报告题目: Bats, viruses and longevity: what’s the link?

报告人: 王林发，澳大利亚技术科学与工程院院士，现任新加坡Duke-NUS医天美教授

主持人: 黄静 副教授

报告时间: 10月13日 13:30-14:30 （周四下午）

报告地点: 天美娱乐534报告厅

 

报告人简介👨🏻‍🦱👲🏼：王林发🎡，澳大利亚技术科学与工程院院士，现任新加坡Duke-NUS医天美教授，主要研究领域为新生感染性疾病领域🧔🏿，世界卫生组织专家，在过去的10年内★，在Nature、Science👮🏼‍♂️、PNAS等世界超一流期刊上发表高水平论文10余篇，SCI论文100余篇，是这一领域杰出的科学家，他在SASRS溯源、追溯Hendra和 Nipah病毒与动物及人类的关系、蝙蝠分子免疫学等领域引领全球科学研究方向。

 

报告内容🔫：
    Since 1994 we have witnessed several major emerging viral disease outbreaks in the last two decades, including Hendra, Nipah virus, SARS, MERS, Marburg and Ebola viruses. All of them are bat-borne zoonotic agents. Recent works have established beyond doubt that bats are important reservoirs of many viruses and some of them have the potential to spill over into livestock and human population to cause devastating diseases.
    Bats seem to harbor viruses with higher prevalence and greater genetic diversity.  Both field investigation and laboratory infection studies suggest that viruses are capable of replicating in bats without inducing fever or overt clinical diseases.  Our recent genomics and immunological studies suggest that bats’ ability co-exist with viruses is linked to their adaptation to flight and their long life span relative to other mammals of similar body sizes.