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Herpesviruses: Pathogenesis and Cancer
“Honoring the Career of Professor Nigel Fraser”
Tuesday June 2nd, 2015- Smilow Center for Translational Research
8:00 am
Registration and Breakfast (Registration Required)
8:25 am
ERLE ROBERTSON PhD, Professor, Director of the Tumor Virology Program, University of Pennsylvania
Opening Remarks
8:30 – 9:00 am
SANTOSH KESARI MD, PhD, FANA Professor and Director of Neuro-Oncology, UC San Diego School of Medicine
“Oncolytic viral therapy for brain cancer”
9:00 – 9:15 am
LAURIE KRUG PhD, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
“Novel functions for a gammaherpesvirus vFGAM tegument protein in replication and pathogenesis”
9:15 – 9:30 am
ADAM OBERSTEIN PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Thomas E. Shenk’s Lab, Princeton University
"Comparative proteomics analysis of HCMV infected fibroblasts and epithelial cells"
9:30 – 9:45 am
WILLIAM DONEGAN, Graduate Student, Jane Azizkhan-Clifford’s lab, Drexel University
“The role of ATM and Chk2 in HSV-1 infection”
9:45-10:00 am
MING LYE PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Donald M. Coen’s Lab, Harvard University
“Structures of cytomegalovirus nuclear egress complex”
10:00 – 10:30 am
Coffee and Tea Break (Registration Required)
10:30 – 11:15 am
DAVID M KNIPE, PhD., Professor, Chair of Virology Program, Harvard University
Gertrude and Werner Henle Lectureship Keynote Speaker
“Epigenetics of Herpesviral Lytic and Latent Infection-Building on the Foundation Provided by Nigel Fraser”
11:15 -11:30 am
EMILY BOWMAN, Graduate Student, Clare E. Sample’s Lab, Pennsylvania State College of Medicine
“Epstein-Barr Virus EBNA3A Represses Transcription of the Cell Cycle Inhibitor p21WAF1/CIP1”
11:30 – 11:45 am
UTSAV PANDEY, Graduate Student, Moriah L. Szpara’s Lab, Pennsylvania State University
“DNA from dust: The first full-length genome of MDV-1, isolated from naturally shed virions in poultry dust”
11:45 – 12:00 pm
CLAUDE KRUMMENACHER PhD, Assistant Professor, Rowan University
“Nectin-1: induction by glycoprotein D of ectopic localization”
12:00 – 1:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 – 1:45 pm
TIMOTHY BLOCK PhD, President, Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
“The other chronic viral infection: hepatitis B”
1:45 – 2:00 pm
SITA AWASTHI PhD, Research Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
“A genital herpes vaccine that targets viral entry and blocks evasion of host immunity”
2:00 – 2:15 pm
KRYSTAL LUM, Graduate Student, Ileana M. Cristea’s Lab, Princeton University
“Interactions of the antiviral factor IFI16 mediate immune signaling and herpes simplex virus-1 immunosuppression”
2:15 – 2:30 pm
SUMITA BHADURI-MCINTOSH MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University
“STAT3 regulates lytic activation of human gamma-herpesviruses”
2:30 - 3:00 pm
Coffee and Tea Break (Registration Required)
3:00 – 3:30 pm
ROBERT YARCHOAN MD, Chief, HIV and AIDs Malignancy Branch, NCI/NIH
Pathogenesis and therapeutic approaches to KSHV-associated multicentric Castleman disease and related disorders
3:30 – 3:45 pm
AYMAN EL-GUINDY PhD, Assistant Professor, Yale University
“The case for a new subclass of EBV late genes”
3:45 – 4:00 pm
JIA ZHU PhD, Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington
“Tissue resident immunity in human genital herpes infection”
4:00 – 4:15 pm
DONGLI PAN PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Donald M. Coen’s Lab, Harvard University
“Regulation of host and viral microRNA biogenesis in herpes simplex virus-1 infected cells and ganglia”
4:15 – 4:30 pm
HUI CHEN PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yan Yuan’s Lab, University of Pennsylvania
“The Micro-biology of Micropeptides: Insights from KSHV”
4:30 pm
Wine and Cheese Reception, Smilow Commons (Registration Required)
(Registration Required)
For information: Elysia Petras [email protected] or Erle S. Robertson