Bugs, Drugs, and Vaccines: Securing Our Future

symposium agenda

Wednesday, April 5, 2006
ALL PRESENTATIONS IN MOODY GARDENS BALLROOM UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED

7:30 – 8:30 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 8:45 a.m.	Welcome Remarks Dr. Stanley M. Lemon, Dr. Kenneth I. Shine, Dr. Donald R. Paul and Dr. John D. Stobo
8:45 – 9:30 a.m.	Keynote Speaker: Dr. John Mekalanos, Harvard Medical School Session I: New Routes to Pathogen Discovery Chairs: Dr. Shelley Payne, The University of Texas at Austin Dr. Michael E. Gale, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
9:30 – 10:00 a.m.	Dr. C. J. Peters, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Emerging Virus Infections
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.	break
10:15 – 10:45 a.m.	Dr. Robert Krug, The University of Texas at Austin Influenza Virus
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.	Pathogen Discovery – Poster Session Award Recipient Presentation
11:00 – 11:30 a.m.	Dr. Timothy Palzkill, Baylor College of Medicine Functional Genomics of Pathogens
11:30 – 12:00 p.m.	Dr. Garry Adams, Texas A & M College of Veterinary Medicine Pathomics Discovery Platform
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.	Conference Lunch
1:30 – 2:15 p.m.	Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bernard Moss, National Institutes of Health New Insights into the Biology of Poxviruses: Application to the Development of Safer Vaccines Session II: New Approaches to Antimicrobials Chairs: Dr. Nancy Chang, Tanox Dr. Phil LoVerde, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
2:15 – 2:45 p.m.	Dr. Michael E. Gale, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Protein Prenylation and Hepatitis C Virus: New considerations for Antiviral Therapy
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.	Break
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.	Dr. Thomas Duensing, Tanox
3:30 – 3:45 p.m.	Antimicrobials – Poster Session Award Recipient Presentation
3:45 – 4:15 p.m.	Dr. Timothy Anderson, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
4:15 – 4:45 p.m.	Dr. Magnus Hook, Texas A&M Health Science Center MSCRAMMs, Novel Targets for Therapeutic Antibodies and Vaccines
4:45 – 6:30 p.m.	Poster Session and Reception Group on own for dinner

symposium agenda
Thursday, April 6, 2006

8:30 – 9:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:45 a.m.	Keynote speaker: Dr. Peter Palese, Mount Sinai Medical School What Can We Learn From Reconstructing the Extinct 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus? Session III: Vaccines Chairs: Dr. Larry Stanberry, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Dr. Mary Estes, Baylor College of Medicine
9:45 – 10:15 a.m.	Dr. Phil LoVerde, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research Vaccination with Antioxidant Enzymes Confers Protective Immunity Against Challenge Infection with Schistosoma Mansoni and is Directed Against Adult Worms
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.	break
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.	Dr. Mary Estes, Baylor College of Medicine
11:00 – 11:15 a.m.	Vaccines – Poster Session Award Recipient Presentation
11:15 – 11:45 a.m.	Dr. Larry Stanberry, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
11:45 – 12:15 p.m.	Dr. Jacques Banchereau, Baylor Institute for Immunology Research in Dallas Dendritic Cell Based Vaccines
12:15 noon	Symposium concludes

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Susan Onion at (512) 499-4223
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