The 2002 symposium focused on new developments in basic biological research in HIV.
Keynote Address
- Cellular Factors and HIV Budding
Wes Sundquist, MD, University of Utah
Biology of Viral Entry
- A New Approach to Studying Fusion of HIV Virions in Primary Lymphoid Tissue
Warner C. Greene, MD, PhD, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology - Molecular Determinants of HIV Env that Modulate Virus Entry and Transmission
Eric Hunter, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham - New Insights into Chemokine Receptor Interactions from CD4-Independent Isolates of HIV
James A. Hoxie, MD, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center - Envelope-receptor Interactions of Pathogenic Viral Variants
Dana Gabuzda, MD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Early Intracellular Events in the HIV Life Cycle
- Vif and the Inhibition of Anti-HIV Resistance
Michael H. Malim, MD, Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine, King's College London - Immediate Early Events in HIV Infection
Didier Trono, MD, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Centre Medical Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland
Later Intracellular Events in HIV Life Cycle
- HIV cDNA Integration
Frederic D. Bushman, PhD, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies - Packaging and Dimerization of the HIV Genome
Tristram Parslow, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology, UCSF - Yin and Yang of AIDS: Roles of N-TEF, P-TEFb, NF-k8 and Tat in HIV Transcription
B. Matija Peterlin, MD, UCSF - HIV-1 Gene Regulation: Molecular Mechanisms and Targeted Inhibition
Bryan Cullen, PhD, Duke University Medical Center; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Removing the Blocks to HIV Replication in Non-Human Cells
Nathaniel R. Landau, PhD, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies - Assembly of Primate Lentivirus Capsids: Evidence for a Common, Energy-dependent Mechanism Requiring the Host Protein HP68
Jaisri Lingappa, MD, PhD, University of Washington at Seattle
Interplay of the Virus and Host Cell
- Using GFP-labeled Virions to Reveal Insights into How Dendritic Cells Enhance HIV Infectivity
Thomas Hope, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago - Mimicry of CD40 by HIV Nef
Mario Stevenson, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical Center - HIV Latency: A Mammalian Model of Transcriptional Silencing
Eric Verdin, MD, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology