Lorne Infection and Immunity Conference 2017
| Date | 15 February - 17 February 2017 |
| Venue | Mantra Lorne |
| Location | Mountjoy Parade, Lorne VIC 3232 View Map |
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The Lorne Infection and Immunity Conference brings together scientists, students, health care and industry from multiple disciplines with a shared interest in infection and immunity research.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Sonja Best, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA
Host-flavivirus interactions; IFN-stimulated genes
Caroline Demangel, Pasteur Institute, France
Mycobacteria, mycolactone, inflammation and metabolomics
George Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Interspecies transmission of pathogens; enveloped virus-host interaction; molecular immune recognition
Nancy Haigwood, Oregon Health and Science University, USA
HIV transmission, immunity and vaccine development
Marion Pepper, University of Washington, USA
Immunological memory; adaptive response to malaria; tetramer-based enrichment strategies
Bali Pulendran, Emory Vaccine Centre, USA
Innate immune system regulation of adaptive immune responses to pathogens; vaccine and therapeutic design
Thierry Soldati, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Phagocytosis; host-pathogen interactions; anti-mycobacterial compounds
Dominique Soldati-Favre, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Apicomplexa motion, host cell attachment and invasion
Sammy Bedoui, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dendritic cell - T cell interactions during infection
Katherine Kedzierska, University of Melbourne, Australia
Human T cell immunology; influenza responses; clinical cohorts
David Lynn, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Australia
Interplay between the microbiome, vaccines and the immune system
Rowena Martin, Australian National University, Australia
Malaria membrane transport proteins and their involvement in drug resistance
David Tscharke, Australian National University, Australia
Herpes simplex virus, viral latency, antigen presentation to CD8+ T Cells
Cynthia Whitchurch, University of Technology - Sydney, Australia
Biofilm formation and migration; Pseudomonas-host interactions
Connie Wong, Monash University, Australia
Neuroinflammation in both infectious and non-infectious models
