Venue

THU

2024

81

Taniguchi Memorial Hall
Integrated Life Science Building
Research Institute for Microbial Diseases
Osaka University

9:00
17:50

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9:05
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Opening remarks

Introduction of NUS and IDTRPSession 1Session 3

9:15

14:00

Joint Symposium

1. Tetsuya Iida (RIMD)

Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a bacterial pathogen discovered in Osaka

Reverse genetics approaches to the study of Rotavirus

University

PROGRAM

9:40
10:05

2. Chris Sham (IDTRP)

Genetic interaction landscape of Streptococcus pneumoniae

3. Yasuhiko Horiguchi (RIMD)

The Bsv gene locus involved in the pathogenicity of
Burkholderia pseudomallei

10:30

4. Gan Yunn Hwen (IDTRP)

replication and pathogenesis

14:25
14:50

11:20

15:15

11:45

virulence of enteroviruses and flaviviruses.

15:40-16:00 BreakSession 4
16:00

16:25

to promote their reproductive success during polylysogeny

16:50

8. Catherine Ong (IDTRP)
Modulating tuberculosis immunopathology to improve patient
outcomes

13:00-14:00 Lunch
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15. Shota Nakamura (RIMD)
Genomics, metagenomics and structural genomics in infectious

Immune responses against infection

12:35

14. John Chen (IDTRP)
Pathogenicity islands uncouple prophages from intra-host competition

6. Louis Chai (IDTRP)

7. Sho Yamasaki (RIMD)

13. Tokiko Watanabe (RIMD)
Control of emerging zoonotic viral diseases

Human variants of susceptibility to infection

12:10

12. Sylvie Alonso (IDTRP)
Understanding the molecular mechanisms that drive the fitness and5. Taroh Kinoshita (RIMD)
Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchor biosynthesis

11. Tatsuo Shioda (RIMD)
Genotypes of dengue virus type 2

Klebsiella pneumoniae

Session 2

10. Justin Chu (IDTRP)
Innovative antiviral approaches to global pandemics

A Worrying Trend: Hypervirulence and multidrug resistance in

10:55-11:20 Group photo, Break

9. Takeshi Kobayashi (RIMD)

disease research

17:15

16. Paul Tambyah (IDTRP)
The challenge of device associated infections in prevention ofantimicrobial resistance

17:40-17:50 Closing remarks
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RIMD

Tetsuya Iida
Dr. Iida graduated from the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, in1984 and received his Ph.D. from Osaka University in 1991. He wasappointed SA Professor at the International Research Center forInfectious Diseases in RIMD after working as a Research Associate
for six years and an Associate Professor for seven years. He took
his current position as a Professor of RIMD in 2015.

IDTRP

Chris Sham
Dr. Sham is an Assistant Professor in the Infectious Diseases
Translational Research Programme (IDTRP) and the Departmentof Microbiology and Immunology at the National University ofSingapore. He started his research group in 2017 and serves
as Research Director of the Infectious Diseases Translational
Research Programme.

RIMD

Yasuhiko Horiguchi
Dr. Horiguchi received his Ph.D. from Osaka Prefecture Universityin 1987. After working at the Kitasato Institute for 3 years, he has
worked for RIMD since 1990. He took his position as Postdoc in1990, a Research Associate in 1992, and an Associate Professorin 1998. He was appointed to his current position as a Professor ofRIMD in 2001.

IDTRP

Gan Yunn Hwen
Dr. Gan graduated from Purdue University and received her Ph.D.
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an AssociateProfessor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2008.
She served as Assistant Dean for Equal Opportunities and Career
Development from 2019 to 2024, and has been Co-director of theNUSMed Infectious Disease Program since 2020.
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RIMD

Taroh Kinoshita
Dr. Kinoshita received Ph.D. from Osaka University in 1981. After working
at the Department of Bacteriology, Osaka University Medical School, andthe Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine,
he was appointed as a Professor at RIMD in 1990. He served as aDirector of RIMD from 2003 to 2007. He also served as a professor at theImmunology Frontier Research Center from 2007 to 2024.

IDTRP

Louis ChaiDr. Louis Chai is Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician andAssociate Professor in the Department of Medicine, National
University Health System, Singapore, as well as Principal
Investigator, Opportunistic Infections Group, Division of Infectious
Diseases, NUHS.

RIMD

Sho Yamasaki
Dr. Yamasaki received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1999. After
working at Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and Chiba University
Graduate School of Medicine, he worked for the Research Center forAllergy and Immunology, RIKEN, from 2004 to 2009. He was appointed
as a Professor at the Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University,in 2009. He took his current position as a Professor of RIMD from 2017.

IDTRP

Catherine Ong
Dr. Ong is a tenured Associate Professor and the Deputy Research Directorof the Infectious Diseases Translational Research Programme (IDTRP) at theNational University of Singapore. She also serves as a Senior Consultant at
the National University Hospital and a Visiting Consultant at the Tuberculosis
Control Unit in Singapore. Additionally, she collaborates with the Ministry ofHealth in Singapore and the World Health Organization (WHO).
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RIMD

Takeshi Kobayashi
Dr. Kobayashi received his Ph.D. from Osaka University in 2000. Hebecame a Research Associate at RIMD in the same year. He spentfive years as a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University, USA,before returning to Japan to work at the Institute for Virus Researchin Kyoto University. He was appointed SA Associate Professor ofRIMD in 2012 and has been a Professor of RIMD since 2020.

IDTRP

Justin Chu
Dr. Chu is Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor
at the National University of Singapore. He is a Joint Senior Principal
Investigator at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB),A*STAR, and Director of the Biosafety Level 3 Facility at NUS. He also
serves as President of the Asia-Pacific Society of Medical Virology andthe Singapore Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology.

RIMD

Tatsuo Shioda
Dr. Shioda obtaind his B. Sc. from the University of Tokyo in 1982
and his Ph.D. form the same institution in 1990. After working at
the Institute of Medical Science in the University of Tokyo andUniversity of California San Francisco, he was appointed as
Associate Professor in 1997. He took his current position as a
Professor of RIMD in 2000.

IDTRP

Sylvie Alonso
Dr. Alonso obtained her PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Biology
from the University Claude Bernard Lyon I. She joined NUS in 2004
as a Lee Kuan Yew post-doctoral Fellow, became an AssistantProfessor in 2007, and was promoted to Associate Professor withtenure in 2013. She is the co-director of the Infectious Diseases
Translational Research Programme (IDTRP).
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RIMDTokiko Watanabe
Dr. Watanabe received her PhD from Hokkaido University in 2002. She
worked as a postdoctoral fellow (2002) and staff scientist (2006) at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, a group leader of the ERATO
KAWAOKA Infection-induced Host Responses Project (2010), and aproject associate professor (2013) at the Institute of Medical Science,
the University of Tokyo. She has been professor at RIMD from 2020.

IDTRPJohn ChenDr. Chen received his undergraduate degree from Princeton
University and his Ph.D. from the Columbia University Collegeof Physicians and Surgeons. He then completed a postdoctoral
fellowship at the New York University School of Medicine before
joining the National University of Singapore faculty.

RIMD

Shota Nakamura
Dr. Nakamura obtained his Ph.D. from Osaka University in 2006. He
joined RIMD as SA Assistant in Thailand-Japan research collaboratin
center in 2006. He was appoited as SA Assis. Prof. at Dept. ofInfection Metagenomics in 2010, and Associ. Prof. at Dept. of GenomeInformatics in 2011. He was appointed SA Associate Professor of RIMD
in 2016 and has been an Associate Professor of RIMD since 2023.

IDTRPPaul TambyahDr. Tambyah is a Professor of Medicine and the Deputy Director of theInfectious Diseases Translational Research Programme (IDTRP) at theNational University of Singapore. He is also a Senior Consultant Infectious
Disease Physician at the National University Health System. In addition, heserves as the President of both the Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology
and Infection and the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
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