Schedule

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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

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

11:45-12:15
Panel discussion

12:30
Summary and Meeting Close