Keynote and Invited Talks

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

Keynote lectures are 25 minutes and invited talks are 18 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 Presidents

9.30 - 11.10 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

11:30 - 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

13.00 - 13.55 LUNCH & NETWORKING

13.55 - 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

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)

16.35 - 18.35 POSTER PRESENTATION

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

10.30 - 10.50 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

10:50 - 13:10 SESSION V: CHIMERIC AND RECOMBINANT VIRUSES FOR DIAGNOSTICS, THERAPY, 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

13.10 - 14.10 LUNCH & NETWORKING

14.10 - 16.05 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

16:05 - 16:35 INDUSTERIAL TALKS

Diamond Sponsor : INTRODUCING MiSeq: DRIVING ACCESSIBLE VIRAL GENOMIC INSIGHTS ACROSS THE ONE-HEALTH SPECTRUM.

Cara Lim, Illumina

Gold Sponsor : 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

16:35 - 16:55 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

16.55 - 18.40 SESSION VII: FOODBORNE AND VECTORBORNE VIRUSES

19:30 - 23:00 Gala Dinner

Thursday, May 08

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9.00 - 11.10 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: CHROMATIN CONTROL OF HERPESVIRUS INFECTION

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

11.10 - 11.20 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

11:20 - 12:50 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

12.50 - 13.50 LUNCH & NETWORKING

13.50 - 15.00 SESSION X: BACTERIOPHAGES AND MARINE VIRUSES 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 : BACTERIOPHAGES AND ITS APPLICATION TO ONE HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN THE ERA OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE : ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES

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

16:15 - 16:35 COFFEE & TEA BREAK
15.05 - 17.20 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

17:20 - 17:400 Closing and Awards
Coffee and Tea

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

Keynote and Invited Talks

Tuesday, May 06

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