International Joint Forum on Infectious Diseases 2009

Sept. 16 (Wed)

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8:30-18:30 Registration

9:30-9:40 Opening Remarks

Manit Teeratantikanont, Director General, Department of Medical Sciences, Thailand
Hitoshi Kikutani, Director, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan

9:40-10:00 Introduction

Chair: Tetsuya Iida, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan

Yoshiyuki Nagai, Director, Center of Research Network for Infectious Diseases, RIKEN, Japan
An introduction: Preliminary experiment of Japan conducted over these five years (05~09) to create an Asian-African research network for infectious diseases

10:00-10:30 Activity Reports from Research Centers I

Chair: Tetsuya Iida, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan

A1. Yoshitake Nishimune, Thailand-Japan Research Collaboration Center on Emerging and Re-emerging Infections (RCC-ERI), Thailand
Thailand-Osaka University Research Center

A2. Tetsu Yamashiro, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology-Nagasaki University Friendship Laboratory, Vietnam
Vietnam-Nagasaki University Research Center

10:30-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50-11:40 Activity Reports from Research Centers II

Chair: Tetsuya Iida, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan

A3. Yoshifumi Takeda, Collaborative Research Center of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases in India, India
India-Okayama University Research Center

A4. Yoshitake Hayashi, Center for Infectious Diseases, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Indonesia-Kobe University Research Center

A5. Remigio Olveda, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Philippines
Hitoshi Oshitani, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Philippines-Tohoku University Research Center

11:40-12:40 Lunch and Poster Viewing

12:40-14:50 Hot Topics from Research Centers

Chair: Koya Ariyoshi, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan
Remigio Olveda, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Philippines

H1. Masanori Kameoka, RCC-ERI, Thailand
A single glycosylation site in V2 region of HIV-1 Env gp120 regulates susceptibility of CRF01_AE viruses to the CD4-binding domain antibody

H2. Le Quynh Mai, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Vietnam

Monitoring on antiviral resistance of influenza viruses in Vietnam

H3. Yoshifumi Takeda, Collaborative Research Center of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases in India, India
A hospital based active surveillance of acute diarrheal diseases in Kolkata, India

H4. Masaoki Yamaoka, Indonesia-Japan Collaborative Research Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (CRC-ERID), Institute of Tropical Disease, Airlangga University, Indonesia

Surveillance of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses in Indonesia from 2008 to 2009

H5. Socorro Lupisan, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Philippines

Etiology of childhood pneumonia in the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center

14:50-15:10 Coffee Break

15:10-16:40 Special Session: Networks of Infectious Disease Research in Asia I

Chair: Yoshiyuki Nagai, Center of Research Network for Infectious Diseases, RIKEN, Japan
Paul Brey, Institut Pasteur du Laos, Laos

S1. Leonard Peruski, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Thailand
Enhancing microbiology laboratory capacity for public health missions: Invasive pneumococcal disease, pathogen discovery, and developing collaborative networks

S2. Paul Brey, Institut Pasteur du Laos, Laos
118 years of infectious disease research: Evolution of the Institut Pasteur international network in Asia in the 21st Century

S3. Richard Coker, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Thailand
Pandemic influenza: Health system challenges

16:40-17:00 Break

17:00-18:00 Special Session: Networks of Infectious Disease Research in Asia II

Chair: Yoshiyuki Nagai, Center of Research Network for Infectious Diseases, RIKEN, Japan
Paul Brey, Institut Pasteur du Laos, Laos

S4. Tatsuo Miyamura, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan
International cooperation activities of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases

S5. Aikichi Iwamoto, Institute of Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Japan-China collaboration on emerging and reemerging infectious diseases: Establishment of high-end biomedical research collaboration between Beijing, Harbin and Tokyo in the first 5 years

18:00-19:00 Poster Session

19:00-21:00 Banquet

Sept. 17 (Thu)

8:30-15:00 Registration

9:00-10:10 Oral Presentation I

Chair: Shigeyuki Hamada, RCC-ERI, Thailand
Mamta Chawla-Sarkar, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, India

O1. Itaru Hirai, 1: Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, 2: International Center for Medical Research and Treatment, Kobe University School of Medicine, Japan

Sequence analysis of the virulence factor gene cagA of Helicobacter pylori obtained from asymptomatic healthy individuals

O2. Kazunori Oishi, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan

Clinical and microbiological features of Streptococcus suis infections in humans living in Thailand

O3. Mitsutoshi Senoh, Collaborative Research Center of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases in India, India

Co-culture with eucaryotic cells converts viable but nonculturable Vibrio cholerae O139 to culturable

O4. Toshiro Shirakawa, Center for Infectious Diseases, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant strain of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi in Surabaya, Indonesia

O5. Sandipan Ganguly, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, India

A novel oxidative stress regulatory cell death signaling pathway in facultative anaerobe Giardia lamblia

10:10-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:40 Oral Presentation II

Chair: Sandipan Ganguly, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, India
Tetsu Yamashiro, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology-Nagasaki University Friendship Laboratory, Vietnam

O6. Benjawan Phetsuksiri, National Institute of Health, Department of Medical Sciences, Thailand

Detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum and in Bactec MGIT 960 cultures by loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP)

O7. Yasuihiko Suzuki, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Japan

Characterization of a new mycobacterial species belonging to Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

O8. Dang Duc Anh, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Vietnam

Viral pathogens associated with acute respiratory infections in Central Vietnamese children

O9. Jun Ryan Orbina, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Philippines

Molecular epidemiology of rabies in the Philippines

O10. Takeshi Nabeshima, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan

Frequent introductions of Japanese encephalitis virus from Southeast Asia and continental East Asia to Japan

11:40-13:10 Lunch and Poster Viewing

13:10-14:20 Oral Presentation III

Chair: Masaoki Yamaoka, CRC-ERID, Indonesia
Naokazu Takeda, RCC-ERI, Thailand

O11. Mariko Saito, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Optimization of IgG-ELISA and molecular analysis of Reston-ebolavirus among swine in the Philippines

O12. Takako Utsumi, CRC-ERID, Airlangga University, Indonesia

Characteristics of hepatitis B virus infection in school children in east Java, Indonesia and hepatitis B surface antigen mutant

O13. Mamta Chawla-Sarkar, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, India

Evasion of cellular responses: multifunctional role of rotavirus nonstructural protein-1

O14. Atsushi Yamanaka, CRC-ERID, Airlangga University, Indonesia

Relationship between complement activity and disease severity in dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever patients in Indonesia

O15. Takeshi Kurosu, 1: Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan, 2: RCC-ERI, Thailand

The difference between primary and secondary infections of dengue virus quasispecies

14:20-14:50 Coffee Break

14:50-16:00 Oral Presentation IV

Chair: Hitoshi Oshitani, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Takako Utsumi, CRC-ERID, Airlangga University, Indonesia

O16. Hiroki Takakuwa, Avian Influenza Research Centre, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan

Infection of H5N1 avian influenza viruses in healthy ducks on farms in northern Vietnam

O17. Yong-Gang Li, 1: RCC-ERI, Thailand, 2: Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan

Characterization of H5N1 influenza viruses isolated in humans in Thailand

O18. Masaoki Yamaoka, CRC-ERID, Airlangga University, Indonesia

Surveillance of seasonal influenza viruses in Indonesia from 2008 to 2009

O19. Yuta Kanai, RCC-ERI, Thailand

Sero-epidemiological study of H1N1 influenza in Thailand in 2009

O20. Jin Takasaki, International Medical Center of Japan, Japan

Application of sputum inducing method for diagnosis of A/H5N1 as a tool of comprehensive therapy for human H5

16:00-16:05 Closing Remarks

Pathom Sawanpanyalert, Director, National Institute of Health, Department of Medical Sciences, Thailand

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