International Symposium on COVID-19
Organized by National Committee of CODATA-Academia Sinica
Date 5-6 October,2020 (UTC+8)
Venue International Conference Hall, 3F, HSSB, Academia Sinica & Online
Fees Free
Notes We accept on-site registration. But the amount of conference manual and badge is limited. Thanks for your consideration for any inconvenience caused.
We believe scientific knowledge is one of the most important tools to fight against COVID-19, while related information and data are the foundation to form the scientific knowledge. This is also the main objective of this symposium: sharing knowledge worldwide to tackle COVID-19.
This event will take place in English. Registration is open to all, free-of-charge. Places are plentiful but limited, so early registration is essential and we strongly encourage you to show up.
Agenda
Day 1 – Monday, October 5 (UTC+8) |
8:30 – 9:00 | Registration at Desk |
9:00 – 9:15 | Opening Remarks - Barend Mons | President, CODATA; Human Genetics Department LUMC
- Der Tsai Lee | Chairperson of NCCODATA/AST; Academician, Academia Sinica
- James C. Liao | President, Academia Sinica
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9:15 – 10:30 | Session 1: Overview -I [Chair] Fu-Tong Liu, Vice President, Academia Sinica [Speakers] - 09:15 Barend Mons | President, CODATA
- 09:40 James C. Liao | President, Academia Sinica
COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities
- 10:05 Chien-Jen Chen | Academician, Academia Sinica
COVID-19 Containment and Economic Stimulus: Taiwan Experiences |
| 10:30-10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40-12:00 | Session 1: Overview -II [Chair] Fu-Tong Liu, Vice President, Academia Sinica [Speakers] - 10:40 Charles Alessi | Chief Clinical Officer, HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society)
COVID - What are the similarities and the differences in the approach adopted by different countries? What’s are the insights that result?
- 11:05 Angela Haczku | Associate Dean for Clinical Research, School of Medicine, UC Davis
COVID-19 at UC Davis: a translational research approach - 11:30 Jann-Tay Wang |Vice Director, Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University
Clinical spectrum and treatment of COVID-19 in Taiwan |
12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch |
13:00 – 14:50 | Session 2: SARS-CoV-2 [Chair] Andrew HJ Wang | Academician, Academia Sinica [Speakers] - 13:00 Shin-Ru Shih | Director/Professor, Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, Chang Gung University
Genetic Variations of SARS-CoV-2: Impacts on Diagnosis, Antiviral and Vaccine Developments - 13:25 Stephen Burley | University Professor and Henry Rutgers Chair; Rutgers, The State Universiry of New Jersey; Director, RCSB Protein Data Bank
Protein Data Bank in the Time of Coronavirus: Evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 proteome in 3D during the COVID-19 pandemic - 13:50 Hui-Ling Yen | Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong
Pathogenesis and Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Golden Hamsters - 14:15 Ching-Yung Lin | CEO, Graphen and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
Live Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 Evolution |
14:50 – 15:00 | Coffee Break |
15:00 – 17:10 | Session 3: Therapy [Chair] Fang-Jen Lee | Distinguished Professor, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University [Speakers] - 15:00 C. Jason Wang | Director, Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University
Policy Considerations for the Development, Manufacturing, Financing, and Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines
- 15:25 Sean R. Stowell | Associate Pathologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Member of the Faculty of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Are we forgetting about IgA? A re-examination of the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 with convalescent plasma
- 15:50 Huey-Kang Sytwu | Vice President, National Health Research Institutes
Overview of the efforts at National Health Research Institutes on development of drugs and vaccines against SARS-CoV-2
- 16:15 Han-Chung Wu | Director, Biomedical Translation Research Center, Academia Sinica
Potent Neutralizing Antibody Cocktail for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19
- 16:40 Hsueh-Fen Juan | Distinguished Professor, Department of Life Science, Graduate Institute of Biomedical and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University
Drug repositioning for COVID-19
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Day 2 – Tuesday, October 6 (UTC+8) |
8:30 – 9:00 | Registration at Desk |
9:00 – 10:15 | Session 4: Impact on Society -I [Chair] Der-Tsai Lee | Academician, Academia Sinica [Speakers] - 09:00 Patrick Yang | Chairman, Acepodia, Inc.; Former Executive Vice President of Technical Operations at Juno, Roche and Genentech
Health is a national security issue (the impact of Covid-19 on biotech supply chain)
- 09:25 Simon Hodson | Executive Director of CODATA
- 09:50 John Burrows | Professor, Institute of Environmental Physics, IUP, University of Bremen, Germany; Vice President of IAMAS
The impact of COVID-19 on some key trace atmospheric constituents observed from space
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| 10:15-10:25 | Coffee Break |
| 10:25-12:00 | Session 4: Impact on Society -II [Chair] Der-Tsai Lee | Academician, Academia Sinica [Speakers] - 10:25 James Schwab | Research Professor, University at Albany, NY, USA/Cheng-Hsuan Lu | Research Associate, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, NY, USA
Selected Impacts in New York State: Air Pollution, Economic Activity, and Politics
- 10:50 Charles C.-K. Chou | Deputy Director & Research Fellow, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica/Ben-Jei Tsuang | Professor, Department Environmental Engineering, National Chung-Hsing University
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Regional Air Quality
Part 1: Decline in the East-Asian continental pollution outbreak (Chou)
Part 2: Observation of air quality response in Taiwan (Tsuang)
- 11:20 Simon Liu | Associate Administrator, Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Impact of COVID-19 on Agriculture and Research Responses
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12:00 – 12:10 | Closing Remarks |
