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Session 73  Poster Abstracts
Neuropathogenesis: Virology
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Hall D
      374 A Rare and Extreme Etiology of HIV-1 in the Cerebrospinal Fluid and Blood in an HIV-infected Non-progressor
Bin Wang*1, M Mikhail1, W Dyer2, J Zaunders3, D Cooper3, A Kelleher3, B Brew4, and N Saksena1
1Westmead Millennium Inst, Westmead Hosp, Univ of, Sydney, Australia; 2Australian Red Cross, Sydney; 3St Vincent's Hosp, Darlinghurst, Australia; and 4St Vincent's Hosp, Sydney, Australia
      375 Phylodynamic Analysis of HIV-1 in the Brain
M Salemi1, S Lamers2, S Yu3, T de Oliveira4, W Fitch5, and Michael McGrath*3
1Univ of Florida, Gainesville, USA; 2Gene Johnson Inc, St Augustine, FL, USA; 3Univ of California, San Francisco, USA; 4Univ of California, Irvine, USA; and 5Africa Ctr for Hlth and Population Studies and Nelson Mandela Sch of Med, Durban, South Africa
      376 A Genetic Variant of HIV with Reduced CD4 Dependence Is Associated with Brain Infection and HIV-associated Dementia
Rebecca Dunfee*1,2, E Thomas1,2, P Gorry1,2, J Taylor3, K Kunstman3, J Bell4, S Wolinsky3, and D Gabuzda1,2
1Dana-Farber Cancer Inst, Boston, MA, USA; 2Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA, USA; 3Northwestern Univ, Feinberg Sch of Med, Chicago, IL, USA; and 4Univ of Edinburgh, Scotland
      378

Astrocytes Constitute a Unique Central Nervous System HIV Reservoir in Persons with Suppressed Plasma Virus and Elevated CD4+ Cell Counts
Nikilyn Kinzel*1 and W Cavert2
1Mayo Grad Sch, Rochester, MN, USA and 2Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
      379

Establishment of Persistent Inducible Latent HIV Infection in Astrocytes: Relevance to the HIV Reservoir in Brain
Ashok Chauhan*, S Gartner, and A Nath
Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, USA and Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, USA
      380

Regulation of HIV-1 Transcription by NF-kB, SP-1, and Histone Acytelation in Primary Human Astrocytes
Elena Paskaleva*, D Avram, and M Canki
Albany Med Coll, NY, USA and Albany Med Coll, NY, USA
      381

Molecular Mechanisms for HIV-1 Restriction in Human Astroglia
Roger Pomerantz*, J Fang, E Acheampong, and M Mukhtar
Thomas Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia, PA, USA
      382

HIV-1 Nef Potently Induces Apoptosis at the Blood-Brain Barrier
Roger Pomerantz*, E Acheampong, Z Parveen, L Muthoga, M Kalayeh, and M Mukhtar
Thomas Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia, PA, USA
      383 Potently Targeting Neurotropic HIV-1 Strains with RNA Interference in Human Macrophages
Rajnish S Dave* and R Pomerantz
Thomas Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia, PA, USA
      384 Enhanced Replication of Human Polyomavirus JC Type 2B in Primary Glial Cells
Vivek Nerurkar*1, R Frisque2, T Bui1, and S Tyagarajan2
1Univ of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA and 2Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, USA