Center for AIDS Research

Invited Speaker Seminars

Throughout the year, the CFAR offers seminars featuring invited speakers who are experts within the HIV/AIDS and related fields. The current schedule is below.

PLEASE NOTE:   ALL SEMINARS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE 5TH FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM OF FORCHHEIRMER, MONDAYS FROM 12:00PM-1:00PM. IN CASE OF CHANGES, YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED. 
 

Date  Speaker   Seminar Title 

February 6, 2012

Dr. John Mascola
Deputy Director
Vaccine Research Center
NIAID, NIH

Isolation and Deep Sequencing of HIV-1
Neutralizing Antibodies
 

March 14, 2012

Dr. Paul A. Volberding
Professor, UCSF Department of Medicine
Director, UCSF AIDS Research Institute
Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI CFAR

 Learning the Hard Way: Lessons from one Epidemic for the Next

 April 2, 2012

Dr. Derya Unutmaz
Associate Professor of Microbiology,
Pathology & Medicine
Director, NYU CFAR
NYU School of Medicine 

 Defining the subsets and the functional flexibility of TH17 and regulatory T cells

April 26, 2012

Dr. Baek Kim
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology
Professor, Cancer Ctr.
Univ. of Rochester

 Terminally Differentiated/Non-Dividing Macrophages: “Funny” Place for DNA Synthesis and Lessons from HIV Replication in Macrophages

September 11, 2012 Dr. Patrick Kiser
Associate Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Utah
 Chemical and physical barriers against HIV acquisition

 September 24, 2012

Dr. Alan N. Engelman
Professor of Medicine, Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

 Controlling HIV DNA Integration

October 22, 2012

Dr. Owen Pornillos
Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
University of Virginia School of Medicine

Structure and assembly of HIV

November 5, 2012      Dr. Patrick M. Schlievert
Professor and Head
Department of Microbiology
Carver College of Medicine 
Use of Glycerol Monolaurate-Based Formulations as Topical Microbicides
November 27, 2012
*Will take place in Forchheimmer 3rd Floor Lecture Hall, at 2:00PM
Dr. Eric Arts
Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Director, Uganda Core Lab, Center for AIDS Research
Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine
Transmission and pathogenic fitness of HIV

December 17, 2012

Dr. Michael Betts
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania  

Function and dysfunction of T cells during acute HIV infection

January 28, 2013  Benjamin Chan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, & Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
 Dissemination of HIV-1 through T cell virological synapses

 

February 25, 2013      Dr. Daria Hazuda

Vice President, Worldwide Discovery Franchise Head, Infectious Disease,  MRL Merck & Co, Inc. West Point, PA

Integrase Inhibitors: From the Bench to the Clinic
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