Agenda 2014
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| 8:00 am | REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST |
| 8:25am | Erle Robertson Ph.D., Vice Chair of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Professor of Microbiology Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania ♦ Opening Remarks |
| 8:30–9:00 am | Ethel Cesarman, M.D./Ph.D., Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College ♦ "Pathology genomics of lymphomas associated with herpesviral infection and AIDS" |
| 9:00–9:15 am | Nana Minkah, Graduate Student, Laurie Krug's Lab, Stony Brook University ♦ “Absence of the uracil DNA glycosylase of murine gammaherpesvirus 68 impairs replication and delays latency in vivo” |
| 9:15–9:30 am | Jennifer Totonchy, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ethel Cesarman's Lab, Weill Cornell Medical College ♦ "Use of KSHV BAC16 recombinant strains to assess de novo infection of endothelial and B cells" |
| 9:30–9:45 am | Moriah Szpara, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University ♦ "Impacts of intra-strain variation in HSV-1" |
| 9:45–10:00 am | Chris Petro, Graduate Student, Betsy Herold's Lab, Albert Einstein College of Medicine ♦ "An HSV-2 gD Null Virus Confers Complete Protection against HSV-2 Challenge in a Murine Model and Elicits Protective Systemic and Mucosal Antibodies" |
| 10:00–10:30 am | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:30–11:15 am | Jeffrey Cohen, M.D., Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID/NIH Gertrude and Werner Henle Lectureship Keynote Speaker ♦ "A VZV protein that activates the MEK-ERK and PI3K-Akt pathways to regulate apoptosis and cell cycle progression" |
| 11:15–11:30 am | Gabriel Lutz, Graduate Student, Angus Wilson's Lab, New York University ♦ "Selective induction of cellular microRNAs during herpesvirus infection" |
| 11:30–11:45 am | Rachel Temple, Graduate Student, Clare Sample's Lab, Penn State Hershey Medical College ♦ "Epstein-Barr Virus Infection of Stratified Epithelium Results in Spontaneous Virus Production and Dissemination" |
| 11:45–12:00 pm | Laurie Krug, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Princeton University ♦ "STAT3 promotes the establishment of gammaherpesvirus latency in the B cells of infected mice" |
| 12:00–1:15 pm | LUNCH |
| 1:15–1:45 pm | Ileana Cristea, Ph.D. Assocaite Professor, Princeton University ♦ "The other chronic viral infection: hepatitis B" |
| 1:45–2:00 pm | Pierre Jean Beltran, Graduate Student, Ileana Cristea's Lab, Princeton University ♦ "Tracking the Impact of HCMV Infection on Cellular Organelles: Host Organelle Proteomics" |
| 2:00–2:15 pm | Shane McAllister, M.D./Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School ♦ "Autocrine β-adrenergic signaling drives post-confluent growth of endothelial cells infected with Kaposi sarcoma Herpesvirus" |
| 2:15–2:30 pm | Kevin Tsai, Graduate Student, Paul Lieberman's Lab, Wistar Institute ♦ "Viral Reprogramming of the Daxx-ATRX Histone H3.3 Chaperone During Epstein-Barr Virus Early Infection" |
| 2:30–3:00 pm | AFTERNOON BREAK |
| 3:00–3:30 pm | Thomas Kristie, Ph.D., Chief, Molecular Genetics Section, LVD, NIAID/NIH ♦ "HCF-1 coactivator complexes modulate HSV chromatin dynamics" |
| 3:30–3:45 pm | Pooja Chadha, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, John Wills' Lab, Penn State Hershey Medical College ♦ "Dissecting the functional segments of UL16, a conserved tegument protein of HSV-1" |
| 3:45–4:00 pm | Jesse Arbuckle, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Thomas Kristie's Lab, Penn State Hershey Medical College ♦ "Epigenetic repression of herpes simplex virus infection by the nucleosome remodeler CHD3" |
| 4:00–4:15 pm | Hem C. Jha, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Erle Robertson's Lab, University of Pennsylvania ♦ "KSHV-mediated regulation of Par3 and SNAIL contributes to cell migration" |
| 4:15–4:30 pm | Christine King, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, SUNY Upstate Medical University ♦ "Mast cells are a reservoir for KSHV in Kaposi's sarcoma" |
| 4:30 pm | RECEPTION |
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