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                      |  |  | Session Chairs: David Volsky and Bruce Brew | 
                    
                      | 8:30 am | Christopher Power (Plenary)University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
 | Brain lentivirus burden and neurovirulence-strategies for establishing a fine balance | 
                    
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                      | 9:00 am | Wenxue LiNational Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
 
 | Activation of HERV-K expression by HIV-1 infection | 
                    
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                      | 9:15 am | David Alvarez-CarbonellCase Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
 
 | The Nurr1/CoREST transrepression pathway impairs HIV reactivation in latently infected microglial cells 
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                      | 9:30 am | Andrew MacLean Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
 | Priming the pump: Tat primes astrocytes for subsequent cytokine secretion, quantitative morphological changes and BBB disruption through TLR2 | 
                    
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                      |  |  | Introduction by Lynn Pulliam | 
                    
                      |  | Carol Glaser California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA, USA
 | Overview of infectious encephalitis – Lessons learned from the California Encephalitis Project | 
                    
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                      |  |  | Session Chairs: Kelly Jordan-Sciutto and Ron Ellis | 
                    
                      | 10:35 am | Ramon Gilberto Gonzalez (Plenary) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
 | Neuroimaging of brain viral dynamics and neuronal injury in HAND | 
                    
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                      | 11:05 am | Vanessa Pirrone Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
 | Impact of age on markers of HIV-1 disease | 
                    
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                      | 11:20 am | James T. Becker University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
 | MEG-identified recovery of CNS functional connectivity in HIV disease after HAART | 
                    
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                      | 11:35 am | Carlos Barrero Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
 | SILAC-based quantitative proteomic approach to identify HIV-1 Vpr mediated changes in macrophage metabolic pathways | 
                    
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                      |  |  | Session Chairs: Victor Valcour, Olimpia Meucci | 
                    
                      | 1:20 pm | Fatah Kashanchi (Plenary) George Mason University, Manassas, VA, USA
 | Viral miRNA and exosomes: Possible control of cellular signaling pathways in uninfected cells | 
                    
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                      | 1:50 pm | José A. Muñoz-Moreno Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
 | Differences in North American and West European study populations when detecting neurocognitive impairment in HIV infection: A comparison of three screening methods | 
                    
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                      | 2:05 pm | Walter Royal, III University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
 | Neurocognitive impairment among treatment-naïve, HIV-infected individuals in Nigeria | 
                    
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                      | 2:20 pm | JoEllyn McMillan University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
 | Cell-targeted long-acting nanoformulated antiretroviral therapy | 
                    
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                      |  |  | Introduction by Eugene O. Major | 
                    
                      |  | Joan W. Berman Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
 | Mechanisms of neuroinflammation and toxicity: Critical roles in NeuroAIDS | 
                    
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                      |  |  | Session Chairs: Giulio Tarro and Igor Koralnik | 
                    
                      | 3:25 pm | Charles S. Cobbs (Plenary) California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
 | Emerging role of cytomegalovirus in malignant glioma | 
                    
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                      | 3:55 pm | Xin Dang Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
 | JC virus encephalopathy is associated with a novel Agnoprotein-deletion JCV variant | 
                    
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                      | 4:10 pm | Te Du University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
 | The activation of latent herpes simplex virus and suppression of LAT and mi-RNAs in trigeminal ganglia within the time-frame of a single cycle of viral replication | 
                    
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                      | 4:25 pm | Benjamin Gelman University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
 | HIV latency and viral DNA caches in the human brain: Post-integration DNA is highest in specimens obtained prior to HAART and is enriched in white matter | 
                    
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                      |  | Panel Discussion | Moderator: Joan Berman | 
                    
                      |  |  | Panelists: Shilpa Buch, Jennifer Gordon, Diane Lawrence, Aimee Luers, and Susan Morgello | 
                  
                  Shading indicates presentations associated specifically with the 2012 Conference on HIV in the Nervous System