International organizing committee:

Philippe Gasque, University of La Reunion, Ile de la Reunion

Roberto Bruzzone, HKU-Pasteur Research Center, Hong Kong SAR

Krister Kristensson, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Diane Griffin, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA

Charles R. Newton, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya & University College London, UK

John K. Fazakerley, Roslin Inst, Univ of Edinburgh, UK

Scientific Committee:

Marina Bentivoglio, University of Verona, Italy

Michel Brahic, Stanford University, USA

Monique Dubois-Dalcq, NIH/NINDS, Bethesda, USA

Brian S. Eley, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Hector H. Garcia, Instituto de Ciencias Neurologicas, Lima, Peru

Georges E. Grau, University of Sidney, Australia

Jean Jannin, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland

Mary Jane Cardosa, University Malaysia Sarawak , Malaysia

Giampietro Schiavo, CRUK, London, UK

Dirk Schlueter, University of Magdeburg, Germany