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Spring 2010 Meeting: Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh - 29 March - 1 April 2010
(ED20) The global challenges of virus infection
Thursday 1 April 2010
Organizers: Martin Cranage, Paul Duprex — email p.duprex@qub.ac.uk & Katie Jeffery |
Provisional Programme
Viruses "respect" neither geographical nor political borders. Currently this is best exemplified by the swine flu pandemic which has critically thrown the spotlight onto the interconnectivity that exists across the globe. This symposium recognizes the global dimension of virus infection, both in the developed and the developing world. The scene will be set by David Heymann (Chair of the Health Protection Agency) who will provide a unique insight into global virology based on an international career at the cutting edge of public health. This will be augmented by state of the art lectures focusing on HIV, influenza, hepatitis C virus, rotavirus, Dengue and measles virus. |
| Chair: Paul Duprex (Queen's University of Belfast) |
| 0830 |
David Heymann |
Health Protection Agency, London |
Global challenges in virus infection |
| 0910 |
Malik Peiris |
University of Hong Kong |
Influenza: expecting the unexpected
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| 0950 |
Neil Ferguson |
Imperial College London |
The H1N1 influenza pandemic: transmission dynamics, impact and public health response |
| 1030 |
Refreshments |
| Chair: Katie Jeffery (John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford) |
| 1100 |
Roger Glass |
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
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Rotavirus and other enteric viruses |
| 1140 |
Diane E. Griffin |
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA |
Measles: pathogenesis and control |
| 1220 |
Jeremy Farrar |
Hospital for Tropical Diseases, South East Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network, Viet Nam
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Dengue |
| 1300 |
Lunch |
| Chair: Martin Cranage (St George's, University of London) |
| 1330 |
Stephen Livingston |
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, USA |
Hepatitis C: present and future |
| 1410 |
Robin Shattock |
St George's University of London |
HIV |
| 1450 |
Dan H. Barouch |
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA |
Novel vectors and antigens for a next generation HIV-1 vaccine
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| 1530 |
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Last updated Friday 29 January 2010
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