International Symposium on "Molecular Basis of Virus-Host Interactions" October 22 and 23, 2016, Sapporo

October 22
day 1 at ACU (Asty Building 12 F) 20 min + 5 min Q&A

Opening Remarks 9:00-9:10

  • Kyosuke Nagata (The University of Tsukuba)

Session I   9:10-10:25   Innate Immunity to Virus Infections

  • Chairs: Mitsutoshi Yoneyama (Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University)
    Hideo Iba (Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University)
  • "Activation of NLRP3 inflammasome by RNA viruses"
    Takeshi Ichinohe (The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo)
  • "Mitochondrial respiration and MAVS-mediated antiviral innate immunity"
    Takumi Koshiba (Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University)
  • "Sensing viral RNA and activation of antiviral resaponses"
    Takashi Fujita (Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University)

break ( ~15 min)

Session II   10:40-11:55   Virus Entry and Tropism

  • Chairs: Satoshi Koike (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science)
    Yasushi Kawaguchi (The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo)
  • "Host and viral determinants for proteolytic activation of respiratory viruses"
    Makoto Takeda (National Institute of Infectious Diseases)
  • "Host cell molecules involved in filovirus entry into cells"
    Ayato Takada (Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University)
  • "Paramyxovirus entry and receptors"
    Yusuke Yanagi (Kyushu University)

Lunch   12:00-14:00 (lunch and welcome party)

Session III   14:00-15:15   Retrovirus-Host interactions

  • Chairs: Takaji Wakita (National Institute of Infectious Diseases)
    Tetsuro Matano (National Institute of Infectious Diseases)
  • "How HIV-1 Vif regulates viral replication"
    Akifumi Takaori-Kondo (Kyoto University)
  • "Functional evolution of retrovirus restriction enzyme APOBEC3: Genetic polymorphisms and isoforms"
    Masaaki Miyazawa (Kindai University)
  • "Retrovirus evolution and its restriction factors"
    Yoshio Koyanagi (Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University)

break ( ~15 min)

Session IV   15:30-16:45   Structural Basis of virus infections

  • Chairs: Kunio Takeyasu (Kyoto University)
    Toru Natsume (Molecular Profiling Research Center for Drug Discovery, AIST)
  • "Real-time monitoring of APOBEC3G activity by NMR"
    Masato Katahira (Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University)
  • "Hybrid method to reveal conformational change of influenza RNA polymerase"
    Kenji Iwasaki (Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University)
  • "The structural basis for an essential subunit interaction in influenza virus RNA polymerase"
    Sam-Yong Park (Yokohama City University)

October 23
day 2 at Sapporo Convention Center(joint with the 64th Annual Meeting of the JSV) 40 min + 5 min Q&A

Session V   9:00-11:20

  • Chairs: Takashi Fujita (Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University)
    Yoshio Koyanagi (Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University)
  • "Induction and suppression of the interferon response by RNA viruses"
    Friedemann Weber (Institute for Virology, Germany)
  • "Studying the virus-host interactions of ebolaviruses using reverse genetics"
    Thomas Hoenen (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany)
  • "Using endogenous retroviral (ERV) fossils data to explore the co-evolutionary relationships of retroviruses and vertebrates"
    Robert Gifford (University of Glasgow, UK)