Keynote and Invited Talks

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

Only keynotes [30 min] and invited talks [20 min] are here included.
All talks include 2-3 min discussion

Tuesday, May 06

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08.00 - 9.00 REGISTRATION & EXHIBITION WITH COFFEE

9.00 - 9.30 · Opening Ceremony · Officiated by His
Excellency Mr. Chang Lih Kang, Minister of MOSTI

9.30 - 11.10 SESSION I: HUMAN VIRUSES OF MAJOR CONCERN

Chairs: TBD

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

Invited talk 1: ECOLOGY OF ORTHOEBOLAVIRUSES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR RESERVOIRS – WHY ARE WE STILL BAFFLED
Janusz T. Paweska, Professor of Virology, Centre for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, South Africa

Invited talk 2: 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

11.10 - 11.30 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

11:30 - 13:00 SESSION II: CLINICAL VIROLOGY

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 2: HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUSES: FROM INFECTIOUS ENTRY TO MALIGNANCY
Lawrence Banks, Director-General of ICGEB (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology), Italy

13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH & NETWORKING

14.00 - 16.15 SESSION III: VETERINARY VIRUSES

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 3: DEVELOPING NOVEL FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VACCINES USING STRUCTURAL VIROLOGY
Bryan Charleston, Director of The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, UK

Invited talk 3: 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 4: 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

16:15 - 16:35 COFFEE & TEA BRAK

16.35 - 18.35 POSTER PRESENTATION

19:30 - 21:30 Welcome Reception

Wednesday, May 07

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9.30 - 11.10 SESSION IV: ZOONOTIC VIRUSES

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 4: 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

Invited talk 5: 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

11.10 - 11.30 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

11:30 - 13:00 SESSION V: THE EPIC EVOLUTION OF VIRUSES

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 5: REDEFINING VIRUS EVOLUTION AND EMERGENCE USING METAGENOMICS
Edward Holmes, Professor of Virology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia

Invited talk 6: CELLULAR WARFARE: HOW METABOLIC SHIFTS IN THE HOST ORGANISM CAN SHAPE THE OUTCOME OF VIRAL INFECTION.

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

Invited talk 7: TBD

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

12.50 - 14.00 LUNCH & NETWORKING

14.00 - 16.15 SESSION VI: RESPIRATORY VIRUSES

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 6: RESPIRATORY VIRUSES SPILLOVER RISK ASSESSMENT OF CORONAVIRUS FROM WILDLIFE
Zhengli Shi, Senior Scientist, the Guangzhou Laboratory, China

Keynote 7: EVOLUTION OF SARS-COV-2 AND BEYOND
Kei Sato, Professor of Virology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan

Invited talk 8: LONG-COVID, IMMUNOLOGY AND INFLAMMATION

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

Invited talk 9: NIPAH SURVIVORS RETAIN LONG TERM IMMUNE MEMORY

Li Yen Chang, Assoc. Professor of Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology. Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia

Invited talk 10: TBD
Kodama Chiori, Medical Officer, WHO EMRO/WHE

16:15 - 16:35 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

16.35 - 18.30 SESSION VII: EMERGING VIRAL DISEASES AND THE RISK FOR TRAVELERS TO LATIN AMERICA, AFRICA, AND ASIA

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 8: EMERGING AND REEMERGING ARBOVIRAL DISEASE IN LATIN AMERICA: A DECADE OF LEARNING AND EXPERIENCES

Alfonso Rodríguez Morales, Professor of Epidemiology, President of the Latin American Society of Travel Medicine (SLAMVI)

Invited talk 11: AFRICA AND ITS ARBOVIRUS - RISKS FOR VISITORS

Jan F. Drexler, Professor of Virology, Institute of Virology, Charité - University, Berlin, Germany

Invited talk 12: VIRUSES AND MASS GATHERINGS

Ziad Memish, Professor of Public Health, Alfaisal University, Riyadh Saudi Arabia, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

Invited talk 13: EMERGING VIRAL THREATS FOR TRAVELERS IN ASIA
Wasin Matsee, Ass. Professor, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand.

20:00 - 22:00 Gala Dinner

Thursday, May 08

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9.00 - 11.10 SESSION VIII: CHIMERIC AND RECOMBINANT VIRUSES FOR DIAGNOSTICS, THERAPY, AND VACCINES

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 9: 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

Keynote 10: A SUCCESSFUL SINGLE DOSE VACCINE FOR DENGUE

Steve Whitehead, Senior Scientist, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA

Invited talk 14: NON-VIRAL TARGETS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-VIRAL DRUGS
Vladimir V. Zarubaev, Leading Scientist, Department of Virology, Pasteur Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

11.10 - 11.30 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

11:30 - 13:00 SESSION IX: PLANT VIRUSES: INSIGHTS INTO DISEASE CONTROL AND CROP PROTECTION

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 11: 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: THE IMPORTANCE OF PLANT VIROLOGY IN ONE HEALTH

Lise Korsten, Co-Director of the Department of Science and Innovation, Centre of Excellence in Food Security, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Invited talk 16: 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

13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH & NETWORKING

14.00 - 16.15 SESSION X: LATENT AND PERISTENT HUMAN VIRAL INFECTIONS

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 12: ADVANCES IN HIV: PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Pro-Vice Chancellor & President of Monash University, Malaysia, Past President of International AIDS Society, Malaysia

Invited talk 17: CHROMATIN CONTROL OF HERPESVIRUS INFECTION

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

Invited talk 18: UNDERSTANDING HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS LATENCY TO TARGET THE LATENT RESERVOIR

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

16:15 - 16:35 COFFEE & TEA BREAK
16.35 - 17.30 SESSION XI: BACTERIOPHAGES AND MARINE VIRUSES SHAPING ECOSYSTEMS AND MEDICINE

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 13: GETTING PHAGES CLOSER TO CLINICAL PRACTICE
Martha Clokie, Professor of Microbiology, University of Leicester, Director of Phage Research Center, UK

Invited talk 19: TBD

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

17:30 - 18:00 Closing and Awards
Coffee and Tea

19:30 - 23:00 Hop-on and Hop-off

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