NOVEL THERAPEUTIC TARGETS

Annual UCLA AIDS Institute/UC Irvine Palm Springs symposium on HIV/AIDS March 6-9, 2008, Holiday Inn City Center, Palm Springs, CA

The 2008 Palm Springs symposium on HIV/AIDS, “Novel Therapeutic Targets“ is scheduled for March 6-9, 2008. This is the fifteenth in an annual series of relatively small conferences organized by the UCLA AIDS Institute and the UC Irvine Cancer Research Institute. The aim of this conference is to provide the latest information and to facilitate discussion between researchers both in HIV/AIDS and in related disciplines. The conference is underwritten by a generous grant from the DAIDS/NIAID division of the National Institutes of Health.

The invited speakers include Peter Anton (UCLA), Kathy Collins (University of Michigan), Ronald Desrosiers (Harvard Medical School, New England Regional Primate Research Center), Warner Greene (UCSF Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology), Steve Hughes (National Cancer Institute), Kuan-The Jeang (National Institutes of Health), Frank Kirchhoff (University of Ulm), Ned Landau (new York University), Stuart LeGrice (National Cancer Institute), Jaisri Lingappa (University of Washington), Daria Hazuda (Merck), Chris Miller (UC Davis), Nouri Neamati (University of Southern California), Julie Overbaugh (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute), Michael Parniak (University of Pittsburgh, Department of Medicine), Ed Robinson (UCI), Harriet Robinson (Emory University), John Rossi (Beckman Research Institute, - City of Hope), Jim Champoux (University of Washington), and Anna Skalka (Fox Chase Cancer Center.

Meeting and registration information can be found at www.cri.bio.uci.edu. Please feel free to contact Nita Driscoll at nrdrisco@uci.edu if you have any questions.

PATHOGEN VERSUS HOST IN THE PROGRESSION TO AIDS

Annual UCLA AIDS Institute/UC Irvine Palm Springs symposium on HIV/AIDS March 2-5, 2006, Hyatt Regency Suites, Palm Springs, CA

The 2006 Palm Springs symposium on HIV/AIDS, “Pathogens Versus Host in the Progression to AIDS“ is scheduled for March 2-5, 2006. This is the thirteenth in an annual series of relatively small conferences organized by the UCLA AIDS Institute and the UC Irvine Cancer Research Institute. The aim of this conference is to provide the latest information and to facilitate discussion between researchers both in HIV/AIDS and in related disciplines. The conference is underwritten by a generous grant from the DAIDS/NIAID division of the National Institutes of Health.

The invited speakers include Dong Sung An (UCLA), Paul Bieniasz (Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Institute), Ronald Desrosiers (Harvard Medical School, New England Regional Primate Research Center), Robert Doms (University of Pennsylvania), Danny Douek (NIH), Alan Engelma (Harvard Dana Farber Cancer Institute), Genoveffa Franchini ( National Cancer Institute), Warner Greene (UCSF Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology), Dean Hamer (NCI), Mary-Louise Hammarskjöld (University of Virginia), Stuart LeGrice (NCI), Donald Mosier (The Scripps Institute). Michael McCune (UCSF), Julie Overbaugh (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute), Michael Parniak (University of Pittsburgh, Department of Medicine), John Rossi (Beckman Research Institute, - City of Hope), Mario Stevenson (UMass Medical Center), Gregory Weiss (UC Irvine), and Jerome Zack (UCLA).

Meeting and registration information can be found at www.cri.bio.uci.edu. Please feel free to contact Nita Driscoll at nrdrisco@uci.edu if you have any questions.

PATHOGEN VERSUS HOST IN HIV DISEASE

Annual UCLA AIDS Institute Palm Springs symposium on HIV/AIDS
March 3-5, 2005, Hyatt Regency Suites, Palm Springs, CA

This three-day basic-science colloquium, which addressed various aspects of HIV pathogenesis, was organized by Drs. Jerome A. Zack and Paul Krogstad of the UCLA AIDS Institute and Drs. Hung Fan and W. Edward Robinson, Jr. of the UCI Cancer Research Institute, and was co-sponsored by the UCLA CFAR and the UCI Division of Research and Graduate Studies. It was partially funded by a NIH training grant on carcinogenesis and underwritten by unrestricted educational grants from a dozen pharmaceutical companies. The UCLA CFAR was directly involved in organizing the program, obtaining industry support for the conference, and producing the call for abstracts, the program announcement, and the abstract book.

Presentations on pathogenesis were made by Drs. John Coffin, ("HIV-Host Interaction: New Tools Give New Insights"), Steven Deeks, ("Pathogenesis of Drug-Resistant HIV: Implications for Novel Treatment Strategies"), John Elder, ("Parallels and Distinctions in Receptor Utilization and Targets of Infection by FIV and HIV"), Ronald Swanstrom, ("Primary Infection: First There's Transmission then There's Selection, There are Mysteries to Both"), Eric Hunter, ("Heterosexual HIV Transmission: Lessons from Discordant Couples"), Emilio Emini, ("The Promise and Challenge of HIV-1 Vaccine Development"), Erica Sloan, ("SIV Replication Associated with Lymphoid Tissue Innervation"), Wei-Shau Hu, ("HIV-1 Recombination: Rates, Restrictions and Implications"), James Mullins, ("Emerging Nuances of HIV Evolution Over the Course of Infection"), Warner Greene, ("A New Perspective on Anti-HIV Defense Mediated by Cellular APOBEC3G"), Klaus Strebel, ("The Role of Vif in HIV Replication"), Alan Engelman, ("Solution Structure of the HIV-1 Integrase-Binding Domain in LEDGF/p75"), Joseph Sodroski, ("TRIM5alpha: Mediator of Innate Intracellular Immunity to Retroviruses"), David Rekosh, ("HIV Rev Revisited"), Christopher Aiken, ("Small Molecular Inhibition of HIV-1 Maturation"), Matija Peterlin, ("Host Cell Barriers to HIV Replication, Beginning with Transcription"), Marta Marthas, ("Neonatal SIV Vaccines Partially Protect Infant and Juvenile Macaques Against Repeated Oral Challenge with Virulent SIV"), Richard Koup, ("Different T Cell Flavors Are Induced after HIV Vaccination and Infection, and Why We Should Care"), Ronald Desrosiers, ("What is Needed For Protective Immunity"), Genoveffa Franchini, ("Simian Immunodeficiency Virus-Specific Vaccine-Induced CD8+ Central memory T Cells Protect Macaques From AIDS"), David Watkins, ("Long Term Non-Progressors after SIVmac239 Challenge"), Jay Rappaport, ("Monocyte/Macrophage Trafficking in HIV Dementia Complex"), Paul Clapham, ("Receptor-Use and Tropism of Pediatric HIV-1"), Christine M.R. Kitchen, ("Intrahost Recombination of HIV-1 Clade B Between Plasma and Genital Tract Conferring Resistance to NVP"), Anil Purohit, ("G to A Transitions in the V3 Loop of ENV Lead to X4 Genotype in HIV-1 in Long-Term Non-Progressor"), Derya Unutmaz, ("The Immune System in HIV Infection: Savior or the Achilles' Heel?"), Douglas Nixon, ("Regulatory T Cells, Immune Networks, and HIV Infection"), Otto Yang, ("HIV-1 Evasion of Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes and Nef"), Rita B. Effros, ("Telomerase Activators Increase HIV-Specific CD8+ T Cell Function: A Novel Approach to Prevent or Delay Immune Exhaustion and Progression to AIDS"), Seth H. Pincus, ("Effects of Anti-HIV Immunotoxins in SHIV-Infected Macaques"), Joseph Romeo, ("Attenuated Transactivation Potency in the Post-HAART Persistent Reservoir"), Vincente Planelles, ("HIV-1 VPR-Induced Apoptosis and G2 Arrest Are Signaled Through a Common Pathway That Normally Senses Stress During DNA Replication"), Philippe Gallay, ("Contribution of Capsid to HIV-1 Infection in Human and Nonhuman Primates"), and David Camerini, ("X4 HIV-1 Induces Apoptosis in Immature Thymocytes but not in Mature Thymocytes").