Friday,
December 12, 2008
7:30AM – 8:00AM Continental Breakfast
Service
Scientific
Session 5: Vaccines
Session Chair: Dr. Norman Letvin
Session Co-Chair: Dr. David Watkins
8:00AM – 8:30AM Presentation:
Dr. Norman
Letvin, Chief, Division of Viral
Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard
Medical School
8:30AM – 9:30AM
-- Induction of functional T-cell responses in neutralizing
antibody-triggered SIV control, Tetsuro Matano,
University of Tokyo
-- Immunization with envelope-modified strains of
single-cycle SIV reduces viral loads after repeated
low-dose challenge with SIVmac251, Michael Alpert,
Harvard Medical School
-- Maturation of SIV-specific CD8+ T cells after
vaccination with SIVdeltanef, Nadine C. Salisch,
New England Primate Research Center
9:30AM – 10:00AM Coffee Break
10:00AM – 10:30AM Presentation:
Dr. David
Watkins, Professor, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine
10:30AM – 11:10AM
-- Rhesus cytomegalovirus (RhCMV) vectors elicit strong,
persistent SIV-specific CD4+ and CD8+ effector memory T
cell responses that can protect vaccinated rhesus monkeys
against low dose mucosal challenge with pathogenic
SIVmac239, Scott Hansen, Vaccine and Gene Therapy
Institute and the Oregon National Primate Research Center
-- Comparative prime-boost immunization and the role of
neutralizing antibodies in protection against mucosal
SHIVsf162p4 infection, Shiu-Lok Hu, Washington
National Primate Research Center
11:10AM – 11:40AM Scientific Session 5b:
Late breaker abstracts
11:40AM – 12:30PM Closing Remarks and
Preview of Upcoming Symposium
Dr. David O’Connor, Wisconsin National Primate Research
Center
Representative from New England National Primate Research
Center, Host of the 27th Annual Symposium
**All invited speakers are subject to change.