Background Introduction

The joint Ph.D. degree (JPD) program between Shanghai Jiaotong Unversity School of Medicine and Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine was officially launched in 2018, which has greatly promoted the internationalization of training programs for graduate students and facilitated the collaborations between two institutions. After three years’ advancement, certain achievements have been realized, including the recruitment of more international students into the programs as well as deep cooperations and faculty exchanges between two institutions. During COVID-19 pandemic, scientists from two universities have actively engaged in the investigations on pathogenic mechanism and the explorations of preventive strategies for disease control. This symposium will focus on the topics of “infection and immunity” and go through the recent progresses made by the two institutions. Eight principle investigators and 6 graduate students from two universities will share their latest researches, which will in turn strengthen future collaboration between SJTU-SM and HUJI-MED.

Chairman

Prof. Bing Su Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine	Prof.Joel Yisraeli Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Invited Speakers

Feng Wang 【SJTU-SM】 Principal Investigator Dynamics of TCR repertoire and T cell function in COVID-19 convalescent individuals		Rotem Karni 【HUJI-Med】 Principal Investigator Targeting SARS-Cov-2 mRNAs by ASOs
Leng-Siew Yeap 【SJTU-SM】 Principal Investigator Animal models for selecting anti-viral broadly neutralizing antibodies		Amos Panet 【HUJI-Med】 Principal Investigator SARS-COV-2 infection of human nasal
Yingjie Xu 【SJTU-SM】 Principal Investigator Development of COVID-19 mRNA		Ofer Mandelboim 【HUJI-Med】 Principal Investigator combating SARS-CoV-2
Ying Wang 【SJTU-SM】 Principal Investigator Beyond herd Immunity, what else can we rely on for the the protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection		Itamar Willner 【HUJI-Med】 Principal Investigator Enhanced Permeation of DNA-Tetrahedra-Functionalized Nano-/Micro-Carriers into Cells".

Students Presentation


Mingdong Liu   

2019 JPD program

Ofer Mandelboim/ Fubin Li's Lab

Modulate NK cell function by a  special anti-killing antibody

Weijie Wong

2018 JPD program

Florent Ginhoux/Simon Yona's Lab

Modelling a rare neurodgenerative disease using donor-derived organoids

Shupeng Dong

Qiming Liang's Lab

The molecular mechanism by which ZIKV Capsid protein inhibits host RNAi system in neural stem cells

Roni Ben Ami

Yuval Dor's Lab- HUJI-Med 

Circulating DNA in COVID-19 

Lingxi Guo

Min Zhou's Lab

Clinical Features Predicting Mortality Risk in Patients With Viral Pneumonia: The MuLBSTA Score

Sujata Kumari

Alexander Rouvinski's Lab

Pseudoviruses Based Neutralization Assays Benefits and Limitations.

Zuoqiang Wang

Gene essentiality profiling reveals a novel virulence modulator required for intracellular survival of Salmonella.