Friday, 16th February Lorne Infection and Immunity 2018

• Immune programming by RIG-I-like receptors against RNA virus infection - Michael Gale
• You are what you eat – dietary zinc and its antimicrobial role at the host-pathogen interface - Christopher McDevitt
• Modulation of bystander red blood cell metabolism by Plasmodium falciparum - Anna E Sexton
• Antagonizing cellular inhibitors of apoptosis promotes control of malaria infection and induces immunity - Gregor Ebert
• Chimeric insect-specific flaviviruses provide a new platform to generate safe diagnostics and vaccines for mosquito-borne viral diseases. - Roy A Hall

• HIV superinfection fails to recruit memory B-cell responses and drive neutralization breadth - Penny Moore
• Pandemic Influenza Vaccines - Kanta Subbarao
• Non-capsular antibodies reduce pneumococcal colonisation density following therapeutic administration of a pneumococcal whole cell vaccine - Jayne Manning
• Diagnosis of sepsis from a droplet of blood based on spontaneous neutrophil motility signatures in a microfluidic maze - Felix Ellett
• A new replication-defective, vaccinia-derived, CHO-manufactured, vaccine vector system (SCV) is effective in preclinical studies - Natalie A Prow
• Retargeting the antibiotic azithromycin as an antimalarial with dual mechanisms of action. - Danny Wilson
• Novel insights into the link between tuberculosis and diabetes - Katharina Ronacher

Closing remarks: Mark Schembri