19th International Symposium on
Epstein-Barr Virus and associated diseases

President

Yasuaki Harabuchi

(Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Asahikawa Medical University, Japan)

Vice President

Lorenzo Leoncini

(Department of Medical Biotechnology, Section of Pathology, University of Siena, Italy)

International Scientific Advisory Committee

Ayako Arai

(Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University, Japan)

Uta Behrends

(Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Technischen Universität München, Germany)

Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh

(Division of Infectious Diseases, Depts. of Pediatrics and Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida)

Mei-Ru Chen

(Department of Microbiology, Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Alan Chiang

(Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Hong Kong, China)

Jeffrey Cohen

(National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA)

Henri-Jacques Delecluse

(German Centre for Infection Research, German Cancer Research Center, Germany)

Paul Farrell

(Section of Virology, Imperial College, London, UK)

Erik Flemington

(Department of Pathology, Tulane University School of Medicine, USA)

Lori Frappier

(Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Canada)

Shigeyoshi Fujiwara

(Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan)

Masashi Fukayama

(Digital Pathology Center, Asahi General Hospital, Digital Pathology Center, Japan)

Ben Gewurz

(Harvard Virology Program, Harvard Medical School, USA)

Wolfgang Hammerschmidt

(Division of Pathogenesis of Virus Associated Tumors, Helmholtz Center, Germany)

Keiji Iwatsuki

(Department of Dermatology, Okayama University, Japan)

Wei-Hua Jia

(State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

Eric Johannsen

(Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Oncology/McArdle Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Teru Kanda

(Department of Microbiology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan)

Harutaka Katano

(Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan)

Shannon Kenney

(Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin, USA)

Rajiv Khanna

(Tumour Immunology Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia)

Hiroshi Kimura

(Department of Virology, Nagoya University, Japan)

Suk Kyeong Lee

(Department of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea)

Paul Lieberman

(Gene Expression & Regulation Program, The Wistar Institute, USA)

Kwok-Wai Lo

(Department of Anatomical & Cellular Pathology Chinese, University of Hong Kong, China)

Richard Longnecker

(Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Northwestern University, USA)

Claire Shannon-Lowe

(Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, UK)

Micah Luftig

(Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke Medical School, USA)

Maria Masucci

(Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden)

Christian Munz

(Viral Immunobiology, Institute of Experimental Immunology, University of Zunich, Switzerland)

Takayuki Murata

(Department of Virology and Parasitology, Fujita Health University, Japan)

Asuka Nanbo

(National Research Center for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University, Japan)

Erle Robertson

(Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and the Tumor Virology Program, University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Rosemary Rochford

(Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado, USA)

Cliona Rooney

(Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, USA)

Sankar Swaminathan

(Department of Medicine, University of Utah, USA)

Ching-Hwa Tsai

(Institute of Microbiology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

George Tsao

(School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Hong Kong, China)

Michelle J West

(School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK)

Rob White

(Section of Virology, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College London, UK)

Emmanuel Wiertz

(Department of Medical Microbiology, Utrecht Medical Center, Netherlands)

Teruhito Yasui

(Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Immunity National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Japan)

Hironori Yoshiyama

(Department of Microbiology, Shimane University, Japan)

Tomokazu Yoshizaki

(Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kanazawa University, Japan)

Mu-sheng Zeng

(State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

Local Organising Committee

Senior Advisor

Takeshi Sairenji

(Division of Biosignaling, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Tottori University, Japan)

Kenzo Takada

(Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan)

Chair

Ayako Arai

(Department of Hematology and Oncology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Japan)

Masanori Daibata

(Department of Microbiology and Infection, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Japan)

Masahiro Fujimuro

(Department of Cell Biology, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Japan)

Shigeyoshi Fujiwara

(Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan)

Masashi Fukayama

(Digital Pathology Center, Asahi General Hospital, Japan)

Ken-ichi Imadome

(Division of Advanced Medicine for Virus Infections, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan)

Keiji Iwatsuki

(Department of Dermatology, Okayama University, Japan)

Atsushi Kaneda

(Department of Molecular Oncology Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan)

Teru Kanda

(Division of Microbiology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan)

Hiroyuki Kanno

(Department of Pathology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Japan)

Harutaka Katano

(Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan)

Hiroshi Kimura

(Department of Virology, Nagoya University, Japan)

Hiroya Kobayashi

(Department of Pathology, Asahikawa Medical University, Japan)

Eiichi N. Kodama

(Division of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Miyagi Community Health Promotion, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Japan)

Takumi Kumai

(Department of Innovative Head & Neck Cancer Research and Treatment (IHNCRT), Asahikawa Medical University, Japan)

Takayuki Murata

(Department of Virology and Parasitology, Fujita Health University, Japan)

Shigeyuki Murono

(Department of Otolaryngology, Fukushima Medical University, Japan)

Shigeo Nakamura

(Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratories, Nagoya University Hospital, Japan)

Asuka Nanbo

(National Research Center for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University, Japan)

Jun Nishikawa

(Department of Laboratory Science, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)

Koichi Ohshima

(Department of Pathology, School of Medicine Kurume University, Japan)

Norio Shimizu

(Department of Virology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)

Junji Suzumiya

(Department of Oncology/Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, Shimane University, Japan)

Miki Takahara

(Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Asahikawa Medical University, Japan)

Keiji Ueda

(Division of Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)

Motoko Yamaguchi

(Department of Hematology and Oncology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)

Hideo Yanai

(Department of Clinical Research, Kanmon Medical Center, Japan)

Teruhito Yasui

(Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Japan)

Hironori Yoshiyama

(Department of Microbiology, Shimane University, Japan)

Tomokazu Yoshizaki

(Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kanazawa University, Japan)