To all
ARI scientists:
Inside ARI: A newsletter for the AIDS Research Institute at UCSF
community #25, May 2005
Welcome to the May issue of the ARI email newsletter. This bimonthly newsletter
features information pertinent to researchers and staff engaged in HIV/AIDS
research at the University of California, San Francisco, and its affiliates and
community partners. Note that detailed information may be found by clicking on
the hyperlinks.
News
from:
1. AIDS Research Institute (ARI)
a.
Junior faculty questionnaire
ARI is conducting a brief survey to better understand the needs of its constituents at the
Assistant Professor and Instructor level. Please take a moment by Friday,
June 3, to answer a few questions and to provide comments and ideas for us
to consider.
b. Executive Committee
Congratulations to the newly elected at-large members of the ARI Executive
Committee, and thanks to those who have served so well for the past two years.
c.
ARI Symposium
Save the date! Planning
efforts are well underway for ARI's World AIDS Day Symposium the afternoon
of Thursday, December 1, 2005, to be followed by an evening concert.
2.
UCSF-GIVI Center for
AIDS Research (CFAR)
a. CFAR Co-Director Offers Editorial on MDR HIV
Infection
Paul Volberding, MD, offers a
perspective on public health issues raised by the recent, highly-publicized
case of a multi-drug resistant (MDR) strain of HIV in New York City in a recent
issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
b. Researchers
Identify Mechanism Used by Resting T Cells to Avoid HIV Infection
A small form molecule of the
human protein APOBEC3G (A3G) has been found to actively repel the HIV virus in
resting CD4 T cells, according to a recent study in Nature
magazine.
c. Call for Abstracts -
Reminders
Harvard CFAR Sympoisum: HIV/TB
Coinfections on Thursday, June 30, 2005; abstracts requested by June
3.
NCI HIV Malignancies Conference September
26-27, 2005; deadline for abstract submissions is July 18.
d. CFAR Pilot Mentoring Program Seminar: Presentation
Workshop
Please join Drs. Warner Greene and Mark Jacobson for a working
lunch that examines effective tactics for research presentations Tuesday, May
31, 2005.
e. HHV8 and Kaposi Sarcoma: Recent Research on Inflammation
and Infection
Please join Drs. Donald Ganem and Jeff Martin
for this timely exploration of the mechanics of HHV8 in KS Tuesday, May 24,
2005, from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Gladstone's Mahley Auditorium
3. Center for AIDS Prevention
Studies (CAPS)
CAPS presented two community briefings
to provide updates from five CAPS research projects and
from its partner, the California HIV/STD Prevention Training Center.
b. CAPS Innovative AIDS
Pilot Grants
The deadline for applications to the CAPS Innovative AIDS Pilot
Awards Program the June 10, 2005. Application forms and further information are
available on the CAPS website.
4. Institute for Global Health
(IGH)
Please
click on the link above for news about IGH.
5. Positive Health Program
Congratulations to Dr. Laurence
Huang for the publication of an article he co-authored in AIDS:
Crothers, K, Beard, CB, Turner,
JR, Groner, G, Fox, M, Morris, A, Eiser, S, and Huang, L. Severity and
outcome of HIV-associated Pneumocystis pneumonia containing Pneumocystis
jirovecii dihydropteroate synthase gene mutations. AIDS
2005;19:801-805.
6. UCSF School of Nursing
The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference
Center hosted a team of thirteen scholars in residence to address AIDS stigma
March 8-14, 2005.
7.
Further Information
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about this newsletter or to include something about your group in the next
issue, please email the editor, David Robb (drobb@psg.ucsf.edu).
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