Specialized Neuroscience Research Program

Pacific Biomedical Research Center

University of Hawaii at Manoa

NEUROVIROLOGY SYMPOSIUM

When


Where


Thursday, January 18, 2001

8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

7:30 a.m. 

Pacific Room, Jefferson Hall

East-West Center

East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822



8:00 – 8:10 a.m.

Welcome: Martin D. Rayner, Ph.D., Program Director Specialized Neuroscience Research Program, UHM

 

8:10 – 9:10 a.m.

Global HIV/STD Epidemic, and a Critique of HIV Prevention Research 

King Holmes, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Center for AIDS and STD University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

 

9:15 – 9:40 a.m.

HIV Dementia in 2001:  An Infectious Disease Odyssey

Ned Sacktor, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

 

9:45 – 10:05 a.m.

Coffee Break

 

10:05 – 10:30 a.m.

Potent Antiretroviral Therapy and the Central Nervous System: An Overview 

Christina Marra, M.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

 

10:35 – 11:00 a.m.

Cerebrospinal Fluid as a Window into HIV and T Lymphocyte Traffic 

Richard Price, M.D., Professor, Department of Neurology University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

 

11:05 – 11:30 a.m.

A Model for HIV Neuroinvasion 

Suzanne Gartner, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neurology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

 

11:35 – 12:00 p.m.

Structure and Function of JC Virus T Proteins 

Richard Frisque, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, State College Pennsylvania

 

12:05 – 12:30 p.m.

Transcription of JC Virus DNA Distinguishes Between Glial and Neuronal Lineage Pathways in Human CNS Progenitor Cells 

Eugene Major, Ph.D., Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine and Neuroscience, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

 

For more information visit http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/snrp/ Funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH