ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS AND HUMAN BRAIN DISEASES
NOVEMBER 6, 2003
HELD AT THE MARRIOTT HOTEL IN BETHESDA, MD
INTRODUCTION TO THE PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES OF THE STANLEY
MEDICAL INSTITUTE
Robert Yolken, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Michael Knable,
Maree Webster, Stanley Medical Research Institute
WHY LOOK FOR INFECTIOUS AGENTS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND
BIPOLAR DISORDER?
E. Fuller Torrey, Stanley Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD
HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS W IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
Håkan Karlsson, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
THE HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS W GAG PROTEIN
Sarven Sabunciyan, Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, MD
IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL STUDIES OF HERV-W AND NEUTRAL AMINO
ACID TRANSPORTERS (ASCT 1 AND 2) IN THE BRAINS OF PATIENTS
WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA, BIPOLAR DISORDER AND DEPRESSION
Serge Weis, Stanley Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD
IMMUNOPATHOGENICITY OF MSRV ENVELOP TARGETING BRAIN
MACROPHASES/MICROGLIOCYTES: A COMMON PATHOGENIC
PATHWAY FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA, WITH
COMMON IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC OUTCOMES?
Hervé Perron, BioMerieux, France
RETROVIRAL SEQUENCES OF THE HUMAN GENOME.
CHARACTERISATION AND RNA EXPRESSION
Jonas Blomberg, Uppsala University, Sweden
HERV-K POLYMORPHISMS IN HUMAN POPULATIONS
John Coffin, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES AND RESISTANCE TO EXOGENOUS
RETROVIRUS INFECTIONS
Jonathan Stoye, National Institute for Medical Research, United Kingdom
CONTRASTING EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES OF DIFFERENT HERV
FAMILIES
Javier Costas, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, Spain
RECENT EVOLUTION OF HERV-K
Jack Lenz Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
IMPACT OF RETROELEMENTS ON HUMAN GENE REGULATIONS
Patrik Medstrand, Lund University, Sweden
CONTRIBUTIONS OFENDOGENOUS LTRs TO TRANSCRIPTIONAL
REGULATION OF HUMAN GENES
Dixie Mager, Terry Fox Laboratory, Canada
HERVd: A COMPREHENSIVE DATABASE OF HUMAN ENDOGENOUS
RETROVIRUSES
Vaclav Paces, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Prague, Czech Republic
NP9 PROTEIN OF THE HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS K
INTERACTS WITH LNX (LIGAND OF NUMB PROTEIN X)
N. Mueller-Lantzsch, Institut für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Germany
HERV-K (HML-2) INSERTIONS DISTINGUISHING HUMAN GENOME FROM
NON-HUMAN PRIMATES
Yuri Lebedev, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute, Russia
POSTERS
QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF RETROVIRAL ACTIVITY IN HUMAN
BRAIN AND TISSUES
Oliver Frank, Med. Klinik III, Universitätsklinikum Mannheim, Germany
VIRAL MICROARRAY STUDIES; RETROVIRUSES
Concha Goldberg, Stanley Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD
STUDIES OF THE NOVEL ENDOGENOUS MURINE LEUKEMIA PROVIRUS
HEMV
Christopher Tipper, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston MA
THE EXPRESSION OF THE HERV-K ENVELOPE PROTEINS ALTERS GENE
EXPRESSION IN RAJI CELLS
Sarven Sabunciyan, Lorraine Brando, Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS IN HERV-W PROTEINS IN HUMAN BRAINS:
EVIDENCE FOR PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL MODULATION OF GAG AND
ENV EXPRESSION IN DEMYELINATING DISEASE
Hervé Perron, BioMerieux, France
MSRV (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATED RETROVIRUS) DISPLAYS
PRO-INFLAMMATORY PROPERTIES ON ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELLS
Patrice Marche, Laboratoire d’Immunochimie, CEA-G/DRCDC/ICH, INSRUM U548,
France
MEASURING mRNA QUALITY IN POSTMORTEM HUMAN BRAIN TISSUE
Suad Diglisic, Christine Miller, Stanley Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD and
Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
MD
A METHOD TO DETECT CONSERVED TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT
INSERTIONS IN ORTHOLOGOUS REGIONS BETWEEN SPECIES
Patrik Medstrand, Lund University, Sweden