CanCURE Members @ CAHR 2020
On May 1st and 2nd 2020, the 29th Annual conference of the Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) was held. Although unable to attend the conference onsite, many CanCURE members were present to give their oral talks and posters virtually! Please see below a summary of these abstracts for this year:
From Dr. Petronela Ancuta’s lab
Petronela Ancuta gave a keynote lecture entitled “Targeting the Clock Inside Th17 Cells for HIV-1 Cure” during the Basic Sciences Keynote Presentation (Click here to view the presentation video)
Amélie Cattin presented two e-posters:
Humanized Mice for Studying HIV Persistence in Long-lived Tissue-resident Macrophages &
Christ-Dominique Ngassaki-Yoka presented an e-poster:
The Circadian Clock Machinery Regulates HIV Transcription in CD4+ T cells
Augustine Fert presented an oral entitled “Effect of Metformin Treatment on Non-Diabetic HIV-Infected Individuals on ART"
Debashree Chatterjee presented an e-poster: Daily Immunological/Virological Variations in Aviremic ART-treated HIV Participants
From Dr. Nicolas Chomont’s lab
Caroline Dufour presented an oral entitled “Characterization of HIV Reservoirs in Multiple Tissues Collected Post-mortem from Two Individuals on Suppressive ART”
Isabelle Turcotte presented one e-poster: Effect of Thymic Output on the Homeostasis of the HIV Reservoir
From the labs of Drs Mohammad-Ali Jenabian and Cecilia Costiniuk
Oussama Meziane presented an oral entitled “Pulmonary mucosal double negative T cells as HIV reservoirs during long-term ART”
Alexis Yero Diaz presented and oral entitled “Dynamics of regulatory and effector CD8 T-cells in mesenteric lymph nodes and blood during SIV infection of Rhesus Macaques and following early ART initiation”
Tao Shi presented an e-poster: Epigenetic control of human regulatory T cells (Tregs) during HIV-1 infection
Mohammad-Ali Jenabian presented an e-poster: ART-treated adults with diagnosed atherosclerosis are characterized by a particular expression of Regulatory T-cells
Sharada Swaminathan presented an e-poster: Impact of in vitro HIV Infection and TGF-β Stimulation on Human Thymic Regulatory T-cell Development
Cecilia Costiniuk presented an e-poster: The CanCURE Post-mortem HIV Tissue Biobank: Working Together Towards an HIV Cure
David Lessard presented an e-poster: Factors Associated with Willingness to Participate in End-of-Life Cure Research: Perspectives from People Living with HIV
From Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy’s Lab
Jean-Pierre Routy presented a special session entitled “COVID-19 & HIV management clinician experiences and perspectives” (Click here to view the presentation video)
Brandon Fombuena presented an e-poster: Microbial Translocation of Fungal β-D-Glucan is Associated with Cardiovascular Risk in People Living with HIV
John Lin presented an oral entitled “Plasma CXCL13 Correlates with Reservoir Size in Long-term ART-treated People Living With HIV”
Rayoun Ramendra presented an e-poster: Relevance of CMV and EBV Co-Infection to Chronic Inflammation in HIV Elite Controllers
Stéphane Isnard presented both an oral and an e-poster entitled “Metformin Decreases Weight and Inflammation in Non-Diabetic People Living with HIV: Link with Microbiota Composition”
From Dr. Jonathan Angel’s Lab
Bengisu Molyer presented an e-poster: Pseudotyping the Oncolytic Virus MG1 to Enhance Its Ability to Selectively Kill HIV Infected Cells
To see the full list of orals given during the conference please visit:
https://www.cahr-acrv.ca/virtual-conferences/oral-abstracts/
To see a full list of e-posters given during this conference please visit:
https://www.cahr-acrv.ca/virtual-conferences/posters/
