12:30-13:00 Welcome and Opening

• Paddy Mallon, UCD CEPHR Director

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

15:45-17:15 SESSION 2: 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. Centre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research, 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