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Thank you to all our delegates, speakers and organising
committee!
Delighted delegates explored the Frontiers of Retrovirology at
BioMed Central’s first conference in Montpellier, France
21-23. This highly successful, well attended event brought
together retrovirologists from 24 different countries to review
current progress and to chart future challenges for finding a
curative strategy for HIV/AIDS.
All abstracts (oral and poster presentations) can be found on
the Retrovirology website
Photos
from in and around the event and keynote
presentations are available
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HIV affects 33 million individuals worldwide. To date, 25
million have died from AIDS. In 2007 alone, 2.7 million persons
became newly infected with HIV-1, and 2 million new AIDS deaths were
registered. A quarter century after the discovery of the HIV-1 virus,
a curative or a vaccine strategy for AIDS remains elusive. This
conference will bring together leading human retrovirus researchers to
review current progress and to chart future challenges.
Internationally renowned speakers will present their insights into the
principles guiding the life cycle of endogenous retroelements, complex
human retroviruses, and their pathogenic interactions with the hosts.
Kuan-Teh
Jeang
Editor-in-Chief
Retrovirology
Monsef
Benkirane
Institut de Génétique Humaine CNRS
Matt
McKay
BioMed Central
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Frontiers of Retrovirology
will bring together leading human retrovirus researchers to
review current progress and to chart future challenges.
Internationally renowned speakers will present their insights
into the principles guiding the life cycle of endogenous
retroelements, complex human retroviruses, and their pathogenic
interactions with the hosts.
Session 1: Evolution and the beneficial roles of retroelements
Topic Areas:
- Retroviruses evolution: common and
specific features
- Retroelements, from Drosophilia to humans
- Syncytin and placenta formation
- Evolution of host factors involved in retroviral
pathogenesis
- Marine viruses and global ecosystems
Session 2: Restriction of Retroelements
Topic Areas:
- The fallout from crossing paths with
cellular cytidine deaminases
- Tetherin and HIV-1 restriction
- Blocking HIV gene expression
- Evolutionary model for defeating viral mimicry
- Intracellular defence by small non
coding RNA
Session 3: Hijacking the cellular machinery
Topic Areas:
- Host factors and retroviruses
- Genome wide screening for host factors
- Cell to cell contact and virus spread
- From integration to gene expression
- Novel cellular processes that regulate
post-transcriptional expression of HIV-1 transcripts
- Retroviral RNA packaging
- Conserved genes from yeast to human
involved in retroelement transposition
Session 4: Pathogenesis
Topic Areas:
- Overview of retroviral pathogenesis
- Lentivirus and delta retrovirus pathogenesis
- Retroelements and autoimmunity
- HIV resistance
- Animal models
Top
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Researchers, clinicians, decision leaders, graduate
students, post doctoral fellows, and biotechnology and
pharmaceutical policy makers who are interested in human retroviruses.
Cutting edge presentations will be delivered by internationally
renowned researchers. Short oral platform presentations and posters
will be selected from registrants.
A limited number of scholarships
will be available.
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BioMed
Central ( http://www.biomedcentral.com/ ) is an STM
(Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher which has pioneered
the open access publishing model. All peer-reviewed research
articles published by BioMed Central are made immediately and
freely accessible online, and are licensed to allow
redistribution and reuse. BioMed Central is part of Springer
Science+Business Media, a leading global publisher in the STM sector.
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 Ali
Saib, Institut Universitaire d'Hematologie, Paris, France
 Ben
Berkhout, Universiteit Van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kuan-Teh Jeang, Bethesda, USA
 Matt
McKay, BioMed Central, London, UK
Monsef Benkirane, Institut de Génétique Humaine,
Montpellier, France
Olivier Schwartz, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Stephane Emiliani, Institut Cochin, Paris France
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Retrovirology
is an Open access, online journal that publishes stringently
peer-reviewed, high-impact articles on basic retrovirus research.
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