Meetings-2011

GRS Meetings 2011

Meeting number	66
Date	12/19/2011 at 11 AM
Topic	New Hope in HIV prevention
Organizer	Françoise Barré-Sinousssi
Speakers	Salim et Quarraisha ABDOOL KARIM CAPRISA, Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Meeting number	65
Date	12/2/2011 from 2 to 6 PM
Topic	Symposium: Immune Activation and HIV Pathogenesis: New Insights and Future Challenges (The poster is here)
Organizer	GRS Scientific Committee and ANRS
Discussant	Marie-Lise Gougeon
Speakers	Daniel DOUEK Vaccine Research Center, NIH, Bethesda, USA Causes of immune activation in HIV disease and insights into its suppression
	Roberto SPECK University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland Immune activation: the evil behind the HIV-associated immunodeficiency?
	Annette OXENIUS Institute of Microbiology, Zürich, Switzerland Antigen-specificities in HIV-1 associated immune activation
	Guido SILVESTRI Emory Vaccine Center, Atlanta, USA How HIV causes AIDS? Lessons from the monkeys

Meeting number	64
Date	10/11/2011 at 4 PM
Topic	Integrase and anti-integrase molecules
Organizer	Marie-Lise Gougeon
Speakers	Mauro Giacca International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy Where HIV integrates in the nucleus and its implication for latency
	Zeger Debyser Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy, Leuven, Belgium HIV integrase cofactors: from target identification to drug discovery
	Christine Katlama Hôpital de La Pitié Salpetrière, Paris Use of anti-integrase moleculs in clinical practise

Meeting number	63
Date	09/27/2011 at 4 PM
Topic	Humoral response against retroviruses: beyond classic neutralizing antibodies
Organizer	Asier Saez-Cirion
Speakers	Christiane Moog INSERM U748, Strasbourg University, France Highlights from "Antibodies beyond binding" meeting (Strasbourg, June 2011)
	Morgane Bomsel CNRS UMR 8104, INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris Mucosal protection against HIV: from natural IgA to protective vaccine design
	Doris Wilflingseder Innsbruck Medical University, Austria The opsonization pattern of HIV modulates DC function: a way to better vaccines?
	Mireia Pelegrin UMR 5535 CNRS, Montpellier Vaccine-like effects of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies : a crucial role for infected-cell/antibody immune complexes in the enhancement of endogenous antiviral immunity by short passive immunotherapy

Meeting number	62
Date	06/28/2011 at noon
Topic	GRS Seminar
Organizer	Jaques Thèze
Speakers	Daniel Kaufmann Ragon Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA Deconstructing HIV-specific CD8+ T cell responses in elite controllers

Meeting number	61
Date	06/22/2011 at noon
Topic	GRS Seminar
Organizer	Gianfranco Pancino
Speakers	Frank Kirchhoff Insitute of Molecular Virology, University Clinic of Ulm, Germany Possible role of Vpu and Nef in the efficient spread and high virulence of pandemic HIV-1 group M strains

Meeting number	60
Date	05/17/2011 at 4 PM
Topic	HIV Restriction Factors
Organizer	Lisa Chakrabarti
Speakers	Sebastien Nisole Unité de Virologie Moléculaire et Vaccinologie,Institut Pasteur, Paris. TRIM proteins and antiviral immunity
	Allan Hance INSERM U941, Hôpital St Louis, Paris Gag CTL Escape Mutations Can Induce Hypersensitivity to Human TRIM5α, Linking Intrinsic and Acquired Immunity
	Nicoletta Casartelli Unité de Virologie Moléculaire et Vaccinologie,Institut Pasteur, Paris Role of cellular restriction factors in controlling viral replication and stimulating antiviral immune responses
	Nadine Laguette CNRS UPR 1142, Virologie Moleculaire, Institut de Génétique Humaine, Montpellier HIV-1 restriction in dendritic cells unveiled: consequences for the coordination of host immune responses

Meeting number	59
Date	03/10/2011 at 4 PM
Topic	GRS European Seminar Series
Organizer	Fernanado Arenzana-Seisdedos
Speakers	Jose Alcami AIDS Immunopathology Unit, Centro nacional de Microbiologia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain X4 tropic HIV: Inhibition by CXCL12 within immunological synapses and impact of novel CCR5 inhibitors

Meeting number	58
Date	01/18/2011 at 4 PM
Topic	Pediatric AIDS
Organizer	Florence Buseyne
Moderator	Claude Leclerc
Speakers	Stéphane Blanche Servive d'Immunologie, Hématologie, Hôpital Necker, Paris New insights into pediatric HIV infection
	Florence Buseyne Unité d'Epidémiologie et de Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes, IP, Paris Immunology of perinatal HIV infection in the long term
	Marie-Laure Chaix Laboratoire de Virologie, Hôpital Necker, Paris Resistant viruses transmitted from mother to child: different issues in the North and the South
	Albert Faye Service de Pédiâtrie, Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris Child therapy in Africa