Welcome!
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we cordially invite you to participate to the 10th Swiss Virology Meeting that will be held from January 28th to January 29th, 2025 at the Ambassador Hotel in Bern, Switzerland.
The goal of this tenth 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 Bern.
Sincerely,
- Angela Ciuffi (University of Lausanne)
- Cornel Fraefel (University of Zurich)
- Jérôme Gouttenoire (University of Lausanne)
- Ben Hale (University of Zurich)
- Grégory Mathez (University of Lausanne)
- 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 28 & 29, Bern, Switzerland
- Scope:
- Basic and applied virology
- Date:
- January 28 & 29, 2025
- Tuesday January 28, 2025: 10:00 - 21:00
- Wednesday January 29, 2025: 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)
- Grégory Mathez (University of Lausanne)
- 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)
- 10:00 – 10:25
- Arrival and Welcome Coffee
- 10:25 – 10:30
- Welcome Address
- Steering committee member TBA
- 10:30 – 12:00
- KEYNOTE LECTURES (CUSO)
- Introduction: Caroline Tapparel – Jérôme Gouttenoire
- 10:30 – 11:15
- Timothy Tellinghuisen - Roche (Abstract Nr)
- Virology at Roche
- 11:15 – 12:00
- Gisa Gerold - Institute of Biochemistry, Foundation of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany (Abstract Nr)
- Virology meets proteomics: novel tools for host factor identification
- 12:00 – 14:00
- Lunch and Poster Viewing
- Round-table discussion of Ph.D students & postdocs with Invited Keynote Speakers
- 14:00 – 14:30
- STUDENT SESSION (CUSO): Session from and by the students
- Chairs: Committee of PhD students
- 14:00 – 14:15
- Selected talk from abstracts – (Abstract Nr)
- TBA
- 14:15 – 14:30
- Selected talk from abstracts – (Abstract Nr)
- TBA
- 14:30 – 16:30
- SESSION I: VIRUS-HOST INTERACTIONS: THE VIRUS SIDE
- Chairs: Two scientific committee members, TBA
- 14:30 – 15:00
- Charaf Benarafa – University of Bern (Abstract Nr)
- Proteolysis in SARS-CoV-2 infections: a mixed blessing
- 15:00 – 15:30
- Daniel Kaufmann – Lausanne University Hospital (Abstract Nr)
- Interplay between HIV-specific immune responses and spontaneous HIV reservoir activity
- 15:30 – 15:45
- Selected talk from abstracts – (Abstract Nr)
- TBA
- 15:45 – 16:00
- Selected talk from abstracts – (Abstract Nr)
- TBA
- 16:00 – 16:15
- Selected talk from abstracts – (Abstract Nr)
- TBA
- 16:15 – 16:30
- Selected talk from abstracts – (Abstract Nr)
- TBA
- 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
- Chairs: Two scientific committee members, TBA
- 9:00 – 9:30
- Selma Dahmane – University of Basel (Abstract Nr)
- Cryo-electron tomography journey of enterovirus-infected cells
- 9:30 – 10:00
- Vibhu Prasad - University of Geneva (Abstract Nr)
- Mechanisms of cell-autonomous and non-autonomous unfolded protein response in viral infections
- 10:00 – 10:15
- Selected talk from abstracts – (Abstract Nr)
- TBA
- 10:15 – 10:30
- Selected talk from abstracts – (Abstract Nr)
- TBA
- 10:30 – 10:45
- Selected talk from abstracts – (Abstract Nr)
- TBA
- 10:45 – 11:00
- Selected talk from abstracts – (Abstract Nr)
- TBA
- 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: Two scientific committee members, TBA
- 14:00 – 14:30
- Aleksandar Antanasijevic – EPFL (Abstract Nr)
- Through the eyes of a virus - Entry & egress
- 14:30 – 15:00
- Katharine Röltgen – Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Abstract Nr)
- Immune imprinting and breadth of antibody and B cell responses in SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination
- 15:00 – 15:15
- Selected talk from abstracts – (Abstract Nr)
- TBA
- 15:15 – 15:30
- Selected talk from abstracts – (Abstract Nr)
- TBA
- 15:30 – 15:45
- Selected talk from abstracts – (Abstract Nr)
- TBA
- 15:45 – 16:00
- Selected talk from abstracts – (Abstract Nr)
- TBA
- 16:00 – 16:30
- Closing Lecture: Urs Greber – (Abstract Nr)
- Adenovirus – New insight in entry and assembly and some outstanding questions
- 16:30 – 16:45
- Farewell Address
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 10th Swiss Virology Meeting January 28 & 29, 2025, Bern
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
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 :
https://www.vetvir.uzh.ch/de/impressum/Registration-10th-SVM.html )
Reminder: Registration opens on October 1, 2024. Deadline for registration and abstract submission is November 1, 2024.