SARS-CoV2: The Virus and the Disease

Carolina Arias Gonzalez, PhD
Assistant Professor in Molecular, Cellular, and Development Biology, UCSB

Dr. Arias (Ph.D. Microbiology, New York University Sackler Institute for Graduate Biomedical Sciences) has extensively studied virus-host interactions, as well as drug screens to identify FDA-approved compounds that could be used to curtail Zika virus infection. Dr. Arias joined the UCSB faculty late in 2016. 

Lynn N. Fitzgibbons, MD
Infectious Disease Specialist, Cottage Health, Santa Barbara

Dr. Fitzgibbons is board certified in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, and is chair of the Division of Infectious Desease at Cottage Health. She is the Medical Education Director of Resarch and Quality, and is a Clinical Associate Professor Medicine at USC, as well as Adjunct Assistant Professor at UCSB in the Geography Department. She oversees the HIV and Infectious Disease clinic at the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department. 

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Sponsored by UCSB's Interdisciplinary Research Centers, NOVIM, and Cottage Health.