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This meeting, chaired by Laurent Coscoy, Paul Luciw, Melanie Ott, and Peter Sarnow, featured presentations by leading Bay Area university and industry scientists, as well as a poster competition, a lunch-time panel on post-doctoral job opportunities, and a networking reception. It was held on Thursday, May 17th 2012 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in Stanley Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley.
9:00 am |
Karla Kirkegaard, Stanford Title: Suppressing diversity in RNA viruses |
9:30 am |
Qiang Zhou, UC Berkeley Title: Toward implementation of "shock and kill" for eradicating latent HIV reservoirs |
10:00 am |
Laura Hertel, CHORI Title: Human cytomegalovirus tropism: tango or contra dance? |
10:30 am |
Marta Gaglia, UC Berkeley |
10:45 am |
Coffee Break |
11:15 am |
Joseph Derisi, UCSF Title: Tales from veterinary virology: Why snakes go crazy |
11:45 am |
Peter Barry, UC Davis Title: Targeting viral IL-10 as a prophylactic & therapeutic vaccine for CMV |
12:15 pm |
Chris Jones, Novartis Virus-host interaction & discovery of host-targeting antivirals for HCV |
12:45 pm |
Geoffrey Chase, University of Freiburg |
2:30 pm |
Yoshi Izumiya, UC Davis Title: Regulation of small ubiquitin like modifier by KSHV |
3:00 pm |
Leor Weinberger, UCSF Title: An endogenous accelerator of CMV gene expression as a novel virulence factor |
3:30 pm |
Shirit Einav, Stanford Title: Identification & targeting of viral-host interactions essential for HCV assembly |
4:00 pm |
Noam Stern-Ginossar, UCSF Decoding human cytomegalovirus |
4:15 pm |
Coffee Break |
4:45 pm |
Becket Feierbach, Genentech The guinea pig model of cytomegalovirus congenital infection |
5:15 pm |
Fenyong Liu, UC Berkeley Modulation of human CMV genomic DNA replication by host proteins |
5:45 pm |
Siddarth Dey, UC Berkeley Chromatin accessibility at the HIV-1 LTR promoter sets a threshold for NF-kB mediated viral gene expression |
6:00 pm | Reception |