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

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: 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

11.10 - 11.30 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

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

Chairs: TBD

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 3: 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 4: 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 - 14.00 LUNCH & NETWORKING

14.00 - 16.15 SESSION III: VETERINARY VIRUSES

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 4: DEVELOPING NOVEL FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VACCINES USING STRUCTURAL VIROLOGY
Bryan Charleston, Director of The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, UK

Invited talk 5: 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 6: 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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9.00 - 11.10 SESSION IV: CHIMERIC AND RECOMBINANT VIRUSES FOR DIAGNOSTICS, THERAPY, AND VACCINES

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 5: 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 6: A TRULY TETRAVALENT 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 7: 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 V: THE EPIC EVOLUTION OF VIRUSES

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 7: REDEFINING VIRUS EVOLUTION AND EMERGENCE USING METAGENOMICS
Edward Holmes, Professor of Virology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia

12.50 - 14.00 LUNCH & NETWORKING

14.00 - 16.15 SESSION VI: SARS-CoV-2 AND COVID-19

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 8: 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: SARS-COV-2 AND BRAIN INFECTIONS: ARE NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES VIRAL

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

16:15 - 16:35 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

16.35 - 18.30 SESSION VII: EMERGING VIRAL DISEASES AND THE RISK FOR TRAVELERS

Chairs: TBD

Invited talk 10: EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES & 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 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

20:00 - 22:00 Gala Dinner

Thursday, May 08

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9.00 - 11.10 SESSION VIII: LATENT AND PERISTENT HUMAN VIRAL INFECTIONS

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 9: 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 - 11.30 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

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

Chairs: TBD

Keynote 10: 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: ZOONOTIC VIRUSES

Chairs: TBD

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

Invited talk 17: 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

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 18: 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

Invited talk 19: : FUNCTIONAL FEED ADDITIVES FOR IMMUNOPROTECTION OF FISH AND SHELLFISH AGAINST NODAVIRUS INFECTIONS

Vikram Vakharia, Professor of Virology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA

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

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

Keynote and Invited Talks

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