Oral presentations

Session 1: Entry & uncoating

O1 Host cell polo-like kinases (PLKs) promote early prototype foamy virus (PFV) replication

Irena Zurnic, Sylvia Hütter, Ute Lehmann, Nicole Stanke, Juliane Reh, Tobias Kern, Fabian Lindel, Gesche Gerresheim, Martin Hamann, Erik Müllers, Paul Lesbats, Peter Cherepanov, Erik Serrao, Alan Engelman, Dirk Lindemann

O2 A novel entry/uncoating assay reveals the presence of at least two species of viral capsids during synchronized HIV-1 infection

Claire Da Silva Santos, Kevin Tartour, Andrea Cimarelli

O3 Dynamics of nuclear envelope association and nuclear import of HIV-1 complexes

Rya Burdick, Jianbo Chen, Jaya Sastri, Wei-Shau Hu, Vinay Pathak

O4 Human papillomavirus protein E4 potently enhances the susceptibility to HIV infection

Oliver T. Keppler

Session 2: Reverse transcription & integration

O5 Structure and function of HIV-1 integrase post translational modifications

Karine Pradeau, Sylvia Eiler, Nicolas Levy, Sarah Lennon, Sarah Cianferani, Stéphane Emiliani, Marc Ruff

O6 Regulation of retroviral integration by RNA polymerase II associated factors and chromatin structure

Vincent Parissi

Session 3: Transcription and latency

O7 A novel single-cell analysis pipeline to identify specific biomarkers of HIV permissiveness

Sylvie Rato, Antonio Rausell, Miguel Munoz, Amalio Telenti, Angela Ciuffi

O8 A capsid-dependent integration program linking T cell activation to HIV-1 gene expression

Alexander Zhyvoloup, Anat Melamed, Ian Anderson, Delphine Planas, Janos Kriston-Vizi, Robin Ketteler, Chen-Hsuin Lee, Andy Merritt, Petronela Ancuta, Charles Bangham, Ariberto Fassati

O9 Characterisation of new RNA polymerase III and RNA polymerase II transcriptional promoters in the Bovine Leukemia Virus genome

Anthony Rodari, Benoit Van Driessche, Mathilde Galais, Nadége Delacourt, Sylvain Fauquenoy, Caroline Vanhulle, Anna Kula, Arsène Burny, Olivier Rohr, Carine Van Lint

O10 Tissue-specific dendritic cells differentially modulate latent HIV-1 reservoirs

Thijs van Montfort, Renee van der Sluis, Dave Speijer, Ben Berkhout

Session 4: RNA trafficking & packaging

O11 A novel cis-acting element affecting HIV replication

Bo Meng, Andrzej Rutkowski, Neil Berry, Lars Dölken, Andrew Lever

O12 Tolerance of HIV’s late gene expression towards stepwise codon adaptation

Thomas Schuster, Benedikt Asbach, Ralf Wagner

Session 5: Assembly & release

O13 Importance of the tax-inducible actin-bundling protein fascin for transmission of human T cell leukemia virus Type 1 (HTLV-1)

Christine Gross, Veit Wiesmann, Martina Kalmer, Thomas Wittenberg, Jan Gettemans, Andrea K. Thoma-Kress

O14 Lentiviral nef proteins antagonize TIM-mediated inhibition of viral release

Minghua Li, Eric O. Freed, Shan-Lu Liu

Session 6: Pathogenesis & evolution

O15 SEVI and semen prolong the half-life of HIV-1

Janis Müller, Jan Münch

O16 CD169⁺ macrophages mediate retrovirus trans-infection of permissive lymphocytes to establish infection in vivo

Xaver Sewald, Pradeep Uchil, Mark Ladinsky, Jagadish Beloor, Ruoxi Pi, Christin Herrmann, Nasim Motamedi, Thomas Murooka, Michael Brehm, Dale Greiner, Thorsten Mempel, Pamela Bjorkman, Priti Kumar, Walther Mothes

O17 Efficient replication of a vpu containing SIVagm construct in African Green Monkeys requires an HIV-1 nef gene

Simone Joas, Erica Parrish, Clement Wesley Gnanadurai, Edina Lump, Christina M. Stürzel, Nicholas F. Parrish, Ulrike Sauermann, Katharina Töpfer, Tina Schultheiss, Steven Bosinger, Guido Silvestri, Cristian Apetrei, Nicholas Huot, Michaela Müller-Trutwin, Daniel Sauter, Beatrice H. Hahn, Christiane Stahl-Hennig, Frank Kirchhoff

O18 Reprogramming initiates mobilization of endogenous mutagenic LINE-1, Alu and SVA retrotransposons in human induced pluripotent stem cells with consequences for host gene expression

Gerald Schumann, Sabine Jung-Klawitter, Nina V. Fuchs, Kyle R. Upton, Martin Muñoz-Lopez, Ruchi Shukla, Jichang Wang, Marta Garcia-Canadas, Cesar Lopez-Ruiz, Daniel J. Gerhardt, Attila Sebe, Ivana Grabundzija, Patricia Gerdes, Sylvia Merkert, Andres Pulgarin, Anja Bock, Ulrike Held, Anett Witthuhn, Alexandra Haase, Ernst J. Wolvetang, Ulrich Martin, Zoltán Ivics, Zsuzsanna Izsvák, J. Garcia-Perez, Geoffrey J. Faulkner

O19 NF-κB activation induces expression of human endogenous retrovirus and particle production

Tara Hurst, Aris Katzourakis, Gkikas Magiorkinis

Session 7a and b: Innate sensing & intrinsic immunity

O20 Identification of the phosphatase acting on T592 in SAMHD1 during M/G₁ transition

Kerstin Schott, Rita Derua, Janna Seifried, Andreas Reuter, Heike Schmitz, Christiane Tondera, Alberto Brandariz-Nuñez, Felipe Diaz-Griffero, Veerle Janssens, Renate König

O21 Vpx overcomes a SAMHD1-independent block to HIV reverse transcription that is specific to resting CD4 T cells

Hanna-Mari Baldauf, Lena Stegmann, Sarah-Marie Schwarz, Maud Trotard, Margarethe Martin, Gina Lenzi, Manja Burggraf, Xiaoyu Pan, Oliver I. Fregoso, Efrem S. Lim, Libin Abraham, Elina Erikson, Laura Nguyen, Ina Ambiel, Frank Rutsch, Renate König, Baek Kim, Michael Emerman, Oliver T. Fackler, Oliver T. Keppler

O22 The role of SAMHD1 in antiviral restriction and immune sensing in the mouse

Sabine Wittmann, Rayk Behrendt, Bianca Volkmann, Kristin Eissmann, Thomas Gramberg

O23 T cells expressing reduced restriction factors are preferentially infected in therapy naïve HIV-1 patients

Sebastian Bolduan, Herwig Koppensteiner, Stefanie Regensburg, Ruth Brack-Werner, Rika Draenert, Michael Schindler

O24 cGAS-mediated innate immunity spreads through HIV-1 env-induced membrane fusion sites from infected to uninfected primary HIV-1 target cells

Aurélie Ducroux, Shuting Xu, Aparna Ponnurangam, Sergej Franz, Angelina Malassa, Ellen Ewald, Christine Goffinet

O25 Perturbation of innate RNA and DNA sensing by human T cell leukemia virus type 1 oncoproteins

Sin-Yee Fung, Ching-Ping Chan, Chun-Kit Yuen, Kin-Hang Kok, Chin-Ping Chan, Dong-Yan Jin

O26 Induction and anti-viral activity of Interferon α subtypes in HIV-1 infection

Ulf Dittmer

O27 Vpu-mediated counteraction of tetherin is a major determinant of HIV-1 interferon resistance

Dorota Kmiec, Shilpa Iyer, Christina Stürzel, Daniel Sauter, Beatrice Hahn, Frank Kirchhoff

O28 DNA repair protein Rad18 restricts HIV-1 and LINE-1 life cycle

Yasuo Ariumi, Mariko Yasuda-Inoue, Koudai Kawano, Satoshi Tateishi, Priscilla Turelli

O29 Natural mutations in IFITM3 allow escape from post-translational regulation and toggle antiviral specificity

Alex Compton, Nicolas Roy, Françoise Porrot, Anne Billet, Nicoletta Casartelli, Jacob Yount, Chen Liang, Oliver Schwartz

Session 8: Adaptive immunity & immune evasion

O30 Observing evolution in HIV-1 infection: phylogenetics and mutant selection windows to infer the influence of the autologous antibody response on the viral quasispecies

Carsten Magnus, Lucia Reh, Penny Moore, Therese Uhr, Jacqueline Weber, Lynn Morris, Alexandra Trkola

O31 Dose and subtype specific analyses of the anti-HIV effects of IFN-alpha family members

Rashel V. Grindberg, Erika Schlaepfer, Gideon Schreiber, Viviana Simon, Roberto F. Speck

Session 9: Novel antiviral strategies

O32 LEDGIN-mediated inhibition of the integrase-LEDGF/p75 interaction reduces reactivation of residual latent HIV

Zeger Debyser, Lenard Vranckx, Jonas Demeulemeester, Suha Saleh, Eric Verdin, Anna Cereseto, Frauke Christ, Rik Gijsbers

O33 NKG2D-mediated clearance of reactivated viral reservoirs by natural killer cells

O34 Inhibition of HIV reactivation in brain cells by AAV-mediated delivery of CRISPR/Cas9

O35 CRISPR-Cas9 as antiviral: potent HIV-1 inhibition, but rapid virus escape and the subsequent design of escape-proof antiviral strategies

Ben Berkhout, Gang Wang, Na Zhao, Atze T. Das

Session 10: Recent advances in HIV vaccine development

O36 Priming with a potent HIV-1 DNA vaccine frames the quality of T cell and antibody responses prior to a poxvirus and protein boost

Benedikt Asbach, Josef Köstler, Beatriz Perdiguero, Mariano Esteban, Bertram L. Jacobs, David C. Montefiori, Celia C. LaBranche, Nicole L. Yates, Georgia D. Tomaras, Guido Ferrari, Kathryn E. Foulds, Mario Roederer, Gary Landucci, Donald N. Forthal, Michael S. Seaman, Natalie Hawkins, Steven G. Self, Sanjay Phogat, James Tartaglia, Susan W. Barnett, Brian Burke, Anthony D. Cristillo, Song Ding, Jonathan L. Heeney, Giuseppe Pantaleo, Ralf Wagner

O37 Passive immunisation with a neutralising antibody against HIV-1 Env prevents infection of the first cells in a mucosal challenge rhesus monkey model

Christiane Stahl-Hennig, Viktoria Stab, Armin Ensser, Ulrike Sauermann, Bettina Tippler, Dennis Burton, Matthias Tenbusch, Klaus Überla

O38 HIV antibody Fc-glycoforms drive B cell affinity maturation

Galit Alter, Giuseppe Lofano, Anne-Sophie Dugast, Viraj Kulkarni, Todd Suscovich

Poster presentations

Topic 1: Entry & uncoating

P1 Dynein light chain is required for murine leukemia virus infection

Tatiana Opazo, Felipe Barraza, Diego Herrera, Andrea Garces, Tomas Schwenke, Diego Tapia, Jorge Cancino, Gloria Arriagada

P2 Peptide paratope mimics of the broadly neutralising HIV-1 antibody b12

Christina Haußner, Dominik Damm, Anette Rohrhofer, Barbara Schmidt, Jutta Eichler

P3 Investigating cellular pathways involved in the transmission of HIV-1 between dendritic cells and T cells using RNAi screening techniques

Rebecca Midgley, James Wheeldon, Vincent Piguet

P4 Co-receptor tropism in HIV-1, HIV-2 monotypic and dual infections

Priyanka Khopkar, Megha Rohamare, Smita Kulkarni

P5 Characterisation of the role of CIB1 and CIB2 as HIV-1 helper factors

Ana Godinho-Santos, Allan Hance, Joao Goncalves, Fabrizio Mammano

P6 Buffering deleterious polymorphisms in the highly constrained C2 region of HIV-1 envelope by the flexible V3 domain

Romain Gasser, Meriem Hamoudi, Martina Pellicciotta, Zhicheng Zhou, Clara Visdeloup, Philippe Colin, Martine Braibant, Bernard Lagane, Matteo Negroni

P7 Entry inhibition of HERV-K(HML-2) by an Env-IgG fusion protein

Jula Wamara, Norbert Bannert

Topic 2: Reverse transcription & integration

P8 The R263K/H51Y resistance substitutions in HIV integrase decreases levels of integrated HIV DNA over time

Thibault Mesplede, Nathan Osman, Kaitlin Anstett, Jiaming Calvin Liang, Hanh Thi Pham, Mark Wainberg

P9 The Retrovirus Integration Database (RID)

Wei Shao, Jigui Shan, Mary Kearney, Xiaolin Wu, Frank Maldarelli, John Mellors, Brian Luke, John Coffin, Stephen Hughes

P10 The small molecule 3G11 inhibits HIV-1 reverse transcription

Thomas Fricke, Silvana Opp, Caitlin Shepard, Dmitri Ivanov, Baek Kim, Jose Valle-Casuso, Felipe Diaz-Griffero

P11 Dual and opposite regulation of HIV-1 integration by hRAD51: impact on therapeutical approaches using homologous DNA repair modulators

Vincent Parissi

P12 A flexible motif essential for integration by HIV-1 integrase

Marine Kanja, Pierre Cappy, Matteo Negroni, Daniela Lener

P13 Interaction between HIV-1 integrase and the host protein Ku70: identification of the binding site and study of the influence on integrase-proteasome interplay

Ekaterina Knyazhanskaya, Andrey Anisenko, Timofey Zatsepin, Marina Gottikh

P14 Normalisation based method for deep sequencing of somatic retroelement integrations in human genome

Alexander Komkov, Anastasia Minervina, Gaiaz Nugmanov, Vadim Nazarov, Konstantin Khodosevich, Ilgar Mamedov, Yuri Lebedev

Topic 3: Transcription and latency

P15 BCA2/RABRING7 restricts HIV-1 transcription by preventing the nuclear translocation of NF-κB

Marta Colomer-Lluch, Ruth Serra-Moreno

P16 MATR3 post-transcriptional regulation of HIV-1 transcription during latency

Ambra Sarracino, Anna Kula, Lavina Gharu, Alexander Pasternak, Carine Van Lint, Alessandro Marcello

P17 HIV-1 tat intersects the SUMO pathway to regulate HIV-1 promoter activity

Ann Marie McCartin, Anurag Kulkarni, Valentin Le Douce, Virginie Gautier

P18 Conservation in HIV-1 Vpr guides tertiary gRNA folding and alternative splicing

Ann Baeyens, Evelien Naessens, Anouk Van Nuffel, Karin Weening, Anne-Marie Reilly, Eva Claeys, Wim Trypsteen, Linos Vandekerckhove, Sven Eyckerman, Kris Gevaert, Bruno Verhasselt

P19 The majority of reactivatable latent HIV are genetically distinct

Hoi Ping Mok, Nicholas Norton, Axel Fun, Jack Hirst, Mark Wills, Andrew Lever

P20 Do mutations in the tat exonic splice enhancer contribute to HIV-1 latency?

Nicholas Norton, Hoi Ping Mok, Jack Hirst, Andrew Lever

P21 Culture-to-Ct: A fast and direct RT-qPCR HIV gene reactivation screening method using primary T cell culture

Valentin Le Douce, Ann Marie McCartin, Virginie Gautier

P22 A novel approach to define populations of early silenced proviruses

Dalibor Miklik, Filip Senigl, Jiri Hejnar

Topic 4: RNA trafficking & packaging

P23 Functional analysis of the structure and conformation of HIV-1 genome RNA DIS

Jun-ichi Sakuragi, Sayuri Sakuragi, Masaru Yokoyama, Tatsuo Shioda, Hironori Sato

P24 Regulation of foamy viral env splicing controls gag and pol expression

Jochen Bodem, Rebecca Moschall, Sarah Denk, Steffen Erkelenz, Christian Schenk, Heiner Schaal

Topic 5: Assembly & release

P25 Transfer of HTLV-1 p8 to target T cells depends on VASP: a novel interaction partner of p8

Norbert Donhauser, Ellen Socher, Sebastian Millen, Heinrich Sticht, Andrea K. Thoma-Kress

P26 COL4A1 and COL4A2 are novel HTLV-1 tax targets with a putative role in virus transmission

Christine Gross, Sebastian Millen, Melanie Mann, Klaus Überla, Andrea K. Thoma-Kress

P27 The C terminus of foamy virus gag protein is required for particle formation, and virus budding: starting assembly at the C terminus?

Guochao Wei, Matthew J. Betts, Yang Liu, Timo Kehl, Robert B. Russell, Martin Löchelt

P28 Generation of an antigen-capture ELISA and analysis of Rec and Staufen-1 effects on HERV-K(HML-2) virus particle production

Oliver Hohn, Saeed Mostafa, Kirsten Hanke, Stephen Norley, Norbert Bannert

P29 Antagonism of BST-2/tetherin is a conserved function of primary HIV-2 Env glycoproteins

Chia-Yen Chen, Masashi Shingai, Pedro Borrego, Nuno Taveira, Klaus Strebel

P30 Mutations in the packaging signal region of the HIV-1 genome cause a late domain mutant phenotype

Chris Hellmund, Bo Meng, Andrew Lever

P31 p6 regulates membrane association of HIV-1 gag

Melanie Friedrich, Friedrich Hahn, Christian Setz, Pia Rauch, Kirsten Fraedrich, Alina Matthaei, Petra Henklein, Maximilian Traxdorf, Torgils Fossen, Ulrich Schubert

Topic 6: Pathogenesis & evolution

P32 Molecular and structural basis of protein evolution during viral adaptation

Aya Khwaja, Meytal Galilee, Akram Alian

P33 HIV-1 enhancement and neutralisation by soluble gp120 and its role for the selection of the R5-tropic “best fit”

Birco Schwalbe, Heiko Hauser, Michael Schreiber

P34 An insertion of seven amino acids in the Env cytoplasmic tail of Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 2 (HIV-2) selected during disease progression enhances viral replication

François Dufrasne, Mara Lucchetti, Patrick Goubau, Jean Ruelle

P35 Cell-associated HIV-1 unspliced to multiply spliced RNA ratio at 12 weeks ART correlates with markers of immune activation and apoptosis and predicts the CD4 T-cell count at 96 weeks ART

Mirte Scherpenisse, Ben Berkhout, Alexander Pasternak

P36 Faster progression in non-B subtype HIV-1-infected patients than Korean subclade of subtype B is accompanied by higher variation and no induction of gross deletion in non-B nef gene by Korean red ginseng treatment

Young-Keol Cho, Jungeun Kim, Daeun Jeong

P37 Aberrant expression of ERVWE1 endogenous retrovirus and overexpression of TET dioxygenases are characteristic features of seminoma

Katerina Trejbalova, Martina Benesova, Dana Kucerova, Zdenka Vernerova, Rachel Amouroux, Petra Hajkova, Jiri Hejnar

P38 Life history of the oldest lentivirus: characterisation of ELVgv integrations and the TRIM5 selection pattern in dermoptera

Daniel Elleder, Tomas Hron, Helena Farkasova, Abinash Padhi, Jan Paces

P39 Characterisation of a highly divergent endogenous retrovirus in the equine germ line

Henan Zhu, Robert Gifford, Pablo Murcia

P40 The emergence of pandemic retroviral infection in small ruminants

Maria Luisa Carrozza, Anna-Maria Niewiadomska, Maurizio Mazzei, Mounir Abi-Said, Joseph Hughes, Stéphane Hué, Robert Gifford

P41 Near full-length genome (NFLG) Characterisation of HIV-1 subtype B identified in South Africa

Adetayo Obasa, Graeme Jacobs, Susan Engelbrecht

P42 Acquisition of Vpu-mediated tetherin antagonism by an HIV-1 group O strain

Katharina Mack, Kathrin Starz, Daniel Sauter, Matthias Geyer, Frederic Bibollet-Ruche, Christina Stürzel, Marie Leoz, Jean Christophe Plantier, Beatrice H. Hahn, Frank Kirchhoff

P43 The human endogenous retrovirus type K is involved in cancer stem cell markers expression and in human melanoma malignancy

Ayele Argaw-Denboba, Emanuela Balestrieri, Annalucia Serafino, Ilaria Bucci, Chiara Cipriani, Corrado Spadafora, Paolo Sinibaldi-Vallebona, Claudia Matteucci

P44 Natural infection of Indian non-human primates by unique lentiviruses

S. Nandi Jayashree, Ujjwal Neogi, Anil K. Chhangani, Shravan Sing Rathore, Bajrang R. J. Mathur

P45 Free cervical cancer screening among HIV-positive women receiving antiretroviral treatment in Nigeria

Adeyemi Abati

P46 Molecular evolutionary status of feline immunodeficiency virus in Turkey

B. Taylan Koç, Tuba Çiğdem Oğuzoğlu

Topic 7: Innate sensing & intrinsic immunity

P47 Cell-to-cell contact with HTLV-1-infected T cells reduces dendritic cell immune functions and contributes to infection in trans.

Takatoshi Shimauchi, Stephan Caucheteux, Jocelyn Turpin, Katja Finsterbusch, Charles Bangham, Yoshiki Tokura, Vincent Piguet

P48 Deciphering the mechanisms of HIV-1 exacerbation induced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in monocytes/macrophages

Shanti Souriant, Luciana Balboa, Karine Pingris, Denise Kviatcowsky, Brigitte Raynaud-Messina, Céline Cougoule, Ingrid Mercier, Marcelo Kuroda, Pablo González-Montaner, Sandra Inwentarz, Eduardo Jose Moraña, Maria del Carmen Sasiain, Olivier Neyrolles, Isabelle Maridonneau-Parini, Geanncarlo Lugo-Villarino, Christel Vérollet

P49 The SAMHD1-mediated inhibition of LINE-1 retroelements is regulated by phosphorylation

Alexandra Herrmann, Sabine Wittmann, Caitlin Shepard, Dominique Thomas, Nerea Ferreirós Bouzas, Baek Kim, Thomas Gramberg

P50 Activities of nuclear envelope protein SUN2 in HIV infection

Xavier Lahaye, Anvita Bhargava, Takeshi Satoh, Matteo Gentili, Silvia Cerboni, Aymeric Silvin, Cécile Conrad, Hakim Ahmed-Belkacem, Elisa C. Rodriguez, Jean-François Guichou, Nathalie Bosquet, Matthieu Piel, Roger Le Grand, Megan King, Jean-Michel Pawlotsky, Nicolas Manel

P51 Activation of TLR7/8 with a small molecule agonist induces a novel restriction to HIV-1 infection of monocytes

Henning Hofmann, Benedicte Vanwalscappel, Nicolin Bloch, Nathaniel Landau

P52 Steady state between the DNA polymerase and Rnase H domain activities of reverse transcriptases determines the sensitivity of retroviruses to inhibition by APOBEC3 proteins

Stanislav Indik, Benedikt Hagen

P53 HIV restriction in mature dendritic cells is related to p21 induction and p21-mediated control of the dNTP pool and SAMHD1 activity.

José Carlos Valle-Casuso, Awatef Allouch, Annie David, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Michaela Müller-Trutwin, Monsef Benkirane, Gianfranco Pancino, Asier Saez-Cirion

P54 IFITM protens restrict HIV-1 protein synthesis

Wing-Yiu Lee, Chen Liang, Richard Sloan

P55 Characterisation and functional analysis of the novel restriction factor Serinc5

Bianca Schulte, Silvana Opp, Felipe Diaz-Griffero

P56 piRNA sequences are common in Human Endogenous Retroviral Sequences (HERVs): An antiretroviral restriction mechanism?

Jonas Blomberg, Luana Vargiu, Patricia Rodriguez-Tomé, Enzo Tramontano, Göran Sperber

P57 Ferroportin restricts HIV-1 infection in sickle cell disease

Namita Kumari, Tatiana Ammosova, Sharmeen Diaz, Patricia Oneal, Sergei Nekhai

P58 APOBEC3G modulates the response to antiretroviral drugs in humanized mice

Audrey Fahrny, Gustavo Gers-Huber, Annette Audigé, Roberto F. Speck, Anitha Jayaprakash, Ravi Sachidanandam, Matt Hernandez, Marsha Dillon-White, Viviana Simon

P59 High-throughput epigenetic analysis of evolutionarily young endogenous retrovirus presents in the mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) genome

Tomas Hron, Helena Farkasova, Daniel Elleder

P60 Characterisation of the expression of novel endogenous retroviruses and immune interactions in a macaque model

Neil Berry, Emmanuel Maze, Claire Ham, Neil Almond, Greg Towers, Robert Belshaw

P61 HIV-1 restriction by orthologs of SERINC3 and SERINC5

Patrícia de Sousa-Pereira, Joana Abrantes, Massimo Pizzato, Pedro J. Esteves, Oliver T. Fackler, Oliver T. Keppler, Hanna-Mari Baldauf

P62 TRIM19/PML restricts HIV infection in a cell type-dependent manner

Bianca Volkmann, Tanja Kahle, Kristin Eissmann, Alexandra Herrmann, Sven Schmitt, Sabine Wittmann, Laura Merkel, Nina Reuter, Thomas Stamminger, Thomas Gramberg

P63 Recent invasion of the mule deer genome by a retrovirus

Helena Farkasova, Tomas Hron, Daniel Elleder

P64 Does the antiviral protein SAMHD1 influence mitochondrial function?

Ilaria Dalla Rosa, Kate Bishop, Antonella Spinazzola, Harriet Groom

P65 cGAMP transfers intercellularly via HIV-1 Env-mediated cell–cell fusion sites and triggers an innate immune response in primary target cells

Shuting Xu, Aurélie Ducroux, Aparna Ponnurangam, Sergej Franz, Gabrielle Vieyres, Mathias Müsken, Thomas Zillinger, Angelina Malassa, Ellen Ewald, Veit Hornung, Winfried Barchet, Susanne Häussler, Thomas Pietschmann, Christine Goffinet

P66 Pre-infection transcript levels of FAM26F in PBMCS inform about overall plasma viral load in acute and postacute phase after SIV-infection

Ulrike Sauermann, Aneela Javed, Nicole Leuchte, Gabriela Salinas, Lennart Opitz, Christiane Stahl-Hennig, Sieghart Sopper

P67 Sequence-function analysis of three T cell receptors targeting the HIV-1 p17 epitope SLYNTVATL

Christiane Mummert, Christian Hofmann, Angela G. Hückelhoven, Silke Bergmann, Sandra M. Müller-Schmucker, Ellen G. Harrer, Jan Dörrie, Niels Schaft, Thomas Harrer

P68 An immunodominant region of the envelope glycoprotein of small ruminant lentiviruses may function as decoy antigen

Laure Cardinaux, M.-L. Zahno, H.-R. Vogt, R. Zanoni, G. Bertoni

P69 Impact of immune activation, immune exhaustion, broadly neutralising antibodies and viral reservoirs on disease progression in HIV-infected children

Maximilian Muenchhoff, Philip Goulder, Oliver Keppler

Topic 9: Novel antiviral strategies

P70 Identification of natural compounds as new antiviral products by bioassay-guided fractionation

Alexandra Herrmann, Stephanie Rebensburg, Markus Helfer, Michael Schindler, Ruth Brack-Werner

P71 The PPARG antagonism disconnects the HIV replication and effector functions in Th17 cells

Yuwei Zhang, Huicheng Chen, Delphine Planas, Annie Bernier, Annie Gosselin, Jean-Pierre Routy, Petronela Ancuta

P72 Characterisation of a multiresistant subtype AG reverse transcriptase: AZT resistance, sensitivity to RNase H inhibitors and inhibitor binding

Birgitta Wöhrl, Anna Schneider, Angela Corona, Imke Spöring, Mareike Jordan, Bernd Buchholz, Elias Maccioni, Roberto Di Santo, Jochen Bodem, Enzo Tramontano, Kristian Schweimer

P73 Insigths into the acetylation pattern of HDAC inhibitors and their potential role in HIV therapy

Christian Schölz, Brian Weinert, Sebastian Wagner, Petra Beli, Yasuyuki Miyake, Jun Qi, Lars Jensen, Werner Streicher, Anna McCarthy, Nicholas Westwood, Sonia Lain, Jürgen Cox, Patrick Matthias, Matthias Mann, James Bradner, Chunaram Choudhary

P74 HPV-derived and seminal amyloid peptides enhance HIV-1 infection and impair the efficacy of broadly neutralising antibodies and antiretroviral drugs

Marcel Stern, Oliver T. Keppler

P75 D(−)lentiginosine inhibits both proliferation and virus expression in cells infected by HTLV-1 in vitro

Elena Valletta, Caterina Frezza, Claudia Matteucci, Francesca Marino-Merlo, Sandro Grelli, Anna Lucia Serafino, Antonio Mastino, Beatrice Macchi

P76 HIV-1 resistance analyses of the Cape Winelands districts, South Africa

Sello Mikasi, Graeme Jacobs, Susan Engelbrecht

Topic 10: Recent advances in HIV vaccine development

P77 Induction of complex retrovirus antigen-specific immune responses by adenovirus-based vectors depends on the order of vector administration

Meike Kaulfuß, Sonja Windmann, Wibke Bayer

P78 Direct impact of structural properties of HIV-1 Env on the regulation of the humoral immune response

Rebecca Heß, Michael Storcksdieck gen. Bonsmann, Viktoria Stab, Carsten Kirschning, Bernd Lepenies, Matthias Tenbusch, Klaus Überla

P79 Lentiviral virus-like particles mediate gerenration of T-follicular helper cells in vitro

Anne Kolenbrander, Klaus Überla, Vladimir Temchura

P80 Recruitment of HIV-1 Vpr to DNA damage sites and protection of proviral DNA from nuclease activity

Kenta Iijima, Junya Kobayashi, Yukihito Ishizaka