BayViro Symposium

Eighth Annual Bay Area Symposium on Viruses - June 2018

The Bay Area Symposium on Viruses is an annual one-day conference that aims to strengthen interactions among Bay Area scientists and clinicians who share a strong interest in virology. The symposium features presentations by leading Bay Area scientists, roundtable discussions, a poster session, and opportunities for networking.

Last year, researchers, scientists, and clinicians from all over the Bay Area gathered to discuss a broad range of virus-related topics, from Identification of a Promising New Class of HIV-Latency Reversing Agents to The KSHV protein ORF68 is a proteasome-manipulating nuclease required for DNA packaging.

8th Annual Bay Area Symposium on Viruses

8:45am Introduction and Welcome Remarks

9:00am Kimberly Seed, UC Berkeley

Fighting with phages: how epidemic Vibrio cholerae defends against viral attack

9:30am Andrea Gramatica, Greene Lab, Gladstone

Identification of a Promising New Class of HIV-Latency Reversing Agents

9:40am Priya Shah, UC Davis

Understanding virus replication and pathogenesis through comparative flavivirus-host protein-protein interaction mapping

10:15am Melanie Ott (Gladstone)

Cynthia Bolovan-Fritts Award

10:25am Coffee Break

11:00am Jerome Deval, AliosBioPharma

Innovation and trends in the development and approval of antiviral medicines: 1987-2017 and beyond

11:30am Karim Majzoub, Carette Lab, Stanford

An RNA-Centric Dissection of Host Complexes Controlling Flavivirus Infection

11:45pm Jing Jin, Blood Systems Research Institute

One stone, three birds: antiviral mechanisms for multi-functional antibodies

12:15pm Lunch, Poster, and Networking Session

2:00pm Alan Frankel, UC San Francisco

Evolution, interactions, and modifications of the HIV Tat and Rev regulatory proteins

2:30pm Matthew Gardner, Glaunsinger Lab, UCB

The KSHV protein ORF68 is a proteasome-manipulating nuclease required for DNA packaging

2:45pm Elena Bekerman, Gilead Sciences

TLR7 agonists for HIV

3:15pm Fabio Zanini, Quake Lab, Stanford

viscRNA-Seq: Single cell transcriptional dynamics of virus infections

3:30pm Coffee Break

4:00pm Marius Walter, Verdin Lab, Buck Institute

A New therapeutic Strategy against herpes viruses

4:15pm Karla Kirkegaard, Stanford

Differential and convergent utilization of autophagy components by positive-strand RNA viruses

4:45pm Lisa Kronstad, Blish Lab, Stanford

Discovering how Natural Killer cells catch the Flu

5:00pm Best Poster Award

5:05pm Poster Session and Reception

The 8th Annual Bay Area Viruses Symposium took place on June 1, 2018

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