The Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference, Preparing for the Next Pandemic: Evolution, Pathogenesis and the Virology of Coronaviruses, was held at Awaji Yumebutai from 2-5 December 2024.

https://www.csh-asia.org/?content/2439

We gave two poster presentations.

Adaptation of HCoV-229E to cultured cells and changes in ORF4

Makoto Takeda, Yuki Kitai, Shohei Kojima, Kazuya Shirato, Miyuki Kawase, Hideko Watabe, Sota Takahashi, Yukiko Akahori, Hiroshi Katoh, Hidekazu Nishimura

Presenter affiliation: The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan.

Omicron BA.5 and XBB.1.5 reduced TMPRSS2 dependency in murine upper airway

Naoko Iwata-Yoshikawa, Nozomi Shiwa-Sudo, Yusuke Sakai, Tadaki Suzuki, Makoto Takeda, Noriyo Nagata

Presenter affiliation: National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.