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Venue and dates
February 25-27, 2010
Lausanne, Switzerland |
Course organizers
Darius Moradpour, Lausanne, Switzerland
Jörg Petersen, Hamburg, Germany |
CONDITIONS
Accepted participants will have their accommodation covered for 2 nights in a single room on bed and breakfast basis. In addition, participants' travel (train or basic APEX economy return flight, up to an amount of 600€) will be paid by EASL. Reimbursement will be made after the meeting.
Applications Closed
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Online application instructions
Note: When selecting applicants to the EASL Basic School, priority will be given to registered EASL members. Please have your EASL membership number available to complete the form. For EASL Membership information, please visit: https://easl.multiregistration.com/
If you are not yet a registered member, the application process is simple and anyone who has logged on will be considered for the School of Hepatology while membership is being processed. Please make sure to provide all requested information otherwise your application will not be considered. Should you be unable to complete the application form please contact the EASL School Secretariat at:
Kenes International
1-3, rue de Chantepoulet
P.O. Box 1726
CH-1211, Geneva 1
Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 908 0488
Fax: +41 22 906 91 40
Email: school@easl.eu
| 17:00 |
Registration |
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Welcome and introduction Darius Moradpour, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 18:00 - 20:00 |
Session 1: Overviews Moderator: Thomas Pietschmann, Hannover, Germany |
| 18:00 - 19:00 |
The HBV life cycle Michael Nassal, Freiburg, Germany |
| 19:00 - 20:00 |
The HCV life cycle Ralf Bartenschlager, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 20:00 |
Welcome reception |
| 9:00 - 12:30 |
Session 2: Tools and Tricks Moderator: Markus Heim, Basel, Switzerland |
| 9:00 - 9:45 |
Studying virus-host interactions (microarrays, proteomics, siRNAs) Volker Lohmann, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 9:45 - 10:30 |
Imaging (incl. FRET, FRAP, life cell imaging, STORM) John McLauchlan, Glasgow, UK |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 |
Electron microscopy (incl. cryo-EM and electron tomography) Bettina Böttcher, Edinburgh, UK |
| 11:45 - 12:30 |
Animal models (including chimpanzees) Jens Bukh, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 - 16:15 |
Session 3: Specific Aspects 1 Moderator: Johan Neyts, Leuven, Belgium |
| 14:00 - 14:45 |
Regulation of HBV cccDNA Maura Dandri, Hamburg, Germany |
| 14:45 - 15:30 |
Molecular basis of occult HBV infection Teresa Pollicino, Messina, Italy |
| 15:30 - 16:15 |
HCV entry Thomas Pietschmann, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 16:15 - 16:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:45 - 19:30 |
Session 4: Specific Aspects 2 Moderator: Volker Lohmann, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 16:45 |
Structural biology of HCV François Penin, Lyon, France |
| 17:30 |
HCV and the IFN system Markus Heim, Basel, Switzerland |
| 18:15 |
JFH-1 and beyond Takaji Wakita, Tokyo, Japan |
| 19:00 - 19:30 |
Special Lecture: Innate defenses against retroelements: from an ambiguous genetic self to novel therapeutic approaches Didier Trono, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 20:00 |
Dinner |
| 09:00 - 12:30 |
Session 5: Implications for drug development François Penin, Lyon, France |
| 09:00 |
HBV new antivirals Stephan Urban, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 09:45 |
HCV new antivirals Johan Neyts, Leuven, Belgium |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 |
Prospects for immunotherapy and vaccines Robert Thimme, Freiburg, Germany |
| 11:45 |
Antiviral resistance Fabien Zoulim, Lyon, France |
| 12:30 |
Conclusions and farewell Jörg Petersen, Hamburg, Germany |
