" Emerging Viral Diseases"

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Registration and Reception
Wednesday, June 13, 2001, p.m.

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Keynote Address
Thursday, June 14, 2001, 7:00 p.m.

Tom Shenk (Princeton) - Genetic and genomic approaches to understanding gene function and virus/host cell interaction

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Thursday, June 14, 2001
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Session I

"Viral Entry, Assembly and Release"

Chair: Richard J. Courtney

John Wills (Hershey Medical Center) - Retrovirus budding: a cell-mediated process?

Marie Chow (U. Arkansas Med) - Poliovirus: exploiting an old paradigm for new insights into viral entry

Mary Estes (Baylor College of Medicine) - Norwalk virus structure and function

Robert Lamb (Northwestern) - Paramyxovirus-mediated membrane fusion

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Thursday, June 14, 2001
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Platform and Poster Session

Chair: Brian Wigdahl

(faculty, post-doctorates and students selected from submitted abstracts)

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Thursday, June 14, 2001
7:00 p.m.

Keynote Address

Tom Shenk (Princeton) - Genetic and genomic approaches to understanding gene function and virus/host cell interaction

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Friday, June 15, 2001
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Session II

"Viral Replication Mechanisms"

Chair: Andrew Henderson

Paul Ahlquist (U. Wisconsin) - Virus and host factors in Bromovirus and Nodavirus RNA replication

Stuart F. J. LeGrice (NIH) - Programmed initiation of DNA synthesis in Retroviruses and retrotransposons

Christopher Hellen (SUNY Brooklyn) - Mechanism of viral translation initiation by internal ribosomal entry

Peter Bullock (Tufts) - Initiation and control of SV40 replication

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Friday, June 15, 2001
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Industrial Exhibits
(Lunch provided by industrial exhibitors)

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Friday, June 15, 2001
1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Session III

"Viral Pathogenesis: Mechanisms and Model Systems"

Chair: Satvir S. Tevethia

Donald Mosier (Scripps) - Small animal models for HIV-1 infection

Matthias Gromeier (Duke) - Principles of enterovirus neuropathogenesis and how they can be used for the treatment of cancer

Michael Buchmeier (Scripps) - Virus-induced neurologic disease: balancing host defense and neuropathology

Diane Griffin (Johns Hopkins) - Acute viral encephalitis - host determinants of outcome

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Friday, June 15, 2001
5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Hub Lawn Barbecue

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Saturday, June 16, 2001
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Session IV

"Emerging Viral Diseases and Antiviral Therapy"

Chair: Harriet C. Isom

Priscilla Schaffer (Harvard) - CDK inhibitors as antivirals

W. Ian Lipkin (UC Irvine/Columbia) - Pathogen discovery:  Borna disease, West Nile virus, and beyond

T. Jake Liang (NIDDK, NIH) - HCV vaccine development

Craig Cameron (Penn State) - Quasispecies, error catastrophe and the antiviral activity of ribavirin

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