Session Chairs: Thomas Schulz (replaced by a lady) and Micah Luftig Oral Talk #78 Increased Association between EBV EBNA2 from Type 2 Strains and the Transcriptional Repressor BS69 Restricts B Cell Growth Rajesh Ponnusamy1, Ritika Khatri1, Paolo Correia2, Erika Mancini1, Paul J. Farrell2, Michelle J. West11School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex,, 2Section of Virology, […]

Session Chairs: Britt Glaunsinger and Yasuaki Harabuchi (下屆EBV會議主辦人) (Play Circle) Oral Talk #70 Role of KSHV in T cell Infiltration in Kaposi’s Sarcoma Microenvironment Canrong Zhong1, Nannan Zhu1, Yuqing Li1, Yan Yuan1,2 1Sun Yat-sen University, 2University of Pennsylvania Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), also termed human herpesvirus type 8 (HHV8), is an etiologic agent of Kaposi’s Sarcoma

Session 8A Latency 10:30 AM – 12:00 PMSession Chairs: Jennifer Totonchy & Maria Masucci EBV Persistence without its EBNA3A and 3C Oncogenes in vivo Anita Murer Oral Talk #62 EBV Persistence without its EBNA3A and 3C Oncogenes in vivo Anita Murer1, Donal McHugh1, Nicole Caduff1, Jens Kalchschmidt2, Mario Barros3, Andrea Zbinden4, Riccarda Capaul4, Gerald Niedobitek3,

Session Chairs: Scott Tibbetts & Erik Flemington Oral Talk #54 Misprocessing of Cellular Noncoding RNAs as a Pathway for Cell-Intrinsic Immune Activation Yang Zhao1, Xiang Ye1, William Dunker1, Yu Song1, John Karijolich1 1Vanderbilt University School of Medicine The RIG-I like receptors (RLRs) RIG-I and MDA5 are cytosolic RNA helicases best characterized as restriction factors for

Session Chairs: Denise Whitby & Christian Münz Oral Talk #50 Malaria as a Risk Factor for Early Age of KSHV Infection in a Cohort of Children in Western Kenya Rosemary Rochford1, Katherine Sabourin1, Ibrahim Daud3, Peter O. Sumba3, Nazzarrena Labo2, Wendell Miley2, Denise Whitby21University of Colorado, 2Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, 3Kenya Medical Research

1:00 PM Keynote Address III Bettina Kempkes Bettina Kempkes studied biology and graduated from the Albert-LudwigUniversity Freiburg in 1986. She received her PhD at the Max-PlanckInstitute of Immunobiology in Freiburg for her work on the T cell receptorrepertoire of hapten-specific T cells in 1989. Between 1989 and 1994 sheworked as a postdoctoral research fellow at

Session Chairs: Charles Wood & Alan Chiang  (Play Circle)Newly Derived endemic Burkitt Lymphoma Cell Lines from Kenyan Patients and the Makings of an Avatar Mouse Model Ann M. Moormann Oral Talk #43 Newly Derived Endemic Burkitt Lymphoma Cell Lines from Kenyan Patients and the Makings of an Avatar Mouse Model Ann M. Moormann1, Priya Saikumar

Session Chairs: Fanxiu Zhu & Richard Longnecker Oral Talk #29 The EBV Glycoprotein BDLF2 is Essential for the Infection of Stratified Epithelium Ian Hayman1, Joshua Walston1, Mindy Gore2, Lindsey Hutt-Fletcher2, Clare E. Sample1 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences

4:30 PM Keynote Address II  Blossom Damania   Shannon Hall Blossom Damania is the Boshamer Distinguished Professor and Vice Dean for Research in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill). She is a professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology and is a member of the Lineberger

Session Chairs: Mandy Muller and Ben Gewurz Oral Talk #20 A Genome-Wide Screen of EBV Proteins that Modulate Host SUMOylation Identifies a SUMO E3 Ligase Conserved in Herpesviruses Carlos F. De La Cruz Herrera1, Kathy Shire1, Lori Frappier1 1Dept of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto Modification by the small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) controls the activity