Scientific Program 
Thursday December 8, 2011 
MORNING SESSIONS
8:00

SESSION IV: INNATE IMMUNITY AND HIV PERSISTENCE
Chairs: Monsef Benkirane (Laboratory of Molecular Biology, CNRS UPR 1142, Montpellier, France), Marie-Lise Gougeon (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)

8:00

The Cytosolic Exonuclease TREX1 Digests HIV Reverse Transcripts to Avoid Triggering an Antiviral Interferon Response in T Cells and Macrophages
Judy Lieberman (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)

8:20 Innate Immunity & Establishment of HIV Reservoirs
Nicolas Manel (Institut Curie, Paris, France)
8:40 How Samhd1 May Change Our View of Viral Restriction
Nadine Laguette (Laboratory of Molecular Biology, CNRS UPR 1142, Montpellier, France)
9:00 microRNAs and the Innate Immune Response to SIV Infection
Jeanne Sisk (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA)
9:15
Break
9:30

Poster Viewing Session

10:00

SESSION V: IMMUNE CONTROL OF HIV RESERVOIRS
Chairs: Nicolas Chomont (VGTI-Florida, Port St. Lucie, USA), Sharon Lewin (Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

10:00

Relevance of Monitoring HIV Viral DNA Intermediates in vivo
Una O'Doherty (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)

10:20

The Impact of HIV-­associated Inflammation on HIV Persistence
Steven Deeks (San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco)

10:40

Immunological Mechanisms Involved in HIV Persistence
Nicolas Chomont (Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, Port St. Lucie, USA)

11:00

Increased Susceptibility to CD8 T Cell Mediated Killing Limits the HIV-1 Reservoir in Naïve CD4 T Cells from Elite Controllers
Mathias Lichterfeld (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA)

11:15

Differential Impact of IL-7 and IL-15 on HIV Reservoir Persistence
Claire Vandergeeten (VGTI-Florida, Port St. Lucie, USA)

11:30

Modulation of Oxidative Stress Induces Apoptosis in Long-lived Phenotypes ex vivo
Barbara Chirullo (ZZItalian Institute of Health, Rome, Italy)

11:45 Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
14:00-15:00

Poster Viewing Session

14:45-15:30

SESSION VI A: LATE BREAKER ABSTRACTS
Chair: Alain Lafeuillade (General Hospital, Toulon, France)

14:45

Impact of TLR Ligands Mediated IL-10 Production on HIV Persistence
Rafick Sekaly (VGTI-FL, Port St Lucie, USA)

14:55

Plasma Viremia and Cellular HIV-1 DNA Persist Despite Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for AIDS-Related Lymphoma
John Mellors (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA)

15:05

High Resolution Deep Sequencing Analysis of Viral Persistence and Activation during Natural History of HIV-1 Infection
Maureen Goodenow (University of Florida, Gainsville, USA)

15:15

Maraviroc (MRV) can activate NFkB in patients infected with R5 or D/M HIV-1
Santiago Moreno (Hospital Ramon Y Cajal, Madrid, Spain)

15:30-16:00

SESSION VI B: RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS FROM FIRMS SUPPORTING THE MEETING
Chair: Alain Lafeuillade (General Hospital, Toulon, France)

15:30

Title TBA
On behalf of Gilead Sciences Inc.: Romas Geleziunas (Foster City, USA)

15:45

Title TBA
On behalf of Tibotec: Guenter Kraus (Mechelen, Belgium)

16:00

SESSION VII: ACUTE HIV INFECTION
Chairs: Mark Wainberg (McGill University AIDS Centre, Montreal, Canada), Martin Markowitz (Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York, NY, USA)

16:00

A Randomized, Open-label Trial of 5-drug Versus Standard 3-drug Pi-based cART Initiated During Acute and Early Infection: 96-week Results
Martin Markowitz (Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York, NY, USA)

16:20

Mega-­HAART at Acute HIV Infection
Jintanat Ananworanich (The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center, Bangkok, Thailand, and the US Military HIV Research Program, Rockville, USA)

16:40

Reduced HIV-1 Reservoir Size after 10 years of Suppressive Antiretroviral Therapy in Patients Initiating Treatment during Primary Infection
Maria Buzon (Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Charlestown, USA)

16:55

Control of HIV-1 Replication in CD4+ T Lymphocytes by using PKC Theta Inhibitors as a Strategy to Reduce the Size of Reservoirs during Primary Infection
Mayte Coiras (Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)

17:30-19:00

SESSION VIII: ANATOMIC RESERVOIRS
Chairs: José Gatell (Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain), Alain Lafeuillade (General Hospital, Toulon, France)

Tissue Analysis of Lymphatic Reservoirs of HIV Infection
Timothy Schaker (Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
17:20 Virologic Analysis of Lymphatic Reservoirs of HIV Infection
Mario Stevenson (University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA)
17:40 Pharmacologic Analysis of Lymphatic Reservoirs of HIV Infection
Courtney Fletcher (University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA)
18:00 The Brain and Spleen are Reservoirs of SIV Infection in Macrophages
Janice Clements (Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA)
18:20

Poster Viewing Session

20:00 Gala Dinner