24th, 2026
Plenary Talk 1
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Florian Krammer, Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA / Ignaz Semmelweis Institute, Interuniversity Institute for Infection Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria / Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Science Outreach and Pandemic Preparedness at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Symposium 1
Virology
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Sébastien Nisole, INRS - Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Canada
Tomokazu Tamura, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan / Institute for Vaccine Research and Development (HU-IVReD), Hokkaido University, Japan
Tadaki Suzuki, Department of Infectious Disease Pathology, NIID, JIHS, Japan / Department of Infectious Disease Pathobiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan
Michihito Sasaki, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Japan / Institute for Vaccine Research and Development, Hokkaido University, Japan
Makoto Yamagishi, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Symposium 2
Parasitology
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Arnab Pain, BioMed Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Tadakimi Tomita, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Makoto Matsubayashi, Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan
Masahito Asada, National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Japan
Ryo Nakao, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan
Poster Oral
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Ryo Komorizono, Department of Microbiology and Infection, The UTOPIA Center, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Keita Matsuno, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Japan / Institute for Vaccine Research and Development, HU-IVReD, Hokkaido University, Japan / One Health Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan
Kaoru Usui, Division of Systems Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Shiou-Ling Sally Lu, Graduate School of Dentistry, The University of Osaka, Japan
Yuta Tachibana, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, The University of Osaka, Japan / WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, The University of Osaka, Japan
Steven Matthew Heaton, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan
Tsutomu Tanaka, Dept. of Immunol., Faculty of Med. and Grad. Sch. of Med., Hokkaido Univ., Japan / The Institute for Vaccine Research and Development (IVReD), Hokkaido University, Japan
Plenary Talk 2
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Takaaki Akaike,Department of Redox Molecular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Symposium 3
Immunology
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Masaru Kanekiyo, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, USA
Katherine Kedzierska, University of Melbourne and Doherty Institute, Australia
Hisashi Arase, epartment of Immunochemistry, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, The University of Osaka, Japan / Laboratory of Immunochemistry, Immunology Frontier Research Center, The University of Osaka, Japan
Takashi Ebihara, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Hirotake Tsukamoto, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology, Kyoto University, Japan
Symposium 4
Bacteriology
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Stephen Gordon, University College Dublin, Ireland / Hokkaido University, Japan
Satoshi Ichikawa, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan
Elizabeth L Hartland, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Wonsik Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Tomoe Kitao, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Japan
Plenary Talk 3
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Yoshihiro Kawaoka, UTOPIA, Japan
Symposium 5
Next-Generation Vaccine Development
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Yasuo Yoshioka, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, The University of Osaka, Japan / Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, The University of Osaka, Japan / Center for Advanced Modalities and DDS, The University of Osaka, Japan / Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Osaka, Japan / The Research Foundation for Microbial Diseases of Osaka University, Japan
Rika Nakahashi, Chiba University Hospital, Human Mucosal Vaccinology, Japan
Peter D. Kwong, ADARC, Columbia University, USA