

    Jonathon Stone
    Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
    Comparative Pathology of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Naturally Infected New England Wildlife

    David J. Bean
    Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine
    Correlates of Heterotypic Immune Protection Against Coronavirus Related Disease

    Shira Weingarten Gabbay
    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Rockefeller University
    The Dark Proteome of Human Viruses

  • Keynote Talk II

    Eva Harris
    Professor
    Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley Director, UC Berkeley Center for Global Public Health
    Immunological Underpinnings of the Complex Interplay between Dengue and Zika viruses: Insights from a Longitudinal Flavivirus Cohort in Nicaragua

  • Session II

    Wanyu Li
    Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
    Shifts in Receptor Recognition in a Submerging Alphavirus

    Milky K. Abajorga
    UMass Chan Medical School
    Evolution of piRNA-guided Retroviral Silencing in Wild Koalas

    Erika N. Weiskopf
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    A Viral Trojan Horse: HIV-1 Nuclear Entry Through the Nuclear Pore Complex

  • Closing Remarks

    George Q. Daley
    Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
    Harvard University