AoE Flu Seminars 2012
Date | Topic | Speaker |
13 Dec 2012 | Delving deeply into B cells | Professor Paul Kellam Virus Genomics Team Leader and Senior Investigator Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK |
3 Dec 2012 | The Endocytic Infection Pathway of HIV-1 in Macrophages: Elucidation Assisted by Stem Cell Technology | Professor William S James Pro Vice-Chancellor (Planning and Resource Allocation) University of Oxford Professor of Virology Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford |
27 Nov 2012 | The “Flu Spring”: Avian Influenza in Poultry and People of Egypt | Dr Ghazi Kayali Division of Virology Department of Infectious Diseases St Jude Children’s Research Hospital |
21 Nov 2012 | Evolution of Influenza A Viruses in Domestic Ducks | Dr Lilian L Zhou School of Public Health The University of Hong Kong |
Modeling the Disease Burden of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic | Dr Lin Yang School of Public Health The University of Hong Kong | |
20 Nov 2012 | The Killers in you - Understanding Determinants of Antiviral CTL Responses |
Dr Nicole La Gruta Sylvia and Charles Viertel Fellow Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Melbourne, Australia |
7 Nov 2012 | MRC/Wellcome Flu Watch Study of influenza immunity and burden - England 2006-2011 | Dr Andrew Hayward UCL Department of Infection and Population Health Royal Free and University College Medical School London, UK |
2 Nov 2012 | Respiratory Viruses and Health Protection in the UK | Dr John Watson Director, Respiratory Diseases Department Health Protection Agency, London, UK |
16 Oct 2012 | XCR1+ Dendritic Cells Cross-Present Antigen and Trigger a CD8 T Cell Cytotoxic Response in Vivo | Professor Richard Kroczek Molecular Immunology Robert Koch-Institute, Germany |
15 Aug 2012 | Influenza: Early History-Published and Unpublished | RGC GRF / ECS 2013-14 Brainstorming Workshop External Advisor: Professor Robert G Webster Rose Marie Thomas Chair in Virology Department of Infectious Diseases St Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA |
9 Aug 2012 | The Nature of The HIV Assembly Compartments and The Role of Tetherin in The Formation of the Compartments in Primary Human Macrophages | Mr Hin Chu Department of Pediatrics Emory Children's Centre Emory University |
23 July 2012 | Clinical Performance of a New Rapid Immunofluoresence-based POC test for influenza A and B Compared to Culture and RT-PCR | Dr John D. Tamerius Senior Vice President, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs Quidel Corporation, USA |
20 Jul 2012 | Role of the Influenza Virus Polymerase Complex in Host Adaptation and Pathogenicity | Professor Guelsah Gabriel Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology Hamburg, Germany |
Canine Influenza: Emergence and Evolution | Dr Daesub Song Senior Researcher, Viral Infectious Disease Research Center Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology | |
12 Jul 2012 | Why are there so many Serotypes of Pneumococcus? | Dr Sarah Cobey Postdoctoral Research Fellow Harvard School of Public Health |
11 Jul 2012 | Why is Asia Ahead? | Dr Sarah Cobey Postdoctoral Research Fellow Harvard School of Public Health |
09 Jul 2012 | Comparable Fitness and Transmissibility between Oseltamivir-Resistant Pandemic 2009 and Seasonal H1N1 Influenza Viruses with the H275Y Neuraminidase Mutation | Ms Diana Wong School of Public Health The University of Hong Kong |
GI Involvement of Influenza | Dr Martin Chan Department of Microbiology The Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
29 June 2012 | The Art and Science of Exhaled Breath Aerosol Collection For Virus Detection | Professor Donald Milton School of Public Health University of Maryland College Park, MD and Dr James McDevitt Department of Environmental Health Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA |
25 June 2012 | Modelling the Seasonal Dynamics of Influenza in Israel: Unbelievable predictability | Professor Lewi Stone Department of Zoology Tel Aviv University Israel |
21 June 2012 | Comparative Spatial Dynamics of Acute Viral Infection | Dr Cécile Viboud Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies Fogarty International Center NIH, USA |
19 June 2012 | Reassortant H9N2 Influenza Viruses with 2009 Pandemic H1N1 Genes: Experimental Pig Infection and Transmission Studies | Professor Dr Kristien Van Reeth Laboratory of Virology Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Ghent University |
28 May 2012 | Epidemiology and Population Genetics of Influenza in a Tropical Setting | Dr Maciek Boni
Centre for Tropical Medicine Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
23 May 2012 | Intracellular Protein Trafficking in Viral Infection and ER Stress | Dr Sumana Sanyal Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research MIT USA |
09 May 2012 | Assessing the Economic Impact of Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Vaccination to inform Policy Making | Dr Mark Jit Modelling and Economics Unit Health Protection Agency United Kingdom |
03 May 2012 | CD8+ T cell mediated immune pressure during acute influenza A virus CD8+ infection | Dr Sophie Valkenburg School of Public Health The University of Hong Kong |
Using serial cross-sectional serologic surveillance to estimate infection attack rate and disease severity in real time during an influenza pandemic | Dr Joseph Wu School of Public Health The University of Hong Kong | |
23 Apr 2012 | Innate Immune Responses during Bacterial Pneumonia | Professor Joseph P. Mizgerd Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Biochemistry Director, Pulmonary Center Boston University School of Medicine USA |
09 Mar 2012 | Multiplex PCR: Applications in Immune Repertoire Sequencing and Infectious Diseases Diagnosis | Dr. Jian Han Faculty Investigator Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology USA |
29 Feb 2012 | Effect of Allogeneic Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Alveolar Fluid Clearance in Human Alveolar Epithelium injured by Influenza H5N1 Virus Infection | Dr Michael Chan School of Public Health The University of Hong Kong |
Nucleic Acid & Peptide-based Therapeutics – Barriers and Potentials for Infectious Diseases | Dr Jenny Lam Department of Pharmacology & Pharmacy The Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
08 Feb 2012 | Characterization of Influenza A Virus Intra-host Diversity by Deep Sequencing | Dr. Elodie Ghedin Center for Vaccine Research Department of Computational and Systems Biology University of Pittsburgh, USA |
02 Feb 2012 | Airway Stem Cells and Lung Regeneration following Influenza Infection | Professor Frank McKeon Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School, USA |
18 Jan 2012 | Mannose binding lectin contributes to deleterious inflammatory response in pandemic H1N1 and avian H9N2 infection | Mr Vincent Ling Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine The University of Hong Kong |
Challenges in Clinical Research on Severe Influenza | Professor Nelson Lee Head, Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Medicine and Therapeutics Faculty of Medicine The Chinese University of Hong Kong |