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Session 40  Poster Discussion
Themed Discussion: New Insights into the Mechanisms of Elite Control
Wednesday, 2:30-3:30 pm
Room: Room 710
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Elite Controllers Are Enriched with HIV-specific Cells Expressing CD160 but Lacking PD-1
Yoav Peretz*1, Y Shi1, Z He1, B Bessette1, L Trautmann1, B Yassine-Diab1, C Tremblay1, N Bernard2, R-P Sékaly1, and E Haddad1
1Univ of Montreal, Canada and 2McGill Univ Hlth Ctr, Montreal, Canada
      357

HIV-specific CD8 T Cells from Elite Controllers Rapidly Up-regulate Perforin after Stimulation
Adam Hersperger*1, P Sheth2, L Shin2, R Kaul2, and M Betts1
1Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US and 2Univ of Toronto, Canada
      358

Very Rapid Response Kinetics to HLA-B57/58 gag-restricted Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Epitopes Is Associated with Slow Disease Progression
I Stahmer, J Schulze Zur Wiesch, P Hartjen, A Thomssen, and Jan Van Lunzen*
Heinrich Pette Inst, Univ Med Ctr Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
      359 HIV Suppression by CD8+ T Cells from HIV Controllers Is Associated with Gag-specific CD8+ T Cell Responses: The ANRS EP36 Study
A Sáez-Cirión1, S Shin1, M Sinet2,3, A Urrutia2,3, P Versmisse1, F Boufassa4, C Rouzioux5,6, O Lambotte2,3, A Venet2, and Gianfranco Pancino*1
1Pasteur Inst, Paris, France; 2INSERM U802, Le Kremlin Bicetre, France; 3Univ Paris Sud, Sch of Med Paris XI, Le Kremlin Bicetre, France; 4INSERM U822, Hosp Bicetre, Le Kremlin Bicetre, France; 5Ctr Hosp Univ Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France; and 6Univ Paris-Descartes, Sch of Med, France
      360

An Intermediate Subset of Effector Memory CD4 T Cells Is the Major Reservoir of HIV in Long-term Elite and Viremic Controllers
Véronique Avettand-Fenoel*1, B Descours2, A Samri2, A Mélard1, C Blanc3, F Oualid2, L Hocqueloux4, T Prazuck4, C Rouzioux1, B Autran2, and the ALT ANRS CO15 Study Group
1Université Paris 5, EA3620, AP-HP, Paris, France; 2Université Paris 6, U543, Paris, France; 3Flow Cytometry Platform, Inter IFR-UPMC -UPMC, Paris, France; and 4Ctr Hosp Univ Orleans, France
      361 Animal Model of Elite Controlled Infection
C Apetrei, Thaidra Gaufin*, D Mandell, R Gautam, C Monjure, M Pattison, M Barnes, J MacFarland, C Tatum, and I Pandrea
Tulane Natl Primate Res Ctr, Covington, LA, US