Immunity and pathology to emerging viral infections
Monday 12 November 2007
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
We are no longer accepting registrations for this meeting via the website. If you would like to attend this meeting, please contact Beilul Kahsai directly on 0207 290 3859. Places may still be available for the meeting, however at this late stage we may not be able to offer you lunch.
Registration Details:
Fellow: £85
Associate: £85
Trainee - Fellow: £50
Student Members: £30
Non-Fellow: £160
BSI Member: £85
Trainee: £70
Student: £50
Meeting ref: CM-E10-2
CPD: 5 credits
9.30 am |
Registration |
| Chair: Prof Peter Openshaw, Imperial College | |
9.55 am |
Welcome and introduction |
| Prof Peter Openshaw, Imperial College | |
10.00 am |
Viral Haemorrhagic fevers: Pathogenesis and Development of Countermeasures |
| Dr Thomas W. Geisbert, US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases | |
10.40 am |
Tea break |
11.10 am |
T cells in dengue virus infection: too much of a good thing |
| Prof Gavin Screaton, Imperial College London | |
11.50 am |
A challenging job: immune control of cytomegalovirus in the immunocompromised host |
| Dr Vincent Emery, UCL, London | |
12.30 pm |
Lunch |
| Chair: Professor Tracy Hussell PhD Kennedy Institute Imperial College of Science, |
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2.00 pm |
Protective immunity against HIV infection? - lessons from HIV-2 |
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Professor Sarah Rowland-Jones, Director of Research, MRC Laboratories, the Gambia, and MRC Human Immunology Unit |
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2.40 pm |
Immune responses in dengue, friend or foe? |
| Dr John Stephenson, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | |
3.20 pm |
Tea break |
3.50 pm |
Persistent infection and end-stage differentiation of T cells during ageing |
| Dr Arne Akbar, University College London, London | |
4.25 pm |
Completion of evaluation forms |
4.30 pm |
Pandemic influenza |
| Prof Albert Osterhaus, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam | |
4.10 pm |
Close of Meeting |