Location:
The Kirby Institute Level 6 Seminar Room Wallace Wurth Building UNSW Australia Sydney NSW 2052
Open to
All
Contact for enquiriesÂ
Rata Joseph +61 (0)2 9385 0900 rjoseph@kirby.unsw.edu.au
The Kirby Institute is pleased to present:
Professor Guido Silvestri-Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine; Division Chief, Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center
"Immune control of SIV replication under ART"
Lunch will be served at 12.30pm. Please RSVP to rjoseph@kirby.unsw.edu.au for catering purposes and dietary requirements by Friday 21st August.
Bio:
Dr. Guido Silvestriis currently a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Comparative Pathology, as well as Professor and Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine. He also serves as Chair of the Division of Microbiology & Immunology at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Since 1993, Dr. Silvestri has been involved in studies of AIDS pathogenesis, prevention, and therapy, mostly using non-human primate models of SIV and SHIV infection, with particular focus on comparative studies of pathogenic and non-pathogenic primate lentiviral infections. Dr. Silvestri is currently the principal investigator of several NIH grants, including an R37 MERIT award, and he is involved in both the Consortium for AIDS vaccine studies in non-human primates and the CHAVI-ID. He has authored or co-authored 194 peer-reviewed publications in this field, including some in the highest impact journals (Cell, Science, Nature, Nature Medicine, etc). His work has been quoted ~13,000 times, and has been presented in plenary sessions at all the major HIV/AIDS Conferences (CROI, IAS, Keystone, etc). Dr. Silvestri is an Editor of the Journal of Virology, an Associate Editor of PLoS Pathogens, and a past-Editor of the Journal of Immunology. He also serves in the Editorial Board of the Journal of Infectious Diseases. He served as Chairman or Standing Member in several study sections at the NIH, CIHR, ANRS, AmFAR, and the European Commission. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Conference on Retrovirus and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), of the International AIDS Society Scientific Working Group on HIV Cure, and was a Co-Chair of the 6th International AIDS Conference in Rome, July 2011.