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Dr. Kuan-Teh Jeang
National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Meeting Co-Organizer |
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Dr. Douglas Lowy
National Cancer Institute, NIH
Meeting Co- Organizer |
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The American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will
be holding its first ever meeting in China. The meeting, “Recent
advances in pathogenic human viruses,” will be held July 24 to 26
in Guangzhou. It will be sharing the Baiyun Convention Center
with a simultaneous larger molecular and cellular biology
meeting: The Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America
Thirteenth International Symposium.
The meeting will cover the molecular biology, pathogenesis and
antiviral host defenses of a range of human viruses, including
influenza virus, human immunodeficiency virus, herpesviruses,
human papillomavirus, and hepatitis B and C viruses. We are
excited to welcome a diverse group of speakers and attendees
from North America, Australia and Asia. If you are interested in
virology, antiviral immunity or host defenses, this is a small,
focused meeting that you will not want to miss.
The meeting's keynote speaker will be Michael M. C. Lai, who currently is a distinguished investigator at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. For many years, Lai was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Southern California, as well as a long-standing editor of Virology. Lai will present his latest exciting findings on the molecular pathogenesis of hepatitis C virus. Several other outstanding plenary speakers also have committed to attend this meeting, including:
Ben Berkhout, Netherlands
Pei-jer Chen, National Taiwan University
Diane Griffin, Johns Hopkins University
Diane Hayward, Johns Hopkins University
Li-min Huang, National Taiwan University
Kuan- Teh Jeang, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Dong-yan Jin, University of Hong Kong
Elliott Kieff, Harvard University
Doug Lowy, National Cancer Institute
Malcolm Martin, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Masao Matsuoka, Kyoto University, Japan
Bernie Moss, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Charles Samuel, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bryan Williams, Monash University, Australia