TUESDAY June 1st

5pm

Françoise Barre-Sinoussi  Nobel Prize 2008 (France)

The enigma of Diverse Host Responses to HIV/SIV infection

Rino Rappuoli (Italy)

Vaccines: a health insurance of the 21st century

7pm

WEDNESDAY June 2nd

Morning 8.30am - 12.30am

John Boothroyd (USA)

Play nice or play mean : how Toxoplasma injects polymorphic proteins that determine the character of its dance with the host

Ari Helenius (Switzerland)

Virus entry : Hosting and assisting

10.15am - 11.00am

Scott Filler (USA)

Mechanisms of Host Cell Invasion by Candida albicans

Jorge Galan (USA)

Common themes in the design and function of bacterial effectors

Two short talks selected from the abstracts

2.00pm - 4.30pm

Lynn Enquist (USA)

Mechanisms of spread of herpesvirus infection in peripheral nervous system neurons

Jost Enninga (France)

Correlating the successive bacterial invasion steps into epithelial cells with the induced host immune responses in single cells in real time

Matthew Welch (USA)

Exploitation of the actin cytoskeleton by bacterial and viral pathogens

Robert Menard (France)

The silent path of the Plasmodium Sporozoite in the mammalian host

Ron Germain (USA)

Dynamic In Situ Visualization of Immune System Interactions with Pathogens Using Intravital 2-photon Microscopy

4.30pm - 5pm

5pm - 8pm

Ralf Bartenschlager (Germany)

New insights into replication of the hepatitis C virus and dits interaction with the host cell

Craig Roy (USA)

Manipulation of host cell processes by bacterial Ankyrin repeat proteins

Gisou Van der Goot (Switzerland)

Cellular responses to pore-forming toxins

Chihiro Sasakawa (Japan)

New insights into Shigella-gut epithelium interaction

David Holden (UK)

Sensing and responses of Salmonella to host cell signals

Two short talks

THURSDAY June 3rd

8.30am - 12.30am

Olivier Voinnet (France)

Title to be announced (Host miRNAs and infection)

Bryan Cullen (USA)

Viruses, microRNAs and RNA interference

Mohamed Ali Hakimi (France)

Exploring the ‘histone code’ and the small RNA-based processes in the life cycle of the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii

  10.30am - 11am

Artur Scherf (France)

Regulation of gene transcription in malaria parasites through spatial organization

Two short talks

Lunch at Saint Paul de Vence and/or Free afternoon / visit at Fondation Maeght

6.00pm - 8.30pm

Yasmine Belkaid (USA)

Paradoxical roles of Retinoic acid in protective immunity

Arturo Zychlinsky (Germany)

Neutrophil Extracellular Traps

Hidde Ploegh (USA)

New Tools to Study Virus Entry and Assembly: Sortagging Flu

John Hiscott (Canada)

RIG-I like Receptors : sensing and responding to RNA virus infection

Dinner

FRIDAY June 4th

9.00am - 1pm

Sebastian Amigorena (France)

Title to be announced (the immune response during infection and cancer)

Denise Monack (USA)

Host-pathogen interactions during chronic Salmonella infections

Valerie Mizrahi (South Africa)

Novel and Vulnerable Pathways of DNA Metabolism in Mycobacteria

Nicola Harris (Switzerland)

Using murine models to understand the relationship between soil-transmitted helminths and their mammalian hosts

11.30am - 12.00 am

12.00am - 1pm

2pm - 4pm

Poster Prize ceremony

KEYNOTE LECTURE :

Harald zur Hausen: Nobel Prize 2008 (Germany)

Perspectives of the Role on Infections in Human Cancers

4pm