Program Schedule

Time

Event

Chair

09:15 – 09:45

Registration

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09:45 – 10:00

Welcome & Opening

I-Ming Hsing
(HKUST)

10:00 – 12:00

How to Hit HIV Where It Hurts

Arup K. Chakraborty
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology & HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)

12:00 – 14:30

Lunch Break

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14:30 – 16:30

Vaccine Innovation on HIV/AIDS

Zhiwei Chen
(The University of Hong Kong)

Time

Event

Chair

10:00 – 11:00

From HIV Sequence Data to Fitness Landscapes: Experimental Tests and Applications to Viral Evolution

John P. Barton
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:00 – 12:00

Modeling the Fitness Landscape of Influenza Virus

Muhammad Saqib Sohail (HKUST)

12:00 – 14:30

Lunch Break

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14:30 – 15:30

Recent Progress on the Computational Prediction of MHC II Binding Peptides

Shanfeng Zhu
(Fudan University)

15:30 – 16:30

Prediction of Influenza A Antigenic Evolution Using Cluster Analysis of Historical Hemagglutinin Sequence

Wenjun Shen
(HKUST)

Time

Event

Chair

10:00 – 11:00

Universal Influenza A Vaccine Strategies for Heterosubtypic Protection

Leo L. M. Poon
(The University of Hong Kong)

11:00 – 12:00

Using Methods Based on Random Matrix Theory to Infer Immunological Information Important for Vaccine Design

Ahmed Abdul Quadeer
(HKUST)

12:00 – 14:30

Lunch Break

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14:30 – 15:30

Exploring Innate Immunity for New Immunomodulating Anticancer Therapy

Jue Shi
(Hong Kong Baptist University)

15:30 – 16:30

Speculations About Important Unsolved Problems

Arup K. Chakraborty
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology & HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)

Time

Event

Chair

10:00 – 11:00

Critical Points and Hierarchical Decomposition of Complex Networks

Yuan Yao
(Peking University)

11:00 – 12:00

Dynamics of RNA Loading and Elongation Cycle of NS5B

Fatima Pardo
(HKUST)