08:30-09:00

Registration

09:00-09:15

Introductory Remarks

09:15-10:30

Session I The “Safety-Security-Regulation-Progress” Conundrum

1.American Speaker

David Franz

Finding the Balance Among Safety, Security, Regulation, and Progress: The U.S. Experience

2.Chinese Speaker

Qiang Wei

Progress of Laboratory Biosafety Management in China

All Participants

Panel Discussion

10:30-11:00

Tea break, group photo

11:00-12:30

Session II Influenza

1.Chinese Speaker

Yuelong Shu

Genetic tuning of avian influenza A (H7N9) virus promotes viral fitness within different species

2.Chinese Speaker

Jinhua Liu

Comparative risk analysis of the novel 2.3.4.4 clade highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza viruses in mammals

3.Chinese Speaker

Yi Shi

“Host jump” of avian flu

4.American Speaker

Peter Palese

Influenza: Paths to a Better Vaccine?

All Participants

Panel Discussion

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:00

Session III Ebola

1.American Speaker

Thomas Ksiazek

Ebola: Sustainable Austere Environment Laboratories

2.Chinese Speaker

Wuchun Cao

Emerging Tick-borne Infections in China: An Increasing Public Health Threat

3.Chinese Speaker

Di Liu

Ebola in Sierra Leone, genetic diversity and evolutionary dynamics Discussion

4.Chinese Speaker

Yigang Tong

Genetic diversity and evolutionary dynamics of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone

All Participants

Panel Discussion

15:00-16:30

Tea Break

15:30-17:00

Session IV Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

1.American Speaker

Ralph Baric

MERS: Genetic Systems and Models

2.Chinese Speaker

Zhengli Shi

Bat coronaviruses associated with human diseases

3.Chinese Speaker

Wenjie Tan

MERS-CoV vaccine development：Test in China CDC

4.Chinese Speaker

Deyin Guo

Development of broad-spectrum inhibitors by targeting coronavirus methyltransferases

All Participants

Panel Discussion

17:00-17:30

Review of whole day and plan for next day

17:30-19:30

Dinner

09:00-10:00

Session V Gain of Function Research

1.Chinese Speaker

Wenjun Liu

Phosphorylation regulates the replication of

influenza A virus

2.American Speaker

David Franz

NAS Gain-of-Function Meeting Report (The scientists' view

All Participants

Panel Discussion

10:00-10:30

Tea Break

10:30-12:00

Session VI High-Containment Labs…Safe, Secure, Productive, and Sustainable

1.Chinese Speaker

Zhiming Yuan

Biosafety management of high-level biosafety laboratory for emerging disease control

2.Chinese Speaker

Mifang Liang

laboratory risk assessment for responsing to emerging infectious disease

3.American Speaker

Thomas Ksiazek

High Containment Laboratories: Putting the pieces of laboratory safety and global health security together

All Participants

Panel Discussion

12:00-13:30

Lunch

12:00-15:00

Session VII Roundtable discussion and Areas for Enhanced Cooperation

1.American Speaker

Diane Griffin

Possible roles for CAS and NAS in Enhancing Cooperation on these topics

2.Chinese Speaker

George F Gao

Global health & China’s role

All Participants

Panel Discussion

15:00-15:30

Closing Remarks

Deyin Guo

Wuhan University

Di Liu

Institute of Microbiology,CAS

George Fu Gao

IM,CAS/BIOLS,CAS/China CDC

Juan Pu

China Agricultural University

Mifang Liang

Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Qiang Wei

Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Wenjie Tan

Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Wenjun Liu

Institute of Microbiology,CAS

Wuchun Cao

Academy of Military Medical Sciences

Yi Shi

Beijing Institues of Life Science,CAS

Yigang Tong

Academy of Military Medical Sciences

Yuelong Shu

Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Zhengli Shi

Wuhan Institute of Virology,CAS

Zhiming Yuan

Wuhan Branch, CAS/
Wuhan Institute of Virology,CAS

Ralph Baric

University of North Carolina

Diane Griffin

The Johns Hopkins University

David Franz

Former Commander, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases

Thomas Ksiazek

University of Texas Medical Branch

Peter Palese

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Benjamin Rusek

The National Academy of Sciences