BSGT Annual Conference 21-23 April 2009

Programme Overview

Tuesday 21st April 2009
09:30 - 15:30	Public Engagement Day
16:00 - 18:00	Educational Symposium – Speakers to be confirmed
18.00 - 19.15	Welcome Buffet

 

19.15 - 21.00: Opening Symposium
James Wilson	Viral vectors, vaccines & adverse immunity
Alan Colman	Stem & somatic cell therapies
Stephane Palfi	Parkinson disease clinical gene therapy

 

Wednesday 22nd April 2009
Symposium 1: Genetic Vaccines
Adrian Hill	Malaria genetic vaccines
Mary Collins	Lentivirus-based vaccine vectors
Freda Stephenson	Leukaemia vaccines: ETF of plasmid vectors
Plus proffered abstracts

 

Symposium 2: Inherited Disease
Thierry VandenDriessche	Haemophilia gene therapy
Eric Alton	Cystic Fibrosis gene therapy
Robin Ali	Inherited Eye Disease gene therapy
Plus proffered abstracts

 

Symposium 3: Fairbairn Award Symposium

Selected abstracts

 

Symposium 4: Advances in Vector Technology I
Boro Dropulic	Lentivectors and advanced applications
Luigi Naldini	Lentivector miRNA & RNAi technologies
Rafael Yanez	Non-integrating lentivectors
Plus proffered abstracts

 

Drinks Reception and Posters
Conference Banquet: Speaker: Alistair Kent: Genetics Interest Group
Thursday 23rd April 2009
Symposium 5: Cardiovascular & Neuromuscular Disease
Sam Wadsworth	Arteriogenesis gene therapy for POAD
Sian Harding	Gene therapy targeting the myocardium
Ian Graham	Antisense modulation of RNA splicing for DMD
Plus proffered abstracts

 

Symposium 6: Stem & Somatic Cell Therapies
Bobby Gaspar	ADA, X-SCID, CGD Gene Therapy
Philip Gregory	ZFN gene targeting in stem
Juergen Bode	Replicating episomal vectors
Steve Howe	BSGT Travel Grant Awardee
Plus proffered abstracts

 

Symposium 7: Advances in Vector Technology II
Nicola Stoner	Gene medicines in the hospital pharmacy
Andrew Baker	Determinants of adenovector tropism in vivo
Plus proffered abstracts

 

Symposium 8: Cancer Gene Therapy
Robert Hawkins	T-cell immunotherapy
Stuart Naylor	Trovax cancer vaccine
Richard Vile	T-Regs and oncolytic vectors
Plus proffered abstracts