Influenza
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| Friday 1 September - Morning (09:00 Official acts of inauguration, by invitation) |
Chair:Ih-Jen SU Division of Clinical Research, National Health Research Institute
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11:20 ~ 11:30
Welcome
Chair:Ih-Jen SU Division of Clinical Research, National Health Research Institute.
Dr. Steve Hsu-Sung Kuo Director General, Center for Disease Control, Taiwan.
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11:30 ~ 12:15
Keynote lecture:Influenza reverse genetics
Robert WEBSTER, Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital, Memphis.
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12:15 ~ 13:30
Lunch
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| Friday 1 September - Afternoon |
Session Chair:John SKEHEL, Masato TASHIRO
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13:30 ~ 14:00
Influenza virus in poultry
David SUAREZ, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, Athens.
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14:00 ~ 14:30
Plasticity of the influenza genome – Adaptation of influenza virus in humans
Shin-Ru SHIH, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory
Science, Chang Gung University.
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14:30 ~ 15:00
Markers of host-specificity and virulence of influenza A viruses
Nadia NAFFAKH, Institute Pasteur, Paris.
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15:00 ~ 15:30
Coffee Break
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Session Chair:David SUAREZ, Noel TORDO
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15:30 ~ 16:00
Structure-function of the influenza hemagglutinin
John SKEHEL, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.
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16:00 ~ 16:30
Development of human influenza H5N1 vaccines in Japan: research and clinical trials
Masato TASHIRO, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Department of Viral Diseases and Vaccine Control, Tokyo.
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16:30 ~ 17:00
Pandemic flu and drug discovery
Mark von ITZSTEIN, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Brisbane.
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17:00 ~ 18:00
Round table discussion:Global plan for the next pandemic
Chair:John SKEHEL;Robert WEBSTER
Welcome Dinner (NCKU Medical School Campus)

Shuttle buses will pick up the participants at the entrance of the Hotel at 6:00 pm
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Dengue
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| Saturday 2 September - Morning |
Session Chair:Philippe DESPRES, Huan-Yao LEI
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09:00 ~ 09:45
Keynote lecture: Emergence mechanisms in Dengue
Scott HALSTEAD, Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative, Rockville, Maryland.
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09:45 ~ 10:15
Structure-function of the Dengue envelope protein
Felix REY, Institute Pasteur, Paris.
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10:15 ~ 10:45
Coffee Break
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10:45 ~ 11:15
Mosquito: ecology and control in Taiwan
Hua-Jen TENG, Center of Disease Control, Department of Health.
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11:15 ~ 11:45
Molecular epidemiology and diagnosis of dengue infections in Taiwan
Pei-Yun SHU, Center of Disease Control, Department of Health.
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11:45 ~ 12:15
A variant located in the promoter of the CD209 (DC-SIGN) gene is associated with the severity of dengue disease
Ananaj SAKUNTABHAI, Institute Pasteur, Paris.
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12:15 ~ 14:30
Lunch
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| Saturday 2 September - Afternoon |
Session Chair:Felix REY, Jyh-Hsiung HUANG
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14:30 ~ 15:00
The C-lectin DC-SIGN (CD209) does play an important role in the pathogenesis of dengue disease
Philippe DESPRES, Institute Pasteur, Paris.
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15:00 ~ 15:30
The role of enhancing antibodies on dengue virus infection
Huan-Yao LEI, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University.
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15:30 ~ 16:00
Progress in dengue vaccine
Frederic TANGY, Institute Pasteur, Paris.
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16:00 ~ 16:30
Coffee Break
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16:30 ~ 17:00
Dengue antiviral drugs: Status and outlook
Subhash VASUDEVAN, Dengue Research Unit, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, Singapore.
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17:00 ~ 17:45
Round table discussion:All participants
Chair:Scott Halstead;Felix REY
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Surveillance, Alert and Reactivity in Response to "old" and "new" Virus Infections
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| Sunday 3 September - Morning |
Session Chair:Vincent DEUBEL, Ching-Chuan LIU
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08:30 ~ 09:00
Surveillance and prepareness to emerging virus infection in Taiwan
Mei-Shang HO, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica.
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09:00 ~ 09:30
Surveying Enterovirus evolution
Francis DELPEYROUX, Institute Pasteur, Paris.
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09:30 ~ 10:00
Enteroviruses and their pathogenicity
Jen-Ren WANG, Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Cheng Kung University.
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10:00 ~ 10:30
Break
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Session Chair:Mei-Shang HO, Frederic TANGY
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10:30 ~ 11:00
Re-emerging rabies viruses: Carnivores, bats and lyssaviruses
Noel TORDO, Institute Pasteur, Paris.
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11:00 ~ 11:30
Expecting the unexpected: New hopes in surveying and preventing virus emergence.
Vincent DEUBEL, Institute Pasteur, Shanghai.
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11:30 ~ 12:00
Alert systems
J-C MANUGUERRA, Institute Pasteur, Paris.
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Chair: Jean-Louis VIRELIZIER
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12:00 ~ 12:45
Fighting pathogenic viruses: present and future
Albert OSTERHAUS, Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam.
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12:45 ~ 13:00
Concluding remarks
Jean-Louis VIRELIZIER, Institute Pasteur, Paris.
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