CFAR Research Conference

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2009

Date Speaker Title
12/16/09 Stephanie Dillon Reduced frequencies of dendritic cells during HIV-1 infection: "Is there really a difference between mostly dead and all dead?
12/02/09 Sara Yeatman Tsogolo la Thanzi: A Social Examination of Young People and HIV/AIDS in Southern Malawi
11/18/09 Amie Meditiz HLA-DR+CD38+ Lymphocytes are Prefential Targets of HIV-1 in Vitro and in Vivo
11/04/09 Chaoping Chen (CSU) HIV Protease Maturation - a Potential Target for Anti-AIDS Development?
10/21/09 Dohun Pyeon Basic and Translational Studies of Human Papillomavirus Infection
10/07/09 Jennifer Honda Vitamin D-Mediated Immune Responses in HIV Infection
09/23/09 Ramesh Akkina (CSU) Modeling HIV/AIDS pathogenesis and RNAi-based therapies in humanized mice
  Summer break  
08/13/09 Scott Evans (Harvard University) Non inferiority Trials
  Summer break  
06/24/09 Gary Van Guilder HIV-1 Infection: A Model of Accelerated Vascular Aging and Cardiovascular Risk
06/10/09 Michelle Haas HIV-1 Infection of Follicular CD4+ Lymphocytes
05/27/09 Gerald Friedland (Yale University) Evolution of the AIDS Epidemic in the US and South Africa over 20 years and 8000 miles
05/13/09 Brian Kempf Naturally Uncapped Poliovirus mRNA is Remarkably stagle in 2A Protease Modified Polysomes
04/29/09 Moshe Levi Applications of Advanced Microscopy Imaging Techniques in Infectious Diseases and AIDS Research
04/22/09 Richard Byyny Derivation and Internal Validation of the Denver HIV Risk Score
04/08/09 Phillip Smith (UAB) Role of the Macrophage in Mucosal HIV-1 Infection
04/01/09 Tariro Makadzange (U of WA) Increasing Access to ART in Zimbabwe: Clinical outcomes in patients receiving care at a public ART treatment program
03/25/09 Brent Palmer Coregulation and HIV associated CD4+ T cell dysfunction
03/18/09 Mario Santiago (Gladstone Institute) Apobec3 and Neutralizing Antibodies: A Modern Twist to Classic Retrovirus Mystery
03/11/09 CV Dash (NCI Frederick) HIV-1 Enzymes: from molecular mechanism to drug discovery
02/25/09 John "Chip" Tilton (UPenn) HIV Resistance to CCR5 Antagonists: Mechanisms and Consequences for Tropism using a novel FACS-Based Assay
02/04/09 Samantha MaWhinney Stats 101: Sample size calculations, things you should think about BEFORE collecting data
01/28/09 David N. Levy (NYU) HIV-1 unintegrated DNA and a novel pathway for viral replication, evolution and persistence
01/14/09 Matthew McQueen (UCB) Targeting the genetic factors underlying HIV-related risk behaviors: An Overview of the Center for Antisocial Drug Dependence

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2008

Date Speaker Title
12/17/08 Karen Corsi Interventions to reduce drug use and HIV risk among methamphetamine users.
11/26/08 Cancelled Thanksgiving Holiday
11/12/08 CFAR Research Design and Analysis Core HIV Incidence in Colorado 2003-2007
10/22/08 Gary Wang (UPenn) HIV integration, adverse events in gene therapy, HIV/HCV resistance analyzed by pyrosequencing
10/08/08 Ralph Wilmoth (CDPHE) Reporting STI/HIV in Colorado
9/24/08 Amanda Allshouse Statistical methods for investigating time to event occurrence with application of time to initiation of ART in women as compared to men
09/10/08 Chiedza Maponga Collaboration in HIV Pharmcotherapy research and training for resource-limited settings
  Summer Break  
05/28/08 Betsy McFarland HIV specific cell mediated immune responses in HIV+ children and adolescents
05/21/08 Peter Anderson Cellular pharmacology considerations for pre-exposure HIV prophylaxis
05/14/08 cancelled  
05/07/08 John Cambier Inhibitory signal trasduction by CD4 as a potential Mechanism of CD57+cd4+ T-cell dysfunction during HIV-1 infection
04/30/08 Lauren Pointer and Samantha MaWhinney ART during Primary HIV Infection: Adjusting for Nonignorable Dropout
04/23/08 James DeGregori Targeting CML: global screens and immunological dreams
04/16/08 Robert Eckel Macronutrient Partitioning, Insulin Action, and Body Weight Regulation
04/09/08 Ross Kedl The Changing Face of the T Cell Repertoire: Memory is the new Naive
04/02/08 Mirjiam Kempf (UAB) Health Disparities among HIV+ Women in the US
03/26/08 Kenneth Mayer (Brown University) Antiretrovirals for HIV Prevention: Panacea or Pandora's Box
03/19/08 Randall Holmes Heat-Labile Enterotoxins: From Bacterial Virulence Factors to Vaccine Development Tools
03/12/08 Mary Ann DeGroote (CSU)
Preclinical models for TB drug testing
03/05/08 Edward Chan Is IL-32 important in tuberculosis?
02/27/08 Olaf Kutsch (UAB) Targeting latent HIV-1 infection
02/20/08 Greg Everson Noninvasive Assessment of the Portal Circulation in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C: Effects of SVR
02/13/08 Richard Byyny Derivation and Validation of a Clinical Prediction Rule for HIV Seropositivity in the Emergency Department
02/06/08 Cancelled CROI
01/30/08 Jana Palaia Characterization of Naturally recombinant HIV strains in Burkino Faso, West Africa
01/23/08 David Weiner (UPenn) Spotty Business: Improving the Potency of HIV DNA Vaccines
01/16/08 Tom Campbell, MD and Elisabeth Bowers CROI Conference Poster presentations
01/09/08 Cancelled  
01/02/08 New Years Holiday  

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2007

Date Speaker Title
12/26/07 Christmas Holiday Cancelled
12/19/07 Marcel Nold (Dinarello) Endogenous IL-32 suppresses HIV-1
12/12/07 Brent Palmer Characterization of T cell responses in HIV-infected Rag-hu mice and novel T regulatory molecules in HIV-infected humans
12/05/07 Betsy McFarland HIV-specific cell-mediated immune responses in children
11/28/07 Ramesh Akkina New developments in humanized mouse model research: Applications for HIV and Dengue viral pathogenesis
11/21/07 Thanksgiving Holiday Cancelled
11/14/07 Stephanie Dillon  The effect of HIV1 on Dendritic cell phenotype and Function
11/07/07 Katherine S. Lee, PhD Murine gammaherpesvirus 68 infection in lung: an animal model for the EBV-associated human disease lymphomatoid granulomatosis
10/31/07 Satya Dandekar HIV Pathogenesis and Gutting of the Mucosal Defenses
10/24/07 Elisabeth Bowers Impaired Immunoglobulin Gene Somatic Hypermutation and Activation-Induced Deaminase Expression in HIV Infection.
10/17/07 Amie Meditz, MD The Clinical Features of Primary HIV-1 Infection in Women
10/10/07 Andrea Luisa Suarez (van Dyk)  Endothelial cells reveal a novel outcome of gammaherpesvirus infection
10/03/07 David Cohn, MD HIV/AIDS in China: An Emerging Epidemic?”
09/26/07 Sonia Flores Association between HIV-nef and pulmonary arterial hypertension 
09/19/07 Jessica Jones Carson, MD Determinants of immunity to mucosal Salmonella vaccines
09/12/07 Chris DeSouza, PhD HIV-1 and Endothelial Progenitor Cell Dysfunction
09/05/07 Kevin Diebel Gammaherpesvirus 68 miRNAs:  Altering the host proteome as a means to facilitate the establishment and maintenance of latent infection?
08/29/07 Adriana Salazar Phenotypic and Functional Characterization of CMV-Specific Regulatory T Cells (Tr)
08/22/07 Greg Pott, PhD  (Shapiro)  A “Shocking” New Development: Antiretroviral Effects of Hsp90 Antagonism
08/15/07 Joseph Gogain The role of tRNA A58 methyltransferase in HIV-1 replication
08/08/07 Mario Roederer Searching for an effective cellular HIV vaccine
08/01/07 Leslie Smythies Mucosal TGF-b Induction of Inflammation Anergy in Intestinal Macrophages and Dendritic Cells
07/25/07 Robert Horsburgh Jr Diagnosis and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Persons with HIV Infection 
07/18/07 Seminar Cancelled  
07/11/07 Sam MaWhinney, SciD ART during Primary HIV Infection; Adjusting for Nonignorable Dropout (work in progress)
07/04/07 HOLIDAY  
06/27/07 Journal Club Ed Janoff Male Circumcision for HIV prevention in men in Rakai, Uganda: a randomized trial
  Linda VanDyk Activation of the lectin DC-Sign induces an immature dendritic cell phenotype triggering
Rho-GTPase activity required for HIV-1 replication
06/20/07 Alex Franzusoff, PhD  Tarmogen-mediated immune responses in chronic HCV infection
06/13/07 Michelle Haas Mechanisms of HIV-1 Persistence in Follicular CD4+ T cells
06/06/07 David Matthew Bortz Pre- and Post-Seroconversion HIV Infection Dynamics: Validation, Verification, and the
Predictive Capabilities of Computational Pathogenesis
05/30/07 Carlos Perez Velez Induced sputum and string test as alternative specimens to gastric aspirate for the microbiologic confirmation of TB in children:  Research-in-Progress
05/23/07 Edward Gardner, MD Selective Nonadherence to Components of Combination Antiretroviral Therapy: Results
from the FIRST Trial
05/16/07 Judith Currie, MD  (UCLA) Atherosclerosis and HIV: Is there a connection?
05/09/07 Amie Meditz Sex Differences in HIV-1 Viral Load:  An evaluation of HIV-1 chemokine coreceptor
expression in lymphoid tissues of men and women
05/02/07 Conference Cancelled  
04/25/07 Dirk Homann, M.D. Molecular, phenotypic and functional profiling of aging antiviral CD8+ memory T cells: the older, the better?
04/18/07 Paul Cook Using a PDA Diary to Study Prevention with Positives
04/11/07 William Burman The Impact of episodic antiretroviral therapy on HIV transmission risk
04/04/07 Richard Sutton, M.D., Ph.D. HIV vectors for gene transfer and the study of HIV replication
03/28/07 Yosef Refaeli  Antigen receptor and MYC in the regulation of lymphoid tolerance and neoplasia in AIDS associated B-cell lymphomas
03/21/07 Robert E. Booth, Ph.D. HIV Risk Factors among Stimulant Injection Drug Users in Ukraine
03/14/07 Gregory F. Burton, Ph.D.  Brigham Young University
 FDCs, HIV and the germinal center: what¹s a T cell/macrophage tropic virus doing in a B-cell dependent neighborhood?
03/07/07 cancelled cancelled
02/28/07 CROI 14th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic
02/21/07 B. Palmer, P. Anderson & E.Connick CROI poster practice
02/14/07 Elizabeth McFarland HIV-specific cell-mediated immune responses in HIV+ children
02/07/07 Ed Gardner Predictors of Successful Viral Suppression in Patients with Less than 90% Adherence
01/31/07 Jonathan Ravdin, MD University of Minnesota Amebiasis: Global impact and vaccine development 
01/24/07 Adela Cota Gomez The Immunomodulatory Activities of the HIV-1 Tat Protein 
01/17/07 Rob Knight Using UniFrac to explore sequence changes associated with gut microbial communities during SIV infection, and prospects for applications to understanding HIV setpoint
01/10/07 Stephanie Dillon The effect of HIV-1 on dendritic cell phenotype and function
01/03/07 New Years Holiday  

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2006

Date Speaker Title
12/27/06 Christmas Holiday Christmas Holiday
12/20/06 Ed Gardner cancelled due to snow storm
12/13/06 Elizabeth McFarland speaker canceled, out ill
12/06/06 Stephanie Dillon Had to reschedule last minute. Will present in Jan 07 instead
11/29/06 Lucy Bradley-Springer How Clinicians Learn in HIV-Care Settings
11/22/06 Thanksgiving Holiday Thanksgiving Holiday
11/15/06 Tom Campbell The Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Treatment of AIDS-KS in Zimbabwe
11/08/06 Kristin Brousseau TBA
11/01/06 Cara Wilson Polarized Production of IL-2 by HIV-1-specific CD8+ T Cells in Acute and Recent HIV-1 Infection 
10/25/06 Joy Folkvord & Brent Palmer CFAR Immunology Core:  More than just FLOW
10/18/06 Liz Connick Reconstitution of CD4+ T Cells in Gut Associated Lymphoid Tissues During HAART
10/11/06 Lisa Williams (vanDyk lab) p18 is a Critical Regulator of Reactivation from Latency in Gammaherpesvirus 68
10/04/06 Bill Burman Use of antiretroviral therapy during treatment of active tuberculosis 
09/27/06 Ed Janoff  Preventing HIV where it begins…
09/20/06 Pete Anderson The cellular compartmentalization of NRTI-triphosphate concentrations in humans
09/13/06 John Guatelli, UCSD Accessory Genes of HIV-1: Vpu and Nef
09/06/06 Brent Palmer TBA
08/30/06 Liz Connick Journal Club
08/23/06 Ross Kedl Novel HIV vaccines that  Integrate Toll Like Receptor and TNFR/L signaling
08/16/06 World AIDS Meeting cancelled
08/09/06 Cara Wilson & Stephanie Dillion Journal Club
08/02/06 Ken Lichtenstein Is toxicity a reason to delay therapy 
07/26/06 Cancelled  
07/19/06 Sam MaWhinney Statistics 101:  The Ubiquitous Correlation Coefficient
07/12/06 Summer Break Summer Break
07/05/06 Summer Break Summer Break
06/28/06 E. Janoff  Journal Club (J. Myers canceled because he's going to a conference)
06/21/06 Christine Meadows Characterization of Infection of Pulmonary Microvascular Endothelial Cells by Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV or HHV-8)
06/14/06 Kevin Diebel (van Dyk lab CFAR project)  Exploring the Biological Significance of Gammaherpesvirus68 miRNAs:  Beginning with Transcription and Processing
06/07/06 Richard Sutton, M.D. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX  Exploring blocks to HIV replication in the mouse 
05/31/06 Mary Ann DeGroote Molecular Detection of Microbes in Health and Disease
05/24/06 Linda VanDyk Journal Club
05/17/06 Stephanie Dillion Dendritic Cell Dysfunction During HIV Infection
05/10/06 Sam MaWhinney A graphical introduction to flexible models for exploring dynamic relationships between immunologic and virologic outcome measures: Should we apply these methods to your data?
05/03/06 Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPD, MPA, Columbia University An informal discussion of AIDS in Africa
04/26/06 A. Meditz & B. Palmer Journal Club
04/19/06 Byeongwoon Song, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute TRIM5alpha: Innate Immunity to Retroviruses 
04/12/06 Elizabeth McFarland Detailed assessment of HIV-specific immune responses during supervised treatment interruption (STI) in children with established HIV-1 infection
03/29/06 Russ Young An Intelligently Designed Real-Time PCR–Based Viral Load Assay for HIV-1
03/22/06 Ramesh Akkina Modeling AIDS gene therapy strategies in SCID-hu mice
03/15/06 Ed Janoff AIDS and B cells: AID Aids Antibodies
03/08/06 Ed Gardner  Development of a Survey to Elicit the Patients' Perspective on Adverse Events during HAART 
03/01/06 Carol Kaufman Wiconi Teca Waste:  Study Design, Method, and Culture for an HIV Prevention Project among American Indian Youth
02/22/06 S. Dillion Journal Club
02/15/06 various volunteers  CROI Update
02/08/06 CROI CROI Meeting
02/01/06 various volunteers   CROI talk
01/25/06 C. Meadows Journal Club
01/18/06 Mark Mulligan (UAB) The Trials of Human AIDS Vaccines
01/11/06 Phillip I Kuo Immune regulation of drug-resistant HIV
01/04/06 John Mutikani Testing the SDQ and the IES-8 in Psychosocial Adjustment of Orphans and Non Orphans affected by AIDS in Botswana and Zimbabwe: A Pilot Study

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2005

Date Speaker Title
01/05/05 Adela Cota-Gomez Cellular Signaling Pathways of the HIV-1 Tat protein 
01/12/05 Gita Bhatia Cancelled - Gita moved
01/19/05 Kathryn Robertson Evaluation of Dendritic Cell Maturation and Function in HIV-1-infected Subjects
01/26/05 Cara Wilson/Liz Connick Journal Club
02/02/05 Ed Gardner Conventional and Molecular Epidemiology of Primary Clarithromycin Resistance among Mycobacterium avium complex Isolates from HIV-Infected Patients
02/09/05 Adriana Weinberg  Effect of Hormonal Contraceptives on Cell-Mediated Immunity of HIV-Infected Patients
02/16/05 Various Volunteers CROI Talks
02/23/05 CROI Meeting (Boston 22-25) CROI Meeting
03/02/05 Various Volunteers CROI Update
03/09/05 Joseph Gogain (McHenry Project) The role of trna methyltransferace in hiv-1 replication
03/16/05 Amie Meditz SDF-1α is a More Potent Inducer of HIV-1-specific CD8+ T-cell Chemotaxis than CX3CL1 
03/23/05 Betsy McFarland Immunogenicity of a prime-boost HIV vaccine regimen (vCP1452 plus AIDSVAX B/B) in infants born to HIV infected mothers 
03/30/05 Katie Robertson Journal Club
04/06/05 Brent Palmer Functional and phenotypic characterization of CD57+ T cells and their association with HIV-1-induced T cell dysfunction
04/13/05 Peter Anderson A Pharmacogenetics Project for HIV Protease Inhibitors 
04/20/05 John C. Marecki SHIVnef as a macaque model of pulmonary hypertension: Nef and the Endothelium 
04/27/05 Amie Meditz Journal Club
05/04/05 Ken Lichtenstein, MD The influence of severity of HIV disease on outcomes and co-morbidities
05/11/05 Gregory Pott, PhD Identification of the molecular target used by alpha-1-antitrypsin to inhibit HIV production and cytokine synthesis
05/18/05 Lisa Kosmiski  The effects of caloric restriction on the hypermetabolism of HIV lipodystrophy
05/25/05 E. Gardner/B. McFarland Journal Club
06/01/05 Christine Meadows Characterization of Infection of Pulmonary Microvascular Endothelial Cells by Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV or HHV-8)
06/08/05 Kathryn Robertson Evaluation of Dendritic Cell Phenotype and Function in Chronically Infected HIV-1 Subjects
06/15/05 Amie Meditz (Connick project) Sex Differences in Plasma HIV-1 Concentrations: A Pilot Study to Investigate HIV-1 Replication and CCR5 Expression in Lymphoid Tissue of Women Compared to Men 
06/22/05 Kristin Brousseau  AIDS Dementia Complex: A Pilot Project to Evaluate and Improve Diagnosis in a University Based Infectious Disease Clinic
06/29/05 Tom Campbell/Christine Meadows Journal Club
07/06/05 Peter Anderson R01 talk - Study Initiation: “Sex- and disease-dependent nucleoside analog toxicity”
07/13/05 Naomi Blyveis/Rick Schlichtemeier Immunopathogenesis of Acute HIV-1 Infection.
07/20/05 Rick Rapport A Brief Update On Using Viral Growth Competition Experiments To Relate Sequence Diversity And Fitness and a Journal Club : Cellular APOBEC3G Restricts HIV-1 In Resting CD4+ T Cells
07/27/05 Joy Folkvord & Liz Connick Journal Club
08/03/05 IAS Rio meeting cancelled
08/10/05 IAS Rio Update Various volunteers S. Johnson, C. Fletcher, & J. Gerber
08/17/05 John Mutikani cancelled John stuck in traffic
08/24/05 Thomas Campbell Molecular Diversity of KSHV in Zimbabwean AIDS-KS Patients
08/31/05 Thomas Campbell Journal Club
09/07/05 Brent Palmer   The effects of HIV-1-specific CD4+ T cell maturation on HIV-1-specific CD8+ T cell function and maturation
09/14/05 LaToya Jones Evaluating biophysical and immunological consequences of an HIV antigen/adjuvant interaction
09/21/05 Sam MaWhinney Stats 101
09/28/05 B. McFarland Journal Club
10/05/05 David Levy, UAB The surprisingly social life of HIV-1: Co-infection, Latency and Recombination
10/12/05 Christine Meadows Characterization of Infection of Pulmonary Microvascular Endothelial Cells by Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV)or HHV-8
10/19/05 Adriana Weinberg Effect of Hormonal Contraceptives on Cell-Mediated Immunity of HIV-Infected and Uninfected Individuals.
10/26/05 S. Flores Journal Club
11/02/05 Linda VanDyk  Gammaherpesviruses:  pathologies associated with immunosuppression & reactivation.
11/09/05 Elizabeth McFarland HIV-specific immune responses during supervised treatment interruptions in HIV infected children
11/16/05 Sam MaWhinney Stats 101: Sample size calculations. Things you should think about before you spend years collecting data
11/23/05 Thanksgiving Holiday Cancelled
11/30/05 A. Meditz  & J. Myers Journal Club
12/07/05 Jesse Myers Role of acid sphingomyelinase in host defense against Salmonella
12/14/05 Amie Meditz CCR5 and CXCR4 are Highly Expressed on Lymph Node Follicular (CD57+) CD4+ T cells
12/21/05 Christmas Holiday Cancelled
12/28/05 New Year Cancelled

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2004

Date Speaker Title
1/7/2004 A. Cota-Gomez Cardiopulmonary Complications in HIV Infection
1/14/2004 T. White KSHV K1 Subtypes A and B are the Predominant Subtypes in AIDS-KS Patients Originating from Zimbabwe
1/21/2004 Cancelled MLK Holiday
1/28/2004 T. Campbell/B. McFarland Journal Club
2/4/2004 R. Rapaport HIV-1 Stimulation by Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor
2/11/2004 CROI Cancelled
2/18/2004 Various Volunteers CROI Update
2/25/2004 C. Meadows, T. Campbell Characterization of Infection of Pulmonary Vascular Endothelial Cells by Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV or HHV-8)
3/3/2004 J. Bill CFAR Immunology Core Update: Sorting of cells from infected donors and 11-parameter analysis using the FACSAria flow cytometer
3/10/2004 M. Hagen KSHV PAN RNA 3' REGION
3/17/2004 J. Koeppe Are CD4 T-Cells Exerting an In Vivo Selective Pressure on HIV-1?
3/24/2004 M. Zahn PHOSPHOLIPID SYNTHESIS AND MEMBRANE BIOGENESIS OF TOXOPLASMA GONDII
3/31/2004 D. Wyles/C. Wilson Journal Club
4/7/2004 E. Boritz Effects of antiretroviral therapy on HIV-1-specific CD4+ T cell repertoire and function in chronic HIV-1 disease
4/14/2004 E. Connick Localization of HIV-1-Specific CD8+ Cells in Lymphoid Tissue
4/21/2004 B. McFarland Assay development and preliminary experiments to support investigation of the role of cytotoxic T lymphocyte function avidity in HIV immunopathogenesis
4/28/2004 B. Palmer/E. Connick Journal Club
5/5/2004 M. Holers and S. Moir Role of Complement Receptors in Pathogenesis of HIV-1 Infection
5/12/2004 A. Weinberg Excess Apoptosis of Mononuclear Cells Contributes to the Depressed Cytomegalovirus -Specific Immunity in HIV-Infected Patients on HAART
5/19/2004 D. Wyles In vitro resistance to a HCV serine protease inhibitor
5/26/2004 J. Koeppe Journal Club
6/2/2004 S. Pan T Cell Responses to HIV-1 Gag-expressing Recombinant Yeast Cross-presented by Human Dendritic Cells
6/9/2004 X. Zang TNX-355 against HIV-1 Replication
6/16/2004 R. Akkina Combinatorial SiRNA Gene Therapy Approaches for HIV/AIDS
6/23/2004 C. McLean Detection of the K103N mutation in the RT gene of HIV-1 associated with nevirapine resistance
6/30/2004 C. Meadows Journal Club
7/7/2004 R. Booth Preventing HIV among Injection Drug Users through Street Outreach Intervention
7/14/2004 International AIDS Meeting Cancelled
7/21/2004 Summer Break Cancelled
7/28/2004 Patricia Mutama, U of Zimbabwe Setting Up a Clinical Trials Unit in a Resource Limited Setting: The Zimbabwean Experience
8/4/2004 K. Lesh Fractalkine induced migration of CD8(+) T cells
8/11/2004 J. Kroll Genetic variability of vif in HIV-1
8/18/2004 Cancelled  
8/25/2004 D. Wyles/R. Schooley Journal Club
9/1/2004 E. Gardner Selective Drug Taking during HAART
9/8/2004 P. Anderson The Cellular Pharmacology of NRTI-triphosphates and the relationship to Clinical NRTI-Toxicity
9/15/2004 T. Campbell (Borok Proj) A Pilot Study of the Effects of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy on Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Zimbabwe
9/22/2004 Shapiro Lab Histone deacetylase inhibitors and HIV- a new concept in HIV regulation
9/29/2004 A. Meditz/C. Wilson Journal Club 
10/6/2004 D. Hoody  HAART during pregnancy:  Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of ARV agents
10/13/2004 John Cambier CD4 T cell depletion in HIV disease.. mechanism of inhibitory CD4 signal transduction
10/20/2004 J.K. Larson An endogenous inhibitor of HIV in cytokines in whole blood
10/27/2004 K. Robertson/B.McFarland Journal Club
11/3/2004 E. McFarland Safety and immunogenicity of ALVAC HIV and VAXGEN gp120 vaccines in infants born to HIV-infected mothers:  PACTG 326 interim results
11/10/2004 Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo University of Uganda Role of gender factors in HIV/AIDS care in Uganda
11/17/2004 Xing-Ouan Zhang HIV infections and AIDS in China
11/24/2004 Thanksgiving Cancelled
12/1/2004 A. Meditz Gender Differences in Plasma HIV-1 Concentration: A Pilot Study to Investigate HIV-1 Replication and CCR5 Expression in Lymphoid Tissue of Women Compared to Men 
12/8/2004 R. Rapaport Cancelled
12/15/2004 C. Meadows Characterization of infection of pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells by Kaposis Sarcoma-Associated herpesvirus (KSHV or HHV-8)
12/22/2004 Christmas Cancelled
12/29/2004 New Years Cancelled

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2003

Date Speaker Title
1/8/2003 C. Fletcher Concentration-controlled strategies for patients with persistent viremia - plus new data from ACTG 359 on the quantitation of medication adherence
1/15/2003 E. Connick Expression of Alpha Defensins 1, 2, and 3 in Human Lymphoid Tissues
1/22/2003 X. Zhang To Develop Inhibitors against HCV Replication
1/29/2003 C. Meadows, J. Koeppe Journal Club
2/5/2003 Various Volunteers CROI Talks
2/12/2003 None CROI Meeting
2/19/2003 Various Volunteers CROI Review
2/26/2003 B. Palmer Active HIV-1 viremia is associated with lower frequencies of Gag-specific IL-2 producing CD4+ T cells and proliferation
3/5/2003 J. Koeppe CD4 Immune Escape by HIV-1
3/12/2003 M. Thrun Diagnosis of Acute and Recent HIV Infection: An opportunity to decrease transmission?
3/19/2003 J. Neid Cancelled: 03 snow storm
3/26/2003 L. Shapiro, E. Boritz Journal Club
4/2/2003 S. Pan Targeting Dendritic Cells with Recombinant Yeast as a Potential Vaccination Strategy
4/9/2003 J. Neid KSHV infection of murine lung capillary endothelial cells
4/16/2003 E. McFarland HIV-specific CD8 and CD4-mediated immune responses in children undergoing structured treatment interruption
4/23/2003 A. Weinberg Apoptosis of Circulating Mononuclear Cells Down Regulates CMV Cell-Mediated Immunity in HIV-Infected Patients on HAART
4/30/2003 J. Neid, M. Barron Journal Club
5/14/2003 D. Wyles An in vitro system for characterizing anti-HCV compounds
5/21/2003 R. Rapaport Journal Club
5/28/2003 M. Thrun, S. Pan Journal Club
6/4/2003 D. Mack Use of Dendritic Cells to Enhance Immune Responses Against
6/11/2003 C. Meadows Characterization of KSHV infection in a primary cell line
6/18/2003 T. White Humoral Immune Response to the Oncogenic Protein Encoded by the K1 Gene of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus 
6/25/2003 D. Wyles, C. Wilson Journal Club
7/2/2003 Independence Day Cancelled
7/9/2003 J. Gerber, C. Fletcher IAS Presentations
7/16/2003 E. Boritz HIV-1-specific CD4+ T cells in Progressive HIV-1 Disease: Proliferation and Repertoire before and after Antiretroviral Therapy
7/23/2003 P. Anderson Developmental Award Project Presentation “In vitro studies for mechanistic insight into nucleoside analog-associated toxicities”
7/30/2003 J. Koeppe, A. Franzusoff Journal Club
8/6/2003 Liz Connick A Proposal to Investigate Migration of HIV-1-Specific CD8+ Effector Lymphocytes Within Human Lymphoid Tissue
8/13/2003 R. Akkina Modeling siRNA gene therapy for HIV/AIDS
8/20/2003 R. Rapaport INCREASED REPLICATION OF HIV-1 MINOR VARIANTS DURING HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL MOBILIZATION
8/27/2003 T. Campbell Antiviral Activity of Lamivudine Against HIV-1 with High-level Lamivudine Resistance
9/3/2003 L. Kosmiski HIV lipodystrophy-Recent Findings
9/10/2003 M. Hagen Journal Club
9/17/2003 J. Koeppe Can CD4 T Cells Exert a Selective Pressure on HIV-1?
9/24/2003 B. McFarland, E. Boritz Journal Club
10/1/2003 John Marecki Pulmonary Complications in Models of HIV: Evidence for Plexiform Lesions in an SIV Model
10/8/2003 D. Wyles, C. Wilson Journal Club
10/15/2003 M. Levi, J. Li Developmental Award Project Presentation “The effects of HIV protease inhibitors on lipid metabolism: role of the sterol regulatory element binding proteins (SREBPs)”
10/22/2003 S. Pan Role of Non-classical MHC Class I Pathways in Processing and Presentation of Yeast-associated Antigens
10/29/2003 Z. Guo CTLA4-targeted capture of HIV-replicating T cells and effects of Gag to cell surface presentation of Env and CTLA4
11/5/2003 X. Zhang The Inhibition of HCV Replication by Several Compounds
11/12/2003 B. Palmer HIV-1 Plasma Viremia Influences HIV-1-specific CD4+ T Cell Maturation and Function
11/19/2003 D. Wyles In vitro activity of novel anti-HCV compounds
11/26/2003 Thanksgiving Cancelled
12/3/2003 B. McFarland Virologic and immunologic changes in HIV infected children undergoing structured treatment interruption
12/10/2003 C. Meadows Investigation of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Infection in Primary Cells as an in vitro Model for Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
12/17/2003 T. White, B. Palmer Journal Club
12/24/2003 Christmas Cancelled
12/31/2003 New Years Cancelled

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