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BioE Seminar Series Presents: Jared Auclair
October 13, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Jared Auclair Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Professional Program and Graduate Affairs, College of Science, Northeastern University
“Northeastern’s COVID19 Testing Response in 2020 through Today”
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ABSTRACT:
In March of 2020, Northeastern made the announcement to go to full online teaching modalities in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. A few short weeks later, Northeastern sent all students home and closed the campus. Almost immediately after the closing of the University a reopening committee went to work to plan to reopen campus for AY20/21. As part of the reopening committee, a Testing Task Force was instituted. In this talk, I’ll give some insight into the discussions that lead to our AY20/21 testing strategy, how we leveraged the Biopharmaceutical Analysis and Training Laboratory, as well as share some of the data we have collected over the last 12 months. Then, I’ll transition to our thought process regarding Fall 2021 testing, highlighting the differences from our AY20/21 strategy. I will also share some of our variant and next-generation sequencing data.
BIOGRAPHY:
Jared R. Auclair is currently the Associate Dean of Professional Program and Graduate Affairs in the College of Science at Northeastern University and Associate Teaching Professor in the department of chemistry and chemical biology. In addition, Dr. Auclair is the Director of the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Laboratory (BATL), the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Center of Regulatory Excellence in Biotherapeutics and Advanced Therapies, and oversees the International Council for Harmonisation training. Lastly, Prof. Auclair serves as the Technical Supervisor for the Life Science Testing Center at Northeastern University, which is a state and CLIA-certified lab. Dr. Auclair collaborates with both academic researchers, industry and government in the area of biopharmaceutical and cell/gene therapy development and analysis. He has expertise in mol. biology, protein biochemistry, analytical chemistry, protein crystallography, and biological mass spectrometry; and is interested in use-inspired research for the biotechnology industry