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I Congrés Internacional de Biologia de Catalunya: Global Questions on Advanced Biology

The Organising Committee of the Global Questions in Advanced Biology Conference is pleased to invite you to participate in this event, "which will be an excellent opportunity...

Publications and presentations related to the conference

• 12/07/2012 - Oral Communication: Evolution of HIV-1 Protease over 14 Years: Fitness Loss or Robustness Gain? - Virology Symposium (Prat de la Riba hall, IEC - 16.30h)

  Background: The emergence of resistance mutations to protease inhibitors (PI) of the HIV-1 not only reduces the binding of the PIs to the protease but also decreases the viral replication capacity (VRC). Nevertheless, it remains to be elucidated the long-term effect of HIV-1...

  Elena Capel*, Glòria Martrus, Mariona Parera, Bonaventura Clotet and Miguel Angel Martínez. Irsicaixa AIDS Research Institute, University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol of Badalona

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• 12/07/2012 - Oral Communication: Antiretroviral agents effectively block HIV replication after cell to cell transfer - Virology Symposium (Prat de la Riba hall, IEC - 16.45h)

  Cell to cell transmission of HIV has been proposed as a mechanism contributing to virus escape to the action of antiretrovirals and a mode of HIV persistence during antiretroviral therapy. Here, cocultures of infected HIV-1 cells with primary CD4+ T cells or lymphoid cell lines were used to...

  Marc Permanyer, Ester Ballana, Alba Ruiz, Roger Badia, Eva Riveira, Bonaventura Clotet and José A. Esté. Irsicaixa AIDS Research Institute, University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol of Badalona

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• 12/07/2012 - Plenary Lecture: The origin of AIDS - Virology Symposium (Prat de la Riba hall, IEC - 12.00h)

  June 1981 is the official birth date of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. In a short article published in the Centers for Disease Control’s Morbility and Mortality Weekly Report, American clinicians described a cluster of five cases of Pneumocystis carinii...

  Miguel Angel Martínez. Fundació irsiCaixa, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

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