Friday Lecture Series

Maclyn McCarty Memorial Lecture

Great Ape Reservoirs of Human AIDS and Malaria

Beatrice H. Hahn, M.D., professor, departments of medicine and microbiology,

University of Pennsylvania

 January 25, 2012

3:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (Refreshments, 3:15 p.m., Abby Lounge)

Caspary Auditorium

Recommended Readings

Keele, B. F., J. H. Jones, K. A. Terio, J. D. Estes, R. S. Rudicell, M. L. Wilson, Y. Li, et al. 2009. “Increased Mortality and AIDS-Like Immunopathology in Wild Chimpanzees Infected with SIVcpz.” Nature 460 (7254): 515-519

Lee, H. Y., E. E. Giorgi, B. F. Keele, B. Gaschen, G. S. Athreya, J. F. Salazar-Gonzalez, K. T. Pham, et al. 2009. “Modeling Sequence Evolution in Acute HIV-1 Infection.” Journal of Theoretical Biology 261 (2): 341-360

Liu, J., B. F. Keele, H. Li, S. Keating, P. J. Norris, A. Carville, K. G. Mansfield, et al. 2010. “Low-Dose Mucosal Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Restricts Early Replication Kinetics and Transmitted Virus Variants in Rhesus Monkeys.” Journal of Virology 84 (19): 10406-10412

Liu, W., Y. Li, G. H. Learn, R. S. Rudicell, J. D. Robertson, B. F. Keele, J. -B N. Ndjango, et al. 2010. “Origin of the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum in Gorillas.” Nature 467 (7314): 420-425

Rayner, J. C., W. Liu, M. Peeters, P. M. Sharp, and B. H. Hahn. 2011. “A Plethora of Plasmodium Species in Wild Apes: A Source of Human Infection?” Trends in Parasitology 27 (5): 222-229

Sharp, P. M. and B. H. Hahn. 2010. “The Evolution of HIV-1 and the Origin of AIDS.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365 (1552): 2487-2494