Wednesday, 9th December 8th Australasian Virology Society Meeting and 11th Annual Meeting of the Australian Centre for Hepatitis & HIV Virology Meeting 2015

• A new dimension in insect antiviral immunity - Maria-Carla Saleh

• Antigenic and immunogenic studies on the Hepatitis C Virus E2 glycoprotein: Insights into vaccine design - Heidi Drummer
• Candidate dengue virus subunit vaccines delivered to the skin by the Nanopatch in a lethal mouse challenge model. - David A. Muller and Paul R. Young
• A stabilized Ebola virus subunit vaccine - Keith Chappell

• Dendritic cell-T cell interactions and HIV latency in CD4+ T cells.  - Paul Cameron
• Female-to-male sexually transmitted HIV-1 strains are less susceptible to inactivation by vaginal short chain fatty acids compared with matched non-transmitted strains. - Muriel Aldunate
• Investigating the Repertoire of Immune Subsets that Encounter Viruses in Human Anogenital Tissues - Rachel A Botting

A/Prof Vicente Planelles
Latency establishment and other immune evasion mechanisms by HIV

• Panobinostat Nonselectively Activates Transcription from Quiescent HIV-1 Proviruses in HIV-infected Individuals on Long-term Suppressive Antiretroviral Therapy - Bonnie Hiener
• Enrichment of HIV in cells that express CCR6 and CXCR3 in blood and rectal tissue in HIV-infected individuals on cART - Jenny L Anderson
• Detection of HIV DNA in monocytes from cART-treated HIV+ individuals with long-term viral suppression. - Anna C Hearps

A/Prof Andrew Cox

Challenges in immunologic control of Hepatitis C virus infection

• Intradermal delivery of DNA encoding HCV NS3 and perforin elicits robust cell mediated immunity in mice and pigs - Eric J Gowans
• Identifying T cell epitopes in the HCV Envelope protein using a reverse genomics approach - Michaela Lucas
• Understanding the timing, breadth and potency of neutralising antibody responses against transmitted/founders.  - Melanie Walker
• Analytical tools for GLP and GMP manufacture of a novel HCV vaccine candidate, Delta3^TM - Rob J Center

Departing from the front of Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley