THIS WEEK’S PROGRAM
Adair Mulligan, Executive Director of the Hanover Conservancy, will be introduced by Todd Allen. I look forward to learning about some of the new hiking opportunities that will be available in the Upper Valley in the near future thanks to the Conservancy’s work.
THE ZOOM LINK FOR THE MEETING
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88229582283?pwd=aS9Hd3o1cS9ZK0hQL0ZhUHZXSEdxQT09
Meeting ID: 882 2958 2283
Password: 254494
The Zoom Room opens at 11:45 AM. After the Pledge of Allegiance and opening Password Todd will introduce our speaker.
NOTE THAT OUR SPEAKERS ARE RECORDED FOR REBROADCAST ON CATV.
They are recorded in “speaker view” which means if you do ask questions during the Q and A session you will appear on screen unless you disable the camera.
LAST WEEK’S ANNOUNCEMENTS
John Hochreiter sought some volunteers to help him judge the Speaking Contest for our region. The contest will be held via Zoom on April 15 at 5:00 PM.
David Allen thanked those who stepped forward thus far to help with the Stuff-a-Truck Fundraiser for COVER, but was hoping for one or two individuals to step forward to help lead the effort and more volunteers for the event which will be scheduled in late Summer or early Fall.
The Raffle Management Team (RMT) awarded a $10 in-kind donation to Willing Hands to Heidi Postupak for successfully answering a multiple choice question on the Rotary motto.
DONATIONS IN LIEU OF MEALS
REMINDER: Here’s the link to make your donation in lieu of paying for meals at Jesse’s AND the place to donate your
Happy Dollars! As Todd announced at the meeting last week, the funds will be earmarked for Willing Hands.
https://hanovernhrotary.ejoinme.org/COVID-19.
LAST WEEK’S PROGRAM
Todd Allen introduced Noel Pauili, a Senior Scientist at Adimab who told us about his firm’s role in developing vaccines and other therapeutic antibody drugs. He explained that Adimab conducts lab experiments to help develop and determine the efficacy of various drugs, figures out how to engineer the drugs so they can be manufactured at scale, and then partners with drug manufacturers who ultimately produce and distribute their “inventions”. He described how and why his firm uses yeast to develop and test the antibodies, noting that yeast makes billions of unique antibodies some of which might push back against a “target of interest”, which is usually some kind of virus that is plaguing humans or animals. He described the need for the antibodies to not only knock the target of interest out for a short term, but to have the ability to remain effective for an extended period of time.
Dr. Pauili predicted that the number of pandemics would be likely to increase in the future because of globalization—which promotes international spread, urbanization—which promotes rapid spread within a country, increased mobility, climate change, and population growth. Because the diseases spread rapidly it is often impossible to develop a virus within the time frame between the onset of a pandemic and its spread. He indicated that several firms across the nation are working to prevent outbreaks but predicting WHICH potential virus will lead to a pandemic is difficult. In his personal work, he was researching the hanta virus because Adimab saw that as a probable super-spreading virus.
Coming Attractions
April 14 – David Allen introduces
Adnan Sultan who is an attorney with the
Innocence Project, an organization dedicated to freeing those wrongly convicted of crimes.
April 21 – Todd Allen will introduce Lou’s owner Jarrett Berke
April 28 – Heather Drinan introduces Steve Thiel, President of Southern New Hampshire University.
May 5 – Wayne Gersen will introduce Lori Gosselin who will talk about her community building intiative.
May 12 – Jed Williamson will introduce Dan Richards of Global Rescue to tell us about his work intervening when travelers get into danger.
May 19 – Gabe Zoerheide of Willing Hands will be introduced by Todd Allen.
May 26 – David Allen introduces Miriam Conrad of the Office of Public Defenders from Massachusetts
We’re now booked through all of June! But summer is coming and we can never sign up speakers too early! Your ideas are welcome!
