GDEST China-US Workshop Presentations

Together with our international partner, the Chinese Minister of Science and Technology (MOST), the National Academies brought 20 twenty experts each to the conference in Beijing, China. The following items represent the variety and depth of the knowledge represented at this event.
 

Presentations by Date
Date
Day 1: Wednesday, March 29, 2006
			Opening Ceremony United States Keynote Lecture: Genomics and Infectius Disease by Paul Ahlquist University of Wisconsin – Madison China Keynote Lecture: Media- and Long-term Developmental Strategy and Program of Science and Technology on Population and Health by Professor Liu Depei President of CAMS and Vice President of CAE Panel 1: Surveillance and Detection Practical Tools to Combat Infectious Diseases in the Developing World: A Model of Technology Transfer That Works by Maria Elena Peñaranda Sustainable Sciences Institute Microarray-based Methods for Detecting and Tracing Bacterial Pathogens by Yang Ruifu Beijing Institute for Microbiology and Epidemiology Using a Microarray to Detect Viral Pathogens Associated with Human Disease by Charles Chiu University of California at San Francisco Laboratory-based Subtype Surveillance of Infectious Diseases by Biao Kan Institute of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese CDC Panel 2: Predicting Pathogenesis and Adaptation to Humans New insights into the interactions between hepatitis viruses with IFN using cDNA Microarray: implications in identifying new tools for combating infectious diseases by Yuan Zhenghong Medical College of Fu-Dan University Genome Sequence Analysis as a Tool for Understanding and Controlling Infectious Diseases by Eric Eisenstadt The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) Genomics: A New Tool for Combating Infectious Disease by Yang Huanming Institute of Genomics, CAS Environmental Influences on Emerging Pathogens, Development of a High-density Microarray to Measure Microbial Community Dynamics by Gary Anderson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Panel 3: Diagnostics – US and China Perspectives Surveying Gene Expression in Whole Blood: Host Response and Classification of Infection Stephen Popper Stanford University School of Medicine The diagnostic reagent development in National Institute of Diagnostics and Vaccine Development (NIDVD) in infectious diseases Ng Wenhan Xiamen University The Impact of Genomics on the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases Patrick R Murray National Institutes of Health Recent Outbreaks of Avian Influenza in Migratory Birds and Streptococcus Infection in China Gao Fu Institute of Microbiology, CAS
Day 2: Thursday, March 30, 2006
			Panel 4: Vaccine Development Vaccines against Viral Diseases in China by Li Dexin Chinese CDC Development of Sendai Virus-Based Vaccines to Prevent Pediatric Respiratory Infectious Diseases by Xiaoyan Zhan St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Studies on HIV Preventive Vaccines in China by Wang Youchun National Institute for the Control of Pharmaceutical and Bio Products Influenza Pandemics: Their Origin and Control by Arnold Monto University of Michigan Panel 5: Drug Discovery 454 Life Sciences Next Generation Sequencing Technology: Applications to Infectious Disease Research by Bruce Taillon 454 Life Sciences Current Situation of Medicine Used for Infectious Disease in China by Wang Junzhi National Institute for the Control of Pharmaceutical and Bio Products Functional Genomics of Virus - Host Interactions by Paul Ahlquist University of Wisconsin – Madison Discovering anti-SARS Compounds from the Existing Drugs by Jiang Hualiang Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, CAS Panel 6: Case Studies – Prevention and Treatment HBeAg Negative Hepatitis B, Mutation Genotype, Genotyping Relationship, and Outcome by Wei Lai Health Science Center, Peking University Genetic Architecture of Complex Infectious Diseases: Lessons from AIDS by Steve O'Brien National Cancer Institute Clinical Outcomes and Immune Reconstitution in Advanced Chinese AIDS Patients by Li Taisheng Peking Union Hospital Avian Influenza: Preparing for and Responding to a Potential Human Pandemic by Lance Gable Center for Law and the Public’s Health, Georgetown University
Day 3: Friday, March 31, 2006
			Closing Ceremony Workshop Joint Initiative by Gao Fu, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Science and Ann Reid, U.S. National Academy of Sciences Student Dialogue: Looking Toward the Future of Genomics Regulation of lymphocyte development by TLR-mediated signals and its implication for infection-induced lymphopenia by Zhang Yu Peking University Identification of a ZU5 and death domain-containing inhibitor of NF-KB by Zhang Jun Peking University