Question

3. What Covid-19 is teaching us? (2)​

Answer 1

Answer: On 3 July, over 600 participants on four continents came together for the virtual EMBL Conference ‘SARS-CoV-2: Towards a New Era in Infection Research’. Within a few weeks, the organisers succeeded in putting together a day-long conference that featured scientific talks from world-renowned experts in fields such as microbial pathogenesis; cellular, structural, and systems biology; drug discovery; bioinformatics; and epidemiology. The speakers highlighted the importance of fundamental research, collaboration, and data science in containing the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and discussed opportunities to improve our response to epidemics and pandemics in the future