Schedule
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Day 1 – Saturday 21st June
12:30 – 13:00
Arrivals, Registration and Lunch
Welcome and Opening
13:00 – 13:45
CEPHR PhD Spotlights
Chairs: Christine Kelly, MMUH & Noreen Sheehy, UCD
Joanne Byrne– ‘Immunologic responses to MPOX vaccines’.
St Vincent’s University Hospital, Centre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research, University College Dublin, Ireland
Valentin Masson D’Autume – ‘Reprogramming T cell metabolism as a new approach to HIV Cure‘.
Laboratory of Virology, Centre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dana Alalwan– ‘A Cross Validation Model of Established Bioprofiles in People with HIV’.
Centre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research, University College Dublin, Ireland
13:45 – 15:15
Session 1:
Epidemiology, Prevention and Control of HIV & STIs
Chairs: Jane O’Halloran & Cathal O’Broin, SVUH
Giovanni Villa – ‘Updated Epidemiology of STIs in Ireland’.
St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Hilary Reno – ‘Syndemic Approaches for STI prevention and control’.
St. Louis STI/HIV Prevention Training Center, WUSTL, US
15:15 – 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:15
Session:
Ongoing Challenges in the Field of MPOX and HIV
Chairs: Mary Horgan, MMUH & Prof Eoin Feeney, SVUH
Liem Binh Luong – ‘Our Evolving Understanding of MPOX’.
CIC Vaccinologie Cochin Pasteur Université Paris Cité
Padraig McGettrick – ‘Inflammatory Phenotypes in Cardiovascular Disease in People with HIV’. CEPHR, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
17:15
Summary and Meeting Close
Day 2 – Saturday 22 June
09:00-09:30
Arrivals, Registration and Breakfast
09:30-11:45
Session 3:
Climate Change & Emerging Infections
Chairs: Anthony Holohan & Steve Gordon, UCD
Annetta Zintl – ‘Ticks and tickborne pathogens in Ireland and the potential effects of climate change’.
School of Veterinary, University College Dublin, Ireland
Marta Diaz – ‘Dengue in a Warming World: The Consequences of Climate Change on Viruses’.
Unidad de Patología Importada y Salud internacional Hospital La Paz-Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Martin Hoenigl – ‘Fungal infections: Impact of Climate Change and Natural Disasters’.
Translational Mycology at the Division of Infectious Diseases, Medical University of Graz, Austria
