August 1st OU RIMD-NUS IDTRP Joint Symposium

 

Date: August 1st, 2024

Venue: Taniguchi Memorial Hall, RIMD

 

9:00    Opening remarks

9:05    Introduction of NUS and IDTRP

Session 1

9:15     1. Tetsuya Iida (RIMD)

Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a bacterial pathogen discovered in Osaka University

9:40    2. Chris Sham (IDTRP)

Genetic interaction landscape of Streptococcus pneumoniae

10:05   3. Yasuhiko Horiguchi (RIMD)

The Bsv gene locus involved in the pathogenicity of Burkholderia pseudomallei

10:30   4. Gan Yunn Hwen (IDTRP)

A Worrying Trend: Hypervirulence and multidrug resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae

Session 2

11:20   5. Taroh Kinoshita (RIMD)

Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchor biosynthesis

11:45   6. Louis Chai (IDTRP)

Human variants of susceptibility to infection

12:10   7. Sho Yamasaki (RIMD)

Immune responses against infection

12:35   8. Catherine Ong (IDTRP)

Modulating tuberculosis immunopathology to improve patient outcomes

Session 3

14:00   9. Takeshi Kobayashi (RIMD)

Reverse genetics approaches to the study of rotavirus replication and pathogenesis

14:25   10. Justin Chu (IDTRP)

Innovative antiviral approaches to global pandemics

14:50   11. Tatsuo Shioda (RIMD)

Genotypes of dengue virus type 2

15:15   12. Sylvie Alonso (IDTRP)

Understanding the molecular mechanisms that drive the fitness and virulence of enteroviruses and flaviviruses.

Session 4

16:00   13. Tokiko Watanabe (RIMD)

Control of emerging zoonotic viral diseases

16:25   14. John Chen (IDTRP)

Pathogenicity islands uncouple prophages from intra-host competition to promote their reproductive success during polylysogeny

16:50   15. Shota Nakamura (RIMD)

Genomics, metagenomics and structural genomics in infectious disease research

17:15   16. Paul Tambyah (IDTRP)

The challenge of device associated infections in prevention of antimicrobial resistance

 

Poster

 

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