Welcome!
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we cordially invite you to participate to the 9th Swiss Virology Meeting that will be held from January 31st to February 1st, 2023 at the Ambassador Hotel in Bern, Switzerland.
The goal of this ninth national meeting in virology is again to bring together in Switzerland a maximum number of research groups working in fundamental virology to promote interaction, exchange of ideas, and collaborations in an informal and collegial atmosphere.
The program will cover all aspects of research in fundamental virology including virus life cycle, virus discovery and evolution, virus and host defense, and clinical virology. The format of the meeting will consist in selected plenary lectures combined with short talks selected from submitted abstracts and poster sessions.
The meeting webpage for registration and abstract submission will be open soon.
Thank you for your active participation and we are looking forward to seeing you in Thun.
Sincerely,
- Angela Ciuffi (University of Lausanne)
- Cornel Fraefel (University of Zurich)
- Jérôme Gouttenoire (University of Lausanne)
- Ben Hale (University of Zurich)
- Karin Metzner (University Hospital of Zurich)
- Daniel Pinschewer (University of Basel)
- Philippe Plattet (University of Bern)
- Mirco Schmolke (University of Geneva)
- Matthias Schweizer (University of Bern)
- Caroline Tapparel Vu (University of Geneva)
- Volker Thiel (University of Bern)
- Stefan Wieland (University of Basel)
General Information
Swiss Virology Meeting, January 31/February 1, Bern, Switzerland
- Scope:
- Basic and applied virology
- Date:
- January 31/February 1, 2023
- Tuesday January 31, 2023: 10:00 - 21:00
- Wednesday February 1, 2023: 9:00 - 16:30
- Location:
- Ambassador Hotel, Seftigenstrasse 99, 3007 Bern - SWITZERLAND (Tel. 031/370.99.99)
- Registration fees:
- CHF 250.- for PhD students (MSc, PhD, MD, other)
- CHF 350.- for Research Technicians, Post-docs and Principal Investigators
- The registration fee includes meeting registration, accommodation and all meals.
- (Cancellation policy: no reimbursement possible)
- Contact:
- contact@swissvirology.ch
- Plenary talk Swiss Virology abroad : 45 minutes (35 minutes + 10 minutes discussion)
- Plenary talks (senior group leaders) : 30 minutes (25 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)
- Plenary talks (junior group leaders) : 20 minutes (15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)
- Short talks (from selected abstracts) : 15 minutes (12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
- Angela Ciuffi (University of Lausanne)
- Cornel Fraefel (University of Zurich)
- Jérôme Gouttenoire (University of Lausanne)
- Ben Hale (University of Zurich)
- Karin Metzner (University Hospital of Zurich)
- Daniel Pinschewer (University of Basel)
- Philippe Plattet (University of Bern)
- Mirco Schmolke (University of Geneva)
- Matthias Schweizer (University of Bern)
- Caroline Tapparel Vu (University of Geneva)
- Volker Thiel (University of Bern)
- Stefan Wieland (University of Basel)
- Angela Ciuffi (University of Lausanne)
- Cornel Fraefel (University of Zurich)
- Jérôme Gouttenoire (University of Lausanne)
- Matthias Schweizer (University of Bern)
- Caroline Tapparel Vu (University of Geneva)
- 9:00 – 10:25
- Arrival and Welcome Coffee
- 10:25 – 10:30
- Welcome Address
- Jérôme Gouttenoire
- 10:30 – 12:00
- PLENARY TALK VIROLOGISTS ABROAD
- Introduction: Jérôme Gouttenoire - Matthias Schweizer
- 10:30 – 11:15
- Yorgo Modis - University of Cambridge, UK (2023114)
- Endogenous viruses: new biological activities and evolutionary insights from our genomic dark matter
- 11:15 – 12:00
- Christine Tait-Burkar -The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburg, UK (2023114)
- Genome editing in livestock to exploit host-pathogen interactions for disease resistance
- 12:00 – 14:00
- Sandwich Lunch and Poster Viewing
- Round-table discussion of Ph.D students & postdocs with plenary speakers (CUSO)
- 14:00 – 14:30
- STUDENT SESSION (CUSO): Session from and by the students
- Chairs : Committee of PhD students
- 14:00 – 14:15
- Grégory Mathez – (2023046)
- ovel Attachment Inhibitors of Human Parainfluenza 3
- 14:15 – 14:30
- Alfonso Gomez Gonzalez – (2023071)
- Bio-orthogonal live cell viral DNA visualization through alkyne-tetrazine ligation
- 14:30 – 16:30
- SESSION I: VIRUS-HOST INTERACTIONS: THE VIRUS SIDE
- Chairs: Mirco Schmolke - Stefan Wieland
- 14:30 – 15:00
- Yohei Yamauchi - ETH Zurick (2023112)
- Ultrastructure of influenza virus assembly at the cell membrane
- 15:00 – 15:30
- Jérôme Gouttenoire - Lausanne University Hospital (2023048)
- A journey into unknown territory: the hepatitis E virus life cycle
- 15:30 – 15:45
- Silvio Steiner - (2023104)
- Deciphering the function of NSP1 ribosome binding during SARS-COV-2 infection
- 15:45 – 16:00
- Guillaume Beilleau – (2023025)
- Innate immune evasion by pestiviral Eʳⁿˢ in bovine airway epithelial cell cultures
- 16:00 – 16:15
- Catherine Eichwald – (2023056)
- Recruitment of TRiC chaperonin in rotavirus viroplasms directly associates with virus replication
- 16:15 – 16:30
- Jan Bieri - (2023096)
- arvovirus entry involves vesicle budding from endosomes and retrograde transport to the Golgi
- 16:30 – 17:00
- Coffee Break
- 17:00 – 19:00
- POSTER SESSION
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Dinner and Poster Viewing
- 07:30 – 08:45
- Breakfast (at hotel)
- 09:00 – 11:00
- SESSION II: VIRUS-HOST INTERACTIONS: THE HOST SIDE
- Caroline Tapparel - Carlos Ros
- 9:00 – 9:30
- Alexandra Trkola - University of Zurich (2023095)
- Broadly neutralizing HIV-1 antibodies: Lone superstars or team players
- 9:30 – 10:00
- Mirco Schmolke - University of Geneva
- Using cell surface proximity ligation to identify novel host factors for influenza A virus entry
- 10:00 – 10:15
- Ludivine Brandt – (2023076)
- Cellular determinants of permissiveness to HIV: A 6-day correlation analysis of cell stimulation and infection
- 10:15 – 10:30
- Nina Mair– (2023057)
- Characterizing type I interferon auto-antibodies in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study
- 10:30 – 10:45
- Vaiva Gradauskaite – (2023068)
- LRP6 is a functional receptor for attenuated canine distemper virus
- 10:45 – 11:00
- Maija Pietilä – (2023022)
- Cellular state landscape predicts virus infection progression
- 11:00 – 11:30
- Coffee Break
- 11:30 – 12:30
- POSTER SESSION
- 12:30 – 14:00
- Lunch and Poster Viewing
- 14:00 – 16:00
- SESSION III: CLINICAL VIROLOGY: VACCINES AND ANTIVIRALS
- Chairs: Karin Metzner - Cornel Fraefel
- 14:00 – 14:30
- Volker Thielr - University of Bern (2023116)
- Lost in translation - SARS-CoV-2 attenuation by large scale genome recoding
- 14:30 – 15:00
- Arnaud Didierlaurent - University of Geneva (2023118)
- Response to SARS-CoV2 mRNA vaccines in immunocompromised patients
- 15:00 – 15:15
- Olha Puhach – (2023117)
- SARS-CoV-2 mucosal antibody responses to vaccination and infection
- 15:15 – 15:30
- Sarah Klinnert – (2023043)
- Targeted shock-and-kill HIV-1 gene therapy approach combining CRISPR activation, suicide gene tBid and retargeted adenovirus delivery
- 15:30 – 15:45
- Caroline Tapparel – (20230778)
- Heparan sulfate binding mediates Enterovirus A71 virulence in immuno-suppressed mice
- 15:45 – 16:00
- Valeria Cagno – (2023018)
- Targeting viral RNA as a new antiviral strategy
- 16:00 – 16:15
- Farewell Address
- Chairs : Steering committee member, TBA
Oral Presentations
Poster sessions
Two poster sessions will be held during coffee breaks. Posters will be presented by postdocs and graduate students. To ensure maximum visibility of posters, all posters will stay mounted throughout the meeting. Poster size: 90 cm wide x 120 cm high.
Organizing and scientific committee (in alphabetical order)
Steering Committee
Program of the 9th Swiss Virology Meeting January 31 & February 1, 2023, Bern
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Registration
With the link below, you will be redirected to the University of Zurich for the registration, this should take only a few seconds.
(If the above button does not work, please use Google Chrome or copy the link below :
http://www.vetvir.uzh.ch/de/impressum/registrationform.html )
Reminder: Deadline for registration and abstract submission is December 15, 2022.