Preliminary program

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Session I: VIRUS-HOST INTERACTIONS - 1.
Chair: Howard Lipton.
Keynote lecture. Frank Van Kuppeveld: Membrane rearrangements in enterovirus infected cells.

I1. George Belov: Poliovirus replication depends on a cellular membrane traffic protein GBF1.
I2. Elisabetta Groppelli: Aphthovirus cell entry: identification of the ERAV endocytic pathway and insight into the mechanism of genome release.
I3. William Jackson: Inhibition of autophagic cell death: a novel effect of picornavirus infection.
I4. Satoshi Koike: Studies on poliovirus RNA sensors.

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10:30 Coffee break
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11:00

Session J: VIRUS-HOST INTERACTIONS - 2.
Chair: Timo Hyypiä.
Keynote lecture. Raul Andino: Picornaviruses dancing with the RNAi machinery.

J1. Elizabeth Rieder: Host cell factors involved in the life cycle of FMDV.
J2. Teresa de los Santos: A conserved domain in the leader proteinase of foot-and-mouth disease virus is required for proper subcellular localization and function.
J3. Stanley M. Lemon: Subversion and control of HAV infections by innate antiviral defenses.
J4. Noemí Sevilla: Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV)-dendritic cells (DC) interaction: role of IL-10 in early immunosuppression during FMDV infection in swine.

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12:45 Lunch
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14:00 Session K: VIRUS-HOST INTERACTIONS-3.
Chair: Raymond Roos.
Keynote lecture. Florence Colbère-Garapin: Persistent poliovirus infection: a matter of life and death.

K1. Antonio Toniolo: Detection of persistent polioviruses in patients with the post-polio syndrom.
K2. Nadine Jarasch: Experimental coxsackievirus B3 infection of primary murine and human CD19+ B lymphocytes: mode of action.
K3. Karin Klingel: The evolvement of chronic CVB3-myocarditis is driven by disturbances in the expansion of cross-presenting CD4-/CD8+ dendritic cells and chemokine secretion by dendritic cells.
K4. William Golde: Suppression of swine natural killer cell (NK) function during acute infection with foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV).
K5. Nicholas Juleff: Foot-and-mouth disease virus induces a specific and rapid CD4+ T cell-independent neutralizing antibody response in naïve cattle.

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15:30 Coffee break
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16:00 Hot topic session L. Vadim I. Agol: How and why do picornaviruses harm their host cells?

L1. Vadim. I. Agol: Introductory remarks.
L2. Paul Monaghan: Host membrane alterations in response to picornavirus infection.
L3. Arnaud Autret: Early phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase/AKT pathway activation limits poliovirus-induced JNK-mediated cell death.
L4. Howard Lipton: BH3 only proapoptotic members and the upstreTam signaling events involved in Theiler’s virus-induced intrinsic apoptosis in M1-D macrophages.
L5. Barbara M. Schulte: Phagocytosis of picornavirus-infected cells induces an RNA-dependent antiviral state in human dendritic cells.
Open discussion.

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18:30 Dinner
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20:30 Poster viewing
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