Program

Program Schedule (subject to modification)

Friday March 29, 2013

9:00-10:00  Registration- Packet Pick-up

                        Beverages served

                        Speakers transfer talks from memory stick to computer

10:00-10:05  Opening Remarks and introduction of Keynote speaker: Susan Carpenter

10:05-11:00  Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Alan Frankel, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco

Session 1:  Virus entry and egress. 

12:15-1:30  Lunch

Session 2:  Virus gene expression. 

3:10-3:30  Break

Session 3:  Viral Pathogenesis. 

Poster Session, Dinner and Evening Keynote talk

5:00-7:00  Poster session

7:00-8:00  Banquet

8:00-9:00  Keynote speaker:

Dr. Peter Simmonds, The Roslin Institute and Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Saturday March 30, 2013

8:30-9:00  Refreshments 

9:00-10:00  Keynote speaker:

Dr. Michael R. Strand, Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Polydnaviruses: Beneficial Symbionts and Nature's Genetic Engineers

10:00-10:15  Break

Session 4: Virus Vaccine Development and Therapies.   

Closing Remarks

The final program will be posted on the web prior to the meeting. The program and abstract book will be in registration packets to be collected at the symposium site on Friday, March 29.