HIV RESERVOIR AND CURE SYMPOSIUM 2022
Welcome
The HIV Cure Research Center Ghent is very pleased to invite you to the 8th HIV Reservoir and Cure Symposium that will be held in the beautiful city of Ghent, Flanders, Belgium, September 12-13, 2022.
The HIV Cure Symposium will comprehensively summarize the state of the art in
HIV cure strategies and diagnostic tools to monitor therapeutic interventions.
Distinguished speakers such as Marcus Buggert, Mathias Lichterfeld, Ya-Chi-Ho, Nicolas Chomont, Javier Martinez-Picado, John Frater, Rafick Sékaly, Ole Søgaard, Sarah Fidler, Marion Pardons, Tine Struyve, Evy Blomme, Casper Rokx and Jozefien De Clercq will highlight the latest developments and
progress in HIV Cure research. Key topics of the symposium will be: Single cell approaches, the HIV reservoir, acute seroconversions, how to reach an HIV cure, etc…will bediscussed.
Program
12 September 2022
| 13h00-15h20 | SINGLE CELL APPROACHES TO IDENTIFY HIV RESERVOIRS - Chaired by Zeger Debyser and Sarah Gerlo |
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13h00-13h10 |
Welcome and Introduction Linos Vandekerckhove, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium |
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13h10-13h40 |
How memory T cells recognize and eliminates viral infections Marcus Buggert, Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden |
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13h40-14h10 |
Parallel analysis of transcription, integration, and sequence of single HIV-1 proviruses Mathias Lichterfeld, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, US |
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14h10-14h40 |
Single-cell multi-omics understanding of HIV-induced immune dysfunction Ya-Chi Ho, Yale’s Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, New Haven, US |
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14h40-15h00 |
2 selected abstracts |
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15h00-15h20 |
Break |
| 15h20-17h00 | THE TRANSLATIONAL COMPETENT RESERVOIR - Chaired by Mathias Lichterfeld and Ya-Chi-Ho |
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15h20-15h50 |
Tbc Nicolas Chomont, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada |
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15h50-16h20 |
Potent latency reversal enables in-depth transcriptomic analyses of the translation-competent HIV reservoir Marion Pardons, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium |
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16h20-16h40 |
2 selected abstracts |
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16h40-17h00 |
Break |
| 17h00-19h30 | COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS |
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17h00-17h45 |
Satellite tbc |
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17h45-18h05 |
Concerted action towards an HIV cure in Europe: EU2CURE Casper Rokx, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL |
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18h05-19h30 |
Network Reception |
13 September 2022
| 09h00-10h40 | HOW TO QUANTIFY THE VIRAL RESERVOIR IN HIV CURE STUDIES - Chaired by Ole Søgaard and John Frater |
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09h00-09h30 |
The multitask efforts of measuring viral persistence Javier Martinez-Picado, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain |
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09h30-10h00 |
Setting up a high throughput pipeline to measure the intact proviruses Evy Blomme, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium |
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10h00-10h20 |
2 selected abstracts |
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10h20-10h40 |
Break |
| 10h40-13h15 | ACUTE SEROCONVERSION: LESSONS LEARNED SO FAR - Chaired by Nicolas Chomont and Carine Van Lint |
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10h40-11h10 |
Virological status Tine Struyve, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium |
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11h10-11h40 |
Immunological profiling and tissue Jozefien De Clercq, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium |
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11h40-12h00 |
2 selected abstracts |
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12h00-13h15 |
Lunch |
| 13h15-14h20 | COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS |
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13h15-14h00 |
Satellite tbc |
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14h00-14h20 |
Patient perspectives on HIV Cure in Europe tbc |
| 14h20-17h00 | REACHING AN HIV CURE - Chaired by Linos Vandekerckhove and Javier Martinez Picado |
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14h20-14h50 |
T-cell immunity in the context of bNAbs and the search for a vaccinal effect John Frater, University of Oxford, England, UK |
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14h50-15h20 |
Impact of anti PD1 in the NHP model Rafick Sékaly, Emory University, Atlanta, US |
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15h20-15h40 |
Break |
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15h40-16h10 |
Results from eCLEAR study Ole Søgaard, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark |
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16h10-16h40 |
Current ongoing bNAbs studies in the UK Sarah Fidler, Imperial College London, London, UK |
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16h40-17h00 |
2 selected abstracts |
| CLOSING |
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Registration (opening soon)
Call for abstracts
The HIV Cure Research Center invites you to submit abstracts for oral presentations for the HIV Reservoir and Cure Symposium to be held on 12-13 September 2022 in Ghent. The length of abstracts for presentations should not exceed 350 words. Ten minutes will be foreseen for each selected poster presentation.
The deadline for abstract submission is July 11th, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be made on August 16th, 2022. Please send abstracts as a Pdf document to Karen Vervisch, karen.vervisch@uzgent.be by August 24th.
Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Linos Vandekerckhove – Head of the HIV Cure Research Center
Prof. Dr. Sarah Gerlo – PI HIV Cure Research Center
Karen Vervisch – Lab Manager
2021 in preview
Interested in re-watching the 2021 HIV Cure and SARS-CoV-2 Hybrid Symposium that was held in Zellik, Belgium?
WERELDWIJD LEVEN 37 MILJOEN MENSEN MET HIV. STEUN HET FONDS HIV ONTRAFELEN en Help hen.
Door de COVID-19 maatregelen zal de 7de editie pas in december 2022 plaatsvinden.
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