CID will host its third annual conference on Monday, February 26, 2007 in Georgetown University's Leavey Conference Center.  The conference will include three keynote presentations and three symposia relating to research, clinical applications and the policy, legal and ethical considerations pertaining to infectious diseases.

Schedule of Events

9:00-9:45 a.m.
Keynote Presentation #1: "A Candida albicans without its Chk1histidine kinase: the tale of a communication failure"

Richard Calderone, Co-director, Center for Infectious Disease, Georgetown University

9:45-10:45 a.m. 
Session #1: Drug Discovery in the Age of Drug Resistance

• moderated by Paul Roepe, Professor of Chemistry, Georgetown University
• Michael Bukrinsky (George Washington University), “Cholesterol efflux and HIV infectivity: potent anti-viral effect of ABCA1-stimulating compounds”
• Christian Wolf (Georgetown University), “Optimizing quinoline antimalarial drugs for drug resistant malaria”

11:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Keynote Presentation #2: “Historical Lessons from Infectious Diseases”

John McNeill, Cinco Hermanos Chair of Environmental and International Affairs, Georgetown University

1:00-2:00 p.m.
Session #2: Session #2: Biosurveillance and Infectious Disease

• moderated by Seong Ki Mun, Director of Imaging Science and Information Systems, Georgetown University
• James Wilson (Georgetown University), “Argus: Use of Indications and Warnings for Global Tactical Detection and Tracking of Biological Events”
• Eric K. Noji (Center for Health Information), “Infectious Diseases in Disasters and Other Humanitarian Crises”

3:00-4:00 p.m.
Session #3:  Epidemiology, Health Policy, and Infectious Diseases: Lessons from the HCV and HIV Epidemics

• moderated by Chris Loffredo, Director of Clinical and  Molecular Epidemiology Shared Resources, Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University
• Irene Jillson (Georgetown University), “Epidemiology's role in health policies on infectious disease control and prevention”
• Chris Loffredo (Georgetown University), “The evolution of Hepatitis C virus control in Egypt: from epidemiology to prevention”

4:00-5:00 p.m.
Plenary Talk: “Tracking down virulence in protozoan parasites”

L. David Sibley, Professor Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine

For addition information on the conference, visit: http://cid.georgetown.edu/conference.html