Saturday
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Keynote Session: Modulation of Innate Immune Responses by DENV: Feeling the STING
Discussion Leader: Virginia Hargest (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA)
3:15 pm - 3:50 pm
Ana Fernandez-Sesma (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA)
"Modulation of Innate Immune Responses by DENV: Feeling the STING"
3:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Virus-Host Interaction
Discussion Leader: Julio Cesar Carrera Montoya (Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity / The University of Melbourne, Australia)
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Emmanuelle Genoyer (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Elucidating Mechanisms Driving Differential Distributions of Full-Length and Defective Viral Genomes During Paramyxovirus Infections"
5:45 pm - 5:50 pm
Discussion
5:50 pm - 6:05 pm
Rebekah Honce (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA)
"Obesity Alters Within-Host Evolution of Influenza A Virus and Increases Pathogenicity of the Resulting Viral Population"
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm
Discussion
6:10 pm - 6:25 pm
Fernando Merwaiss (Institut Pasteur, France)
"Functional Study of the Chikungunya Virus 3'UTR in the Viral Replication Cycle in Different Hosts"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Marine Petit (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Understanding Flavivirus NS5 Antagonism of Innate Immunity in Human Systems"
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:05 pm
Kara Phipps (Emory University, USA)
"Dependence of Influenza A Virus on Co-Infection Is Determined Through Interactions Between Virus and Host"
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:25 pm
Jason Wong (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"Kinome Profiling of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Identifies Tyro3 as a Therapeutic Target in Primary Effusion Lymphoma"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Dissecting Viral Infections
Discussion Leader: Ricardo Rivera-Soto (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Eduardo Aguilar (The Rockefeller University, USA)
"Dissecting the Interplay of Poly-ADP-Ribosylation and Alphavirus Macro Domain Biology"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Alfred Harding (Duke University, USA)
"CRISPR GeCKO Screening Identifies a Previously Undescribed Negative Regulator of Type-I IFN Signaling"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Mathilde Laureti (Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Australia)
"Superinfection Exclusion Can Prevent Alphavirus Infection in Aedes Mosquitoes"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Divya Narayanan (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
"Study of Innate Immune Responses to Semliki Forest Virus Infection in Immature and Mature Neurons"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Irene Rodriguez-Sanchez (University of Rochester Medical Center, USA)
"The Human Cytomegalovirus UL38 Protein Drives mTOR-Independent Metabolic Flux Reprogramming by Inhibiting TSC2"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Danica Sutherland (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
"Reovirus Outer-Capsid Protein σ3 Is the Viral Ligand for Neural Receptor NgR1 and Binds Membrane-Distal Sequences to Promote Infection"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Women in Academia, Making a Scientific Career
Discussion Leader: Marine Petit (University of California, Davis, USA)
1:30 pm - 1:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader: Women in Science
1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Women in Academia, Making a Scientific Career
Ana Fernandez-Sesma (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA)
Carla Saleh (Institut Pasteur, France)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
