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  Scientific Programme
  Last updated: April 24, 2008
  * Selected talks
  MONDAY MAY 19, 2008
  8.00-9.15 Registration  
  Opening – Chair: Simon Wain-Hobson 9.20-9.45 am
  9.20 Alice Dautry, President, Institut Pasteur, France  
  9.25 Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, French Minister of Health  
 

9.25

Jean-François Delfraissy, Director, ANRS, Paris, France  
   
  Early Days
9.45-10.55 am
  9.45

Luc Montagnier, UNESCO, Paris, France
HIV-AIDS: past and future

 
10.20 Robert C. Gallo, Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, USA
Some perspectives on HIV/AIDS research from the past and on HIV vaccine development for the future
   
  10.55 Coffee break  
   
  The Virus - Chair: Ronald C. Desrosiers 11.30-12.55 pm
  11.30

Wesley Sundquist, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
The biochemistry of HIV budding

 
  11.55

Peter D. Kwong, Vaccine Research Center, Bethesda, USA
HIV-1 gp120, X-ray crystallography and vaccine design

 
  12.20

Olivier Schwartz, Institut Pasteur, France
HIV, immunological and virological synapses

 
  12.45

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

   
  12.55 Lunch  
   
  Restrictions Systems - Chair: Michael Malim 2.30-4.00 pm
  2.30

Monsef Benkirane, Human Genetic Institute, Montpellier, France
Interplay between HIV-1 replication and RNAi effectors

 
  2.55

Thomas J. Hope, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Visualizing TRIM5α interactions with HIV-1 during restriction

 
  3.20

Michael Malim, King's College, London, UK
APOBEC proteins and intrinsic resistance to HIV infection

 
  3.45

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

   
  4.00 Coffee break  
   
  SIVs - Chair: Ronald C. Desrosiers 4.30-6.00 pm
  4.30

Martine Peeters, IRD, Montpellier, France
Diversity of primate lentiviruses and origin of HIV

 
  4.55

Ronald C. Desrosiers, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, USA
Alternative vaccine approaches for the prevention of HIV infection

 
  5.20

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

 
  5.30

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
HIV/AIDS pathogenesis: to fight or to tolerate the enemy?

 
   
  6.00 Poster Session 1 and Cocktails  
   
  Tuesday May 20, 2008
  8.30 Welcome desk  
  Immunopathogenesis - Chair: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi 9.00-11.05 am
  9.00

Anthony S. Fauci, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, USA
A newly discovered receptor for HIV

 
  9.25

Daniel Douek, Vaccine Research Center, Bethesda, USA
HIV disease progression: immune activation, microbes and a leaky gut

 
  9.55

Richard A. Koup, Vaccine Research Center, Bethesda, USA
Impact of different T cell functions in the control of HIV and opportunistic pathogens

 
  10.20

Ashley Haase, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
The critical fast stage of the slow infections lentiviruses cause

 
  10.45

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

  10.55

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

 
   
  11.05 Coffee break  
   
  Immune Responses - Chair: Daniel Douek 11.30-1.10 pm
  11.30

Dennis R. Burton, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA
Neutralizing antibodies and an HIV vaccine

 
  11.55

Alexandra Trkola, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Fighting HIV without (yet) winning the battle: antibodies and their role in immunity to HIV

 
  12.20

Andrew J. McMichael, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, UK
Early events in HIV infection

 
  12.45

Bruce D. Walker, Partners AIDS Research Center, Charleston, USA
Durable control of HIV replication

 
   
  1.10 Lunch  
   
  Host Genetics - Chair: Andrew J. McMichael 2.40-4.30 pm
  2.40

Mary Carrington, NCI, Frederick, USA
The complex influence of HLA class I and KIR on HIV-1 disease

 
  3.05

Sunil K. Ahuja, University of Texas Health Medical Center, San Antonio, USA
From bench to bedside to populations: Translation of CCL3L1-CCR5 genetics for prevention and management of HIV-AIDS

  3.30

Amalio Telenti, Institute for Microbiology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Host genomics and evolutionary genomics in HIV-1

 
  3.55

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

 
  4.05

Simon Wain-Hobson, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Next slide please: a vertiginous 25 years’ research

 
   
  4.30 Coffee break and Poster Session 2  
   
  6.15 Departure for the gala dinner  
   
  wednesday may 21, 2008
  8.30 Welcome desk  
  Vaccines - Chair: Gary Nabel 9.00-10.30 am
  9.00

Gary Nabel, Vaccine Research Center, Bethesda, USA
AIDS vaccines at a crossroad

 
  9.20

Brigitte Autran, Hôpital La Pitié Salpetrière, Paris, France
Therapeutic immunization against HIV: where are we now?

 
  9.45

Pierre Charneau, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
From HIV-1 genome nuclear import, to lentiviral vectors to a therapeutic vaccine against    AIDS

  10.10

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

  10.20

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

   
  10.30 Coffee break  
   
  The Bigger Picture - Chair: Jean-François Delfraissy 11.00-12.20 am
  11.10

Michel D. Kazatchkine, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland
Access to treatment in the developing world: a new era

  11.35

Malegapuru W. Makgoba, University of KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
27 years of responding to AIDS… the ‘picture’ onwards

 
  12.00

Peter Hale, GTZ/German Technical Cooperation
The research outlook for the next 25 years: The big picture

 
   
  Summing up 12.25-1.00 pm
  12.25

Robin A. Weiss, University College, London, UK
25 years already

 
   
  1.00 Lunch and departure