GUEST SPEAKERS

January 2007 - Present

JoAnne Flynn PhD

A Nonhuman Primate Model of Tuberculosis: What Can We Learn
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
May 21, 2008

Robert Seder MD

The Quality of T Cell Responses Influence Immune Protection: Implications for Vaccine Development
Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
May 2, 2008

Frederic Bushman PhD

Macaque GI Microbiota tudie4d Using Massively Parallel Pyrosequencing
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
April 9, 2008

Thomas Voss PhD

Acute Viral Infection: The Role of Host Responses in Disease Pathogenesis
Tulane School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New Orleans, LA, USA
April 4, 2008

Keith Reimann DVM

Strategies to Engineer Recombinant Antibodies for Use in Nonhuman Primate Models
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
March 14, 2008

David Strayer MD, PhD

Genetic Therapy for AIDS and NeuroAIDS: Hope for the Future
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, USA
January 23, 2008

Ernest Drucker PhD

Historical and Epidemiological Studies of the Origins of HIV in Africa
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
December 14, 2007

Samithamby Jeyaseelan DVM, PhD

Toll-Like Receptor Signaling: A Critical Regulator of Pulmonary Inflammation and Host Defense
Louisiana State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
November 30, 2007

James Hoxie PhD

New approaches for SIV attenuation in vivo: Wagging the dog with the Env cytoplasmic tail?
Director for AIDS and HIV Research, University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
November 19, 2007

Michael Jazwinski PhD

How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Aging
Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
November 5, 2007

Luis Giavedoni PhD

Use of a tether system for the intensive characterization of the acute immune response of rhesus macaques to SIV infection
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, TX, USA
October 12, 2007

Victoria Sutton PhD

Biodefense Research, Academic Freedom and National Security in the 21st Century
Center for Biodefense, Law and Public Policy, Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, TX, USA
September 20, 2007

Matthew Hoffman

Your Virtual Primate Library: Free Services and Resources to Support Primate Research
Jacobsen Librarty National Primate Research Center/University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
August 10, 2007

Gene Shearer PhD

Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in HIV Immunopathogenesis: How Innate Anti-viral Immunity Cripples T Cell Responses
NCI Center for Cancer Research (Videocast), Bethesda, MD, USA
June 18, 2007

Scott Weaver PhD

Chimeric Sindbis-based Alphavirus Vaccines
University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston, TX, USA
May 30, 2007

Jeffrey W. Koehler PhD

Development of a Rhesus Model for HIV/Malaria Co-infection: Implications of Co-infection
Tulane University Biomedical Sciences, New Orleans, LA, USA
May 18, 2007

Zhiwei Chen PhD

Evolving HIV-1 Epidemic in China and Its Implication to AIDS Vaccine Development
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York, NY, USA
May 16, 2007

David Montefiori PhD

Potential Impact of Genetic Diversity on Neutralizing Antibody-Based HIV-1 Vaccines
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
May 11, 2007

Anapatricia Garcia DVM, PhD

Severe malaria in experimentally-infected rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)
Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
May 4, 2007

Steven B. Mizel PhD

Flagellin – A Potent and Flexible Mucosal Adjuvant
Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
May 1, 2007

Ruy Riberio PhD

The In-vivo Dynamics of T-cells During HIV Infection
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
April 13, 2007

Dominik Duelli PhD

Virus-induced Cell Fusion, a Cause of Chromosomal Instability and Cancer
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
April 13, 2007

Allen Portner PhD

Development of Vaccines and Drugs for the Prevention and Treatment of Paramyxovirus Infections
St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
February 9, 2007

Matthias Schnell PhD

From Mice to Monkeys to Humans? Rabies Virus as a Vaccine Vector against HIV-1
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
January 19, 2007

Michael Emerman PhD

Human barriers against infection by ancient retrovirus may lead to greater present-day susceptibility to HIV-1
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
January 12, 2007