The Tenth Annual McLauglin Symposium
The Changing Landcape of Vaccine Development:
Vaccines for Biothreats and Emerging and Neglected Diseases
Agenda
| Tuesday (11/10/09) | ||
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| 7:00-8:00 | Continental Breakfast and Registration | |
| 8:15-8:30 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
| Alan Barrett, Ph.D. Director, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development, UTMB | ||
| Garland Anderson, M.D. Executive Vice-President and Provost, and Dean, School of Medicine, UTMB | ||
| 8:30-9:30 | James W. McLaughlin Lecture | |
| Introduction: Ashok Chopra, Ph.D. | ||
| Kathryn Zoon, Ph.D. "Vaccine Development Efforts for Biothreats and Emerging and Neglected Diseases in the NIAID Division of Intramural Research" | ||
| 9:30-12:00 | Session 1 – Getting Vaccines To Those Who Need Them (Moderator: David Beasley, Ph.D.) | |
| Kevin Anderson, Ph.D. – Department of Homeland Security "Bioterrorism Preparedness: A risk-based approach to prioritizing vaccine research & development efforts" | ||
| David Wood, Ph.D., World Health Organization "Pandemic influenza vaccines" (title to be confirmed) | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |
| Alba Maria Ropero, M.D. – Pan American Health Organization "Preparing for the influenza pandemic: Lessons learned from the Americas" (title to be confirmed) | ||
| Larry Smith – Vical Inc. "DNA Vaccines: Rapid Response to Pandemic Outbreaks" | ||
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30-5:30 | Session 2 – Bacterial Vaccines (Moderator: Mark Estes, Ph.D.) | |
| David Walker, M.D. – University of Texas Medical Branch "Vaccines for Rickettsial diseases" | ||
| Greg Bancroft, Ph.D. – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine "Cell mediated immune responses and vaccines against Burkholderia pseudomallei" | ||
| David Stephens, M.D. – Emory University "Protecting the Herd: the Effectiveness of Bacterial Polysaccharide-Protein Conjugate Vaccines" | ||
| 3:00-3:30 | Break | |
| L. Garry Adams, D.V.M, Ph.D. – Texas A&M University "Development of Human Brucellosis Vaccine Candidates" | ||
| Johnny Peterson, Ph.D. – University of Texas Medical Branch "Pathophysiology of Inhalation Anthrax" | ||
| Leonard Smith, Ph.D. – United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases "Botulism and Vaccines for its Prevention" | ||
| 5:00-5:30 | Selected short talks (2 x 15mins each) (Moderator: Alan Barrett, Ph.D.) | |
| 5:30-7:00 | Poster Session / Hors d’Oeuvres & Cocktails | |
| Wednesday (11/11/09) | ||
| 7:00-8:00 | Continental Breakfast / Meet the Speakers | |
| 8:15-9:15 | The Vaccine Lecture | |
| Introduction: Alan Barrett, Ph.D. | ||
| Greg Poland, M.D. – Mayo Clinic "Vaccinomics and Personalized Vaccinology" | ||
| 9:15-10:45 | Session 3 – Enhancing the Immune Response (Moderator: Richard Rupp, M.D.) | |
| Heather Davis Ph.D. – Pfizer Vaccine Research "CpG TLR9 agonists as adjuvants for next generation vaccines" | ||
| Karen Haas, Ph.D. – Wake Forest University "Factors regulating the protective humoral Immune response to Streptococcus pneumoniae" | ||
| Sara Lustigman, Ph.D. – Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center "Vaccines against onchocerciasis" (title to be confirmed) | ||
| 10:45-11:15 | Break | |
| 11:15-12:45 | Session 4 – Vaccines for Developing Countries and Global Threats (Moderator: Gregg Milligan, Ph.D.) | |
| Thomas Richie, M.D., Ph.D. – Naval Medical Research Center/Walter Reed Army Institute of Research "Mechanism versus immunogen: approaches to malaria vaccine development"/; | ||
| Maria Bottazzi, Ph.D. – George Washington University "The Antipoverty Vaccines: Innovation and new tools for the control of soil-transmitted helminth infections best MEB" | ||
| Nisha Garg, Ph.D. – University of Texas Medical Branch "Current status of vaccine development efforts against Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas disease" | ||
| 12:45-2:15 | Lunch | |
| 2:15-3:15 | John LaMontagne Lecture | |
| Introduction: Martin Myers, M.D. | ||
| Stanley Plotkin, M.D. – Vaxconsult "Designing the ideal vaccine" | ||
| 3:15-5:45 | Session 5 – Vaccines for Special populations (Moderator: Christine Turley, M.D.) | |
| W. Henry Boom, M.D. – Case Western Reserve University "Immune evasion by M. tuberculosis: a challenge to be overcome by new TB vaccines" | ||
| 3:45-4:15 | Break | |
| Sharon Frey, M.D. – St. Louis University "Smallpox Scourge: current clinical trials and future direction" | ||
| John Shiver, Ph.D. – Merck "Development of a novel Staphylococcus aureus vaccine based on a conserved protein antigen" | ||
| Mary Estes, Ph.D. – Baylor College of Medicine "Norovirus Vaccines: Progress and Challenges" | ||
| 5:45-7:15 | Poster Session & Judging / Hors d’Oeuvres & Cocktails | |
| Thursday (11/12/09) | ||
| 7:00-8:00 | Continental Breakfast/ Meet the Speakers | |
| 8:15-9:30 | Selected short talks (7 x 15 min) (Moderator: Gregg Milligan, Ph.D.) | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Break | |
| 10:00-12:00 | Session 6 – Viral Vaccines and Vaccine Platforms (Moderator: Nigel Bourne, Ph.D.) | |
| John Dong, Ph.D. – GenPhar "The CAdVax as an Effective and Versatile Multivalent Platform Technology against Biodefense Agents" | ||
| Christian Mandl, M.D., Ph.D. – Novartis "West Nile Virus Vaccine Strategies Based on Capsid Deletion Mutants and Subviral Particles" | ||
| Scott Weaver, Ph.D. – University of Texas Medical Branch "Novel approaches to alphavirus attenuation" | ||
| Heinz Feldmann, M.D., Ph.D. – National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases "Marburg and Ebola Viruses: Pre- and Post-Exposure Vaccination" | ||
| 12:00-12:30 | Closing and Presentation of Post Graduate, Post Doctoral and Resident Awards | |
For further information contact:
Sandra Rivas
Sealy Center for Vaccine Development
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas 77555-0436
Phone: 409-747-8160
Fax: 409-772-6663
Email: smrivas@utmb.edu