Third European Congress of Virology

1 - 5 September 2007, CCN CongressCenter Nürnberg · Germany

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Tuesday 4 September 2007 -

09.00 – 10.30 h / Room Tokio
Symposium II New Vaccination Strategies
Chair: Giorgio Palù, Klaus Überla
Peter Palese: Can we make better influenza virus vaccines?
Ronald C. Desrosiers: Overcoming HIV's strategies of immune evasion: the challenges of a vaccine for AIDS
10.00 - 10.30 h Loeffler-Frosch Medal:
Introduction: Nikolaus Müller-Lantzsch
Award Lecture: Harald zur Hausen:
Virus vaccination against cancer

10.30 - 11.00 h

COFFEE BREAK
 
11.00 – 13.00 h / Room Tokio
Workshop 13 Intrinsic and Innate Immunity
Chair: Manfred P. Dierich, Jay A. Levy
Keynote Lecture: Klaus Strebel:
11.00 - 11.30 h Disarming innate antiretroviral defense mechanisms
11.30 - 13.00 h Oral presentations:
Foamy virus protein Bet induces delocalization and inhibits complex formation of APOBEC3
* Mario Perkovic (2), Henning Hofmann (2), Stanislaw Schmidt (2), Ferdinand Kopietz (2), Martin Löchelt (1), Klaus Cichutek (2), Carsten Münk (2)
(1) DKFZ, Genome Modifications and Carcinogenesis, Heidelberg, Germany; (2) Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Medical Biotechnology, Langen, Germany
Increased APOBEC3-Expression in long-term non progressors (LTNPs) of SIV-Infected Macaques
* Bianka Mussil (1), Dirk Motzkus (1), Ulrike Sauermann (1), Christiane Stahl-Hennig (1), Sieghart Sopper (1)
(1) German Primate Center, Virology and Immunology, Goettingen, Germany
PML and Daxx independently contribute to an intrinsic immune response against HCMV infection
* Nina Tavalai (1), Thomas Stamminger (1)
(1) Virologisches Institut, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
The Cytomegalovirus pM27 Protein Disrupts Interferon JAK-STAT-Signaling by Recruiting STAT2 to the DNA Damage Binding (DDB1)-CUL4A E3 Ligase Complex
Mirko Trilling (1), Albert Zimmermann (1), Manuela Fiedler (1), * Hartmut Hengel (1)
(1) Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Institut für Virologie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Agonist of Proteinase-Activated Receptor-2 (PAR2) Enhances Anti-viral Effects of IFNγ on Human Monocytes
* Victoria Shpacovitch (1), Micha Feld (1), Stefan Ludwig (2), Martin Steinhoff (1)
(1) University of Münster, Dept of Dermatology, Münster, Germany; (2) University of Münster, ZMBE, Institute of Molecular Virology, Münster, Germany
 
Summary Lecture: Jay A. Levy: Overview: Innate Immunity in HIV Infection
   
11.00 – 13.00 h / Room Istanbul
Workshop 14 Gene Therapy
Chair: David Klatzmann, Stefan Kochanek
Keynote Lecture: Mary Collins:
11.00 - 11.30 h Engineering HIV for gene delivery
11.30 - 13.00 h Oral presentations:
Re-directed T cells eliminate HBV-infected hepatocytes
Felix Bohne (1), Markus Chmielewski (2), Gregor Ebert (1), Stephan Urban (3), Hinrich Abken (2), * Ulrike Protzer (1)
(1) University, Molecular Infectiology, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Cologne, Germany; (2) University Hospital, Tumor Genetics, Cologne, Germany; (3) University, Molecular Virology, Heidelberg, Germany
The neutralizing antibody C2F5 as a secretable fusion inhibitor for gene therapy of HIV infection
* Janine Kimpel (1), Sebastian Newrzela (1), Shweta Pahujani (1), Dorothee von Laer (1)
(1) Georg-Speyer Haus, Frankfurt, Germany
Chromosomal integration of adenovirus vector DNA in vitro and in vivo
Sam Laurel Stephen (1), * Stefan Kochanek (2)
(1) University of Cologne, ZMMK, Cologne, Germany; (2) University of Ulm, Division of Gene Therapy, Ulm, Germany
CD133+ cells as targets for glioma gene therapy using adenovirus vectors
Johan Skog (1), Karin Edlund (1), Tommy Bergenheim (2), * Göran Wadell (1)
(1) Clinical Microbiology, Virology, Umeå, Sweden; (2) Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå, Sweden
Evaluation of 20 human adenovirus types and one infectivity-enhanced adenovirus for the therapy of softtissue sarcoma
Dennis Hoffmann (1), Albert Heim (2), Dirk M. Nettelbeck (3), Steinstraesser Lars (4), *Oliver Wildner (1)
(1) Ruhr University Bochum, Dep. for Virology, Bochum, Germany; (2) Hannover Medical School, Institut of Virology, Hannover, Germany; (3) University Heidelberg, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; (4) Ruhr-University Bochum
Development of an SIVsmmPBj- and a HIV-2-derived three-plasmid vector system
* Björn-Philipp Kloke (1), Silke Schüle (1), Katrin Högner (1), Nina Wolfrum (1), Klaus Cichutek (1), Matthias Schweizer (1)
(1) Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Medical Biotechnology, Langen, Germany
 
11.00 – 13.00 h / Room Shanghai
Workshop 15 Retroviruses II
Chair: Ben Berkhout, Kalle Saksela
Keynote Lecture: Jeremy Luban:
11.00 - 11.30 h Host factors that restrict retroviral replication
11.30 - 13.00 h Oral presentations:
Characterization of the Vif Interaction domain in APOBEC3C
* Björn-Philipp Kloke (1), Klaus Cichutek (1), Carsten Münk (1)
(1) Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Medical Biotechnology, Langen, Germany
APOBEC3 proteins are major players in intracellular defense against human LINE-1 retrotransposition
Heide Muckenfuss (1), Matthias Hamdorf (1), Axel Horn (2), Mario Perkovic (1), Johannes Löwer (2), Klaus Cichutek (1), Egbert Flory (1), Carsten Münk (1), * Gerald Schumann (2)
(1) Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Division of Medical Biotechnology, Langen, Germany; (2) Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Section PR2/Retroelements, Langen, Germany
RNA Requirments for the Incorporation of Pol Protein into Foamy Virus Particles
* Tatiana Wiktorowicz (1), Katrin Peters (1), Axel Rethwilm (1)
(1) Universität Würzburg, Institut für Virologie und Immunbiologie, Würzburg, Germany
The role of viral and cellular factors that control translation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 (HIV-1) RNA
* Harriet Groom (1), Emma Anderson (1), John Dangerfield (2), Andrew Lever (1)
(1) University Cambridge, Medicine, Cambridge, UK; (2) University of Veterinary Medicine, Research Institute of Virology and Biomedicine, Vienna, Austria
DNA repair factors in foamy virus integration
Tatjana Cornu (1), Benjamin Krause (1), * Christine Schuberth (1), Toni Cathomen (1)
(1) Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Virologie (CBF), Berlin, Germany
Modulation of Immunological Synapse Organization and Function by HIV-1 Nef
Claudia Haller (1), Susanne Rauch (1), * Oliver Fackler (1)
(1) Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Abteilung Virologie, Heidelberg, Germany

13.00 - 14.00 h

BREAK
 
14.00 – 16.00 h
Poster Session III

16.00 - 16.30 h

COFFEE BREAK
 
16.30 – 18.30 h / Room Tokio
Workshop 16 Adaptive Immunity and Immunoprevention
Chair: Barbara Ensoli, Stipan Jonjič
Keynote Lecture: Cornelis J. M. Melief
16.30 - 17.00 h Immunoprevention and immunotherapy of high risk HPV-induced diseases
17.00 - 18.30 h Oral presentations:
Inconsistent responses of cytomegalovirus (CMV)-specific T-cells to pp65 and IE-1 vs infected dendritic cells in organ transplant recipients (OTR)
Daniele Lilleri (1), Paola Zelini (1), Chiara Fornara (1), Giuditta Comolli (2), * Giuseppe Gerna (1)
(1) Servizio di Virologia, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy; (2) Servizio di Virologia, Laboratori Sperimentali di Ricerca Area Biotecnologie, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
A Randomized, Controlled, Phase II Study with an MVA-Nef Vaccine in HIV-1 Infected Patients Followed by Structured Treatment Interruption (STI)
* T. Harrer (1), J. Hain (2), T. Meyer (2), N. Baedecker (2), V. Sobek (2), M. Baeuerle (1), H. Jaeger (3), M. Helm (4), D. Gorriahn (5), L. Schneider (6), E. Harrer (1)
(1) University Hospital Erlangen, Dept. of Medicine III, Erlangen, Germany; (2) Bavarian Nordic GmbH, Martinsried, Germany; (3) Practice Jaeger, Munich, Germany; (4) Practice Helm, Nuremberg, Germany; (5) Practice Gorriahn, Munich, Germany; (6) Practice Schneider, Fürth, Germany
Allogeneic CTL therapy for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-positive PTLD: Results of a phase II multicentre clinical trial
* Tanzina Haque (1), Gwen Wilkie (2), Craig Higgins (3), Karen McAulay (2), Anthony Swerdlow (3), Dorothy Crawford (2)
(1) Royal Free Hospital, Department of Virology, London, UK; (2) University of Edinburgh, CMV Laboratory, Edinburgh, UK; (3) ICR, Sutton, UK
Cross-competition of CD8+ T cells shapes the immunodominance hierarchy during boost vaccination
* Wolfgang Kastenmüller (1), Georg Gasteiger (2), * Ingo Drexler (3)
(1) TUM, Virology, Munich, Germany; (2) GSF, Virology, Munich, Germany; (3) GSF, Virology, Munich, Germany
Seamless Modification of the HCMV Genome by GalK Mediated Recombineering: Generation of Recombinant Dense Bodies
* Sabine Reyda (1), Véronique Mersseman (1), Bodo Plachter (1)
(1) University of Mainz, Institute for Virology, Mainz, Germany
Microsphere co-encapsulated PrP with CpG breaks self-tolerance to prion protein and induces CD4 and CD8 T cell responses
Gunnar Kaiser-Schulz (2), Antje Heit (1), * Hermann Schätzl (2)
(1) Technical University of Munich, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Munich, Germany; (2) Technical University of Munich, Institute of Virology, Munich, Germany
 
16.30 – 18.30 h / Room Istanbul
Workshop 17 Negative Strand RNA Viruses II
Chair: Karl-Klaus Conzelmann, Veronika von Messling
Keynote Lecture: Paul Duprex:
16.30 - 17.00 h Live cell imagining of paramyxovirus infection
17.00 - 18.30 h Oral presentations:
The fusion protein of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activates transcription factor p53 leading to apoptosis and shedding of epithelial cells
* Julia Eckardt-Michel (1), Markus Lorek (1), Diane Baxmann (1), Gert Zimmer (1)
(1) University of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Virology, Hannover, Germany
Measles virus P gene products inhibit Toll-like receptor 7/9 signaling
* Christian Pfaller (1), Karl-Klaus Conzelmann (1)
(1) Max von Pettenkofer-Institute & Gene Center, LMU, Munich, Germany
Structural properties of phosphoproteins of Rhabdoviridae
* Francine Gerard (1), Euripedes Ribeiro (1), Aurelie Albertini (1), Irina Gutsche (1), Rob Ruigrok (1), Marc Jamin (1)
(1) UVHCI UMR5233 CNRS-UJF-EMBL, Grenoble, France
Functional characterization of the major and minor phosphorylation sites of the P protein of Borna disease virus
* Sonja Schmid (1), Daniel Mayer (1), Urs Schneider (1), Martin Schwemmle (1)
(1) University of Freiburg, Department of Virology, Freiburg, Germany
Influenza mRNA translation revisited: is the eIF4E cap-binding factor required for viral mRNA translation?
* Idoia Burgui Herrera (1), * Emilio Yángüez López-Cano (1), Nahum Sonenberg (2), Amelia Nieto Martín (1)
(1) Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (C.S.I.C.), Departamento de Biología Molecular y Celular, Madrid, Spain; (2) McGill Cancer Center, McGill University, Department of Biochemistry, Montreal, Canada
Inhibition of filovirus replication by the zinc finger antiviral protein
Stefanie Müller (1), Peggy Möller (2), Matthew Bick (1), Stephanie Wurr (1), Stephan Becker (2), Stephan Günther (1), * Beate Kümmerer (1)
(1) Bernhard-Nocht-Institute, Department of Virology, Hamburg, Germany; (2) Philipps University Marburg, Institute of Virology, Marburg, Germany
 
16.30 – 18.30 h / Room Shanghai
Workshop 18 Positive Strand RNA Viruses
Chair: Tapani Hovi, John Ziebuhr
Keynote Lecture: John Ziebuhr:
16.30 - 17.00 h The coronavirus replicase: special enzymes for special viruses
17.00 - 18.30 h Oral presentations:
Two non-infectious flaviviruses can form an infectious alliance
* Christian Riepl (1), Christian Mandl (1)
(1) Medical University of Vienna, Clinical Institute of Virology, Vienna, Austria
Recombination of polioviruses- advantage to a recombinant strain?
* Carita Savolainen-Kopra (1), Merja Roivainen (1), Anna-Kaisa Hiekka (1), Elena Samoilovich (2), Tapani Hovi (1)
(1) Nat. Publ. Health Inst., Helsinki, Finland; (2) Res. Inst. of Epid. and Microb., Minsk, Byelorussia
Characterization of IRES elements by a RNA virus based dual luciferase reporter system
* Adriane Marschalek (1), Stefan Finke (2), Karl-Klaus Conzelmann (1)
(1) Max von Pettenkofer-Institute & Gene Center, LMU Munich, Germany; (2) Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Insel Riems, Germany
The Non-structural Protein 4A of Dengue Virus Is an Integral Membrane Protein Inducing Intracellular Membrane Alterations
* Sven Miller (1), Jacomine Krijnse-Locker (2), Sandra Bühler (1), Ralf Bartenschlager (1)
(1) Molecular Virology, Heidelberg, Germany; (2) EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Activation of dsRNA-dependent protein kinase and induction of apoptosis in SARS-coronavirus-infected cells
* Verena Krähling (1), Judith Küsters (1), Elke Mühlberger (1)
(1) Philipps-University, Institute of Virology, Marburg, Germany
Cytopathogenicity of Classical Swine Fever Virus Correlates With Attenuation in the Natural Host
* Andreas Gallei (1), Sandra Blome (2), Volker Moennig (2), Paul Becher (1)
(1) Institut für Virologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany; (2) Institut für Virologie, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule, Hannover, Germany
   

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