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Provisional Conference Program

Thursday 16th November 2006

PLENARY SESSION 5
Moderator: Alex Sette (La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, San Diego, USA)

09.00-09.30
‘Immunomic maps of the interaction of human cellular immunity and poxviruses’
Alex Sette (La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, San Diego, USA)

09.30-10.00
‘Prospects for a general antifungal vaccine’
Antonio Cassone (ISS, Rome, Italy)

10.00-10.30
‘The application of varied sub-proteomic strategies to identify putative vaccine targets’
Paul A. Cullen, S.J. Cordwell, B. Adler and C.E. Cameron (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)

10.30-11.00
Coffee Break & Posters

PLENARY SESSION 6
Moderator: Adam Cunningham (University of Birmingham)

11.00-11.30
‘Identification of highly conserved protective antigens from pneumococcus using the antigenome technology’
Andreas Meinke, Eszter Nagy, Carmen Giefing and Alexander von Gabain (Intercell AG, Vienna, Austria)

11.30-11.50
‘Chimeric virus-like particles for inducing neutralising anti-hepatitis C virus antibodies’
Patricia T.K. Vietheer, Irene Boo, Wan Shoo Cheong, Anima Poudyal, Heidi Drummer, Hans J. Netter (Monash University, Victoria, Australia)

11.50-12.10
‘A protein based GAS vaccine derived from the antigenome approach’
Andreas Meinke, Markus Hanner, Beatrice Senn, Duc Bui Minh, Urban Lundberg and Alexander von Gabain (Intercell AG, Vienna, Austria)

12.10-12.30
‘Application of parasite genomics and host immunity to identify and evaluate CTL target antigens from Theileria parva as vaccine candidates for east Coast Fever’
Duncan M. Mwangi et al. (International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya)

12.30-12.50
‘Soluble trimers of AHSV VP7 as a display system of foreign antigens’
Wilma Fick, D. Rutkowska, E. Mizrachi, W. Vosloo and H. Huismans (University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa)

12.50-14.00
Lunch Break & Posters

PLENARY SESSION 7: CANCER
Moderator: Rolf Kiessling (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)

14.00-14.30
‘Plasmid DNA vaccination to target oncogenes and genes involved in angiogenesis of tumors’
Rolf Kiessling (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)

14.30-15.00
‘Overcoming original antigenic sin to generate new CD8 T cell IFN-γ responses in an antigen experienced host’
Xiao Song Liu, J. Dyer, G.R. Leggatt, G.J.P. Fernando, J. Zhong, R. Thomas and Ian H. Frazer (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)

15.00-15.30
‘Development of multi-peptide cancer vaccines by combining peptidomics, genomics and T-cell immunology’
Toni Weinschenk, Harpreet Singh et al. (Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH, Tubingen, Germany)

15.30-16.00
Tea Break & Posters

PLENARY SESSION 8: DNA VACCINES
Moderator: Rob Lambkin-Williams (Retroscreen Virology, UK)

16.00-16.30
‘DNA vaccines - An Overview’
Alain Luxembourg (Ichor Medical Systems, USA)

16.30-17.00
‘Plasmid DNA vaccination using cytomegalovirus conserved essential genes is protective against systemic viral challenge’
Deborah H. Spector, C.S. Morello, L.A. Kelley, M.W. Munks and A.B. Hill (University of California, San Diego, USA)

17.00-17.30
‘Design and Delivery of a Multiantigen pDNA Vaccine against HIV’
Maninder Sidhu (Wyeth, USA)

17.30-18.00
‘Design and optimisation of DNA vaccines for virus diseases using particle mediated epidermal delivery’
Peter Loudon (PowderMed Ltd, Oxford, UK)

18.00-18.20
‘DNA immunization of pigs with antigenic domains of the E2 glycoprotein of the classical swine fever virus’
Celia Aurora T. Torres-Villanueva, J.L. Relucio, J.E. Narciso, R.I. Villaroman, E.H. Galang, M.K. Baraoidan, H. Alfon, R. Miclat-Sonaco and C. Nalo-Ochona (University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines)

18.20-18.40
‘Screening the Schistosoma mansoni transcriptome for vaccine candidates by in silico selection and protection by DNA vaccines’
Luciana C.C. Leite et al. (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil)

18.40-19.00
‘DNA immunization strategies against bovine respiratory disease in neonates’
Sylvia van Drunen Littel-van den Hurk et al. (VIDO, Canada)

Free Evening for Delegates