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December 2006 >> Scientific Congress - 11th Research Postgraduate Symposium, Session III "Infection, Immunology and Cell Biology", Thursday, December 7, 2006, 14:20 am - 14:30 pm, Seminar Room 7, LG1/F., Laboratory Block, HKU Faculty of Medicine Building - Mr Jean Millet presents his work on "Characterization of Cellular Regulators of Viral Infections: Role of ERM Proteins".


September 2006 >> Scientific Congress - Imaging Membrane Dynamics, September 14-17, 2006, London, England - Béatrice Nal attends this meeting. - 16th European Congress of Immunology, September 6-9, 2006, Paris, France - Dr Martial Jaume presents his work on FcgRII-mediated SARS-CoV entry in human B cell lines (poster, PA-3017). Dr Béatrice Nal attends this congress. - Pasteur/NHRI/CDC Symposium on Re-emerging virus infection, September 1-3, 2006, Tainan, Taiwan - Dr Béatrice Nal and Dr Jean-Michel Garcia attend this symposium.

August 2006 >> New Publication - Submitted Paper Accepted - The manuscript entitled "Antibodies against trimeric S glycoprotein protect hamsters against SARS-CoV challenge despite their capacity to mediate FcgRII-dependent entry into B cells in vitro" by Y. W. Kam et al. is accepted by "Vaccine" journal. >> Grant & Award - RFCID's Grant - The Research Fund for Control of Infectious Diseases from the Hong Kong Health, Welfare and Food Bureau has granted our project entitled "SARS CoV subunit vaccine: Mechanisms of antibody-mediated neutralisation and investigation of potential antibody-mediated enhancement (ADE)".