Preliminary Program 
 Wednesday December 9, 2009 
MORNING SESSIONS
8:00
Opening Remarks
Robert C. Gallo (Institute of Human Virology, School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA)
8:10

SESSION I: ANIMALS MODELS & RESERVOIRS
Chairs: Massimo Alfano (Milan, Italy), Mario Stevenson (Worcester, USA)

8:10

Non-human Primate Models for the Evaluation of AIDS Virus Latency and Virus Eradication Strategies
Jeffrey Lifson (National Cancer Institute, Frederick, USA)

8:30

Reservoirs & Latency in Animal Models
Anding Shen (Calvin College, Grand Rapids, USA)

8:50

Macrophage Reservoirs in Animal Models
Mauro Magnani  (University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy)

9:10 The Large Intestine as a Major Reservoir for SIV Persistence and Replication in Long Term Non-progressing Macaques
Ronald Veazey (Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, USA)
9:25 Evolution and Persistence of Virus during Suppressive Antiretroviral Therapy in Macaques Infected with RT-SHIVmne
Zandrea Ambrose (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA)
9:40

In Vivo Evaluation of HIV Persistence in Humanized BLT Mice
J. Victor Garcia-Martinez (University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA)

10:00
Break
10:30

SESSION II: CELLULAR BIOLOGY & RESERVOIRS
Chairs: Chritine Rouzioux (Paris, France), Mark Wainberg (Montreal, Canada)

10:30

Molecular Mechanisms of HIV Latency
José Alcami (Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)

10:50

Crosstalk between RNAi and HIV
Monsef Benkirane (CNRS, Montpellier, France)

11:10

Viral Attack and Cellular Defense: the Role of Cellular Restrictions in the Biology of Primate Lentiviruses
Mario Stevenson (University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA)

11:30 The HIV Vif Protein Antagonizes the Effect of the Host Cell Innate Immunity Enzyme PRMT-6
Mark Wainberg (McGill University AIDS Centre, Montreal, Canada)
11:42 Stochastic Noise in Gene-expression as a Molecular Switch for HIV-1 Proviral Latency
Leor Weinberger (University of California, San Diego, San Diego, USA)
11:54 Epigenetic and Non-epigenetic Mechanisms Controlling HIV Entry and Exit from Latency
Jonathan Karn (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA)
12:06 Roles of NFAT, Cell Division and IL-7 Stimulation on HIV-1 Reactivation from Latency in Primary Memory T Cells
Alberto Bosque (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA)
12:18 Cellular Levels of HIV-1 Unspliced RNA from Patients on Combination Antiretroviral Therapy with Undetectable Plasma Viremia Predict
the Therapy Outcome

Alexander Pasternak (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
12:30 Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
14:00-16:00

Poster Viewing Session I

16:00

SESSION III: VIROLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY & RESERVOIRS
Chairs: Marie-Lise Gougeon (Paris, France), Simon Wain-Hobson (Paris, France)

16:00

HIV Tropism and Reservoirs
Pierre Delobel (INSERM, Toulouse, France)

16:20

Functional Differences in the T Cell Response to Opportunistic Pathogens Affects where HIV Goes
Richard Koup (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, USA)

16:40 Immunological Mechanisms Involved in the Establishment and Persistence of the Reservoir
Nicolas Chomont (Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada)
17:00

Impact of NK-DC Crosstalk on the Establishment of HIV Reservoirs
Marie Lise Gougeon (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)

17:20 Genome-wide Analysis of Primary CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells Transcriptomes Show Evidence for a Network of Enriched Pathways Associated with HIV Persistence
Nitin Saksena (Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney, Australia)
17:35 HIV-1 Latency in CD34+ Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells
Adewunmi Onafuwa-Nuga (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
17:50 Distribution of the HIV Reservoirs Among Resting CD4 T Cells in Elite Controllers and Other Long-term Non Progressors
Véronique Avettand-Fenoel (Université Paris-Descartes, AP-HP, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France)
18:05

An Adjuvanted Therapeutic DNA Vaccine Reduces Virus Production in the Gut and Lymphoid Tissues and Prevents Viral Rebound in Rhesus Macaques Chronically Infected with SIV
Deborah Fuller (Albany Medical College, Albany, USA)

20:00 Dinner