HIV/AIDS

Upcoming AVRS Meeting - January 27-28, 2009

Location:

Natcher Conference Center
Rooms E1-E2
45 Center Drive
Bethesda, Maryland

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Agenda

January 27

9:00	Call to order	Eric Hunter
9:15	Programmatic update	Jim Bradac
9:35	Summary of NHP workshop	Nancy Miller
9:50	Genomic analysis of HIV infection meeting summary	Stuart Shapiro
10:00	HVTN 505 protocol	Adam Sherwat
10:15	BREAK
STEP trial analysis update
10:35	Update on HVTN and ancillary studies	Julie McElrath
11:05	Impact of HSV-2 infection on HIV acquisition	Larry Corey
11:30	Discussion
12:00	LUNCH
Analysis of Ad5 specific responses in vaccinees
1:00	Introduction	Michael Pensiero
1:05	Adenovirus serotype 5-specific T cells preferentially recognize conserved regions across multiple adenovirus serotypes	Nicole Frahm
1:35	The Effects of Adenovirus Based HIV-1 Vaccines on CD4+ T cells in Humans: Implications for the STEP Trial Results	Michael Betts
2:05	Adenovirus-Specific Immunity Following Immunization with a Recombinant Adenovirus Serotype 5 HIV-1 Vaccine Candidate in Humans	Daniel Barouch
2:35	Vector effects on T-cell proliferation	Rafi Ahmed
3:05	Applying genomics approach to STEP trial samples	Daniel Zak
3:30	BREAK
Correlates of immunologic control of HIV
3:50	Introduction	Patricia D’Souza
3:55	Correlation of T-cell effector function with immune control	Mark Connors
4:25	Role played by CTL epitope targeting in immune control	Bruce Walker
4:55	Discussion
5:30	ADJOURN
January 28
Applying systems biology approaches to the study of vaccine efficacy
8:45	SB approaches and value of highly quantitative models	Ronald Germain
9:15	Using SB to predict immunogenicty following YF vaccination	Bali Pulendran
9:45	Systems biology approaches to predict vaccine immunogenicity	Rafick Sekaly
10:15	BREAK
10:35	Utilizing SB approaches in studies involving the SIV/NHP model	Robert Palermo
11:00	Utilizing SB approaches in studies involving the SIV/NHP model	Daniel Zak
11:30	Discussion
12:00	ADJOURN