Scientific Program 
 Wednesday December 7, 2011 
MORNING SESSIONS
8:00
Opening Remarks
Mario Stevenson (University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA)
8:10

SESSION I: MODELS of HIV PERSISTENCE
Chairs: José Alcami (Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain), Monsef Benkirane (Laboratory of Molecular Biology, CNRS UPR 1142, Montpellier, France)

8:10

Viral Reservoirs & Reactivation/Eradication Strategies in SHIV-­infected Macaques
Paul Luciw (University of California Davis, Davis, USA)

8:30

Simian Models of Viral Persistence
Jeff Lifson (NCI-­Frederick, Frederick, USA)

8:50

Eradication trials in SIVmac251-infected macaques
Andrea Savarino (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy)

9:10

HIV-1 Latency in in-vitro Differentiated Central Memory Cells
Vicente Planelles (University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, USA)

9:25

Generation of HIV Latency in BLT Humanized Mice
J. Victor Garcia (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA)

9:40

The Contribution of Splenic Macrophages to SIV Infection and Changes in this Population 05 Following Antiretroviral Treatment
Julia Russell (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA)

9:55

Mega-ART Induces Viral Suppression and Restriction of the Viral Reservoir in a Simian AIDS Model
Iart Shytaj (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy)

10:10

SIV/Macaque Model of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: Viral Persistence and 07 Ongoing CNS Inflammation
M. Christine Zink (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA)

10:25
Break
11:00

SESSION II: BASIC SCIENCE OF HIV PERSISTENCE
Chairs: Mario Stevenson (University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA), Alain Lafeuillade (General Hospital, Toulon, France)

11:00

Control of HIV Latency by the "Two Peas in a Pod:" Polycomb and P-TEFb
Jonathan Karn (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA)

11:20 New Mechanisms of HIV Transcriptional Latency
Monsef Benkirane (Laboratory of Molecular Biology, CNRS UPR 1142, Montpellier, France)
11:40 Intracellular Tat Expression Modifies the Environment of Infected Lymphocytes
José Alcami (Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)
12:00 Thoughts on Elimination of Latent HIV Reservoirs
Jerome Zack (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
12:15 Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
14:00-16:00

Poster Viewing Session

16:00

SESSION III: VIROLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HIV PERSISTENCE
Chairs: John Coffin (Tufts University, Boston, USA), Christine Rouzioux (CHU Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France)

16:00

Characterizing Latent HIV Reservoirs
Sarah Palmer (Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)

16:20 Perspectives on Therapeutic Intervention and Eradication in HIV Infection
Tae-Wook Chun (NIH, Bethesda, USA)
16:40 Residual HIV Replication on ART
Javier Martinez-Picado (AIDS Research Institute (IrsiCaixa) and ICREA, Barcelona, Spain)
17:00 Epigenetic Modifications that Control Latency in T-Cells and Macrophages: Effect Of Chromatin Remodeling Complexes and Tat Modifications.
Fatah Kashanchi (GMU, Manassas, USA)
17:15 Exosomes from HIV-1 Infected Cells: Trojan Horses that Contain TAR miRNA and Proteins that Effect Latency
Fatah Kashanchi (GMU, Manassas, USA)
17:30 Targeted Activation of Viral Gene Expression by Exogenous Tat During Infection Inhibits the Establishment of HIV-1 Latency
Daniel Donahue (McGill University AIDS Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada)
17:45 M1 Polarization of Human Monocyte-derived Macrophages (MDM) Restricts Pre- and Post-integration Steps of the HIV-1 Life Cycle. A Potential Role of APOBEC3A
Guido Poli (San Raffaele Scientific Institute & Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano, Italy)
18:00 Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells (HPCs) are Preferentially Infected by CXCR4- and Dual-tropic HIV, and HIV from Latently Infected HPCs can be Transferred to CD4+ T Cells in vitro
Adewunmi Onafuwa-Nuga (University of Michigan, Ann Abor, USA)
18:15 TRIM22 Inhibits Sp1-dependent HIV-1 Transcription
Elisa Vicenzi (San Raffaele, Milan, Italy)
19:30 Dinner