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Speakers & Presentations

Session 1: Bioinformatics

Marc Van Regenmortel, CNRS, Strasbourg, France  
"Antigens versus immunogens. The quest for B cell epitopes and synthetic vaccines"
Alex Sette, LIAI, La Jolla, CA, USA 
"Uses of immunological databases in vaccinology"
Bjoern Peters, LIAI, La Jolla, CA, USA
"Divide and conquer: New approaches to predicting antibody epitope subsets"
Jon Gershoni, Tel Aviv University, Israel
"Prediction of discontinuous epitopes and the rational design of epitope-based vaccines"
Pravin Kaumaya,Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
"Conformational epitopes of HER-2/neu and VEGF for vaccine and peptide therapeutic approaches"
Michael Zwick, Scripps, La Jolla, CA, USA
"Targeting neutralizing antibody-defined sites on HIV gp41 for vaccine design"
Peter Timmerman, Pepscan, Lelystad, the Netherlands
"Functional reconstitution of structurally complex epitopes using CLIPS technology"
Franck Molina, CNRS, Montpellier, France
"Biocomputing tool for discontinuous epitope identification and synthetic reconstitution"
David Klatzmann, Laboratoire de Biologie et Thérapeutique des Pathogies Immunitaires, UMR 7087 - UPMC-CNRS, Paris, France 
"Rational design and standardized evaluation of novel genetic vaccines"

Urmila Kulkarni-Kale, Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune, Pune, India
"Mapping Antibody-binding sites on antigens: knowledgebase to predictions"

Jean-Luc Pellequer, CEA, IBEB, SBTN/LIRM, Bagnols sur Ceze, France
"Structure-activity relationships in peptide-antibody complexes"

Rene J Duquesnoy, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
"HLAMATCHMAKER:  A computer algorithm for structurally based HLA epitope matching for organ transplantation"

Session 2: Systems Biology

Thomas Kepler, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
"Gene expression dynamics and vaccine adjuvants"

Anne deGroot, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
"Computer-driven vaccine design: From concept to reality"
Penelope Morel, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
"Cytokines and chemokines: A battleground between pathogens and immune responses"
Denise Kirschner, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
"Multiscale approaches toward understanding antigen presentation in the immune response : implications for vaccine development"
Don Burke, Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
"Evaluation of Candidate Vaccine Technologies Using Computational Models"
Bryan Grenfell, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
"Vaccination and the spatiotemporal dynamics of childhood infections"

Session 3: Biosensors

Fredrik Sundberg, GE Healthcare, Biacore, Uppsala, Sweden
"Antibody and vaccine characterization using surface plasmon resonance biosensors"
Pascale Richalet, SRU Biosystems, Woburn, MA, USA
"Determination of concentration of biomolecules using optical biosensors"
Gideon Kersten, Netherlands Vaccine Institute , Bilthoven, The Netherlands
"Uses of biosensors for quality control of vaccines and for reducing animal use in vaccine research"
Jodi Craigo, Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
"Vaccination and Infection: Utilizing SPR to Dissect the Antibody Response"
Camilla Estmer Nilsson, GE Healthcare, Uppsala, Sweden
"SPR Technology as a Powerful Tool to Accurately Determine Influenza Virus Concentration"