Webinar 'The Exposome & COVID-19'

Since March COVID-19 is among us and we have no choice but to deal with it. In this webinar, scientists from the Utrecht Exposome Hub will briefly explain how they incorporated the new challenges of the ongoing pandemic into their research.

Rick Grobbee, Roel Vermeulen and Fernanda Paganelli will give you a glimpse of current COVID-19 research projects in the hub. Fellow researcher Marcel de Zoete will lead the panel discussion afterwards.

14:00 hrs - Introduction Utrecht Exposome Hub

14:15 hrs - Outline research projects
 

• Rick Grobbee
  Wearables in COVID-19 research
   
• Roel Vermeulen
  The link between air quality and COVID-19
   
• Fernanda Paganelli
  The interplay between the upper airway microbiome and immune activation status in COVID-19 disease development: towards predicting COVID-19 severity. 

15:00 hrs - Panel discussion
 

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  Rick Grobbee

  Rick is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the UMC Utrecht and founder of the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care at the UMC Utrecht.

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  Roel Vermeulen

  Roel is Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Exposome Science at Utrecht University and the director of the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) at Utrecht University and the UMC Utrecht.

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  Fernanda Paganelli

  Fernanda is Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology at the Department of Medical Microbiology at the UMC Utrecht.

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  Marcel de Zoete

  Marcel is Associate Professor of Host-Microbiota Interactions at the Department of Medical Microbiology at the UMC Utrecht.