8th Annual Bay Area Symposium on Viruses
from Friday, June 1, 2018 11:00AM to Friday, June 1, 2018 8:00PM
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The Annual Bay Area Symposium on Viruses aims to strengthen the network of scientists in the San Francisco Bay Area working on virology, host-pathogen interactions, and control of human and animal viral infections. The symposium also serves as the annual meeting for BayViro, the Bay Area Virus Network. WHEN: Friday, June 1, 2018, 9 am - 6 pm WHERE: Li Ka Shing Center Auditorium (Room 245), University of California, Berkeley Speakers include: Elena Bekerman - Gilead Sciences Jerome Deval - AliosBioPharma Alan Frankel - UC San Francisco Jing Jin - Blood Systems Research Institute Karla Kirkegaard - Stanford University Kimberley Seed - UC Berkeley Priya Shah - UC Davis AGENDA: 8:00am Registration check-in & breakfast 8:45am Introduction and Welcome Remarks 9:00am Kimberly Seed (UCB) Fighting with phages: how epidemic Vibrio cholerae defends against viral attack 9:30am Andrea Gramatica (Gladstone) Identification of a Promising New Class of HIV-Latency Reversing Agents 9:40am Priya Shah (UCD) Understanding virus replication and pathogenesis through comparative flavivirus-host protein-protein interaction mapping 10:15am Melanie Ott (Gladstone) Cynthia Bolovan-Fritts Award 10:25am Coffee Break 11:00am Jerome Deval (Alios/Janssen) Innovation and trends in the development and approval of antiviral medicines: 1987-2017 and beyond 11:30am Karim Majzoub (Stanford) An RNA-Centric Dissection of Host Complexes Controlling Flavivirus Infection 11:45am Jing Jin (BSRI) One stone, three birds: antiviral mechanisms for multi-functional antibodies 12:15pm Lunch, Poster, and Networking Session 2:00pm Alan Frankel (UCSF) Evolution, interactions, and modifications of the HIB Tat and Rev regulatory proteins 2:30pm Matthew Gardner (UCB) The KSHV protein ORF68 is a proteasome-manipulating nuclease required for DNA packaging 2:45pm Elena Bekerman (Gilead) TLR7 agonists for HIV 3:15pm Fabio Zanini (Stanford) viscRNA-Seq: Single cell transcriptional dynamics of virus infections 3:30pm Coffee Break 4:00pm Marius Walter (Buck Institute) A New therapeutic Strategy against herpesviruses 4:15pm Karla Kirkegaard (Stanford) Differential and convergent utilization of autophagy components by positive-strand RNA viruses 4:45pm Lisa Kronstad, Blish Lab, Stanford Discovering how Natural Killer cells catch the Flu 5:00pm Best poster award 5:05pm Poster Session and Reception PARKING & DIRECTIONS: Getting to UC Berkeley: Public transit | Driving Downtown Bekeley BART: Li Ka Shing Center is 5-10 minute walk from Downtown Berkeley BART. Public Parking garages: View UC Berkeley Vistor Parking Map in a larger map here. Street parking: Metered and two-hour street parking are available around campus, but it can be hard to find a spot. More information.
UC Berkeley, Li Ka Shing Center
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