Provisional Programme
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Day 1 – Thursday, April 29
Arrival of conferees, registration, get-together party
Session 1 – Welcoming and Opening Remarks
| 04:30 pm | Background and Perspectives – Jan Svoboda |
| 05:00 pm | Keynote Lecture – David Baltimore |
| 06:00 pm | Welcome reception |
Day 2 – Friday, April 30
Session 2 – Action at the Cell Surface
| 09:00 - 09:30 am | John A.T. Young (Salk Institute, CA) |
| 09:30 - 10.00 am | Benjamin K. Chen (Mt. Sinai, NY) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 am | Paul Jolicoeur (Clinic. Res. Inst., Montreal, Canada) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am | Coffee break |
Session 3 – Identification of Essential Host Cell Factors
| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Stephen P. Goff (Columbia U. NY) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 am | Alan N. Engelman (Dana Farber, Boston) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 am | Peter Cherepanov (Imperial College London) |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch and Poster Viewing |
Session 4 – Insights from Studies of Intracellular Trafficking
| 02:00 - 02:30 pm | Thomas Hope (Northwestern, IL) |
| 02:30 - 03:00 pm | Paul Bieniasz (Aaron Daimond Institute, NY) |
| 03:00 - 03:15 pm | Eric Hunter (Emory University) - possible |
| 03:15 - 03:30 pm | Paul Spearman (Emory University) |
| 03:15 - 03:30 am | Coffee break |
Session 5 – Retroviruses and Retroelements as Agents of Genome Rearrangement
| 03:30 - 04:00 pm | Suzanne B. Sandmeyer (UC Irvine, CA) |
| 04:00 - 04:30 pm | Haig H. Kazazian (University of Pennsylvania, PA) |
| 04:30 - 04:45 pm | René Daniel (Thomas Jefferson University) |
| 05:00 pm | Short Oral Presentations/Poster Session |
| 07:00 pm | Cocktail Party for invited speakers and guests, Villa Lanna |
Day 3 – Saturday, May 1
Session 6 – Retrovirus Evolution
| 09:00 - 09:30 am | John Coffin (Tufts, MA) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 am | Paul M. Sharp (University of Edinburgh, UK) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 am | Naomi Rosenberg (Tufts, MA) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am | Coffee break |
Session 7 - Retroviral vectors and retrovirus persistence
| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Stephen H. Hughes (NCI, MD) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 am | Ashley T. Haase (University of Minnesota) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 am | Mikulas Popovic (Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, MD) |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch and Poster Viewing |
Session 8 – Cellular Defenses
| 02:00 - 02:30 pm | Michael Malim (King´s College, UK) |
| 02:30 - 03:00 pm | Jonathan Stoye (NIMR, London, UK) |
| 03:00 - 03:15 pm | Jeremy Luban (University of Geneva) |
| 03:15 - 03:30 am | Coffee break |
Session 9 – Epigenetic Effects on Retroviral Gene Expression
| 03:30 - 04:00 pm | Richard A. Katz (Fox Chase Cancer Center, PA) |
| 04:00 - 04:30 pm | David M. Margolis (UNC, Chapel Hill) |
| 04:30 - 04:45 pm | Jiri Hejnar (IMG, Prague) |
| 05:00 pm | Short Oral Presentations/Poster Session |
Day 4 – Sunday, May 2
Session 10 – Mechanisms of Disease
| 09:00 - 09.30 am | Peter K. Vogt (The Scripps Research Institute, CA) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 am | Robin A. Weiss (Univ. College, London, UK) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 am | Karen Beemon (John Hopkins University, MD) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am | Coffee break |
Session 11 – Roles of Innate and Adapted Defenses in Infections by Retroviruses
| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Francis W. Ruscetti (NIH MD) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 am | Malcolm A. Martin (NIH, MD) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 am | Kim Hasenkrug (NIH/NIAID, MT) |
| 11:45 - 12:00 am | Paula Pitha-Rowe (Johns Hopkins University, MD) |
| Sandwich Lunch/Afternoon Tour of Prague |
Day 5 – Monday, May 3
Session 12 – Anti-viral Strategies: Drugs and Vaccines
| 09:00 - 09:30 am | Gary J. Nabel (NIH, MD) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 am | Ronald C. Desroisiers (New England Primate Center, MA) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am | Coffee break |
Session 13 – Trends in Retroviral Therapy
| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Erik De Clercq (Belgium) |
| 11:00 - 12:00 pm |
Trends and Future of AIDS Therapy – Prospects for Future with AIDS |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch and Poster Viewing |
Session 14 - Summary observations, meeting wind-up
| 02:00 - 02:30 pm | Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (Paris, France) |
| 02:30 - 03:00 pm | Stephen P. Goff (Columbia U, NY) |
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Closing remarks |
| 04:00 pm | A.M. Skalka (Fox Chase Cancer Center, PA) |
05:00 pm |
Farewell Dinner at the Grand Monastery Restaurant |