Day-1
26th Feb 2009, Thursday |
Day-2
27th Feb 2009, Friday |
Day-3
28th Feb 2009, Saturday |
8:00-9:00 |
Registration |
8:00-9:00 |
Registration |
8:00-9:00 |
Registration |
8:30-9:15 |
Opening Ceremony
Malik Peiris - Congress Chairman
Suzanne Westman - WHO SEARO
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9:00-9:45 |
Plenary Lecture 5
Chairperson: Shobba Broor
KY Yuen: Explosion on Coronaviruses since 2003 |
9:00-9:45 |
Plenary Lecture 9
Chairperson: Raymond Lin
Yiming Shao: AIDS research and its impact on AIDS prevention and care in China |
9:15-10:00 |
Plenary Lecture 1
Chairperson: Ian Barr
Robert Webster: Pandemic influenza and its impact on global health |
9:45-10:30 |
Plenary Lecture 6
Chairperson: SK Lam
Linfa Wang: Emerging bat zoonotic viruses: a 15-year journey from Hendra to Melaka |
9:45-10:30 |
Plenary Lecture 10
Chairperson: Margaret Ip
Yumei Wen: Hepatitis B surface antigen: interactions with host cells |
10:00-10:45 |
Plenary Lecture 2
Chairperson: John Mackenzie
SK Lam: Climate change: its impact on viral diseases. |
10:30-11:00 |
Tea & Poster Break |
10:30-11:00 |
Tea & Poster Break |
10:45-11:15 |
Tea & Poster Break |
11:00-12:30 |
Parallel Abstract Presentation 1
(Viral diagnostics)
Chairperson: Kitty Fung
Abstract no. # 033, 034, 039, 046, 088,
089, 090
Parallel Abstract Presentation 2
(Influenza & other respiratory viruses)
Chairperson: KH Chan
Abstract no. # 006, 008, 012, 016, 041, 075, 094,100,105
Parallel Abstract Presentation 3
(Emerging and zoonotic)
Chairperson: Samson Wong
Abstract no. # 001, 023, 055, 061, 073,
077, 095
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11:00-13:00 |
Parallel Symposium 5
(Influenza)
Chairperson: Prasert Auewarakul
- Philipp Buchy :
Clinical aspects and management of avian
influenza H5N1
- Malik Peiris:
Pathogenesis of influenza
- Wenjun Liu: Insights
into the interaction between M1 protein of
influenza virus and host cell factors related to
the viral replication
- Ben Cowling: Non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent household transmission of influenza
Parallel Symposium 6
(Clinical cases)
Chairperson: Tony Ng
- Rick
Hodinka: Clinical case mysteries in Virology
- Wilina Lim
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11:15-12:30 |
Parallel Symposium 1
(Emerging Infection)
Chairperson: Wilina Lim
- Suzanne
Westman
- AC Mishra: New emerging infections in India
Parallel Symposium 2
(Vaccine & Immunology)
Chairperson: Janice Lo
- MH Ng:
Phase II clinical trial of a bacterially
expressed particulate hepatitis E vaccine
- Nikolai Petrovsky: Novel vaccine strategies to tackle pandemic influenza and other new and emerging infectious disease threats
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch & Poster Break |
12:30-14:00 |
Lunch & Poster Break
|
13:00-14:00 |
Lunch & Poster Break |
14:00-15:30 |
Excellence Award Prevention
& Symposium
Chairperson: Vincent Chow & Malik Peiris
- Sutee Yokan: Live
attenuated tetravalent dengue vaccine programme
at Mahidol University, Thailand
- Hak Hotta: Sequence
variation of the hepatitis C virus genome and
its correlation with viral pathogenicity
- T Jacob John: The
phenomenon of circulating vaccine-derived
polioviruses
- Paul Young: Antiviral target for the flavivruses
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14:00-15:30 |
Parallel Symposium 3
(HIV)
Chairperson: WC Yam
- Zhiwei Chen: Searching
for the ultimate solution to end AIDS
- Dominic Dwyer: HIV drug
resistance
- Praesert Thongcharoen: Clinical trials for HIV vaccines in Thailand
Parallel Symposium 4
(Enterovirus 71)
Chairperson: Dmltry Lvov
- Vincent Chow:
Enterovirus 71 VP1 is a major factor in viral
involved in viral capsid assembly, evolution,
virulence, host interactions and immune
responses
- David Perera: The
epidemiology of EV71: The Sarawak story
- Jen Ren Wang: Genetic and antigenic analyses of enterovirus 71
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14:00-15:30 |
Parallel Symposium 7
(Laboratory Diagnosis)
Chairperson: Alexander Lai
- Tuckweng
Kok: Laboratory diagnosis of viral infections:
back to the future
- David
Smith: Diagnosis of arbovirus infections:
current and future advances
- Paul Wallace: Quality control programmes in laboratory diagnosis (tbc)
Parallel Symposium 8
(Arbovirus)
Chairperson: Vincent Chow
- Martin
Hibberd: Dengue epidemiology and host response
- Suresh
Mahalingam: Novel insights into the pathogenesis
of alphavirus infections
- Marc Lecuit: Chikungunya virus infection:from beside to bench and back
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15:30-16:00 |
Tea & Poster Break |
15:30-16:00 |
Tea & Poster Break |
15:30-16:00 |
Tea & Poster Break |
16:00-16:45 |
Plenary Lecture 3
Chairperson: MH Ng
Ih-Jen Su: Mechanism for the progression from EBV-associated hemophagocytic syndrome to T cell lymphoma: The role of NFkB signaling and its implication for therapy
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16:00-16:45 |
Plenary Lecture 7
Chairperson: Tuckweng kok
Derek Smith :
The antigenic evolution of influenza and other
viruses
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16:00-17:10 |
Parallel Abstract Presentation 4
(Vector Borne Diseases)
Chairperson: Paul Young
Abstract no. # 065, 014, 042, 086, 099
Parallel Abstract Presentation 5
(Blood Borne Viruses)
Chairperson: Sutee Yoksan
Abstract no. # 024, 040, 045, 081
Parallel Abstract Presentation 6
(Diarrhoeal Diseases)
Chairperson: T. Jacob John
Abstract no. # 007, 036, 091, 064
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16:45-17:30 |
Plenary Lecture 4
Chairperson: Vincent Deubel
John Mackenzie : Mosquito-borne zoonotic flaviviruses: phylogenetic and ecological aspects of the Japanese encephalitis serological group
|
16:45-17:30 |
Plenary Lecture 8
Chairperson: Pilaipan Puthavathana
Y Guan: Ecology & evolution of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus |
17:15-18:00 |
Plenary Lecture 11
Chairperson: Wilina Lim
Marion Koopmans: The changinng epidemiology of noroviruses
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17:30-19:00 |
Satellite Symposium
(sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline)
Making Pandemic Preparedness a Reality
Chairperson: Malik Peiris
Paul Chan : The role antivirals should have in pandemic preparedness
Geert Leroux : Preclinical and clinical data supporting prepandemic vaccination
Tbc: Putting pandemic preparedness plans into practice
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17:30-18:30 |
APSMV AGM |
18:00-18:45 |
Plenary Lecture 12
Chairperson: David Smith
Ab Osterhaus: Animal models for viral diseases: from pathogenesis to intervention
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19:00-21:00 |
Gala Dinner |
18:45-19:00 |
Closing ceremony & prize presentation to best oral and poster presentation |
