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GCOE PROGRAM
Thursday, 26 Nov. 2009 Ryojun Hall 2FRegistration

08:30-09:00

Opening remarks
09:00-09:15
Shigeru Katamine (President, Nagasaki University)

Keynote lectures
09:15-10:00(Chair: Koya Ariyoshi)
Brian Greenwood (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK)“Epidemic meningococcal Disease in Africa”
10:10-10:55(Chair: Kouichi Morita)
Janusz Paweska(Natonal Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa)“Search for reservoir hosts of filoviruses in Africa”

11:05-11:50(Chair: Masahiro Takagi)
Nguyen Tran Hien (National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Vietnum)“Influenza Pandemic (H1N1) 2009: Lessons from current outbreaks in the world and Vietnam”

Lunch
11:50-13:00

Session G1

NEKKEN 1F Main Meeting Room No.124 (Guests and GCOE members)

Virus(Chair: Osamu Nakagomi )13:00-13:30

Naoki Yamamoto (National Institute of Infectious Diseases)“HIV-host cell interactions as revealed by the use of cell-free protein production system”

13:30-14:00

Yusuke Yanagi (Kyushu University)“Measles virus tropism and pathogenesis”

14:00-14:30Kunitada Shimotohno (Chiba Institute of Technology)“Hepatitis C virus hijacks lipid metabolisms for its proliferation”

14:30-14:45

Tea BreakSession G2

Virus and Prion(Chair: Nobuyuki Kobayashi)

14:45-15:15

Nobuhiro Yuki (Niigata National Hospital)“Infection, vaccination and Guillain–Barré syndrome”

15:15-15:45

Noriyuki Nishida (Nagasaki University)“Strain diversity and reciprocal interference seen in prion infection”

15:45-16:15

Radostin Danev (Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience)“Viral structures visualized by zernike phase contrast cryo-electron tomography”

16:15-16:30Tea Break‒1‒

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Session G3Bacteria(Chair: Koji Nakayama)

16:30-17:00

Shinji Yamasaki (Osaka Prefecture University)“Molecular epidemiology of Vibrio cholerae”

17:00-17:30

Toshiya Hirayama (Nagasaki University)“Pleiotropic action of VacA toxin of Helicobacter pylori:
VacA induces GSK3 inhibition trough the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway”

17:30-18:00

Tetsuya Hayashi (University of Miyazaki)“Genomic view on the parallel evolution of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli strains”

Reception
18:30-20:30

Nagasaki Park Side Hotel 1F “Tempo Room”‒2‒

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Friday, 27 Nov. 2009 Ryojun Hall 2F
Session G4

MalariaⅠ(Chair: Richard Culleton)

08:45-09:15

Jetsumon Sattabongkot (Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Thailand)“Research on Plasmodium vivax at AFRIMS”

09:15-09:45

Kesinee Chotivanich (Mahidol University, Thailand)“Cytoadherence of P. vivax-infected red cells”

09:45-10:15

Osamu Kaneko (Nagasaki University)“Plasmodium SURFIN: evolution, polymorphism, and human sera reactivity”

Tea Break

10:15-10:30

Session G5

MalariaⅡ(Chair: Takashi Itoh)

10:30-11:00

Qijun Chen (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)“Var gene transcription in Plasmodium falciparum parasites associated with placental malaria”

11:00-11:30

Till Voss (Swiss Tropical Institute, Switzerland)“Identification and characterisation of two heterochromatin components in the malaria parasite
Plasmodium falciparum”

11:30-12:00

Liwang Cui (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
“Chromatin-mediated gene regulation in malaria parasite”

Lunch
11:50-13:00

Session G6

NEKKEN 1F Main Meeting Room No.124 (Guests and GCOE members)

MalariaⅢ(Chair: Osamu Kaneko)

13:00-13:30

Tim-Wolf Gilberger (Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Germany)“Functional analysis of the leading malaria vaccine candidate AMA-1 reveals an essential role forthe cytoplasmic domain in the invasion process”

13:30-14:00

Sandra Cheesman (University of Edinburgh, UK)“Investigating how genetic variation in the host and parasite influence strain-specific protective
immunity against malaria.”

14:00-14:30

Katsuyuki Yui (Nagasaki University)“Antigen-specific T cell responses during infection with Plasmodium berghei: studies using OVA
as a model malaria antigen”

14:30-14:45

Tea Break‒3‒

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Session G7
14:45-15:15

Parasite(Chair: Katsuyuki Yui)

Nicholas Day (Mahidol University, Thailand)“Thirty years of the Wellcome Trust – Mahidol University – Oxford Tropical Medicine Research
Programme”

15:15-15:45

Shinjiro Hamano (Nagasaki University)“Genetic control of resistance to intestinal amebiasis in inbred mice”

15:45-16:15

Hiroki Yoshida (Saga University, Saga)“Regulation of defense responses against protozoan infection by interleukin-27”

16:15-16:30

Tea BreakSession G8

Immunology and Bioinformatics(Chair: Hiroyuki Moriuchi)

16:30-17:00

Masaaki Miyazawa (Kinki University, Osaka)“Genetic factors that confer resistance to HIV-1 acquisition in HIV-1-exposed but seronegative
individuals in Italy and Thailand”

17:00-17:30

Tomoko Kohno (Nagasaki University)“The role of interferon in acute pancreatitis”

17:30-18:00

Kishore R. Sakharkar (The University of Aizu)“Novel antimicrobial strategy versus microbes”

Closing remarks
18:00-18:10
Toshifumi Matsuyama (Dean, Nagasaki University School of Medicine)GCOE PROGRAM
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Lecture for Public
13:00-14:00 Janusz Paweska (with translater: Kouichi Morita)＜MEMO＞‒5‒