The Joint 24th International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Pacific Rim of the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program (USJCMSP) in collaboration with the 2nd International Symposium for Infectious Diseases Research Institutes Cooperation (IDRIC)
HIV/AIDS Panel Agenda
Thursday| 7 March 2024 | DAY THREE
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8:30-9:00 | Registration
9:00-9:10 | Announcements and Housekeeping
- Karl Salwedel, PhD, Division of AIDS, NIAID, NIH, USA
9:10-9:30 | Welcome form the AIDS Panel Chairs
- Akifumi Takaori-Kondo, MD, PhD, Kyoto University
- Thomas Hope, PhD, Northwestern University
9:30-10:00 | Novel Host Factors Regulating HIV-1 Latency
- Akifumi Takaori-Kondo, MD, PhD, Kyoto University
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SESSION ONE: Data Science / AI and Emerging Technologies
10:00-10:30 | Mobilizing Integrated Organ Immunity Against HIV | Bali Pulendran, PhD, Stanford University
10:30-11:00 | Identification of Host Factors Regulating HIV-1 Latency and Their Potential Therapeutic Targets in HIV-1 Latency Reversal | Hiroaki Takeuchi, PhD, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
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10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break
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11:00 - 11:30 | Distinctive Attributes of HIV-Infected CD4 T Cells under ART Revealed by Microfluidics-Assisted Sorting and Whole Transcriptome Sequencing | Eli Boritz, PhD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH (virtual)
11:30 - 12:00 | Molecular profiling of the SIV tissue reservoirs microenvironment at a single focus level during ART and post-ATI | Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo, PhD, Northwestern University
12:00 - 12:30 | Characterization of the active HIV reservoir from ART-suppressed people with HIV | Nadia Roan, PhD, Gladstone Institutes; University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
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12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break
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SESSION TWO: Viral Eradication and Control
1:30 - 2:00 | In vitro Studies for the Development of Drug-based Therapies for HIV Reservoirs | Kenji Maeda, MD, PhD, Kagoshima University
2:00 - 2:30 | The Role of SIV-specific follicular CD8 T Cells during Chronic SIV Infection | Takuya Yamamoto, PhD, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition
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SESSION THREE: HIV Prevention Science
2:30 - 3:00 | Targeting Specificity of SIV-specific B-cell Responses | Hiroyuki Yamamoto, MD, PhD, National Institute of Infectious Diseases
3:00 - 3:30 | Beyond the Science: Going from Need to Impact with an HIV Vaccine | Jerome Kim, MD, International Vaccine Initiative, Seoul, South Korea
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Friday| 8 March 2024 | DAY FOUR
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8:30-9:00 | Registration
9:00-9:30 | Longitudinal PET scans provide novel insights into antibody biodistribution | Thomas Hope, PhD, Northwestern University
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SESSION FOUR: Clinical Virology and Pathogenesis
9:30 - 10:00 | Inspiration for HIV vaccine design from within-host HIV and antibody co-evolution| Bette Korber, PhD, Los Alamos National Laboratories (virtual)
10:00 - 10:30 | Defining Cellular Barriers to HIV infection through HIV-CRISPR Knockout Screening | Molly Ohainle, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
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10:30-11:00 |Break
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11:00 - 11:30 | High-level resistance to Integrase inhibitors conferred by mutations outside of Integrase Yuta Hikichi, PhD, National Cancer Institute, NIH
11:30 - 12:00 | HIV-Tocky System to Visualize Proviral Expression Dynamics Yorifumi Satou, MD, PhD, Kumamoto University
12:00 - 12:30 | Host ZCCHC3 Blocks HIV-1 Infection and Production by a Dual Mechanism | Akatsuki Saito, PhD, Miyazaki University
12:30-12:45 | Closing Remarks | Akifumi Takaori-Kondo, Thomas Hope
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12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break
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