Scientific Program Committee

Sunday
February 3 Sessions
Session 2 CROI 2008
k Sunday, 10 am-1 pm; Room 100 (Computer Lab)
Session 2–Workshop
Host Genomics Hands-on Computer Workshop
The purpose of this workshop is to engage investigators in the emerging field
of host genome analysis (candidate gene and genome-wide analyses). This
workshop can accommodate 30 participants on a first-come, first-served basis.
No pre-registration is required.
The workshop will be a hands-on, interactive short course, with an
introduction to some of the search and analysis tools the host genome
databases provide. Participants will explore ways the database tools can
facilitate a study by working through a hypothetical research problem. The
faculty will answer questions about how the database might be usefully
applied to the work of those attending the workshop. The course will include
a series of short presentations that will introduce several database tools.
Attendees will each have a computer terminal available, and there will be time
for working through example problems and queries.
Convener:
Amalio Telenti
Univ of Lausanne, Switzerland
I Introduction
Defining Phenotypes for Host Genetic and
Genomic Studies
Jacques Fellay
Duke Univ, Durham, NC, US
II PLINK
Samuel Deutsch
Univ of Geneva Med Sch, Switzerland
III WGAviewer
IV Covariantes and Strategies for Stratification
Control
Dongliang Ge
Duke Univ, Durham, NC, US
2 15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
CME
c Sunday, 2-4 pm; Auditorium
Session 3–Symposium CME
Scale-up of HIV Prevention and Treatment in the
Developing World
Conveners:
James Hakim, Univ of Zimbabwe,
Coll of Hlth Sci, Harare
Marie Laga, Inst of Tropical Med, Antwerp,
Belgium
2
Implementing Circumcision for HIV Prevention in
Sub-Saharan Africa
Bertran Auvert* 1 , E Marseille 2 , and J Kahn 2
1 INSERM U687, Univ of Versailles, and Hosp Ambroise Pare,
France and 2 Philip R Lee Inst for Hlth Policy Studies, Univ of
California, San Francisco, US
3
Scale-up of HIV Testing in Africa
Elizabeth Marum
Global AIDS Prgm, CDC, Atlanta, GA, US
4
ART in Africa: Beyond the Roll-out
Gary Maartens
Univ of Cape Town, South Africa
5
Prevention of Cervical Cancer in the HAART Era
Silvia Franceschi
Intl Agency for Res on Cancer, Lyon, France
Objectives: This session is directed to clinicians and scientists interested in
the prevention and treatment of HIV infection and its complications in the
developing world. It is assumed participants are familiar with the magnitude
and basic epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. At the
completion of the session, participants will understand the roles of testing and
circumcision in HIV prevention, strategies for prevention of cervical cancer,
and the challenges of implementing HIV treatment in the developing world.