INVITED TALKS

2007 Invited speaker at Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, LA, Apr 13

Talk: “Modeling the in vivo dynamics of T-cells”

Selected speaker at the “Evolutionary Medicine” Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, Mar 14-16

Talk: “Non-sterilizing vaccines for HIV: viral evolution and epidemiology”

2006 Invited plenary speaker at BIOMAT Symposium, Manaus, Brazil, Nov 26 – 30

Talk: “HIV Epidemiology and the impact of nonsterilizing vaccines”

Contributed talk at the annual meeting of the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology, Durham, NC, Oct 4 – 6

Talk: “Viral kinetics during primary HIV infection”

Invited speaker at “Bridging the scales of disease dynamics” conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Sep 27 – 29

Talk: “Within host dynamics of hepatitis B virus: from infection to treatment”

Contributed talk for the annual meeting of the Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, UNM, Albuquerque, NM, USA, Apr 27 – 28

Contributed talk “HIV Pathogenesis” meeting of the Keystone Symposia, Keystone, CO, USA, Mar 26 – Apr 2.

Talk: “Naïve and memory cell turnover as drivers of CCR5 to CXCR4-tropism switch in HIV-1: Implications for therapy”

Invited speaker at The Burnett Institute and Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Feb 24.

Talk: “HCV viral kinetics: from IFN to PEG-IFN”

Invited speaker at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Feb 23

Talk: “Quantifying thymic output: thymectomy, TRECs & modelling”

2005 Invited plenary speaker BIOMAT Symposium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec 4-8.

Talk: “Modelling the in vivo dynamics of viral infections”

Invited speaker at Institute of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal, on October 17^th.

Talk: “What can T-cell dynamics tell us about vaccine design?”

Invited speaker “Workshop of T-cell dynamics and homeostasis”, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, on June 19^th – 21^st.

Talk: “Quantification of thymic output in macaques”

Invited speaker at National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Feb 16 -18

Talks: “Quantification of thymic output in macaques” and “Modeling the dynamics of T-cells and TREC”

2004 Invited talk at Society of Mathematical Biology Annual Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, from July 25^th to 28^th

Talk: “Measuring R₀ from in vivo data”.

Workshop “Immunology Models: cell signaling and immune dynamics”, MBI, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, from May 10^th to 14^th.

Talk: “Modelling a thymectomy experiment to quantify production of new T-cells”

Mini-workshop on “T-cell labeling and modeling”, Utrecht, Netherlands on Mar 29^th and 30^th.

Talk: “Measuring T-cell dynamics”.

Invited seminar Pathology Department, University of Oxford, UK, on March 3^rd Talk: “Quantifying thymic output: thymectomy, TRECs & modeling”

2003 Invited speaker at the XXIX Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Immunology”, Porto, Portugal, Oct 9 - 11.

Talk “Impact of thymectomy on the peripheral T-cell pool in rhesus macaques before and after infection with simian immunodeficiency virus”.

Invited talk at Mathematical and Computational Biology Workshop, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal on June 20.

Talk “Basic immuno-virological studies in silico”.

Invited Colloquium at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa, Portugal, on April 16.

Talk: “A Engenharia do VIH: da teoria biológica à teoria matemática”

2002 Invited speaker at the DIMACS Worshop, “The Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases – Host-Pathogen Dynamics”, Rutgers, NJ, from the 23^rd to the 25^th of September.

Talk: “Modeling the dynamics of T-cells and TREC after treatment of HIV-1 infection”

Invited speaker at the symposium “The dynamics of T cell responses: from theory to experiments” at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ, April 25^th and 26^th.

Talk: “In vivo dynamics of T-cell activation, proliferation and death in HIV-1 infection”

Invited speaker at the “9^th International Discussion Meeting on HIV Dynamics and Evolution” in Lake Arrowhead, CA, from the 17^th to the 19^th of March.

Talk: “In vivo dynamics of T-cell activation, proliferation and death in HIV-1 infection”

2001 Selected to talk at the “International AIDS Society meeting”, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from the 8^th to the 11^th of July, with a scholarship from the organization.

Talk: “Analysis of T-cell turnover using a new model for D-glucose labeling”

Invited speaker for the “Colloquium” series of the Mathematics Department, at Tulane University, New Orleans, USA, on March 22^nd.

2000 Contributed talk at the “1^st Drug Resistance Programme Symposium”, in Chantilly, VA, USA, from the 3^rd to the 6^th of December.

Talk: “Production of resistant HIV mutants during HAART”

Invited speaker at the “HIV Dynamics and Evolution Meeting”, in Seattle, USA, from the 28^th to the 30^th of April.

Talk: “Measuring T-cell turnover”

1999 Contributed talk in the “Theory and Mathematics in Biology and Medicine” conference, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from 29^th of June to the 3^rd of July.

Talk: “Immune system exhaustion in HIV infection and SI virus emergence”

Invited speaker for the “Parasites and Pathogens” seminar series of the Department of Zoology, at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK