4th Conference on Retroviruses and
Opportunistic Infections Preliminary Program Update

Opening Session
6-8 pm
Wednesday
JANUARY 22, 1997
Bernard S. Fields Memorial Lecture
Can HIV Be Eradicated from an
Infected Person?
DAVID HO

Plenary Lecture
HIV/AIDS: The Global Status and Response to the Epidemic

PETER PIOT

 

  Thursday
JANUARY 23, 1997
Friday
JANUARY 24, 1997
Saturday
JANUARY 25, 1997
Sunday
JANUARY 26, 1997
State-of-the-Art
Lectures
(Plenaries)
8:30-9:15 am

Please see times noted for the Sunday schedule

2. Viral and
Cellular Dynamics: Implications for Antiretroviral Therapy
36. CMV 73. NeuroAIDS 85. Perinatal Transmission and Early Virus Replication Events in Babies
8-8:45 am
State-of-the-Art
Lectures
9:15-10 am
3. Chemokines: Structure and Biological Activities 37. Molecular Mechanisms in HIV Infection and Replication: Results from X-ray Crystallography
74. Transport In and Out of the Nucleus 86. Transport of Antigens and Infectious Agent Across Mucosae 8:45-9:30 pm
Slide Sessions
10:30 am-
12:30 pm
4. Opportunistic Infections: PCP, Fungi, Cryptosporidiosis, PML and Dementia

5. Antiretroviral Chemotherapy: New Agents, Resistance, and in vitro Assessment Techniques

6. Pathogenesis I

7. Epidemiology: Virologic Aspects

8. Immunopatho-
genesis and Effects of Therapy

38. Mycobacterial and Bacterial Opportunistic Infections; Opportunistic Infection Correlations with Viral Load and Survival

39. Antiviral Therapy:
Clinical Trials

40. Epidemiology: Trends and Prevention

41. Pathogenesis II

42. Molecular Virology I

75. Antiviral Therapy: Pediatric Clinical Trials, Viral Load in Genital Secretions

76. HHV-8 (KSHV); Tissue Correlates of Opportunistic Infections

77. Molecular Virology II: Chemokine Receptors, nef, VPR

78. Pathogenesis III and Retroviral Diagnostics

79. Immune Response and
Vaccines

87. Late Breaker Session
9:45 am-
12:30 pm
Symposia
2-4 pm
9. Pneumocystis carinii:
Clinical Insights from the Bench

10. HIV Entry Cofactors: The Chemokine receptor Connection

11. Non-KS Malignancies: Bench to Bedside

12. Advances in HIV Prevention

43.Mycobacteria: Bench to Bedside

44. Kaposi's Sarcoma/ KSHV

45. Vaccine Strategies

46. Primary/Early Events

80. Determinants of Disease Progression

81. Basic and Clinical Pharmacology of Protease Inhibitors

82. Intestinal Protozoa/ Cryptosporidium: Bench to Bedside

83. Role of Accessory and Regulatory Genes for Virus-cell Interactions

 
Posters and Special
Symposium

4-6:30 pm
Poster Sessions
13-35
Poster Sessions 47-72 84. Symposium: Update on Antiretroviral Therapy  

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