In this seminar Dr. Castillo-Olivares and Dr. Matteo Ferrari will present the data they have generated using the ProteinSimple Jess technology to characterize the antibody responses of SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals. The results show IgG, IgA and IgM reactivities of sera from patients against the main SAR-CoV-2 antigens (N, whole Spike and their sub-units S1, S2 and RBD). They will discuss these results in the context of other serological data obtained with other assays.
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Dr. Javier Castillo-Olivares DVM, MSc, PhD, MRCVS Univ. of Cambridge
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Dr. Javier Castillo-Olivares is a viral vaccinologist with more than 28 years’ experience in developing vaccines, bio-assays and diagnostics for veterinary and human viral diseases, including amongst others, West Nile fever, influenza and African horse sickness. After spending 23 years in the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket and the Pirbright Institute, where he developed a strong interest for zoonotic diseases, he joined the Laboratory of Viral Zoonotics at the University of Cambridge and worked on assessing the regulatory pathways for Ebola vaccine licensing, before he embarked on the HICC (humoral Immune Correlates for COVID-19) project, which focuses on the identification of serological bio-markers that define severe COVID-19.
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Dr. Matteo Ferrari DIOSynVax Department of Veterinary Medicine Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Matteo Ferrari is a Vaccinology Scientist at DIOSynVax where he manages clinical sample testing and research for the DIOS vaccine pipeline. His prior work includes production of vaccines at lab scale, pre-clinical testing, and analysis using quantitative immunological approaches. He obtained his PhD from Sapienza University in Rome, IT, and his postdoctoral research at the Italian Institute Pasteur Laboratory involved the use of an optimized RIG-1 agonist in cancer therapy.
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Adrian Papas Commercial Product Manager ProteinSimple, a Bio-Techne brand
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Adrian Papas is a Commercial Product Manager at ProteinSimple, a Bio-Techne brand with over 10 years of technical experience in the life sciences industry. He is responsible for marketing and commercialization efforts for the Simple Western and Single-Cell Western product lines and brings deep technical knowledge and assay development experience to the group as a former Field Application Scientist supporting systems in the field.