Thursday, November 19, 2026
Welcoming Remarks
Eric Freed, Ph.D.
(Director, HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, National Cancer Institute)
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
Jeff F. Miller, Ph.D.
(Professor, University of California Los Angeles)
Targeted protein evolution by diversity-generating retroelements in phage, bacteria, and the gut microbiome
Break
Sara Sawyer, Ph.D.
(Professor, University of Colorado Boulder)
The Golden Window: Immune protection during the first days after HIV-1 exposure can result in elite control or protection
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
Erik Flemington, Ph.D.
(Professor of Oncology, Wayne State University)
An EBV-Directed De Novo Promoter Landscape Drives Transcription Invasion and Host Chromatin Remodeling
Lunch and Poster Session
Eugene Koonin, Ph.D.
(NIH Distinguished Investigator, National Library of Medicine)
The expanding prokaryotic defensome and the intricate phage-counter-defense
W. Ian Lipkin, M.D.
(John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University)
Small Game Hunting
Margaret Scull, Ph.D.
(Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland)
Delineating the Role of Mucin Glycoproteins in Innate Defense Against Respiratory Virus Infection
https://cbmg.umd.edu/people/margaret-scull
Eric Freed, Ph.D.
(Director, HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, National Cancer Institute)
Closing remarks