THURSDAY
November 05, 2015
Registration
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Gallery Lobby
Welcome Reception & Dinner
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Garden Room
Keynote Address
Nancy Haigwood, PhD
Oregon Health Sciences University
Social Networking
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Garden Room
FRIDAY
November 06, 2015
Registration
7:00 am – 8:00 am Gallery Lobby
Breakfast
7:00 am – 8:00 am Garden Room
Session I: Antigenic Variation in Viruses
8:00 am – 10:30 am North Prairie
HIV genetic variation and vaccine immunogen design
Jim Mullins, PhD
University of Washington
Genetic and Antigenic Variability of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus: a practical problem
Elizabeth Rieder, PhD
USDA, Agriculture Research Service, Plum Island
Molecular evolution of PRRSV under experimental and field conditions
Kyoung-Jin Yoon, DVM, PhD
Iowa State University
Antigenic variation and human immune responses
Richard Webby, PhD
St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital
2 Oral Presentations from Abstracts
Refreshment Break
10:30 am – 11:00 am
Session II: Immune Correlates of Protection
11:00 am – 1:00 pm North Prairie
Dendritic cell regulation of influenza virus immunity
Kevin Legge, PhD
University of Iowa
The role of host genetics in the design of PRRS vaccines
Bob Rowland, PhD
Kansas State University
Studies of broad and potent anti-HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies in SHIV infected rhesus macaques
Malcolm Martin, PhD
National Institutes of Health, NIAID
2 Oral Presentations from Abstracts
Lunch Break
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Garden Room
Session III: Insights from Bioinformatics and Computational/Systems Biology
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm North Prairie
Informing HIV immunogen design by characterizing clonal related sequence sets with NGS
Adrian Shepherd, PhD
University of London, Birkbeck
B cell lineage dynamics during serial immunizations
Thomas B. Kepler, PhD
Boston University
Systems Biology of infection and Immunity-Deadly Virus Infections in the 21st Century: Successes, Challenges, Ebola, and Networks to Nowhere?
Michael Katze, PhD
University of Washington
