Agenda 2015
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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 | SANTOSH KESARI MD, PhD, FANA Professor and Director of Neuro-Oncology, UC San Diego School of Medicine ♦ "Oncolytic viral therapy for brain cancer" |
| 9:00–9:15 am | LAURIE KRUG PhD, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University ♦ “Novel functions for a gammaherpesvirus vFGAM tegument protein in replication and pathogenesis” |
| 9:15–9:30 am | ADAM OBERSTEIN PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Thomas E. Shenk’s Lab, Princeton University ♦ "Comparative proteomics analysis of HCMV infected fibroblasts and epithelial cells" |
| 9:30–9:45 am | WILLIAM DONEGAN, Graduate Student, Jane Azizkhan-Clifford’s lab, Drexel University ♦ "The role of ATM and Chk2 in HSV-1 infection" |
| 9:45–10:00 am | MING LYE PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Donald M. Coen’s Lab, Harvard University ♦ "Structures of cytomegalovirus nuclear egress complex" |
| 10:00–10:30 am | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:30–11:15 am | DAVID M KNIPE, PhD., Professor, Chair of Virology Program, Harvard University Gertrude and Werner Henle Lectureship Keynote Speaker ♦ "Epigenetics of Herpesviral Lytic and Latent Infection-Building on the Foundation Provided by Nigel Fraser" |
| 11:15–11:30 am | EMILY BOWMAN, Graduate Student, Clare E. Sample’s Lab, Pennsylvania State College of Medicine ♦ "Epstein-Barr Virus EBNA3A Represses Transcription of the Cell Cycle Inhibitor p21WAF1/CIP1" |
| 11:30–11:45 am | UTSAV PANDEY, Graduate Student, Moriah L. Szpara’s Lab, Pennsylvania State University ♦ "DNA from dust: The first full-length genome of MDV-1, isolated from naturally shed virions in poultry dust" |
| 11:45–12:00 pm | CLAUDE KRUMMENACHER PhD, Assistant Professor, Rowan University ♦ "Nectin-1: induction by glycoprotein D of ectopic localization" |
| 12:00–1:15 pm | LUNCH |
| 1:15–1:45 pm | TIMOTHY BLOCK PhD, President, Baruch S. Blumberg Institute ♦ "The other chronic viral infection: hepatitis B" |
| 1:45–2:00 pm | SITA AWASTHI PhD, Research Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania ♦ "A genital herpes vaccine that targets viral entry and blocks evasion of host immunity" |
| 2:00–2:15 pm | KRYSTAL LUM, Graduate Student, Ileana M. Cristea’s Lab, Princeton University ♦ "Interactions of the antiviral factor IFI16 mediate immune signaling and herpes simplex virus-1 immunosuppression" |
| 2:15–2:30 pm | SUMITA BHADURI-MCINTOSH MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University ♦ "STAT3 regulates lytic activation of human gamma-herpesviruses" |
| 2:30–3:00 pm | AFTERNOON BREAK |
| 3:00–3:30 pm | ROBERT YARCHOAN MD, Chief, HIV and AIDs Malignancy Branch, NCI/NIH ♦ "Pathogenesis and therapeutic approaches to KSHV-associated multicentric Castleman disease and related disorders" |
| 3:30–3:45 pm | Ayman El-Guindy Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Yale University ♦ "The case for a new subclass of EBV late genes" |
| 3:45–4:00 pm | JIA ZHU PhD, Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington ♦ "Tissue resident immunity in human genital herpes infection" |
| 4:00–4:15 pm | DONGLI PAN PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Donald M. Coen’s Lab, Harvard University ♦ "Regulation of host and viral microRNA biogenesis in herpes simplex virus-1 infected cells and ganglia" |
| 4:15–4:30 pm | HUI CHEN PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yan Yuan’s Lab, University of Pennsylvania ♦ "The Micro-biology of Micropeptides: Insights from KSHV" |
| 4:30 pm | RECEPTION |
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