Program

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The following topics will be covered:

  • Expanding Research Opportunities in the African Diaspora

  • New Agents for Treating Viral Diseases

    • Genome modifications to create HIV resistance
    • Therapeutics based on antibodies
    • Treating Hepatitis C Virus
    • Treating to Prevent Influenza

  • Mechanisms for Vaccine Protection Against HIV

    • Structural explanations for Env escape from antibodies
    • Structural basis for antibody recognition of Env
    • Polyreactive neutralizing antibodies
    • New prime/boost strategies for protection
    • Neutr epitopes in Env
    • New vaccine antigens

  • Evaluating Candidate HIV Vaccines

    • Mucosal memory cells and protection
    • Vaccine breakthrough and sequence selection
    • Obstacles to progress for preventive HIV vaccines
    • Pediatric immune responses to HIV
    • Vaccine applications of virus-like particles
    • New vaccine delivery strategies

  • Interactions of Viruses and Host Cells

    • Abortive HIV infection
    • Virus penetration of mucosa
    • Transmitted variants
    • a4ß7/Env interactions
    • Structure of the latent virus reservoir
    • Mechanisms for HIV integration

  • Immune Mechanisms Controlling Viral Diseases

    • Intestinal T cell homeostatis
    • Decline of B cells in HIV+ children
    • Role of Fc receptors and antibody effector mechanisms
    • Mechanism for natural virus suppression

  • Virally-associated Malignancies

    • HIV tropism and breast cancer
    • HIV, KSHV and Malignant Disease
    • DLBCL in HIV-infected Patients
    • Lymphoma
    • Cancer biomarkers in HIV
    • HIV malignancies in developing countries
    • Cancer incidence in Nigeria
    • HTLV-1