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EU – South East Asia Expert Meeting on Vector Borne Diseases: Identifying opportunities for Collaboration

Scientific experts meeting focusing on scientific matchmaking and identifying opportunities for collaboration and to form consortia to bid into upcoming FP7 calls

(parallel event to the Singapore workshop on 27 and 28 July)

We are pleased to announce the EU – South East Asia Expert Meeting on Vector Borne Diseases will be held in Manila on 29 and 30 July 2009. The primary objective of the workshop is to bring together scientific experts to identify opportunities for collaboration and form consortia to bid into the upcoming EU FP7 calls on vector borne diseases.
The workshop will take an integrated approach to research and will focus on a spectrum of vector borne diseases, including Dengue, Malaria, Chikungunya and Encephalitis, as well as other relevant newly emerging infections. It will develop a co-ordinated and joint approach between researchers specialising in different disciplines including virology, parasitology, transmission, epidemiology, diagnostic approaches and/or treatment and prevention strategies, including public health-relevant questions, as well as infections’ natural cycles, including basic biology of vectors and diseases reservoirs and how to control them. This will ultimately contribute to a comprehensive approach to counter the threats from these infections.
Speakers from the EU and ASEAN nations are invited to give their respective regional inputs and update researchers on the latest activities within the two regions. The participants will then break out into focus groups to discuss the opportunities for collaboration and form concrete proposals to bid into the upcoming FP7 calls.
The knowledge generated from collaborations between researchers in the EU and ASEAN is expected to help predict the emergence and spread of new vector borne diseases and assess the efficacy of different interventions and develop new interventions to interrupt or limit the spread of these diseases with the goal of protecting against these threats.
The workshop is sponsored by SEA-EU-NET and the British High Commission in Singapore, and supported by the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Agency for Science and Technology (Singapore).

Confirmed Speakers
Virgilio do Rosario, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Duane Gubler, DUKE-NUS, Singapore
Anne Buschmann, Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Germany
Sustriayu Nalim, Vector Control Research Unit, Salatiga, Indonesia
Lisa Jameson, Health Protection Agency, United Kingdom
Sazaly AbuBakar, Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Center, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Steve Lindsay, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, United Kingdom
Lee-Ching Ng, Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore
Sylvie Manguin, University of Montpellier, France
Katja Fink, Singapore Immunology Network, Singapore
Roberto Bruzzone, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre, Hong Kong
Mary Ng Mah-Lee, Department of Microbiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Renaud Lancelot, Emerging Diseases in a changing European eNvironment (EDEN), EU Project, Cirard, France

To register, please visit the following URL: http://www.sign.a-star.edu.sg. Registration closes on Monday, 6 July 2009

Attendance to the symposium is free of charge but all participants are requested to register to ensure adequate provision of facilities during the symposium. Do note the symposium date in your diaries.

For more information, please visit the SIgN website, http://www.sign.a-star.edu.sg

Organising Committee

For more information, please email to the any of the organising committee members.
Please send us your area of research focus and abstract.

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