Sunday, October 5, 2008

14:30-14:40: Opening of the Conference

14:40-17:00: HCV: Then and Now

• Robert Purcell (Bethesda) "NANB Hepatitis"
• Michael Houghton (San Francisco) "Discovery of HCV"
• Miriam Alter (Galveston) "Hepatitis C Landscape Today"
• Peter Simmonds (Edinburgh) "HCV Genome Structure and Evolution"
• Charles Rice (New York) "The HCV Life-cycle"

17:00 - 19:00: Welcome Reception

Monday, October 6, 2008

08:30-10:15: Early Steps in Infection: Entry

• Keynote: Jane McKeating (Birmingham)

10:45-12:30: Translation and Protein Processing

• Keynote: Darius Moradpour (Lausanne)

14:00-16:30: RNA Replication

• Keynote: Karla Kirkegaard (Palo Alto)

16:30-18:30: Poster Session I

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

08:30-10:15: Innate Host Responses

• Keynote: Allan Brasier (Galveston)

10:45-12:30: Adaptive Immunity and Persistence

• Keynote: Patrick Bertolino (Sydney)

14:00-16:30: Virus-Host Interactions and Pathogenesis

• Keynote: Kunitada Shimotohno (Chiba)

16:30-18:30 Poster Session II

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

08:30-10:15: Vaccines

• Keynote: Rafi Ahmed (Atlanta)

10:45-12:30: Carcinogenesis

• Keynote: Mark Harris (Leeds)

14:00-16:30: Virus Structure, Assembly and Release

• Keynote: Richard Kuhn (West Lafayette)

18:30: Rodeo/Banquet

Thursday, October 9, 2008

08:30-11:00: Advances in Antiviral Therapy

• Keynote: G. Migliaccio Lecture: Daniel Lamarre (Montreal)

11:00-11:30: Closing of Conference