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Schedule

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2008


Time Event
5:00 pm Registration Opens
Beller Conference Center Lobby
5:00 and 5:30 pm Shuttle from Sheraton to KUMC
6:00 - 8:00 pm Opening Reception
Beller Conference Center
8:00 and 8:30 pm Shuttle from KUMC to Sheraton

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2008


Time Event
7:00 and 7:30 am Shuttle from Sheraton to KUMC
7:00 - 8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
Beller Conference Center Lobby
8:00 - 8:15 am

Opening Remarks
Paul Cheney, Ph.D. and Paul Terranova, Ph.D.

8:15 - 10:15 am Symposium Program Session 1 : Lentivirus Pathogenesis
8:15 - 8:35 am

Molecular Mechanism of Decreased Neurogenesis in the HIV Brain

Marcus Kaul , Ph.D.

8:35 - 9:00 am

Tat in SHIV and HIV encephalitis: Past and present

Avindra Nath, M.D.

9:00 - 9:25 am

Unraveling the Pathogenesis of HIV in the Brain using the SIV Model

Janice Clements, Ph.D.

9:25 - 9:50 am

SIV infected microglia reduced neuronal autophagy

Howard S. Fox, M.D., Ph.D.

9:50 - 10:15 am

IDO as a Central Mechanism for the Development of HIV CNS Disease

M. Christine Zink D.V.M., Ph.D., DipACVP

10:15 - 10:35 am Morning Break
10:35 - 1:05 pm Symposium Program Session 2: Therapeutics and Molecular Mechanisms of NeuroAIDS
10:35 - 11:00 am

Nanoformulated anti-retroviral drug delivery for neuroAIDS

Howard E. Gendelman, M.D.
11:00 - 11:25 am

HAND, A Truly Stressful Process

Harris A. Gelbard, M.D., Ph.D.
11:25 - 11:50 am

Monocyte/Macrophage Activation and Transendothelial Migration in HIV Encephalopathy

Ronald G. Collman, M.D.

11:50 - 12:15 pm

HIV Neurotoxicity:  neuronal vulnerability through NMDA receptor subtype expression and protection by a novel neuropeptide

Dennis L. Kolson, M.D., Ph.D.

12:15 - 12:40 pm

Monocytes and macrophages in AIDS and neuroAIDS

Jay Rappaport, Ph.D.

12:40 - 1:05 pm

The elusive role of MCP-1 in NeuroAIDS: Migrating from Chemotaxis to Neuroprotection

Shilpa J. Buch, Ph.D.

1:05 - 1:40 pm Lunch
1:40 - 3:20 pm Symposium Program Session 3: CNS Virus Infections
1:40 - 2:05 pm

Effects of host cell lipid metabolism on alphavirus replication and morphogenesis

Diane E. Griffin, M.D., Ph.D.

2:05 - 2:30 pm

Neural progenitor cells as targets for neurotropic viral infections

Eugene O. Major, Ph.D.

2:30 - 2:55 pm

HIV sequence variation, transcriptional control, and pathogenesis

Brian Wigdahl, Ph.D.

2:55 - 3:20 pm

JCV involvement in neural oncogenesis

Kamel Khalili, Ph.D.
3:20 - 3:50 pm Afternoon Break
3:50 - 6:00 pm Symposium Program Session 4: Drugs of Abuse and HIV Dementia
3:50 - 4:15 pm

Nonhuman Primates:  Partners in AIDS Research

Neal Nathanson, M.D.

4:15 - 4:40 pm

Control of Systemic and CNS Infection in Mice Inoculated with Chimeric HIV

David J. Volsky, Ph.D.

4:40 - 5:05 pm

Mechanisms of lentivirus-induced peripheral neuropathy

Christopher Power, M.D., F.R.C.P.C.

5:05 - 5:30 pm

Studies of Retinoid and Opioid Interactions in HIV-1 Dementia

Walter Royal, III, M.D.

5:30 - 5:55 pm

Glia as architects of the neurodegenerative response of the CNS to opioid drug abuse and HIV-1

Kurt F. Hauser, Ph.D.

5:55 - 6:00 pm Closing Remarks
6:00 and 6:30 pm Shuttle from KUMC to Sheraton
7:00 - 9:00 pm

Dinner
Sheraton Suites on the Country Club Plaza

My Friend Bill and Four Decades of Lentivirus Pathogenesis

Ashley T. Haase, M.D.

 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2008


Time Event
7:00 and 7:30 am Shuttle from Sheraton to KUMC
7:00 - 8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
Beller Conference Center Lobby
8:00 - 8:05 am Opening Remarks
8:05 - 11:30 am Symposium Program Session 5: HIV Vaccines and Immune Responses/Global Issues
8:05 - 8:30 am

Ruminations on What the HIV Vaccine Field Should Have Learned from the Ruminant Lentiviruses, But Didn't

Ronald C. Desrosiers, Ph.D.

8:30 - 8:55 am

Innate immunity and SIV pathogenesis

Aftab A. Ansari, Ph.D.

8:55 - 9:20 am

DNA vaccines as an approach to HIV-1: What have we learned?

David B. Weiner, Ph.D.

9:20 - 9:45 am

Pathogenic mechanisms of Impaired mucosal immune defenses in HIV pathogenesis

Satya Dandekar, Ph.D.

9:45 - 10:15 am

Morning Break

10:15 - 10:40 am

Regulatory T cells in Infectious Disease

Barry T. Rouse, Ph.D., D., Sc.

10:40 - 11:05 am

Mad Cows and Coughing Pigs: Research on Emerging Zoonoses

Juergen Richt, D.V.M., Ph.D.

11:05 - 11:30 am

HIV-1 C-clade Infection and NeuroAIDS

Mahendra Kumar, Ph.D.

11:30 - 12:00 pm Closing Remarks
Noon Box lunches available for pick up