Full Program

Venue in Impiana KLCC Hotel, Jalan Pinang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Keynote lectures are 25 minutes, invited talks are 18 minutes, oral presentations are 12 minutes, and short oral presentations are 5 minutes.

Tuesday, May 06

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08.00 - 8.45 REGISTRATION & EXHIBITION WITH COFFEE

8.45 - 8.55 · Opening Ceremony ·
CEO of NIBM & WSV President

8.55 - 11.00 SESSION I: HUMAN VIRUSES OF MAJOR CONCERN

Chairs: Richard Kuhn, Ahmed Abdel-Moneim, Shamala Devi K.C.Sekaran

Keynote 1: FILOVIRUS PATHOGENESIS AND COUNTERMEASURES
Andrea Marzi, Professor of Virology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), USA

Keynote 2: THE 2022 MPOX OUTBREAK: INSIGHTS FROM A LESS EXPLORED TRAJECTORY
Alessandra Scagliarini, Professor of Virology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy

Invited talk 1: THE ROLE OF LOW-DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN FOR CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS INFECTION
Ali Mirazimi, Professor of Virology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, President of the Swedish Society for Virology, Sweden

Invited talk 2: SHAPING VIRAL FATE: HOST METABOLIC DYNAMICS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST INFECTION

Rushika Perera, Assoc. Professor of Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, USA

Invited talk 3: FOSTERING GLOBAL PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE RESEARCH ON (RE)EMERGING VIRUSES: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE

Diana Stepanyan, European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents (ERINHA)

Invited talk 4: NIPAH SURVIVORS RETAIN LONG-TERM IMMUNE MEMORY

Li Yen Chang, Assoc. Professor of Virology, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

11.00 - 11.20 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

11.20 - 13.00 SESSION II: CLINICAL VIROLOGY

Chairs: Maria Söderlund-Venermo, Syahrilnizam Abdullah

Keynote 3: HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUSES: FROM INFECTIOUS ENTRY TO MALIGNANCY
Lawrence Banks, Director-General of ICGEB (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology), Italy

Invited talk 5: PARADIGM SHIFT IN RESPIRATORY VIRAL INFECTIONS AND ADVANCEMENTS IN IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS OF RSV IN CHILDREN

Radha Kanta Ratho, The dean academics of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, and President of the Indian Virological Society, India

Invited talk 6: HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS PREVALENCE AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH CERVICAL ABNORMALITIES IN WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV IN MOROCCO
Ahd Oudladlahsen, President of The Moroccan Association of Infectious Pathology and Clinical Immunology, Morocco

Oral Presentation: CAPSID SHIELDING BY HOST PROTEASE INHIBITORS REGULATES PARVOVIRUS B19 TROPISM AND DISSEMINATION

Carlos Ros, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland

Oral Presentation: THE TISSUE VIROME: IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH AND DISEASE

Maria Perdomo, Department of Virology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Finland.

Oral Presentation: PROTEOMIC INSIGHTS INTO COVID-19 REVEAL MOLECULAR PATHWAY ASSOCIATIONS WITH ALZHEIMER’S AND PARKINSON’S DISEASE

Chandran S Abhinand, Department of Virus Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Statistics, Institute of Advanced Virology (IAV), Thiruvananthapuram, India

13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH & NETWORKING

14.00- 16.30 SESSION III: VETERINARY VIRUSES

Chairs: Colin Parrish, Aini Ideris

Keynote 4: NEXT GENERATION FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VACCINES
Bryan Charleston, Director of The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, UK

Invited talk 7: ONE HEALTH APPROACH TO CONTROL AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS Abdul Rahman Omar, Professor of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Invited talk 8: THE EVOLUTION OF CANINE AND FELINE PARVOVIRUSES, AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PANDEMIC PATHOGEN
Colin Parrish, Professor of Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, USA, Past President of the American Society for Virology

Oral Presentation: GENOMIC UNVEILING OF NEGLECTED ANIMAL ENTERIC VIRUSES FROM INDIA

Yashpal S. Malik, College of Biotechnology, GADVASU Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Oral Presentation: SUSCEPTIBILITY AND PERMISSIVENESS OF NON-HUMAN MAMMALS TO MONKEYPOX VIRUS

Rajesh Jacob, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Oral Presentation: DELETION OF A SINGLE INTERFERON-INHIBITING GENE IN A MODIFIED LIVE VACCINE CANDIDATE INCREASES LEVELS OF PROTECTION AGAINST AFRICAN SWINE FEVER

Anusyah Rathakrishnan, The Pirbright Institute, Surrey, United Kingdom

Oral Presentation: TISSUE TROPISM STUDY OF FLYING FOX GAMMARETROVIRUS (FFRV) INFECTION IN THE ENDANGERED SPECTACLED FLYING FOX(P. CONSPICILLATUS)

Martia Rani Tacharina, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland, Australia

Oral Presentation: SILENT THREATS: UNMASKING THE WORLD OF SHRIMP VIRUSES

Subha Bhassu, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya

Oral Presentation: NERVOUS NECROSIS VIRUS CAPSID PROTEIN AND PROTEIN A DYNAMICALLY MODULATE THE FISH CGAS-MEDIATED IFN SIGNAL PATHWAY TO FACILITATE VIRAL EVASION

Junfeng Xie, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Short Oral Presentation: USING ONCOLYTIC VIRUSES TO KILL TRANSMISSIBLE FACIAL TUMOURS IN TASMANIAN DEVILS

Anjali Gowripalan, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra Australia

16.30 - 17.30 OPENING CEREMONY BY MINISTER OF MOSTI

National Anthem followed by Doa Recitation.

Speech by Prof. Maria Soderlund-Venarmo, President of World Society for Virology
Officiated by His Excellency Mr. Chang Lih Kang, Minister of MOSTI
Running Coffee and Tea

SOUVENIR PRESENTATION AND PHOTO SESSION

Booth Visits (FOR MOSTI TEAM)

17:00 - 19.30 POSTER PRESENTATION

(Posters will be up until lunch on day 3)

19.30 - 21.30 Welcome Reception

Wednesday, May 07

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9.00 - 10.30 SESSION IV: THE EPIC EVOLUTION OF VIRUSES

Chairs: Marietjie Venter, Subha Bhassu

Keynote 5: REDEFINING VIRUS EVOLUTION AND EMERGENCE USING METAGENOMICS

Edward Holmes, Professor of Virology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia

Keynote 6: EVOLUTION OF SARS-COV-2 AND BEYOND
Kei Sato, Professor of Virology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan

Oral Presentation: ONE HEALTH APPROACH TO DETECT THE EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION OF NOVEL SARS-COV-2 VARIANTS OF CONCERN IN SOUTH AFRICA

Marietjie Venter, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Oral Presentation: HOW DOES VIRULENT AVIAN INFLUENZA EVOLVE IN BIRDS?

Elsayed M. Abdel Wahab, Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany

Oral Presentation: IS CLIMATE CHANGE DRIVING THE EVOLUTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF BEGOMOVIRUSES?

Anupam Varma, Ex President of the World Society for Virology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute. India

Short Oral Presentation: FORGOTTEN NO MORE: THE RISING THREAT OF NEGLECTED MALAYSIAN MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES WITH ZOONOTIC POTENTIAL

Sing-Sin Sam, Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Centre (TIDREC), Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Short Oral Presentation: EMERGENCE AND DOMINANCE OF OMICRON VARIANTS IN MOROCCO: A FOUR YEARS GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF SARS-COV-2 EVOLUTION, MUTATIONS PATTERNS AND CLADE DYNAMICS (2020-2024)

Hamza Ghammaz, National Centre for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST), Rabat, Morocco.

10.30 - 10.50 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

10.50 - 13.00 SESSION V: ADVANCING DIAGNOSTICS, THERAPEUTICS AND VACCINES

Chairs: Ali Mirazimi, Anuar Jonet

Keynote 7: PLANT MOLECULAR PHARMING APPLIED TO DEVELOPMENT OF VETERINARY VIRAL DIAGNOSTICS AND VACCINES
Janet Daly, Director of the Wolfson Centre for Global Virus Research, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences University of Nottingham, UK

Oral Presentation: CRYO-EM STRUCTURES AND BIOCHEMICAL ASSAYS SUGGEST BINDING AND FUNCTION OF DENGUE VIRUSES WITH HEPARIN AND DC-SIGN GLYCAN BINDING DOMAIN

Richard Kuhn, Past President of the World Society for Virology, Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States

Oral Presentation: DEVELOPMENT OF IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR HEPATITIS C VIRUS USING A HETEROLOGOUS REGION PRIME/BOOST VACCINE?

Kyoko Tsukiyama-Kohara, Transboundary Animal Diseases Centre, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

Oral Presentation: PEPTIDE-BASED PAN-COV FUSION INHIBITORS

Shibo Jiang, College of Basic Medical Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Oral Presentation: THERMOSTABLE DISSOLVABLE MICRONEEDLE PATCH VACCINE FOR NIPAH VIRUS AND HENDRA VIRUS CONFERS BROAD AND DURABLE PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY

Christopher Broder, Uniformed Services University, Maryland, United States

Oral Presentation: DEVELOPMENT OF A CORONAVIRUS VACCINE LIBRARY TARGETING HIGH-RISK VIRUSES

Dory Kovacs, Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, R&D, London, United Kingdom

Oral Presentation: RECOMBINANT NDV: A PLATFORM FOR PROPHYLACTIC AND THERAPEUTIC VACCINES

Eddie Chia Suet Lin, UPM-MAKNA Cancer Research Laboratory, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Oral Presentation: DEEP SEQUENCING FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT, HIGH RESOLUTION VIRUS SEROLOGY

Shirin Ashraf, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, United Kingdom

Short Oral Presentation: IN SILICO DESIGN AND MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF APTAMER AGAINST RICE TUNGRO SPHERICAL VIRUS

Nur Izzati Zakaria, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.

Short Oral Presentation: INSIGHTS INTO HOST PROTEINS FOR ENHANCING IMMUNE RESPONSES AND ADVANCING THERAPEUTICS IN ARBOVIRAL INFECTIONS

Nurhafiza Zainal, Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Short Oral Presentation: EVALUATION OF A CONCENTRATION METHOD FOR THE RECOVERY OF HUMAN ADENOVIRUS FROM MINERAL WATER, TAP WATER AND WELL WATER

Nouhaila Elfellaki, Laboratory of Bioresources and Food Safety, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco

13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH & NETWORKING

14.00 - 16.00 SESSION VI: SARS-CoV-2 AND COVID-19

Chairs: Burtram Fielding, Rozainanee Mohd Zain

Invited talk 9: LONG-COVID, IMMUNOLOGY AND INFLAMMATION

Etheresia Pretorius, Distinguished Professor, Physiological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Invited talk 10: SARS-COV-2 AND BRAIN INFECTIONS: ARE NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES VIRAL

Giuseppe Balistreri, Principal Investigator, Department of Virology, University of Helsinki, Finland

Oral Presentation: METABOLIC REPROGRAMMING IN NASAL EPITHELIAL CELLS BY SARS-COV-2 VARIANTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR REPLICATION AND HOST RESPONSE

Efstathios Giotis, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom

Oral Presentation: UNDERSTANDING HUMORAL IMMUNITY IN MOROCCO: INSIGHTS FROM SARS-COV-2 VACCINATION AND BOOSTER DOSES

Sayeh Ezzikouri, Virology Unit, Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Casablanca, Morocco

Oral Presentation: DIVERSITY ACROSS SPIKE SIGNAL PEPTIDES AND HAEM BINDING REGIONS AMONG SOUTH AFRICAN SARS-COV-2 STRAINS, 2020 TO 2022.

Florette Treurnicht, Division of Virology, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Oral Presentation: POST-VIRAL DISEASE IS CHARACTERIZED BY ANOMALOUS CLOTTING PROCESSES AND ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION: MIGHT THE ENDOTHELIUM BE THE CRUX?

Massimo Nunes, Stellenbosch University South Africa

Oral Presentation: SEROLOGIC CROSS REACTIVITY BETWEEN SARS-COV-2 AND HIV-1

Rajesh Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

Short Oral Presentation: MODULATION OF THE IRE1-XBP1 PATHWAY BY SARS-COV-2 VARIANTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR VIRAL PATHOGENICITY AND THERAPEUTIC TARGETING

Anna Shishova, Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immune-and-Biological Preparations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Institute of poliomyelitis), Moscow, Russia

Short Oral Presentation: NBS SUPERFOOD: A PROMISING ADJUNCTIVE THERAPY IN CRITICALLY ILL ICU PATIENTS WITH OMICRON VARIANT OF COVID-19

Faezeh Ramezani, Blood Transfusion Research Center, High Institute for Research and Education in Transfusion Medicine, Tehran, Iran

16.00 - 16.30 INDUSTRIAL TALKS

By Request: INTRODUCING MiSeq: DRIVING ACCESSIBLE VIRAL GENOMIC INSIGHTS ACROSS THE ONE-HEALTH SPECTRUM.

Cara Lim, Illumina

By Request: ENSEMBLE-BASED VIRTUAL SCREENING FOR APTAMERS AGAINST THE FULL STRUCTURE OF SARS-COV-2 NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN: A COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS APPROACH

Saharuddin Mohamad, Biogenes Technologies Sdn Bhd

Chairs: William Wilson, Mary Jane Cardosa

Invited talk 11: TARGETING JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS VIA INHIBITION OF VIRAL PROTEINS AND MODULATION OF HOST INFLAMMATORY PATHWAYS FOR NEUROPROTECTION

Shailendra K. Saxena, Professor of Virology, Centre for Advanced Research (CFAR), Faculty of Medicine, King George's Medical University (KGMU), India

Oral Presentation: ADVANCES IN THE DETECTION AND CONTROL OF FOODBORNE VIRUSES

Matthew Moore, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Oral Presentation: ASYMPTOMATIC DENGUE AMONG HEALTHY ADULTS IN A COMMUNITY WITH PREINFECTIONAL MULTIPLE HETEROTYPIC DENGUE VIRUS ANTIBODIES AND SECONDARY INFECTIONS: A PILOT LONGITUDINAL STUDY IN MALAYSIA

Sharifah S. Hassan, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences,[U1] Monash University Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Oral Presentation: VIRAL METAGENOMICS FOR ARBOVIRUS DISCOVERY AND SURVEILLANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA

Felicity Burt, National Health Laboratory Service, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Oral Presentation: THREE-DIMENSIONAL MAPPING OF TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS DISTRIBUTION IN THE MOUSE BRAIN USING A NEWLY ENGINEERED TURBOGFP REPORTER VIRUS

Daniel Ruzek, Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Oral Presentation: ADENOVIRUS, NOROVIRUS AND ROTAVIRUS MONITORING IN MUSSELS SOLD AT MARRAKECH HYPERMARKETS, MOROCCO

Hafid Jamal Eddine, Laboratory of Bioresources and Food Safety, Faculty of Sciences and Technics Gueliz, Cady Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco

Short Oral Presentation: STRAIN-SPECIFIC DIFFERENCES OF ZIKA VIRUS REPLICATION IN HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS

Jo Ern Wong, Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Centre (TIDREC), Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE), Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Short Oral Presentation: IMPROVED DETECTION OF NOROVIRUS GENOGROUP II IN LEAFY GREENS USING AN OPTIMIZED NM ISO 15216-2: 2019 METHOD

Salma Berrouch, Laboratory of Bioresources and Food Safety, Faculty of Sciences and Technics Gueliz, Cady Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco

Short Oral Presentation: VALIDATION OF A PROTOCOL FOR DETECTING NOROVIRUS, ROTAVIRUS, AND ADENOVIRUS IN OYSTERS

Hibatallah Lachkar, Laboratory of Bioresources and Food Safety, Faculty of Sciences and Technics Gueliz, Cady Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco

Short Oral Presentation: VALIDATION OF A METHOD FOR DETECTING ADENOVIRUS, NOROVIRUS, AND ROTAVIRUS IN DAM WATER

Houda Rafi, Laboratory of Bioresources and Food Safety, Faculty of Sciences and Technics Gueliz, Cady Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco

16:30 - 16:50 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

16.50 - 18.35 SESSION VII: FOODBORNE AND VECTORBORNE VIRUSES

19.30 - 23.00 Gala Dinner

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9.00 - 11.00 SESSION VIII: LATENT AND PERISTENT HUMAN VIRAL INFECTIONS

Chairs: Kristine Yoder, Tan Wen Siang

Keynote 8: IMPRINTING OF BROADLY NEUTRALISING ANTI-HCV ANTIBODIES

Rowena Bull, Professor of Virology, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, President of the Australia Society for Virology

Invited talk 12: UNDERSTANDING AND TARGETING HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS

Michael Nevels, Reader, University of St-Andrews, UK

Invited talk 13: UNDERSTANDING HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS LATENCY TO TARGET THE LATENT RESERVOIR

Emma Poole, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK

Invited talk 14: HEPATITIS C TREATMENT: A SUCCESS STORY FROM MALAYSIA
Rosaida Hj Md Said, National Head of Internal Medicine, Ministry of Health, Malaysia

Oral Presentation: DISABLING THE ONCOGENIC RETROVIRUS HTLV-1 THROUGH CRISPR/CAS9 GENOME EDITING

Kristine Yoder, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

Oral Presentation: CHROMATIN COMPACTION AND MOBILITY DURING HERPESVIRUS INFECTION

Maija Vihinen-Ranta, Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Nanoscience Center, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland

Oral Presentation: HEPATITIS C MANAGEMENT SUCCESS STORY

Abdelouaheb Benani, Molecular Biology Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Morocco Casablanca, Morocco

11.00 - 11.20 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

11.20 - 12.45 SESSION IX: PLANT VIRUSES: INSIGHTS INTO DISEASE CONTROL AND CROP PROTECTION

Chairs: Stephan Winter, Anupam Varma, Rofina Yasmin Othman

Keynote 9: PLANT VIRUS THREATS TO GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY: FROM DISCOVERY OF NOVEL VIRUSES, OUTBREAK DETECTION AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL FORECASTING TO MITIGATION AND CONTROL
Stephan Winter, The Head of the Plant Virus Department and Chief Plant Virologist, Leibniz Institute-DSMZ, German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Germany

Invited talk 15: HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING FOR HIDDEN VIRUSES AND ITS IMPACT ON CLEAN PLANT PROGRAM IN INDIA
Virendra Kumar Baranwal, Professor, Division of Plant Pathology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, India

Oral Presentation: EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING PLANT VIRUS DISEASES IN SOUTH EAST ASIA - AN URGENT NEED OF A SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL

Rofina Yasmin Othman, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Oral Presentation: CURRENT STATUS OF THE MANAGEMENT OF BANANA BUNCHY TOP VIRUS IN INDIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

Selvarajan Ramasamy, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India

Oral Presentation: VIRUS RESISTANCE IN CASSAVA: INTEGRATING GENETIC AND MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO ACHIEVE BROAD SPECTRUM RESISTANCE AGAINST VIRUSES FROM DIVERSE FAMILIES

Samar Sheat, Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Plant Virus Department, Messeweg, Braunschweig, Germany

12.45 - 13.45 LUNCH & NETWORKING

13.45 - 14.50 SESSION X: BACTERIOPHAGES SHAPING ECOSYSTEMS AND MEDICINE

Chairs: Shailendra Saxena, Adelene Song Ai Lian

Keynote 10: GETTING PHAGES CLOSER TO CLINICAL PRACTICE
Martha Clokie, Professor of Microbiology, University of Leicester, Director of Phage Research Center, UK

Invited talk 16: HARNESSING THE POTENTIAL OF BACTERIOPHAGES FOR 'ONE HEATH' APPLICATION

Indrani Karunasagar, Director (R&D), Nitte University Director, UNESCO Mircen, Medical & Marine Biotechnology, India

Oral Presentation: BACTERIOPHAGE THERAPY OF PAN-DRUG RESISTANT ORTHOPAEDIC IMPLANT ASSOCIATED KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE SEPTICAEMIA

Gopal Nath, Department of Microbiology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Short Oral Presentation: INNOVATIVE USE OF BACTERIOPHAGES AS GREEN BIOCONTROL AGENTS IN AQUACULTURE
Swee Seong Tang, Division of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia

14.50 - 15.05 COFFEE & TEA BREAK
15.05 - 17.10 SESSION XI: ZOONOTIC VIRUSES

Chairs: El-Sayed M. Abdelwhab, Hair Bejo

Keynote 11: BAT-BORNE ZOONOTIC DISEASES
Linfa Wang, Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Executive Director of the Programme for Research in Epidemic Preparedness and Response (PREPARE), Singapore

Keynote 12: TICK-BORNE DISEASES: AN EMERGING UNDER-APPRECIATED THREAT
Sazaly Abu Bakar, Director of Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Centre (TIDREC), University of Malaya, Malaysia

Oral Presentation: FACTORS AFFECTING VECTOR TRANSMISSION OF ZOONOTIC ARBOVIRUSES

William Wilson, Manhattan, Kansas, USA

Oral Presentation: CANONICAL INTERFERON SIGNALING AND ROBUST GBP1 ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY IN BATS

Arinjay Banerjee, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), SK, Canada

Oral Presentation: PTEROPINE ORTHOREOVIRUS IN MALAYSIA: SURVEILLANCE IN HUMAN, BATS AND SWINE

Kenny Voon, University of Noftingham Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Oral Presentation: ALTERATION OF NEURAL CELL MACHINERY BY ORTHOFLAVIVIRUSES

Mariia Bogacheva, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Short Oral Presentation: DIFFERENTIAL SERODIAGNOSTICS OF TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS BASED ON RECOMBINANT DOMAINS OF PROTEIN E

Victoria Baryshnikova, Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immune-and-Biological Products of Russian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Poliomyelitis), Moscow, Russia

Short Oral Presentation: IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF INFLUENZA A VIRUS DELETION-CONTAINING VIRAL GENOME REVEALS KEY MUTATIONS DRIVING COMPETITION DYNAMICS AND INTERFERENCE

Fadi G. Alnaji, Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Infectious Disease Labs, Singapore

17.10 - 17.30 Closing and Awards
Coffee and Tea

19.30 - 23.00 Hop-on and Hop-off - KL City Tour

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