Infectious Diseases
April 5-6, 2004
Colorado State University Research Colloquium
A large concentration of faculty and institutions encompassing established or emerging programs of infectious diseases research have emerged along the northern Front Range region of Colorado and Wyoming. Over the past year, there has been a strong increase in collaboration among a number of these research programs in response to several large infectious diseases funding announcements.
The goal of Colorado State University's Infectious Diseases Research Colloquium is to build upon these investigator-initiated collaborations in a forum that:
- provides an overview of the myriad of infectious disease research activities ongoing along the northern Front Range;
- stimulates discussion among investigators; and
- fosters new collaborations and the partnering of research disciplines or integration of new technologies.
The program will cover a wide array of research areas including human pathogens, infectious diseases in agriculture, drug and vaccine development, and post-genomic technologies. The colloquium is designed to benefit both investigators with research activities that could be applied to infectious diseases but have not received infectious disease funding in the past, as well as researchers with established infectious diseases programs. This program is also appropriate for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies interested in learning more about research activities in infectious diseases.
Hosted by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Information Technology and Colorado State University Research Foundation.
Monday April 5, 2004
8:20 - Opening Remarks Dr. Tony Frank
8:30 - Keynote Address: Microbial Threats in the New Millenium
Dr. Barry Beaty
Colorado State University
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
Vector Borne Diseases:
9:15 - Persistence of Plague in Wild Rodent Populations in Colorado
Dr. Michael Antolin
Colorado State University
Department of Biology
9:45 - West Nile virus in North America
Dr. Lyle Petersen
Centers for Disease Control
National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases
10:15 - Break
10:45 - Developing a Better Understanding of how Arthropod-Borne Viruses Interact with Mosquito Vectors
Dr. Kenneth Olson
Colorado State University
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
11:15 - Exploiting RNA interference (RNAi) in mosquitoes to control arbovirus diseases
Dr. Carol Blair
Colorado State University
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
11:45 - Lunch Provided - "From the Lab Bench to the Patient- Issues in Commercializing Infectious Disease Technologies"
Moderator: Paul Hudnut, Director of Venture Development, CSU
Panelists:
- J. Joseph Marr, M.D., General Partner, Pacific Rim Ventures
- Dr. Lance Perryman, Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
- Dr. Daniel Stinchcomb, Executive Vice President, Research and Development, Heska Corporation
- Arundeep S. Pradhan, Director of Technology Transfer, CSURF
Bacterial Physiology and Drug Development:
1:15 - Development of New Drugs Against Tuberculosis and Anthrax Based on Principles of Bacterial Physiology
Dr. Patrick Brennan
Colorado State University
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
1:45 - Developing the Hidden Potential of Root Exudates from Plants: From Antibiotics to Antiinfective Compounds
Dr. Jorge Vivanco
Colorado State University
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
2:15 - Efflux-Mediated Resistance in Bacteria: Implications for Drug Discovery Efforts
Dr. Herbert Schweizer
Colorado State University
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
2:45 - Iron Homeostasis in Bacterial-Host Confrontations: "Sed Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodies"
Dr. Michael Vasil
University of Colorado Heath Sciences Center, School of Medicine Department of Microbiology
3:15 - Break
Immunology and Vaccine Development:
3:45 - New Therapies for the Global Tuberculosis Pandemic
Dr. Ian Orme
Colorado State University
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
4:15 - Activation of Innate and Adaptive Immunity by Novel Liposome-TLR Ligand Vaccines
Dr. Steven Dow
Colorado State University
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
4:45 - Yeast-Based Vaccines for HIV-1 Infection
Dr. Cara Wilson
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
School of Medicine, Department of Immunology
5:00 Poster viewing and social hour
Tuesday April 6, 2003
Post-Genomic Technologies and Infectious Diseases:
8:30 - The Use of Post-Genomic Technologies in the Study of Tuberculosis
Dr. Richard Slayden
Colorado State University
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
9:00 - Rapid and Robust Method of Pathogen Detection Utilizing Bacteriophage Amplification Coupled with Modern Protein Detection Strategies
Dr. Kent Vorhees
Colorado School of Mines School of Mines
Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry
9:30 - Structural Basis for the Proteolysis Dependent Activation of Poliovirus Polymerase
Dr. Olve Peersen
Colorado State University
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
10:00 - Break
Emerging Infectious Diseases:
10:30 - Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD): Oral Transmission and Prion Tissue Tropism in Deer
Dr. Ed Hoover
Colorado State University
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
11:00 - Coronaviruses: What Determines Host Range?
Dr. Kathryn Holmes
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology
Retrovirology:
11:30 - Harnessing RNAi for HIV/AIDS Stem Cell Gene Therapy
Dr. Ramesh Akkina
Colorado State University
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
12:00 - Regulation of Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type I (HTLV-I) Replication
Dr. Jennifer Nyborg
Colorado State University
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
12:30 - Lunch Provided - Networking and Poster review
Infectious Diseases in Agriculture:
2:15 - Viral and vector genomic approaches to solving arthropod-borne animal disease problems
Dr. William Wilson
United Sates Department of Agriculture
Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Laboratory
2:45 - A Thrips-Transmitted Virus Threatens the United States Onion Industry
Dr. Howard Schwartz
Colorado State University
Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management
3:15 - The Stigma and Enigma of Potato Ring Rot: a Plant Pathogenic Actinomycete
Dr. Carol Ishimaru
Colorado State University
Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management
3:45 - Break
Parasitology:
4:15 - Interactions that Occur at the Arthropod Vector/Pathogen/Host Interface
Dr. Richard Titus
Colorado State University
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
4:45 - Erythrocyte: Parasite Interactions in Malaria Infection
Dr. Christine Olver
Colorado State University
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
5:00 - Poster viewing and social hour
Sponsors:
- Colorado BioSciences Association
- Colorado State University Research Foundation
- Northern Colorado Economic Development Corporation
- Hogan & Hartson
- Mycos Research, LLC