Registrations closed
since October 28 , 2008
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| Tuesday November 11, 2008 |
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From 4:00 pm / Opening welcome desk |
| Opening Keynote Lecture |
5:00 pm-8:00 pm
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5.15 / Welcome address by Prof. Alice Dautry, President of the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
5:30 / Sir Gustav Nossal, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| 6:30-8:00 / Welcome Cocktails in the hall of the Conference Centre |
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Wednesday
November 12, 2008 |
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From 8:00 am / Opening welcome desk |
Session 1. Tracking emerging infectious diseases: the way forward
Chairpersons. Arnaud Fontanet and Marc Lipsitch |
9:00-12:30 |
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9:00 / Robin Weiss, University College of London, UK
Origin of human infections.
9:30 / Antoine Gessain, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Emergence of novel human retroviruses in Central Africa by interspecies transmission: importance of viral surveillance.
10:00 / Marc Lipsitch, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
New diseases: modeling emergence, spread and control.
| 10.30-11.00: coffee-break |
11:00 / Malik Peiris, Hong Kong University Pasteur Research Center, Hong Kong
Confronting emerging infectious diseases: lessons from SARS and avian flu.
11:30 / Richard Hatchett, NIH, Bethesda, USA
Planning and decision-making in the face of uncertainty.
12:00 /Robert May, Oxford University, UK
Parasites, people and policies. |
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12:30-2:30 / Lunch in the hall of the Conference Centre + Posters Session # 1 |
| 2:30-6:00 |
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Session 2. Understanding Infectious Diseases
Chairpersons. James Di Santo and Arturo Zychlinski |
2:30 / Pascale Cossart, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Multiple approaches to address infectious processes : the paradigm of Listeria monocytogenes.
3:00 / David Sibley, Washington University, St-Louis, USA
Molecular basis of virulence and innate resistance in toxoplasmosis.
3:30 / Karla Kirkegaard, Stanford University, USA
New lessons from poliovirus: dominant drug targets and novel routes of viral spread.
4:30 / Elena Levashina, Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg, France
Complement-like antimalarial responses in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae.
5:00 / Arturo Zychlinski, Max-Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany
Innate immunity to bacterial infections.
5:30 / Philippe Sansonetti, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Subverting innate immune defenses: a survival strategy of for pathogens.
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Thursday
November 13, 2008 |
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From 8:00 am / Opening welcome desk |
Session 3. Treating Infectious Diseases
Chairpersons. Jean-Marc Ghigo and Julian Davies |
| 9:00-12:30 |
| 9:00 / Laurent Gutmann, Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France
Antibiotic treatments and bacteria: winners and losers.
9:30 / Patrice Courvalin, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Evasion of bacteria to antibiotic action.
10:00 / Didier Mazel, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Understanding the dynamics of antibiotic resistance cassettes in integrons.
| 10.30-11.00: coffee-break |
11:00 / David Roos, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Pathogen bioinformatics: prioritizing targets for drugs, vaccines & diagnostics.
11:30 / Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France - Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008
Lessons from HIV/AIDS: from pathogenesis to future challenges in prevention and therapy.
12:00 / Julian Davies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
The end of antibiotics?
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12:30-3:00 / Lunch in the hall of the Conference Centre + Posters Session # 2 |
| 3:00-7:00 |
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Session 4. Preventing Infectious Diseases
Chairpersons. Geneviève Milon and Gustav Nossal |
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3:00 / Ralph Steinman, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Dendritic cells: A vehicle for vaccine development.
3:30 / Philippe Bousso, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Visualizing the cellular orchestration of innate and adaptive immune responses in vivo.
4:00 / Victor Nussenzweig, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
Rationale for a malaria vaccine.
5:00 / John Clemens, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea
Herd protection by bacterial enteric vaccines: a new dimension.
5:30 / Claude Leclerc, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
New vaccines based on the targeting of innate, adaptive and regulatory immune responses.
6:00 / Rino Rappuoli, Novartis Vaccines, Siena, Italy
Vaccines: a health insurance of the 21st century. |
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Closing Lecture |
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6:30 / Ogobara Doumbo, University of Bamako, Mali
7:00 / End of the conference and departure |
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Last publication:
11/07/2008 15:49
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