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SYMPOSIUM: 100 years since the 1918 Spanish influenza: are we prepared against the next emerging pathogen pandemic?

8:10 – 8:30 Arrival and Registration

8:30 – 8:40 Welcome and Opening Remarks

Pedro Bouchon, Vice-President of Research, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

8:40 – 9:25 Keynote Address: Assessment of Pandemic Potential of Novel Influenza Viruses

Kanta Subbarao, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Australia

9:25 – 10:33 Session I: Epidemiological and “One World” perspective

Moderators: Marcela Ferres and Victor Neira

9:25 – 9:45 Rodrigo Fasce, Institute of Public Health (ISP), Chile

9:45 – 10:05 To be confirmed, Ministry of Health, Chile

10:05 – 10:35 Daniel Pérez, University of Georgia, USA

10:35 – 10:55 Coffee Break

10:55 – 12:25 Session II: Viral evolution and host–viral interactions

Moderators: Jeniffer Angulo and Fernando Torres

10:55 – 11:25 Eddie Holmes, University of Sydney, Australia

11:25 – 11:55 Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

11:55 – 12:25 Sumit Chanda, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, USA

12:25 – 12:40 Lunch boxes provided

12:40 – 14:00 Session III: Molecular biology of emerging and re-emerging pathogens

Moderators: Gloria Arriagada and Fernando Valiente-Echeverria

12:40 – 13:05 Nicole Tischler, Fundacion Ciencia y Vida, Chile

13:05 – 13:30 Andrew Mouland, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada

13:30 – 14:00 Nevan Krogan, University of California, San Francisco, USA

14:00 – 15:20 Session IV: Immunology and virulence of emerging and re-emerging pathogens

Moderators: Susan Bueno and Pablo Gonzalez

14:00 – 14:30 Ana Fernandez Sesma, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

14:30 – 14:55 Angela Pearson, INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Université INRS, Canadá

14:55 – 15:20 Lee-Ann Allen, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa.

15:20 – 15:50 Coffee

15:50 – 17:10 Session V: Innate Immunity and treatment against emerging pathogens

Moderators: Nicole Le Corre and Ricardo Soto-Rifo

15:50 – 16:15 Marcelo Lopez-Lastra, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

16:15 – 16:40 Maria Ines Barria, Pontificia Universidad de Concepcion, Chile

16:40 – 17:10 Alexis Kalergis, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

17:10 – 17:55 Closing Keynote address: Universal Vaccine approaches for influenza Virus

Peter Palese, Microbiology Department, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

17:55 – 18:00 Closing Remarks:

Susan Bueno and Rafael A. Medina, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile