Scientific Programme

All sessions - unless otherwise stated - will take place at the ‘Alte Handelsbörse’

Sunday, 26 August 2012

13.30 – 18.00 Registration   Alte Handelsbörse

14.00 – 16.00 Workshop

  Application of Bioinformatic and Genomic Tools

16.45 – 17.00 Organizing committee Welcome

17.00 – 18.45 Session 1: Feline Genomics & Viral Evolution

 Moderator:  Mary Poss / Jill Slattery

17.00 – 17.30 Lecture: Stephen O’Brien

17.30 – 18.30 Oral presentations

19.00 – 21.00 Opening Reception  Conference Hotel

Monday, 27 August 2012

07.30 – 08.30 Registration   Alte Handelsbörse

  Poster Preparation

09.00 – 09.30 Opening Session

  Remarks:

• N.N.   (University of Leipzig)
• Uwe Truyen   (Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Leipzig)
• Thomas Vahlenkamp (Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Leipzig)

09.30 – 10.15 Keynote Lecture  Ruth Ruprecht (Harvard University, Boston, USA)

 HIV, SIV and chimeric viruses

10.30 – 12.30 Session 2: Feline Retroviruses: Virus and Vector

 Moderator:Eric Poeschla / Martin Löchelt

10.30 – 11.15 Lecture

11.15 – 12.30 Oral presentations

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.45 Session 3: Intracellular Restriction to Retroviral Infection

  Moderator: Sue van de Woude / Brian Willett

 14.00 – 14.30 Lecture Eric Poeschla (Rochester, Minnesota, USA)

  Generation of restriction factor-transgenic domestic cats

14.30 – 15.45 Oral presentations

15.45 – 16.15 Break

16.15 – 18.00 Session 4: Immunopathogenesis: Adaptive Immunity and Regulatory T-Cells

 Moderator:  Dorothee Bienzle / Mary Tompkins

16.15 – 17.00 Lecture  Christian Jassoy (University of Leipzig)

 B-lymphocyte function in HIV infection

17.00 – 18.00 Oral presentations

18.00 – 19.00 Poster Session

20.00            Dinner Restaurant Auerbach’s Keller

 Free evening

Tuesday, 28 August 2012

09.00 – 09.45 Keynote Lecture  Jonathan Heeney (Cambridge University)

10.00 – 12.30 Session 5: Immunopathogenesis: Innate Immunity

 Moderator:  Gregg Dean / Hans Lutz

10.00 – 10.45 Lecture 

10.45 – 11.15 Oral presentations

11.15 – 11.30 Break

11.30 – 12.30 Oral presentations

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.45 Session 6: Clinical Aspects of FIV/FeLV & Therapy

  Moderator: Katrin Hartmann / Regina Hofmann-Lehmann

14.00 – 14.45 Lecture Gottfried Alber (University of Leipzig)

  Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome upon anti-retroviral therapy

14.45 – 15.45 Oral presentations

15.45 – 16.15 Break

16.15 – 18.00 Session 7: FIV/FeLV Vaccines

 Moderator: Janet Yamamoto / Mauro Pistello

16.15 – 16.45 Lecture  Joachim Denner (Robert Koch Institut, Berlin)

  Immunization against FeLV and other retroviruses

16.45 – 18.00 Oral presentations

19.30              Tour through the Zoological Garden in Leipzig

20.30              Dinner at Restaurant Marché, Zoo Leipzig

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

09.00 – 09.45 Keynote Lecture  Frank Kirchhoff (University of Ulm)

10.00 – 12.15 Session 7: Emerging Infections in Cats

 Moderator:  N.N.

10.00 – 11.00 Lecture/Oral presentations

11.00 – 11.15 Break

11.15 – 12.15 Oral presentations

12.15 – 12.45 Marian Horzinek  Concluding Remarks