Thursday, November 20, 2025

10:00 am - 10:15 am EST
Welcoming Remarks

Eric Freed, Ph.D. 
(Director, HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, National Cancer Institute)

10:15 am - 10:45 am EST

Ian Wilson, Ph.D. 
(Hansen Professor of Structural Biology, Scripps Research)

 

Molecular understanding of the antibody immune response to constantly evolving SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus

 

https://wilson.scripps.edu/

10:45 am - 11:15 am EST

Elodie Ghedin, Ph.D. 
(Senior Investigator, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

 

Viral Vistas Across the Respiratory Tract in Influenza Infections

 

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/elodie-ghedin-phd

11:15 am - 11:30 am EST
Break
11:30 am - 12:00 pm EST

Sara Sawyer, Ph.D. 
(Professor, University of Colorado Boulder)

 

HIV-1 infection in immunocompetent owl monkeys: a new model for preclinical vaccine development

 

https://sawyerlab.org/

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm EST

Patrick T. Dolan, Ph.D. 
(Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

 

Sequencing viral populations and host responses at single-cell resolution with SEARCHLIGHT

 

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/patrick-t-dolan-phd

12:30 pm - 01:00 pm EST

Erik Flemington, Ph.D. 
(Zimmerman Endowed Professor of Cancer Research, Tulane University)

 

Epstein Barr virus replication causes widespread reprogramming of cell transcription initiation

 

https://flemingtonlab.tulane.edu/

01:00 pm - 02:30 pm EST
Lunch and Poster Session
02:30 pm - 03:00 pm EST

Eugene Koonin, Ph.D. 
(NIH Distinguished Investigator, National Library of Medicine)

 

The expanding prokaryotic defensome and the intricate phage-counter-defense

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/groups/koonin/

03:00 pm - 03:30 pm EST

W. Ian Lipkin, Ph.D. 
(John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University)

 

Small Game Hunting

 

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/profile/w-i-lipkin-md

03:30 pm - 04:00 pm EST

Jeff F. Miller, Ph.D. 
(Professor, University of California Los Angeles)

 

TBD

 

https://bioscience.ucla.edu/people/jeff-f-miller/

04:00 pm EST

Eric Freed, Ph.D. 
(Director, HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, National Cancer Institute)

 

Closing remarks