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Speakers & Presentations
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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" |
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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" |
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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" |
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 | 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" |
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