Meeting program

Saturday January 27

 

Registration for the Symposium will be held between the hours of 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm at the Miami Beach Resort & Spa Hotel, 4833 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, Florida. The hotel is located on the ocean with beautiful beaches and tropical surroundings, and is only a few minutes from South Beach, good restaurants and major attractions.

There are no lectures on this day. Poster Session and Exhibits begin at 8:30 am on Sunday, followed by lectures beginning at 9:30 am.
Sunday, January 28

The Feodor Lynen Lecture
Tadatsugu Taniguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan

Innate Immunity and Infectious Disease

  • Bruce Beutler, Scripps Institute, San Diego
    “Sensing Infection: Toll-Like Receptors and Genetic Analysis of Innate Immunity”
  • David Raulet, University of California, Berkeley
    “Recognition of Diseased Cells by Natural Killer Cells”
  • William R. Heath, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Victoria, Australia
    “Dendritic Cell Function in Infectious Disease”

Immune Evasion

  • Jos A.G. van Strijp, Eijkman-Winkler Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    “Innate Immune Evasion by Bacteria”
  • Ann B. Hill, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland
    “Immunity to Murine Cytomegalovirus: A Tale of Obsession and Deception”
  • Warner C. Greene, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco
    “APOBEC Cytidine Deaminases: An Intrinsic Defense Against Pathogenic Retroviruses”
  • Grant McFadden, University of Western Ontario and Robarts Research Institute, Canada
    “Poxvirus Immune Evasion Strategies”
Monday, January 29

Vaccine Development

  • Antonio Lanzavecchia, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
    “Vaccination and Immunological Memory”
  • Genoveffa Franchini, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
    “Poxvirus Based Vaccines for HIV”
  • Peter Andersen, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
    “TB Subunit Vaccines, From Basic Science to Clinical Testing”
  • Andrea Gambotto, University of Pittsburgh
    “Protective Vaccine for the Rapid Response to Lethal Avian Influenza Outbreaks”

Monday Evening

  • The Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Kenneth Murray, University of Edinburgh, UK and Peirre Tiollais, Institute Pasteur, Paris
    “The Hepatitis B Virus from Cloning to Vaccine”
Tuesday, January 30
  • The Distinguished Service Award
  • Piet Borst, Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    “Immune Evasion by Trypanosomes”

Vaccine Development (continued)

  • Eckhard R. Podack, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami
    “Innate and Adaptive, General and Mucosal Immunity by HSP-gp96-Secreting Cellular Vaccines”
  • Kathrin U. Jansen, VaxGen, Inc., South San Francisco
    “Development of Recombinant Vaccines: Lessons Learned”
  • Adriano Aguzzi, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
    “Immunology and Immunotherapy of Prion Diseases”

Emerging Approaches

  • Alan Aderem, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
    “A Systems Approach to Dissecting Immunity”
  • Stefan H.E. Kaufmann, Max-Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany
    “Novel Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Tuberculosis”
Wednesday, January 31
  • The Special Achievement Award
  • Rino Rappuoli, Chiron, Italy
    “Reverse Vaccinology”
    This Award is supported by Chemicon/Upstate, Inc.

Emerging Approaches (continued)

  • Ralf Bartenschlager, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    “Inhibition of Innate Immune Response by the Hepatitis C Virus: Lessons Learned from Cell Culture Studies”
  • Anne DeGroot, Brown University, Providence
    “Moving Computer Driven Vaccine Design from in silico to in vivo”
  • Bali Pulendran, Emory Vaccine Center, Atlanta
    “Modulating Vaccine Responses with Innate Immunity”

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