Wednesday,
December 10, 2008
7:00AM – 7:30AM Registration
7:30AM – 8:00AM Continental Breakfast
Service
7:00AM – 1:00PM Poster set-up
8:00AM – 8:15AM Opening Remarks and
Keynote Introduction
Conference co-chairs Dr. David O’Connor and Dr. Edmundo
Kraiselburd,
Special address by Puerto Rican dignitary
8:15AM – 9:00AM Keynote Address
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Edmundo
Kraiselburd, Director, Caribbean Primate
Research Center
Scientific
Session 1: Therapeutics/Genomics
Session Chair: Dr. Jeff Lifson
Session Co-Chair: Dr. David O’Connor
9:00AM – 9:30AM Presentation:
Dr. Jeff Lifson, Head,
Retroviral Pathogenesis Section, National Cancer Institute,
Frederick, Maryland
9:30AM – 10:30AM
-- Complete characterization of KIR haplotypes in Mauritian
cynomolgus macaques: Novel Insights into Nonhuman Primate
KIR Gene Content and Organization, Benjamin
Bimber, University of Wisconsin-Madison
-- Resources for genetic management and genomics research
on non-human primates at the National Primate Research
Centers (NPRCs), Sree Kanthaswamy, Molecular
Anthropology Laboratory and the California National Primate
Research Center
-- Prevention of rectal SHIV transmission in macaques by
intermittent pre-exposure prophylaxis (iPrEP) with oral
Truvada, J. Gerardo Garcia-Lerma, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
10:30AM – 11:00AM Coffee Break (sponsored
by Charles River Labs)
11:00AM – 12:00PM
-- Genotyping methods and future MHC class I sequence
identification in Chinese rhesus macaques, Julie
Karl, University of Wisconsin-Madison
-- Prevent intra-vaginal SIV infection by inhibiting
mucosal outside-in signaling and inflammation with glycerol
monolaurate, Qingsheng Li, University of Minnesota
-- Immune reconstitution of SIV infected macaques via
transfusion of anti-CD3/28 expanded autologous CD4+ T
cells: The transfused cells are needed for long term viral
control, Francois Villinger, Emory University
12:00PM – 1:00PM Lunch (not included in
registration fee)
1:00PM –
3:00PM Poster Session
Scientific
Session 2: Translational
Medicine/Pathology/NeuroAIDS
Session Chair: Dr. Christopher Miller
Session Co-Chair: Dr. Howard Gendelman
3:00PM – 3:30PM Presentation:
Dr. Christopher Miller,
Director of Primate Core, Northern Califormia Center
for AIDS Research
3:30PM – 4:30PM
-- Formulation of a microbicide gel with integrase
inhibitor and evaluation of safety in female pig-tailed
macaques, Charles Dobard, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
-- Dynamics of integrin beta7 high expression by
circulating CD4+ T cells during primary Simian
Immunodeficiency Virus infection, Xiaolei Wang,
Tulane National Primate Research Center
-- S100beta; as a novel
and accessible determinant for the development and severity
of monocyte-driven encephalitis in AIDS, Andrew
MacLean, Tulane National Primate Research
Center
4:30PM –
5:00PM Coffee Break
5:00PM – 5:30PM Presentation:
Dr. Howard Gendelman,
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology and
Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
5:30PM – 6:10PM
-- CD20+ cell depletion results in abbreviated cell
mediated immune responses, higher viral set points, and
shortened survival in SIV-infected pigtailed macaques,
Lu-Ann Pozzi, New England Primate Research Center
-- SIV infection modulates Siglec-1 expression which
potentially contributes to viral transport in vivo,
Kenneth Rogers, Emory University
6:30PM – 7:30PM Informational meeting for
those visiting Cayo Santiago
8:00PM Please have your posters removed by
this time
**All invited speakers are subject to change.