Educational lecture / Symposium
【Educational lecture1】
Educational lecture1 is free and open to the public.
Oct 29 (Tue) 16:00-17:00 Room1（Big Hall）
Chair：
Ichiro Kurane (National Institute of Infectious Diseases・Former Director General (Honorary Staff Member）)
Speaker：
"HTLV-1によるATL患者として"
Shiro Asano (Professor, Kanagawa University，Ex-Governor of Miyagi Prefecture）
【Educational lecture2】
Oct 30 (Wed) 11:00-12:00 Room1（Big Hall）
Chair：
Ichiro Kurane (National Institute of Infectious Diseases・Former Director General (Honorary Staff Member）)
Speaker：
"Ｃ型肝炎ウイルス研究"
Takaji Wakita (National Institute of Infectious Diseases)）
【Educational lecture3】
Oct 31 (Thu)11:00-12:00 Room1（Big Hall）
Chair：
Ichiro Kurane (National Institute of Infectious Diseases・Former Director General (Honorary Staff Member）)
Speaker：
"Arboviruses and their related infections in China:
a comprehensive field and laboratory investigation over the last three decades"
Guodong Liang (Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China (China CDC)）
【Symposium1】
Neo-virology: the raison d'etre of viruses
Oct 29 (Tue) 9:00-11:30 Room1（Big Hall）
Chair：
Hideki Takahashi (Plant Pathology,Tohoku University Graduate School of Agricultural Science）
So Nakagawa (Tokai University School of Medicine）
Speakers：
1)"Neo-virology: the raison d'etre of viruses"
Yoshihro Kawaoka (Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo)
2) "Mutualistic virus-plant interactions: The effects of infection on drought resistance and pollinator attraction"
John Carr (University of Cambridge)
3) "Interactions between small RNA pathways and viruses in mosquitoes."
Van Rij, Ronald
(Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
4) "Evolutionarily acquired function of endogenous RNA viral elements in mammals"
Keizo Tomonaga (Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University)
5) "Viruses of microbes: lessons from the oceans, soils and humans"
Sullivan, Matthew B. (Ohio State University)
6) "Massive nucleotide sequencing data analysis reveals the nature of viruses"
So Nakagawa (Tokai University School of Medicine)
【Symposium2】
China-Japan collaboration in virology research: Histrory and Perspective
Oct 30 (Wed) 9:00-11:00 Room1（Big Hall）
Chair：
Saijyo,Masayuki (National Institute of Infectious Diseases)
Jiro Arikawa (Hokkaido University)
Speakers：
1）"The Japan-China International Conference of Virology: enhancement of collaboration between Chinese Society for Virology and Japanese Society for Virology"
Jiro Arikawa（Hokkaido University）
2）"Current endemic situation of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome in China and molecular revolution of SFTS virus since first discovery"
Mifang LIANG（National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing 102206）
3）"Japan-China Research Collaboration on Defense against HIV Infections"
Ishida Takaomi（Research Center for Asian Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo./ China-Japan Joint Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.）
4）"Introduction of the Chinese Society for Virology and recent advances in virological researches in China"
Deyin Guo（Sun Ya-sen University School of Medicine）
5）"Collaborative study experience of NIID on viral hemorrhagic fevers with China CDC: from CCHF to SFTS"
Masayuki Saijo（National Institute of Infectious Diseases）
【Symposium3】
Contribution of Public Health Institutes of Local Governments to Control of Viral Infectious Diseases
Oct 31 (Thu) 9:00-11:00 Room1（Big Hall）
Chair：
Komei Shirabe (Yamaguchi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environment )
Hiroto Shinomiya (Ehime Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science)
Speakers：
1）"Over View: Infectious Diseases Surveillance by Local Public Health Laboratories"
Komei Shirabe（Yamaguchi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environment）
2）"The largest measles outbreak, including 38 modified measles and 22 typical measles cases in its elimination era in Yamagata, Japan, 2017"
Katsumi Mizuta（Yamagata Prefectural Institute of Public Health）
3）"Epidemiological studies and public health measures for severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome in the endemic region of Ehime prefecture"
Hiroto Shinomiya（Ehime Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science）
4）"Understanding Norovirus Epidemiology through Multilayer Long-term Surveillance at Local Settings"
Naomi Sakon（Osaka Institute of Public Health）
5）"Polio and related picornavirus laboratory surveillance by public health institutes: handling case-based and environmental specimens"
Hiroko Minagawa（Aichi Prefectural Institute of Public Health）
【Symposium4】
The joint symposium with Federation of Microbiological Societies of Japan.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
Remarkable diversity and uniformity of viruses
Oct 31 (Thu) 9:00-11:00 Room2（Small Hall）
Chair：
Yusuke Yanagi (Department of Virology Faculty of Medicine Kyushu University)
1)"Synthetic Biology x Bacteriophage - Creating Designer Viruses -"
Hiroki ANDO（Gifu University）
2)"Basic and Applied Research on Antiviral Plant Immunity"
Yasuyuki YAMAJI（The University of Tokyo）
3) "Exploring the molecular mechanism of virus-host insect interaction"
Susumu KATSUMA（The University of Tokyo）
4) "Viral footprints in host genomes reveal the evolutionary origin of deadly shrimp virus"
Ikuo HIRONO（Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology）