Abstract Session 3
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| Friday, July 28, 2023 |
| 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM |
| Ballroom 1 |
Speaker
Ms Aimee Altermatt
Research Assistant
Burnet Institute
The long and the short of it: long COVID burden and impact in a cohort with past COVID-19 infection
1:15 PM - 1:27 PMBiography
Aimée Altermatt is a research assistant at the Burnet Institute, working in mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and data analysis of COVID-19 related studies.
Dr Emily Eriksson
Senior Research Officer
The Walter And Eliza Hall Institute
Long-lived anti-cytokine autoantibodies associated with post-acute sequalae of SARS-CoV-2 infection
1:27 PM - 1:39 PMBiography
Dr. Emily Eriksson is an infectious disease immunologist based at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) in Melbourne. She is a co-lead investigator of the COVID PROFILE longitudinal Australian cohort study and is leading the COVID serology team, which have developed an autoantibody serological assay.
Ms. Stefanie Bader
PhD Student
The Walter And Eliza Hall Institute
TNF signaling via Caspase-8 drives inflammation during SARS-CoV-2 infection in vivo
1:39 PM - 1:51 PMBiography
Stefanie Bader is a PhD student in the Infectious Diseases and Immune Defence division at WEHI. Stefanie studied biochemistry in Germany and is now researching the role of cell death and inflammation during SARS-CoV-2 infection, and how these pathways may be targeted as therapeutic options for treatment of severe COVID-19.
Dr Susan Morpeth
Clinical Microbiologist And Infectious Diseases Physician
Middlemore Hospital, Te Whatu Ora
Miss Yanshan Zhu
Phd Candidate
School Of Chemistry And Molecular Biosciences, The University Of Queensland
An International, Multi-center Analysis of Pediatric COVID-19 Severity over the Course of the Pandemic
2:03 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, focusing on "Children and the spread of respiratory viruses", my work on the role of children in SARS-CoV-2 transmission has been picked up by numerous media outlets and helped influence policy during the COVID-19 outbreak (data used by WHO).
Chair Person
Alexis Apostolellis
CEO
ASHM
Nicholas Medland
Researcher
Kirby UNSW
