The Bay Area Symposium on Viruses is an annual one-day conference that aims to strengthen interactions among Bay Area scientists and clinicians who share a strong interest in virology. The symposium features presentations by leading Bay Area scientists, roundtable discussions, a poster session, and opportunities for networking.
Last year, researchers, scientists, and clinicians from all over the Bay Area gathered to discuss a broad range of virus-related topics, from Identification of a Promising New Class of HIV-Latency Reversing Agents to The KSHV protein ORF68 is a proteasome-manipulating nuclease required for DNA packaging.
June 1, 2018
Registration Check-in & Breakfast
Introduction and Welcome Remarks
Kimberly Seed, UC Berkeley
Fighting with phages: how epidemic Vibrio cholerae defends against viral attack
Andrea Gramatica, Greene Lab, Gladstone
Identification of a Promising New Class of HIV-Latency Reversing Agents
Priya Shah, UC Davis
Understanding virus replication and pathogenesis through comparative flavivirus-host protein-protein interaction mapping
Melanie Ott (Gladstone)
Cynthia Bolovan-Fritts Award
Coffee Break
Jerome Deval, AliosBioPharma
Innovation and trends in the development and approval of antiviral medicines: 1987-2017 and beyond
Karim Majzoub, Carette Lab, Stanford
An RNA-Centric Dissection of Host Complexes Controlling Flavivirus Infection
Jing Jin, Blood Systems Research Institute
One stone, three birds: antiviral mechanisms for multi-functional antibodies
Lunch, Poster, and Networking Session
Alan Frankel, UC San Francisco
Evolution, interactions, and modifications of the HIV Tat and Rev regulatory proteins
Matthew Gardner, Glaunsinger Lab, UCB
The KSHV protein ORF68 is a proteasome-manipulating nuclease required for DNA packaging
Elena Bekerman, Gilead Sciences
TLR7 agonists for HIV
Fabio Zanini, Quake Lab, Stanford
viscRNA-Seq: Single cell transcriptional dynamics of virus infections
Coffee Break
Marius Walter, Verdin Lab, Buck Institute
A New therapeutic Strategy against herpes viruses
Karla Kirkegaard, Stanford
Differential and convergent utilization of autophagy components by positive-strand RNA viruses
Lisa Kronstad, Blish Lab, Stanford
Discovering how Natural Killer cells catch the Flu
Best Poster Award
Poster Session and Reception