Friday, 8th December
9th Australasian Virology Society Meeting 2017
Days
Tuesday, 5th December
Wednesday, 6th December
Thursday, 7th December
Friday, 8th December
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Speakers
Control of Latent and Persistent Infections
8:30AM - 10:00AM
Friday, 8th December
Ballroom 3-4
Chairs: Allison Abendroth & Jacqueline Flynn
Defining the persistent HIV reservoir in the CNS of virally suppressed individuals
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Melissa Churchill
Exploring the effect of RNA-directed epigenetic silencing of HIV-1 in cell types relevant to the CNS reservoir
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Christina Fichter
Genomics and Pathogenesis of HTLV-1c Prevalent in Australian Remote Indigenous Communities
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Damian Purcell
HIV and the Anorectal Mucosa - Investigating the Early Interactions of HIV with Mucosal Target Cells I
n Situ.
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Heeva Baharlou
Immune Reconstitution after Allogeneic Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and its Relation to Human Cytomegalovirus Reactivation
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Lauren Stern
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Friday, 8th December
Ballroom 1-2
Emerging RNA Viruses
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Friday, 8th December
Ballroom 3-4
Chairs: Jillian Carr & Daniel Watterson
Ferret models for countermeasure development against BSL4 pathogens
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Glenn Marsh
Evolution of West Nile virus in Australia and emergence of a pro-inflammatory phenotype
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David Warrilow
Zika virus attenuates the host innate response to infection
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Kylie Van der Hoek
Characterisation of a novel paramyxovirus isolated from pteropid bat urine
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Rebecca Johnson
Understanding the mechanisms involved in host permissivity to Ross River and Barmah Forest viruses.
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Penny A Rudd
Lunch
12:00PM - 1:15PM
Friday, 8th December
Ballroom 1-2
Virus Structures, Receptors and Assembly
1:15PM - 2:45PM
Friday, 8th December
Ballroom 3-4
Chairs: Sarah Londrigan & Anupriya Aggarwal
Novel Insights of HIV Assembly
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Johnson Mak
Structural and functional insights into a cross-reactive antibody that recognizes dengue and zika virus NS1 protein and blocks NS1 function
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Daniel Watterson
Investigating the architecture of a Salmonella Typhi bacteriophage
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Joshua M Hardy
An insect-specific virus system for the safe high resolution structural analysis of pathogenic flavivirus virions
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Natalee D. Newton
Super-Resolution Imaging of the Subcellular Virus-Host Interface
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Ashley M. Rozario
Closing Ceremony and Awards
2:45PM - 3:15PM
Friday, 8th December
Ballroom 3-4
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