AoE Flu Seminars 2008
Date | Topic | Speaker |
18 Dec 2008 | Effect of alternative activation of macrophages on phagocytosis of pathogens and inflammatory response | Dr Audrey Varin Post-Doctoral Fellow Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford University |
10 Dec 2008 | A family of Bcl-2 proteins from vaccinia virus that inhibit apoptosis and/or innate immune signaling | Prof. Geoffrey L. Smith FRS Department of Virology Imperial College London |
17 Nov 2008 | Viral and cellular forces that drive virion assembly: examples of SARS-CoV and H5N1 avian influenza viruses | Dr. Beatrice Nal-Rogier HKU-Pasteur Research Centre |
The epidemiology of pandemic and non-pandemic influenza | Dr. Steven Riley Community Medicine, HKU | |
15 Oct 2008 | Selective modulation of innate immunity and inflammation as a new strategy for treating infections | Prof. Robert E.W. Hancock Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of British Columbia |
15 Aug 2008 | Antigenic profiling of avian H5N1 viruses and implication for pre-pandemic vaccine strain selection | Dr. Chen Hong-lin Microbiology, HKU |
Epidemiology and control of influenza in the community | Dr. Ben Cowling Community Medicine, HKU | |
28 May 2008 | Evolution of H5N1 avian influenza | Dr. Gavin Smith Microbiology, HKU |
Generation of humanized mice and its application | Dr. Wenwei Tu Paediatrics, HKU | |
25 Apr 2008 | Host molecular landscape during HIV-1 viral replication: depiction by quantitative proteomics | Dr. Eric Y Chan University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A |
25 Mar 2008 | Interferon: a fight for supremacy in SARS and other emerging viral infections | Dr. Eleanor N. Fish University of Toronto (Guest of John Nicholls, Pathology, HKU) |
14 Mar 2008 | Recent studies of SARS and human influenza | Ben Cowling Community Medicine, HKU |
26 Feb 2008 | Control of seasonal and pandemic influenza: interrelated challenges | Prof. Arnold S. Monto University of Michigan, U.S.A. |
10 Jan 2008 | H5N1 viruses: transmissibility, pathogenicity and antiviral treatment | Dr. Yen Hui-Ling St. Jude, Memphis, U.S.A. |