Opening Ceremony Stewart Cole, Head, Global Health Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Auditorium SG 1
Keynote lecture Rino Rappuoli, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy Vaccines and global health
18:30-19:30
Reception with drinks and light dinner
SG main hall
Day 2 – August 30, 2012 (sponsored by Celgene)
Session 1 - Global health, chaired by Marcel Tanner (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel)
09:00-09:35
Barry Bloom, Harvard School of Public Health TB or not TB: that is no longer the question
Auditorium SG 1
09:35-10:10
Myron Cohen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Prevention of HIV-1 Infection
10:10-10:25
Short talk Catherine Ronet, Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne "Hyperpathogenism"—Viral parasites of human pathogens and their influence on disease
10:25-10:55
Coffee break
SG main hall
10:55-11:30
Christopher Dye, World Health Organization, Geneva Infectious diseases and changing lifestyles in developing countries
Auditorium SG 1
11:30-12:05
Steven Sinkins, University of Oxford
Wolbachia and the control of mosquito-borne diseases
12:05-12:20
Short talk Pascal Mäser, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel Comparative genomics of drug resistance in African trypanosomes
12:20-13:50
Lunch & poster session I – uneven posters are presented
SG main hall & 2nd floor
Session 2 – "Evolutionary genomics of pathogens and their hosts"
chaired by Jacques Fellay (Global Health Institute, EPFL)
13:50-14:25
Mark Achtman, University College Cork Population genetics and genomics of genetically monomorphic bacterial pathogens
Auditorium SG 1
14:25-15:00
Carmen Buchrieser, Institut Pasteur, Paris Intracellular parasitism, the driving force of evolution of Legionella, the agent of Legionnaires' disease
15:00-15:15
Short talk Mireia Coscolla, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel PE_PGRS genetic diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is not related to immune escape
15:15-15:45
Coffee break
SG main hall
15:45-16:00
Short talk Shaynoor Dramsi, Departement of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris Role of the Group B Antigen of Streptococcus agalactiae: a Peptidoglycan-anchored Polysaccharide Involved in Cell Wall Biogenesis
Auditorium SG 1
16:00-16:35
Jean-Laurent Casanova, The Rockefeller University, New York Toward a genetic theory of infectious diseases
16:35-17:10
Beatrice Hahn, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Great Ape Reservoirs of AIDS and Malaria
17:10-18:10
Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Award Ceremony
Day 3 – August 31, 2012 (sponsored by Merck Serono)
Session 3 – "Mechanisms of infection"
chaired by Melanie Blokesch (Global Health Institute, EPFL)
09:00-09:35
Guillaume Duménil, Inserm, Paris Vascular colonization by Neisseria meningitides
Auditorium SG 1
09:35-10:10
Denise Monack, Stanford School of Medicine Chronic Salmonella carriage is controlled by host a host regulator of fatty acid metabolism
10:10-10:25
Short talk Dipshikha Chakravortty, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Single and United! Essential virulence strategy of Salmonella to evade the host defense
10:25-10:55
Coffee break
SG main hall
10:55-11:10
short talk Médéric Diard, Institute of Microbiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich Fine-tuned bistability stabilizes the cooperation-based intestinal virulence of Salmonella
Auditorium SG 1
11:10-11:45
Feng Shao, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing Biochemical dissection of bacterial virulence and macrophage innate immunity
11:45-12:20
Natalie Strynadka, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Structure-based analysis of protein transport across bacterial membranes
12:20-13:50
Lunch & poster session II – even numbers are presented
SG main hall & 2nd floor
Session 4 – "Innovative interventions", chaired by Giuseppe Pantaleo (University Hospital of Lausanne/CHUV)
13:50-14:25
Lutz Gissmann, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg Infection and cancer
Auditorium SG 1
14:25-15:00
Lennart Hammarström, Karolinska Institutet at Huddinge Hospital, Stockholm Antibody mediated treatment of infections using genetically modified bacteria and plants
15:00-15:15
short talk Giovanni Longo, Institute of Physics of Biological Systems, EPFL Force Volume and Stiffness Tomography Investigation of Bacterial Membranes
15:15-15:45
Coffee break
SG main hall
15:45-16:00
short talk
Giulia Manina, Global Health Institute, EPFL Real-time single-cell imaging to analyze the growth dynamics and heterogeneity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during infection
Auditorium SG 1
16:00-16:35
Antonio Lanzavecchia, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona Dissecting the human T and B cell response to pathogens
16:35-17:10
Bali Pulendran, Emory Vaccine Center, Atlanta Systems vaccinology: enabling rational vaccine design with systems biology
17:10-17:15
Closing speech Stewart Cole, GHI
17:15
End of symposium
The short talk sessions are supported by Stiftung Forschung Infektionskrankheiten
