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HIV Vaccines (X7)

joint with the meeting on Functional Cures and the Eradication of HIV (X8)

Scientific Organizers: Nicole A. Doria-Rose, Thumbi Ndung'u and Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam


March 24—28, 2019

Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada


Supported by the Directors' Fund


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Registered attendees of one meeting in a joint pair may participate in sessions of the other, pending space availability.

DEADLINES:
*All deadlines end at 11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time
Global Health Travel Award Deadline: Oct 23, 2018 [details]
Scholarship Deadline: Nov 28, 2018 [details]
Discounted Abstract Deadline: Nov 28, 2018 [details]
Abstract Deadline: Dec 18, 2018 [details]
Discounted Registration Deadline: Jan 24, 2019 [details]

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Submit an Abstract Register Yourself Deadlines and Fees

Rates and Deadlines listed below are for the 2019-X7 "HIV Vaccines" conference only.

*All deadlines end at 11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time

Deadline Date Cost
Discounted Abstract Deadline
More details		 Before and On November 28, 2018 100.00 USD*
- 50.00 USD discount
Abstract Deadline
More details		 After November 28, 2018 until December 18, 2018 100.00 USD*
* 50.00 USD of Abstract fee deducted from your registration fee when you register for this meeting
Scholarship
More details		 November 28, 2018 n/a
Discounted NON-STUDENT Registration
More details		 Before and On January 24, 2019 945.00 USD
(includes 200.00 discount)
Regular NON-STUDENT Registration
More details		 After January 24, 2019 1145.00 USD
Discounted STUDENT Registration
More details		 Before and On January 24, 2019 720.00 USD
(includes 200.00 discount)
Regular STUDENT Registration
More details		 After January 24, 2019 920.00 USD

* Changes in payment type that result in a refund are subject to a processing fee.
* Currency exchange gains/losses are the responsibility of the registrant and the Keystone Symposia will accept no liability for money loss through bank charges, transfers or currency fluctuations.

Apply for a Scholarship



Discounted Abstract Deadline: November 28, 2018

*All deadlines end at 11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time

Abstract Submission Fee: 100.00 USD*
Submission by this date receives 50.00 USD discount.
*50.00 USD will be applied to Registration Fee when you register

Abstract Details: It is best to submit your abstract early. Abstract and registration spaces are limited and may fill prior to the abstract or discounted registration deadlines. Submitting an abstract does not constitute or guarantee registration.

Submitting your abstract early allows us to:
  • submit your abstract to organizers to be considered for a short talk
  • accept your abstract online
  • include your abstract on our website and in our secure mobile app
  • reserve your space at the meeting for a poster presentation.**
**Submitting an abstract does not constitute or guarantee registration.
(The Abstract Deadline: is December 18, 2018)

Global Health Travel Award Deadline: October 23, 2018

*All deadlines end at 11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time


Global Health Travel Award Details: You MUST complete your Global Health Travel Award appplication by the Global Health Travel Award Deadline and complete the other required steps (verify your contact information and submit a recommendation letter) to be considered for a travel award.


Click here to learn more about Global Health Travel Awards.

Scholarship Deadline: November 28, 2018

*All deadlines end at 11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time


Scholarship Details: You MUST submit your abstract by the Scholarship Deadline and complete the other required steps (submit a scholarship application and submit a mentor letter) to be considered for a scholarship.

Click here to learn more about Scholarships.

Abstract Deadline: December 18, 2018

*All deadlines end at 11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time


Abstract Submission Fee: 100.00 USD*
*50.00 USD will be applied to Registration Fee when you register

Details: It is best to submit your abstract early. Abstract and registration spaces are limited and may fill prior to the abstract or discounted registration deadline. Submitting an abstract does not constitute or guarantee registration.

Submitting your abstract by the Abstract Deadline allows us to:

  • submit your abstract to organizers to be considered for a short talk
  • include your abstract on our website and in our secure mobile app
  • reserve your space at the meeting for a poster presentation.**
**Submitting an abstract does not constitute or guarantee registration.
Abstracts submitted after the Abstract Deadline will NOT be considered for a short talk.

(Discounted Abstract Deadline: is November 28, 2018)

Discounted Registration Deadline: January 24, 2019

*All deadlines end at 11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time


Registration Fee: 945.00 USD* (includes 200.00 USD discount)
Student Registration Fee: 720.00 USD* (must complete student verification form)

*Includes 50.00 USD of your abstract submission fee

After the Discounted Registration Deadline:


Registration Fee: 1145.00 USD*
Student Registration Fee: 920.00 USD* (must complete student verification form)

*Includes 50.00 USD of your abstract submission fee

Registration spaces are limited and may fill prior to discounted registration deadline.

Please be advised that a few meeting participants have received calls and emails from a number of different housing services - "Exhibitors Housing Services", "Global Housing", etc. THESE COMPANIES ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA and are not authorized by Keystone Symposia to contact you. These companies may tell you that the meeting is filling and seek to take your lodging reservation and obtain your credit card number. We highly recommend that you not make a reservation with these companies or any other housing service! These companies' representations to participants have been misleading. Please report to Keystone Symposia any calls or correspondence you might have received and book only through the lodging link on our website, an established travel agency, or directly with the hotel.
No registration fees are used to fund entertainment or alcohol at this conference

Conference Program    Print  |   View meeting in 12 hr (am/pm) time


The meeting will begin on Sunday, March 24 with registration from 16:00 to 20:00 and a welcome mixer from 18:00 to 20:00. Conference events conclude on Thursday, March 28 with a closing plenary session from 17:00 to 19:00, followed by a social hour and entertainment. We recommend return travel on Friday, March 29 in order to fully experience the meeting.

SUNDAY, MARCH 24

16:00—20:00
Arrival and Registration

18:00—20:00
Welcome Mixer
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.


MONDAY, MARCH 25

07:00—08:00
Breakfast

08:00—09:30
Welcome and Keynote Session (Joint)
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

John R. Mascola, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, USA
Progress in HIV Vaccines

Robert F. Siliciano, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
New Insights into the Extent and Dynamics of the Latent Reservoir

Coffee Break

09:50—11:45
Antibodies for Prevention, Treatment and Cure (Joint)
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

David D. Ho, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, USA
Engineering Antibodies to Combat HIV/AIDS

Florian Klein, University of Cologne, Germany
Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies for HIV-1 Immunotherapy

Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts

11:45—17:00
On Own for Lunch

11:45—13:00
Poster Setup

13:00—22:00
Poster Viewing

14:30—16:30
Workshop 1

Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts

14:30—16:30
Workshop 1

Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts

16:30—17:00
Coffee Available

17:00—19:00
Clinical Trials for Prevention: Vaccines and Antibodies
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

Glenda Gray, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
ALVAC-gp120 for Clade C in South Africa

Lawrence Corey, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Validating Neutralization as a Mechanistic Surrogate of Protection in Passive Antibody Studies

Beatrice Ondondo, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
T-Cell Vaccine Trials

Short Talk Chosen from Abstracts

17:00—19:00
Development of the Innate Cell and Antibody Responses to HIV
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

Galit Alter, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, USA
Harvesting Innate Immune Cell Function through Vaccination to Control Viral Replication

Michel C. Nussenzweig, HHMI/Rockefeller University, USA
Targeting B Lymphocytes to Control HIV-1

Lynn Morris, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa
Neutralizing Antibodies, Vaccines and Long-Term Control of HIV Infection

Short Talk Chosen from Abstracts

19:00—20:00
Social Hour with Lite Bites
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.

19:30—22:00
Poster Session 1


TUESDAY, MARCH 26

07:00—08:00
Breakfast

08:00—11:00
New Technologies for Studying and Inducing B Cells
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Antibody Germline Genes and Impact on Vaccine Responses

Speaker to be Announced

Coffee Break

Adrian B. McDermott, National Institutes of Health, USA
Characterization of Antigen Specific Memory B Cells Following Vaccination

Colin Havenar-Daughton, La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology, USA
Germinal Center Reactions in Vaccination

Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts

08:00—11:00
Mechanisms of Viral Expression and Control of Host Cell Function
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

Saba Valadkhan, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Long Non-Coding RNAs Involved in HIV Latency and Reactivation

Eric M. Verdin, University of California, San Francisco, USA
CRISPR Based Characterizing of Latency-Associated Pathways

Coffee Break

Jonathan Karn, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Signaling Pathways Controlling HIV Reactivation from Latency

Ivan D'Orso, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms Shaping HIV Proviral Fate

Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts

11:00—17:00
On Own for Lunch

11:00—13:00
Poster Setup

13:00—22:00
Poster Viewing

16:30—17:00
Coffee Available

17:00—19:00
Antibody-Virus Coevolution: Vaccines and Lessons from Infection
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

Nicole A. Doria-Rose, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, USA
Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies: Lessons from Natural Infection

Mattia Bonsignori, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Multiple Maturation Pathways of the VRC01 Lineage Leading to Neutralization Breadth from the Fully Reverted Unmutated Common Ancestor

Elise Landais, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, USA
Novel Antibody Lineages

Short Talk Chosen from Abstracts

17:00—19:00
Mechanism and Modulation of Latency
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

Melanie M. Ott, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Transcriptional Control of Viral Latency

Monsef Benkirane, Institut de Genetique Humaine, France
Biomarkers of Latency

Leor S. Weinberger, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Modeling of HIV Latency and Reactivation

Short Talk Chosen from Abstracts

19:00—20:00
Social Hour with Lite Bites
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.

19:30—22:00
Poster Session 2


WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27

07:00—08:00
Breakfast

08:00—11:00
Therapeutic Vaccines and Cure Strategies (Joint)
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

Thumbi Ndung'u, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Treatment in Acute Infection: Lessons from the FRESH Cohort

Jintanat Ananworanich, US Military HIV Research Program, USA
Therapeutic Vaccines after Early ART: Impact on Viral Load Control Post Interruption

Coffee Break

Beatriz Mothe, IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute-HIVACAT, Spain
Therapeutic Vaccines after Early ART: Impact on Reservoir

Warner Craig Greene, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, USA
Reversing HIV Latency by Activating AKT/mTOR Signaling

Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts

11:00—17:00
On Own for Lunch

11:00—13:00
Poster Setup

13:00—22:00
Poster Viewing

16:30—17:00
Coffee Available

17:00—19:00
T Cells in HIV Vaccination
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

Christian Brander, Institut de Recerca de la Sida, IrsiCaixa, Spain
Vaccine-Elicited T Cells in Clinical Trials

Jonah B. Sacha, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Unconventional T Cells: Potential for Induction by Vaccination

David B. Masopust, University of Minnesota, USA
Tissue Resident T Cells

Short Talk Chosen from Abstracts

17:00—19:00
Experimental Molecular Approaches to Targeting Viral Reservoirs
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

Romas Geleziunas, Gilead Sciences, Inc., USA
Attacking Latent Reservoirs

Priti Kumar, Yale School of Medicine, USA
In vivo Gene Therapy and Nano-medicine to Treat HIV

Susana T. Valente, Scripps Florida, USA
Silencing the HIV-1 Reservoir

Short Talk Chosen from Abstracts

19:00—20:00
Social Hour with Lite Bites
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.

19:30—22:00
Poster Session 3


THURSDAY, MARCH 28

07:00—08:00
Breakfast

08:00—11:00
Env Immunogen Design and Evaluation
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

Richard T. Wyatt, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center at The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Modified HIV Trimers to Elicit Cross-Neutralizing Responses

Tongqing Zhou, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, USA
Opening and Closing Targets for Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies

Coffee Break

Karin Loré, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
In vivo Fate of Env and Early Responses upon Immunization

Derek T. O'Hagan, GSK Vaccines, USA
Designing and Building the Next Generation of Vaccine Adjuvants

Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts

08:00—11:00
Targeting and Eradication of HIV
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

David M. Margolis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Chemotherapuetic Control of Latency

Sharon R. Lewin, University of Melbourne, Australia
New Approaches to Eradicating HIV: Transitioning Experimental Therapeutics into Clinical Trials

Coffee Break

Deborah Persaud, Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA
Latency and Viral Infection in Pediatrics

Lucy Dorrell, University of Oxford, UK
Novel Engineered Immune-Mobilizing T Cell Receptors-Based Drugs (‘ImmTAVs’) to Clear HIV Infection

Short Talk Chosen from Abstracts

11:00—17:00
On Own for Lunch

14:30—16:30
Workshop 2

Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts

14:30—16:30
Workshop 2

Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts

16:30—17:00
Coffee Available

17:00—18:45
From the Lab to the Clinic: A Reality Check for Investigators
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

Mark Connors, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, USA
Getting a Product to a Clinical Trial: The View from the Lab Bench

Hanneke Schuitemaker, Janssen Vaccines & Prevention B.V., Netherlands
Getting a Product to a Clinical Trial: The View from Industry

Speaker to be Announced

17:00—18:45
Protect and Kill Strategies to a Functional Cure
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

Paula M. Cannon, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, USA
Genome Engineering Strategies to Generate HIV Resistant Cells

Scott G. Kitchen, University of California, Los Angeles AIDS Institute, USA
Engineering Long-Term HIV-Specific Immunity through Chimeric Antigen Receptors and Stem Cells

Kevin V. Morris, Center for Gene Therapy, City of Hope, USA
Cell Targeted Gene Modification and the Generation of HIV Targeted T-Cells

18:45—19:00
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers)
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

18:45—19:00
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers)
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 02/24/2019

19:00—20:00
Social Hour with Lite Bites
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.

20:00—23:00
Entertainment
Entertainment is not subsidized by conference registration fees nor any U.S. federal government grants. Funding for this expense is provided by other revenue sources.


FRIDAY, MARCH 29

 
Departure


*Session Chair †Invited, not yet responded.


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