Program
September 22-25, 2012
Location: University of Oxford
Christ Church & Examination Schools
Oxford, England
All sessions & breaks, unless otherwise stated, will be held in Oxford’s largest city centre conference venue, the historic Oxford University Examination Schools. This is an exquisite Victorian Grade II listed building located on the High Street in the heart of the medieval city of Oxford, just a few minutes walk from Christ Church. The Welcome reception, banquet and accommodations will be in Christ Church.
| Saturday, September 22, 2012 | |
| 2:00 - 6:30 pm | Meeting Registration ~ Examinations Schools |
| 3:30 - 3:35 pm | Opening Remarks: Mala Maini & John Casey |
| 3:35 - 3:45 pm | Welcome: Professor Raymond Dwek, DPhil, DSc, FRS |
| 3:45 – 5:30 pm | Session I: Viral Entry, New Models and Variants Chairs: Maura Dandri & Dieter Glebe |
| 5:30 – 6:15 pm | Keynote Presentation I - Mike Malim
"Exploiting Replication Deficiencies to Illuminate HIV: Host Interactions" |
| 6:15 - 8:00 pm | Welcome Reception ~ Tom Quad, Christ Church |
| Sunday, September 23, 2012 | |
| 8:30 – 10:15 am | Session II: cccDNA Function and Transcription Chairs: Dan Loeb & Haitao Guo |
10:15 – 10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 – 12:30 pm | Session III: Reverse Transcription, Assembly, Morphogenesis Chairs: Jianming Hu & Chiaho Shih |
| 12:30 – 1:45 pm | Buffet Lunch |
| 1:45 – 3:30 pm | Session IV: Regulatory Proteins and Host Factors Chairs: Michael Bouchard & Reinhild Prange |
| 3:30 – 4:00 pm | Tea |
| 4:00 – 5:45 pm | Session V: HCC and Carcinogenesiss Chairs: Ourania Andrisani & James Ou |
| 5:45 - 7:30 pm | Poster Session I: Sessions I - V |
| Free Evening with recommendations for restaurants and pubs in Oxford | |
| Monday, September 24, 2012 | |
| 8:30 – 10:15 am | Session VI: Pathogenesis Chairs: Ulrike Protzer & Luca Guidotti |
| 10:15 - 10:35 am | Break |
| 10:35 – 12:20 pm | Session VII: Innate Immune Responses Chairs: Kumar Visvanathan & Andrea Woltman |
| 12:20 – 1:30 pm | Buffet Lunch |
| 1:30 - 3:15 pm | Session VIII: Adaptive Immune Responses Chairs: Robert Thimme & Percy Knolle |
| 3:15 pm | Free Afternoon ~ River Punting, Tour Oxford Colleges |
| 6:00 pm | Evensong ~ Christ Church Cathedral |
| 7:45 pm | Banquet in Hall, Christ Church |
| 9:30 - 11:30 pm | Jazz Band and bar, AnteHall |
| Tuesday, September 25, 2012 | |
| 8:30 – 9:15 am | Keynote Presentation II - Caetano Reis e Sousa "Translating Virus Detection Into Adaptive Immunity" |
| 9:15 – 10:00 am | Keynote Presentation III - Luca Guidotti "Visualizing and Manipulating the Traffic of Pathogenic CD8+ T Cells Within the Liver" |
| 10:00 - 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:30 – 12:30 pm | Workshop: Immunotherapeutic Horizons for HBV
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| 12:30 – 2:30 pm | Buffet Lunch with Poster Session II: Sessions VI - X |
| 2:30 – 4:15 pm | Session IX: Antivirals and New Therapeutic Approaches Chairs: Fabien Zoulim & Stephan Urban |
| 4:15 | End of Meeting |
| 4:30 pm | Cream Tea in Hall ~ Christ Church |