Detailed Agenda - 9th International Symposium on Neurovirology

Wednesday, June 3rd

7:30 am - 8:00 am Continental Breakfast  
  Foyer, 3rd floor Ocean Tower  
8:00 am - 8:30 am Welcoming Remarks Brian Wigdahl, Chair, Meetings Committee
Peter Kennedy, President, ISNV
Jeymohan Joseph, NIMH/NIH
Diane Lawrence, NIDA/NIH
May Wong, NINDS/NIH
Mahendra Kumar & Micheline McCarthy,
Co-Chairs, Local Organizing Committee
8:30 am - 10:00 am Session I HIV disease and neurologic complications
  Ocean Tower Ballroom II, Salons B and C, 3rd floor Ocean Tower  
  Session Chairs Lynn Pulliam and Peter Kennedy
8:30 am - 8:55 am Joseph Berger
(Plenary Address)
HIV and the brain in the era of HAART
9:00 am - 9:25 am Benjamin Gelman Hemochromatosis (HFE) gene polymorphisms and HIVassociated brain pathology at autopsy: Results of a NeuroAIDS DNA bank study
9:30 am - 9:55 am Micheline McCarthy Influence of apolipoprotein E genotype on maturing human fetal neurons exposed to HIV-1
10:00 am - 10:30 am Coffee Break  
  Foyer, 3rd floor Ocean Tower  
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Session II Host and viral genetics
  Ocean Tower Ballroom II, Salons B and C, 3rd floor Ocean Tower  
  Session Chairs Kamel Khalili and Brian Wigdahl
10:30 am - 10:55 am Dana Gabuzda
(Plenary Address)
Viral genetics and immune activation in NeuroAIDS
11:00 am - 11:25 am Laura Manuelidis Profound differences encoded by various Creutzfeldt- Jakob Disease (CJD) and scrapie infectious agents are conserved in normal mice and monotypic murine cultures
11:30 am - 11:55 am Leonid Gorelik PML associated adaptive mutations in JC virus (JCV) VP1 protein are involved in viral receptor binding
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Investigators-in-Training
Session I
 
  Ocean Tower Ballroom II, Salons B and C, 3rd floor Ocean Tower  
  Session Chairs Robert Fujinami and Georgette Kanmogne
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm Daniel Cowley Genetic and functional analysis of HIV-1 Tat derived from central nervous system isolates of patients with HIV-1-associated dementia
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm Kenneth W. Witwer Cellular microRNAs and interferon beta regulation during SIV infection of the CNS
12:30 pm - 12:40 pm Myuong-Hwa Lee Rescue of impaired hippocampal neurogenesis in HIVgp120 transgenic mice with voluntary running and reversal by detraining
12:45 pm - 12:55 pm Michael Kogan Macrophage-colony stimulating factor regulation in mononuclear cells: Relevant pathways in HIV pathogenesis and the development of NeuroAIDS
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Break (on your own)  
2:00 pm - 3:50 pm Workshop International NeuroAIDS update
  Salon 1A, 1st floor Ocean Tower  
  Workshop Chairs Igor Grant and Robert Eisinger
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm Igor Grant HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND): Issues in international research
2:25 pm - 2:50 pm Robert Eisinger NIH priorities for HIV/AIDS research
2:50 pm - 3:15 pm Robert Paul Neuropsychological profile of patients commencing HAART in Cape Town, South Africa
3:15 pm - 3:40 pm Sudesh Prabhakar Neurological complications in HIV-1 infection in Chandigarh, India
3:40 pm - 3:50 pm Open Discussion  
2:00 pm - 3:50 pm Workshop Biomarkers, disease prediction, & monitoring
  Salon 2A, 3rd floor Ocean Tower  
  Workshop Chair Tony Wyss-Coray
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm Tony Wyss-Coray Systemic biomarkers for brain aging and neurodegeneration
2:25 pm - 2:50 pm Margaret Lentz Neuronal metabolism in HIV+ subjects lacking immune control correlates to M-CSF levels in cerebrospinal fluid
2:50 pm - 3:00 pm Eva Marie Ratai Brain creatine elevation and NAA reduction detected by 3T 1H MR spectroscopy indicates neuronal dysfunction in the setting of enhanced glial high energy metabolism in a macaque model of NeuroAIDS
3:00 pm - 3:10 pm Tricia Burdo Increased rate of monocyte turnover is predictive of AIDS and SIVE
3:10 pm - 3:20 pm Carlos A. Pardo-Villamizar Specific inflammatory profiles and HIV viral load in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that correlate with AIDSassociated opportunistic infections of the central nervous system (CNS)
3:20 pm - 3:30 pm Pawel Ciborowski Proteomic fingerprints in CSF and blood of HIV-infected patients with neurocognitive disorders
3:30 pm - 3:50 pm Open Discussion  
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Special Lectures 1-3  
  Ocean Tower Ballroom II, Salons B and C, 3rd floor Ocean Tower  
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Special Lecture 1  
  Eliezer Masliah Aging and neurodegenerative disease
  Introduction Howard Fox
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Special Lecture 2  
  David Volsky Modeling HIV infection in mice
  Introduction Howard Fox
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Special Lecture 3 2009 Women in Neuroscience Lectureship
  Lynn Pulliam HIV in the brain: The trip of a lifetime
  Introduction Joan Berman
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Poster Session and Reception  
  Ocean Tower Ballroom I, 1st floor Ocean Tower  
8:00 pm   Meeting of participants in NIH R25 grant on Translational Research in NeuroAIDS and Mental Health (Funded by NIMH program on mentoring to diversify mental health HIV research through innovative educational initiatives)
8:30 pm Evening in Miami Beach