Program
On Tuesday, November 16, we will hold all of our meetings on the web.
You will not be able to enter the venue.
Registration will also be available only on Wednesday, November 17 and Thursday, November 18.
Keynote
- English
- In-person
- Live-streaming
Epigenetics of Herpes Simplex Virus: From latent infection to gene therapy vectors
Speaker：David M Knipe, Ph.D.
(Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School)
Nobel Prize Memorial Lecture
- English
- In-person
- Live-streaming
Stopping the HCV pandemic by "testing and treating" and developing a vaccine
Speaker1：Sir Michael Houghton, Nobel Laureate Medicine, Hon.DSc, PhD
(Director & Professor, Li ka Shing Applied Virology Institute,Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry,University of Alberta )
A semi-random walk in virology
Speaker2：Charles M Rice, Ph.D.
(Maurice R. And Corinne P. Greenberg Professor, Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University)
Educational lecture
- Japanese
- In-person
- Live-streaming
Investigation on immunology and its clinical applications.
Speaker ：Atsushi Kumanogoh
(Department of Respiratory Medicien and Clinical Immunology Osaka Univ Graduate School of Medicine）
Symposium1 Hepatitis C virus
- English
- In-person
- Live-streaming
Discovery and identification of HCV as an agent of non-A, nonB hepatitis
Speaker1：Tatsuo Miyamura（National Institute of Infectious Diseases: Emeritus Member）
Hepatitis C virus: the virus that caused incurable disease but later was under control.
Speaker2：Kunitada Shimotohno
(Genome Medical Project, National Center for Global Health and Medicine）
Host factors involved in the propagation and pathogenesis of HCV
Speaker3：Yoshiharu Matsuura
(Center for Infectious Diseases Education and Research and Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University)
Cell culture systems for Hepatitis C Virus
Speaker4：Takaji Wakita（National Institute for Infectious Diseases）
Symposium2 Emerging Virus Infections: Pathogens, Pathogenesis, and Pathophysiology
- English
- In-person
- Live-streaming
Sponsored by "the AMED research grant for US-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program (USJCMS).
Comparative experimental investigation of human pathogenic bat-borne viruses from multiple virus families in the same natural bat reservoir
Speaker1：Jonathan Towner
(Viral Special Pathogens Branch, Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA)
Dietary microplastics promote gut inflammation leading to prolonged viral arthritis
Speaker2：Andreas Suhrbier
(Inflammation Biology Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.)
Lessons learnt from studying bats and viruses
Speaker3：Linfa Wang
(Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.)
Evolutionary Conservative of Receptor Usage of SARS-related Coronaviruses
Speaker4：Shi Zhengli
(Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China.)
Symposium3 SARS-CoV-2
- Japanese
- In-person
- Live-streaming
SARS-CoV-2 and its activation mechanism by host proteases
Speaker1：Makoto Takeda （National Institute of Infectious Diseases）
SARS-CoV-2 variants and immunity
Speaker2：Yoshimasa Takahashi （Research Center for Drug and Vaccine Development, National Institute of Infectious Diseases）
Infectivity-enhancing and neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2
Speaker3：Hisashi Arase （Department of Immunochemistry, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University）
Utilization of the wheat germ cell-free protein production system in SARS-CoV-2 protein analysis
Speaker4：Akihide Ryo （Yokohama City University School of Medicine Dept. of Microbiology）
Establishment of a reverse genetics system for SARS-CoV-2 using circular polymerase extension reaction
Speaker5：Takasuke Fukuhara （Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University）
Replication regulation by non-structural proteins of Coronavirus
Speaker6：Wataru Kamitani （Gunma university graduate school of medicine）
Neutralizing breadth for SARS-CoV-2 infection
Speaker7：Lidya Handayani Tjan（Division of Clinical Virology, Center for Infectious Diseases, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine)
S-217622, a Novel SARS-CoV-2 3C-Like Protease Inhibitor Clinical Candidate, As a Potential Oral Therapeutic Agent for COVID-19
Speaker8：Haruaki Nobori（SHIONOGI & CO., LTD.）
Symposium 4 Neo-virology
- English
- In-person
- Live-streaming
Aquatic Neovirology
Speaker1：Keizo Nagasaki（Kochi University）
Evolution of SARS-CoV-2
Speaker2：Kei Sato（Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo）
Persistent infection of Arabidopsis thaliana with cucumber mosaic virus: a conditional mutualistic symbiont?
Speaker3：Hideki Takahashi（Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University）
Host cellular machinery for SARS-CoV-2 infection
Speaker4：Akiko Makino（Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University）
A plant virus infection affects secondary bacterial/fungal infections through plant innate immunity
Speaker5：Kiwamu Hyodo（Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University）
Big data analysis of bacteriophages:focusing on long-read metagenomics and genomic recombination
Speaker 6：Koji Yahara（National Institute of Infectious Diseases）
A strategy for virus survival: the genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2
Speaker7：Tokiko Watanabe
(Department of Molecular Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University）
Symposium5 Persistent and latent infections
- Japanese
- In-person
- Live-streaming
Molecular basis of herpes simplex virus infection
Speaker1：Yasushi Kawaguchi
(Division of Molecular Virology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo）
Herpesvirus integration: Latency, endogenous viruses and cancer
Speaker2：Benedikt B. Kaufer（Lichtenberg Professor Institut für Virologie Freie Universität Berlin）
Regulation of cell tropisms and viral gene expression by the pentameric glycoprotein complex of cytomegalovirus
Speaker3：Naoki Inoue（Microbiology and Immunology, Gifu Pharmaceutical University）
Latency of defective EBV and lymphomagenesis
Speaker4：Kimura Hiroshi（Department of Virology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine）
Co-organized symposium with "the Japanese Society of Clinical Virology"
- Japanese
- In-person
- Live-streaming
Where do coronaviruses come from? - threat as zoonotic disease –
Speaker1：Tetsuya Mizutani
（Center for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and Prevention Research: CEPiR Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology）
SARS-CoV-2 genome surveillance in Japan
Speaker2：Makoto Kuroda（Pathogen Genomics Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases）
Epidemiological Characteristics of COVID-19：Gained knowledge and Unanswered questions
Speaker3：Hitoshi Oshitani（Department of Virology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine）
Clinical aspects of COVID-19 - Advances in treatment and LONG-COVID
Speaker4：Satoshi Kutsuna
(Department of Infection Control, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University）
