Detailed Agenda - 10th International Symposium on Neurovirology

Thursday, 14 Oct

 

7:00 am - 8:30 am

ISNV Board of Directors Meeting

Hotel Dei Cavalieri, 1st Floor, Malatesta Hall

8:30 am - 10:00 am

Session V

Co-morbidities in HIV CNS disease

 

 

Session chairs: Loyda Melendez and Kevin Robertson

8:30 am

Cristian L. Achim (plenary)

The aging brain and HAART

9:00 am

Kurt Hauser (plenary)

Glia as architects of accelerated CNS inflammation and injury with opioid abuse in NeuroAIDS

9:30 am

Raphael P. Viscidi

JC virus antibody and viremia as predictors of PML in HIV-1 infected individuals

9:45 am

Edward M. Johnson

A mechanism of viral regulation of cellular gene expression in the CNS based on interferon control of multiple promoters of the PURA gene generating unique non-coding RNAs

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

 

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Session VI

Immunopathogenesis of viral infection

 

 

Session chairs: Valeria Pietropaolo and Bruce Brew

10:30 am

Monique Lafon (plenary)

Rabies virus as an Ariane’s thread to unravel pathways committing neurons towards death or survival

11:00 am

Robert Fujinami (plenary)

Innate immunity contributes to seizures and epilepsy following viral encephalitis

11:30 am

Adriano Boasso (plenary)

Chronic innate immune activation in the immunopathogenesis of HIV infection

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Lunch Break / Networking

 

1:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Special Activity

Investigators-in-Training

 

 

Session Chairs: Robert Fujinami and Ruth Brack-Werner

1:15 pm

Linda E. Rivera

Inhibition of interferon response by Cystatin B: A proposed mechanism for HIV persistence in macrophage reservoirs

1:30 pm

Evan Noch

Downregulation of JCV T-antigen by hypoxia and glucose deprivation in medulloblastoma

1:45 pm

Tory Johnson

T cell receptor-independent activation of Th-17 cells by HIV Tat protein: Role in HAND and IRIS

2:00 pm

Haniah Abdullah

The effect of rhinovirus infection on cough receptors on airway sensory nerves

2:15 pm

Leslie J. Marshall

The transcription factor Spi-B binds unique sequences present in the tandem repeat promoter/enhancer of JC virus and supports viral activity

2:30 pm

Julianne Bayliss

Immunosuppression increases latent infection of brain by JC polyomavirus

2:45 pm

Sharron L. Manuel

Presentation of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Tax protein by dendritic cells: The underlying mechanism of HTLV-1-associated neuroinflammatory disease

 

3:00 pm

Anna Bellizzi

Risk of JC virus reactivation in pediatric patients with Crohn’s Disease

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm

Coffee Break

 

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm

Session VII

Neuro-restoration after injury

 

 

Session chairs: Scott Letendre and Norman Haughey

3:45 pm

Zheng Gang Zhang (plenary)

Neurogenesis and oligodendrogenesis in the ischemic brain

4:15 pm

Maxim C.-J. Cheeran

Activated CD8 lymphocytes inhibit neural stem cell proliferation: Role of interferon gamma

4:30 pm

Muriel Coulpier

Borna disease virus infects human primary neural stem cells and impairs neurogenesis

4:45 pm

T. Dianne Langford

Role of PINCH protein in neuronal response in HIV infection of the CNS

5:00 pm

Subbiah Pugazhenthi

Infection of differentiated human neural stem cells with varicella zoster virus

5:15 pm - 5:45 pm

Special Lecture

2010 Women in Neuroscience Lectureship

 

 

Introduction: Joan Berman

 

Janice E. Clements

Lentivirus infection of brain: Plasticity of virus:immune interactions

5:45 pm - 7:45 pm

Poster Session / Reception

 


Thursday, 14 Oct