The Scientific Committee has reviewed all the abstracts. The authors listed below have been selected for a short talk during the sessions.

Session The Virus
Timothy Hanley, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
Nuclear receptor signalling represses HIV-1 infection of and transmission by dendritic cells            

Session Restrictions Systems
Julia Friedman, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Epigenetic shutdown of HIV transcription drives entry of HIV into latency and controls viral reactivation   

Session SIVs
Rita Tendeiro, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa, Portugal
T-cell activation in HIV-2 infected individuals: effects of viremia and ART    

Session Immunopathogenesis
Anna Haas, Institute of Microbiology, Zurich, Switzerland
HIV-1 rebound affects CD4 T cell responses with specificities for persistent viral antigens

Petronela Ancuta, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CCR6 identifies two memory CD4+ T cell subsets highly permissive to HIV infection

Session Host Genetics
Nadine Gehre, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Identification of host factors critical for the host’s defence against HIV

Session Vaccines
Anders Fomsgaard, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dendritic cell vaccination with 7 novel subdominant HIV-1 CTL epitopes induces de novo T-cell responses

Marie-Claire Gauduin, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, USA
Mucosal immune responses induced by DNA/MVA and live attenuated SIV vaccine

Other abstracts have been selected for a posters exhibition in the hall of the auditorium during the conference. 2 posters sessions are organized:

Posters session 1 - May 19, 2008
Posters session 2 - May 20, 2008
Download here the list of the selected posters and their position

The posters size should not exceed 1 meter high by 0.70 meter wide (portrait) and have to be presented in English language. If the size is not respected, your poster will not be exhibited. Thank you for bringing tapes or magnets to hold it on the metal poster board (not provided on site).