Clinical Auditorium, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
NIPAH VIRUS COLLOQUIUM 2008
in conjunction with the 10th year remembrance of the outbreak and discovery of Nipah virus
October 20 - 21, 2008
Introduction | List of Lectures and Speakers | Organising Committee | General Information | Registration | Workshop
Preliminary Schedule of Talks
20 OCTOBER 2008
0730 Arrival and registration of participants
0830 Plenary Session (Chair: Professor Dr Ikram Shah bin Ismail)
Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia (1999) - Chronology of events and infection in pigs (Dato' Dr. Abdul Aziz Jamaluddin, Director General, Dept of Veterinary Sciences, Malaysia)
0930 TEA
Session 1: Transmission, Epidemiology, and Ecology of Nipah Virus (Chair: Professor Tan Chong Tin)
1000 Nipah virus in bats: Closing in on the truth (Dr. Sohayati Abdul Rahman, Veterinary Research Institute, Malaysia)
1030 Understanding the dynamics of Nipah virus in bats in Malaysia, Bangladesh, and India (Dr. Jon Epstein, Consortium for Conservation Medicine, USA)
1100 Henipaviruses - drivers for emergence (Dr. Hume Field, Biosecurity Queensland, Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Australia)
1130 Why did Nipah virus emerge, and how can we predict its future emergence? (Dr. Peter Daszak, Executive Director, Consortium for Conservation Medicine, USA)
1200 LUNCH & Poster viewing
OPENING CEREMONY
1400 Arrival of guests
1430 Welcoming speech by Professor Dr Ikram Shah bin Ismail, Chairman of Organising Committee
Opening address and official launching by Datuk Rafiah Salim, Vice-Chancellor of the University Malaya
Session 2: Clinical Aspects of Nipah Virus Infection (Chair: Professor Goh Khean Jin)
1500 Updates on clinical aspects and person-to-person transmission of Nipah virus infection in Bangladesh (Dr. Jahangir Hossain, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh)
1530 Radiological findings in Nipah virus infection (Dr. Tchoyoson Lim, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore)
1600 Updates on clinical aspects of Nipah virus infection in Malaysia (Professor Tan Chong Tin, Neurology Unit, Department of Medicine, University Malaya, Malaysia)
1630 TEA
21 OCTOBER 2008
Session 3: Pathogenesis (Chair: Professor Lam Sai Kit)
0900 Pathology of Henipavirus infection in humans and the hamster model (Professor Wong Kum Thong, Dept of Pathology, University Malaya, Malaysia)
0930 Type-I interferons in Pteropus vampyrus (Professor Thomas Kepler & Dr. Elizabeth Ramsburg, Duke University, USA)
1000 Nipah virus entry into the host cell occurs by macropinocytosis not viral fusion (Dr Robin Buckland, INSERM, France)
1030 TEA
Session 4: Molecular biology of Nipah virus (Chair: Professor Wong Kum Thong)
1100 Molecular and genetic characterisation of Nipah virus (Dr. Chang Li Yen, University Technology MARA, Malaysia)
1130 Molecular characterization of a recrudesced Nipah virus isolated from Pteropus vampyrus (Associate Professor Sharifah Syed Hassan, Monash University, Malaysia)
1200 Henipavirus receptors – from discovery to application (Dr. Lin Fa Wang, CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Australia)
1230 LUNCH
Session 5: Management and control (Chair: Associate Professor Sharifah Syed Hassan)
1400 The outbreak response - reflections of a bat-catcher (Dr. Hume Field, Biosecurity Queensland, Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Australia)
1430 The social scientist’s insights in understanding the Nipah Virus outbreak in Bangladesh (Ms. Rasheda Khan, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh)
1500 Prevention of human Nipah virus infection in Bangladesh (Dr. Steve Luby, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh)
1530 Infection control response to emerging infections (Dr. Brenda Ang, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore)
1600 Closing remarks
Please address any enquiries to: nipah@um.edu.my. Please check this website regularly for updates. (Last update: 5 October 2008)
