ME/CFS Exchange Webinar Series
Webinar 1: Post-Acute Infection Symptoms
Date: October 8
Time: 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
Location: Online via Zoom
This webinar will focus on post-acute infection symptoms— what causes them and why they persist. Speakers will discuss these symptoms in relation to ME/CFS and share findings from basic research using model systems.
Moderator and Speakers
Moderator and Speaker
- Anthony Komaroff, MD; Harvard Medical School
Speakers
- Catherine Dulac, PhD; Harvard University
- Clifford Saper, MD, PhD; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
- Julie Williams, PhD; University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Relevant Publications
- Causes of symptoms and symptom persistence in long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
- A preoptic neuronal population controls fever and appetite during sickness
- Preoptic EP3R neurons constitute a two-way switch for fever and torpor
- The NFκB Dif is required for behavioral and molecular correlates of sleep homeostasis in Drosophila
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What is ME/CFS?
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), also referred to as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), is a multi-system disease that causes dysfunction of the neurological, immune, endocrine, and energy metabolism systems.
