来源：生命科学学院

[学术报告] 12月15日 EMERGENCY OF BAT-BORNE ZOONOTIC VIRUSES �C WHY NOW AND WHY BATS?

来源：生命科学学院发布时间：2009-12-02浏览次数：444

主讲人简介：Dr Linfa (Lin-Fa) Wang is currently a CEO Science Leader and Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), and a project leader in the Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre (AB-CRC) for Emerging Infectious Diseases. Dr Wang is an internationally well known leader in emerging zoonotic viruses. He is a member of the WHO SARS Scientific Research Advisory Committee, and played a key role in identification of bats as the natural host of SARS-like viruses. Dr Wang completed his science degree in 1982 at the East China Normal University, Shanghai, followed by a PhD in Biochemistry (Molecular Biology) from the University of California, Davis, USA in 1986, where he went on to become a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Biochemistry. Dr Wang has close to 200 scientific publications, including papers in Science, Nature Review of Microbiology, PNAS, etc. He is currently serving on five editorial boards for publications in the areas of virology, biotechnology and immunotechnology.

时间：2009.12.15下午13：30――14：30

地点：理科大楼A504室

内容简介：Bats, probably the most abundant, diverse and geographically dispersed vertebrates on earth, have recently been shown to be the reservoir hosts of a number of emerging viruses responsible for severe human and livestock disease outbreaks. A brief overview will be presented to cover the discovery of Hendra virus, Nipah virus, SARS-like coronaviruses, filoviruses and orthoreoviruses from bats in the last 15 years. Although it is difficult to understand exactly why so many lethal viruses of bat origin have emerged in recent history, preliminary results and discussion will be presented which indicate that habitat change of certainly bat species plays an important role for virus spill-over from bats to other animals/humans. The observation that bats are capable of carrying a large number of genetically diverse viruses without showing clinical signs will be discussed in the context that bats may have evolved separately from other mammals in their unique ability to co-exist with viruses.