PKU-UCL Workshop Program

Time

Theme :Health – Infectious Diseases

08:20-08:30

Welcome addressed by the hosts

Weigang Fang（Vice President of Peking University Health Science Center）

08:30-09:00

Clinical Trials And Epidemiology with exemplars (TB)

Ibrahim Abubakar（Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Director, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London）

09:00-09:30

Epidemiology of latent tuberculosis infection in China: a large-scale multi-center prospective study

Lei Gao(Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College)

10:15-10:45

Computational Biology with exemplars (Big Data)

Francois Balloux (Professor of Computational Systems Biology, Institute of Genetics, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, UCL)

10:45-11:15

Study of dimorphic transition in Penicillium marneffei using computational approaches

Ence Yang(Professor of Infectious Disease, Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, PKU)

13:00-13:30

Basic Science in Infection and Immunity with exemplars (HIV)
Ariberto Fassati（Professor of Cellular & Molecular Virology, Department of Infection, Faculty of Medical Sciences, UCL）

13:30-14:00

Translational research in infection and immunity: Utilizing Innate Intracellular Immunity to Control HIV-1 Infection

Shan Cen (Professor and Head of Immunology Division,Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences)

14:45-15:15

Translational research in infection and immunity with exemplars(Genomics)
Judith Breuer（Professor of Virology, Co-Director Infection and Immunity, UCL）

15:15-15:45

Basic Science in Infection and Immunity: Serum HBV RNA-its origin and clinical significance

Fengmin Lu (Professor of Infectious Disease and, Director of Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, PKU)

15:45-16:15

Overview of basic molecular virology/drug development

Ariberto Fassati (Professor of Cellular & Molecular Virology, UCL)

16:15-16:45

Virus-Targeting and -Based Drug Discovery and Development

Demin Zhou (Professor of Pharmaceutical Science, School of Pharmaceutical Science, PKU)

16:45-17:30

Discussion