AoE Flu Seminars 2015
Date | Topic | Speaker |
18 Dec 2015 | Machine Learning for Predicting Vaccine Immunity | Professor Eva K Lee Director, Centre for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
27 Nov 2015 | Challenges of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Asia | Dr Gyanendra Gongal International Health and Regulations (IHR) Health Security and Emergency Response (HSE) WHO Regional office for South East Asia, India |
21 Sep 2015 | An A14U Substitution in the 3' Noncoding Region of the M Segment of Viral RNA Supports Replication of Influenza Virus with an NS1 Deletion by Modulating Alternative Splicing of M Segment mRNAs | Mr Min Zheng Department of Microbiology The University of Hong Kong |
Generation of Live Attenuated Influenza Virus Using Codon Usage Bias | Ms Rebecca Fan School of Public Health The University of Hong Kong | |
14 Sep 2015 | Confidence in vaccines: Social, cultural and religious issues influencing vaccination acceptance | Dr Pauline Paterson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine UK |
14 Aug 2015 | Virus hunting in bats, the Netherlands | Mr Mart Lamers Department of Viroscience Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands HKU-Pasteur Research Pole School of Public Health, HKU |
Mitochondrial transfer by stem cells in airway injury | Dr Judith Mak Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology & Pharmacy The University of Hong Kong | |
22 Jul 2015 | Molecular basis of DNA damage recognition by PARP-1 | Dr Wilfred Wu School of Public Health The University of Hong Kong |
Interventions against avian influenza A(H7N9) virus in live poultry markets and response from the community | Dr Eric Lau School of Public Health The University of Hong Kong | |
19 May 2015 | Transmission and tissue distribution of H7N9 viruses in chickens | Dr Geraldine Luk Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region |
Synthetic Peptide and MS Studies on SARS Virus |
Professor Sai-Ming Ngai School of Life Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
16 Apr 2015 | Host-Pathogen Interactions in Tuberculosis | Dr Olivier Neyrolles Research Director Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology, France |
27 Mar 2015 | Has History Helped us Understand Infectious Diseases? | Professor Joe Brownlie CBE The Royal Veterinary College London, UK |
13 Mar 2015 | Emergence and Evolution of H10 Subtype Influenza Viruses in Poultry in China | Ms Ma Chi School of Public Health The University of Hong Kong |
Formulation of Inhalable siRNA Therapeutics against Respiratory Infections |
Dr Jenny Lam Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy The University of Hong Kong | |
04 Mar 2015 | A vulnerable site of the envelope protein of dengue virus suggest new strategies for vaccine design | Professor Felix Rey Structural Virology Unit Institut Pasteur, Paris |
04 Feb 2015 | Innate Lymphoid Cell Development and Diversity | Professor James DI SANTO Innate Immunity Unit Institut Pasteur, Paris |
20 Jan 2015 | Preliminary Findings from the Etiology of Pneumonia Study (EPIC) - The largest prospective pneumonia etiology study ever conducted in the US | Dr Lyn Finelli Chief of Surveillance and Outbreak Response, Influenza Division National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases |
Mobile Surveillance for Acute Respiratory Infections and Influenza-like Illness in the Community - Findings from a community-based cohort study of 275 primarily low-income, urban, Latino households in New York City |
Dr Carrie Reed Influenza Division Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA | |
06 Jan 2015 | Ebola: Multiple Opportunities for Therapeutic Intervention | Professor (em.) Dr. Erik De Clercq Rega Institute for Medical Research Department of Microbiology and Immunology KU Leuven |