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Session III
Infection & Immunology
Seminar Room 7, LG1, Laboratory Block

Chairpersons:
Dr Hume Field, Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries Queensland, Australia
Professor PCY Woo, Department of Microbiology

Time

Session No.

Presentations

1250-1300

3.01

Tropism of Influenza A Virus in Human Respiratory Epithelium and Its Relation with Sialic Acid Receptors

CHAN Wan Yi, PhD Candidate
Department of Microbiology

1300-1310

3.02

The Association between the -88 and -123 SNPs of the Myxovirus Resistance A (MxA) Gene and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

CHING Chi Yun Johannes, PhD Candidate
Department of Pathology

1310-1320

3.03

Natural Killer Cells Display Tolerogenic and Immunogenic Properties after Interaction with Apoptotic Cells and Immunoglobulin G Opsonized Apoptotic Cells

CHONG Wai Po, PhD Candidate
Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

1320-1330

3.04

Antiviral Agents Targeting the Influenza RNA Polymerase Complex

JAYAWARDENA Shanthi, PhD Candidate
Department of Microbiology

1330-1340

3.05

Influenza in Households during Pandemics and Afterwards

KWOK Kin On, PhD Candidate
Department of Community Medicine

1340-1350

3.06

Influenza Polymerase Subunits Compatibility between Human H1 and H5 Viruses

LI Tin Wai Olive, PhD Candidate
Department of Microbiology

1350-1400

3.07

Rapamycin Prevents the Development of Murine Adriamycin Nephropathy

LUI Sing Leung, PhD Candidate
Department of Medicine

1400-1410

3.08

Long Term Expression of Small Interfering RNA Targeting M2 Gene Induces Effective Inhibition of Influenza A Virus Replication

SUI Hongyan, PhD Candidate
Department of Microbiology

1410-1420

3.09

Characterization of Two Novel LPS-binding Sites in Leukocyte Integrin βA Domain

WONG Kwong Fai, PhD Candidate
Department of Surgery

1420-1430

3.10

Antigenic Profiling of Avian H5N1 Virus with a Panel of H5 Monoclonal Antibodies

WU Wai Lan, PhD Candidate
Department of Microbiology

1430-1440

3.11

Development of Latent and Lytic Epstein-barr Virus (EBV)-specific CD8+ Cytotoxic Lymphocyte Responses in Primary EBV Infection

XU Xue Qun, PhD Candidate
Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

1440-1450

3.12

Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology of Human Bocavirus in Respiratory and Fecal Samples from Children in Hong Kong

YIP Chik Yan, PhD Candidate
Department of Microbiology

1450-1500

3.13

Ex Vivo Culture of Human Foreskin Tissue for Evaluation of Candidate Microbicides

ZHANG Hao Jie, PhD Candidate
Department of Microbiology