Welcome!
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we cordially invite you to participate to the 8th Swiss Virology Meeting that will be held from February 4th to February 5th, 2020 at the Freienhof Hotel in Thun, Switzerland.
The goal of this eighth 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 is now open. Deadline for registration and abstract submission is November 30, 2019.
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)
- Stefan Kunz (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, February 4/5, Thun, Switzerland
- Scope:
- Basic and applied virology
- Date:
- February 4/5 2020
- Tuesday February 4, 2020: 10:00 - 21:00
- Wednesday February 5, 2020: 9:00 - 16:30
- Location:
- Freienhof Hotel, Freienhofgasse 3, 3600 Thun - SWITZERLAND (Tel. 033/227.50.50)
- 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)
- Stefan Kunz (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 – 10:20
- Arrival and Welcome Coffee
- 10:20 – 10:30
- Welcome Address
- Angela Ciuffi & Jérôme Gouttenoire
- 10:30 – 12:00
- PLENARY TALK SWISS VIROLOGIST ABROAD (CUSO)
- Introduction : Angela Ciuffi
- 10:30 – 11:15
- Amalio Telenti - Vir Biotechnology, USA
- Virology under the lenses of high throughput screening
- 11:15 – 12:00
- Jason Mercer - University College London, UK
- Super-resolving poxvirus protein architecture
- 12:00 – 13:00
- Sandwich Lunch
- Round-table discussion of Ph.D students & postdocs with plenary speakers (CUSO)
- 13:00 – 14:45
- SESSION I: VIRUS LIFE CYLE (CUSO)
- Chairs : Cornel Fraefel and Mirco Schmolke
- 13:00 – 13:30
- Catherine Eichwald - University of Zurich
- How TriCky is to control rotavirus replication?-Viroplasms and chaperonins
- 13:30 – 14:00
- Maarit Suomalainen - University of Zurich
- Cell-to-cell variability in human adenovirus infection in model cell lines
- 14:00 – 14:15
- Jan Bieri - University of Bern
- Human parvovirus B19 interacts with globoside in the trans-Golgi network as an essential trafficking step for productive infection (abstract 200311)
- 14:15 – 14:30
- Michael Seyffert - University of Zürich
- HSV-1 replication compartments are liquid-liquid phase-separated condensates (abstract 200213)
- 14:30 – 14:45
- Fanny Georgi - University of xxx
- The HIV protease inhibitor nelfinavir is a post-exposure inhibitor of lytic human adenovirus cell egress (abstract 200261)
- 14:45 – 15:15
- Coffee Break
- 15:15 – 17:00
- SESSION II: VIRUS DISCOVERY AND EVOLUTION
- Chairs : Volker Thiel and Francesco Origgi
- 15:15 – 15:45
- Jenna Kelly - University of Bern
- Single cell analysis of influenza virus infection in the human respiratory epithelium
- 15:45 – 16:15
- Alban Ramette - University of Bern
- Performance of second- and third-generation NGS approaches for unravelling human enteroviruses in clinical samples
- 16:15 – 16:30
- Thao Tran - University of Bern
- Establishment of universal reverse genetics platform for (re-)emerging RNA viruses (abstract 200298)
- 16:30 – 16:45
- Hector Moreno - University of Lausanne
- High genetic plasticity suggests potential human adaptation of novel Tamiami virus (abstract 200281)
- 16:45 – 17:00
- Annika Kratzel - University of Bern
- HCOV-229E and 229E-like dromadery camel COV display a species-specificity in primary human and camel airway epithelial cells that is independent of receptor (abstract 200299)
- 17:00 – 19:00
- Coffee Break and POSTER SESSION
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Dinner
- 07:30 – 08:45
- Breakfast (at hotel)
- 09:00 – 11:00
- SESSION III: VIRUS AND HOST DEFENSE
- Chairs: Caroline Tapparel-Vu and Merle SchanzTBA
- 09:00 – 09:30
- Christian Münz - University of Zurich
- Infection and immune control of human oncogenic gamma-herpesviruses in vivo
- 09:30 – 10:00
- Ben Hale - University of Zurich
- Unlocking the prison: de-repression of immunostimulatory endogenous retroviruses as a host defence against influenza viruses
- 10:00 – 10:15
- Matthias Glögl - University of Zürich
- Comprehensive mapping defines extraordinary HIV-1 neutralization responses in patient samples (abstract 200269)
- 10:15 – 10:30
- Mirela Dimitrova - University of Basel
- Selective deletion of high-affinity B cells in the chronic phase of viral infection (abstract 200291)
- 10:30 – 10:45
- Jacob Börold - University of Zürich
- Genome-wide CRISPR screening identifies a selective role for BRD9 in interferon-stimulated gene expression (abstract 200254)
- 10:45 – 11:00
- Melanie Brügger - University of Bern
- Respiratory syncytial virus is altering the properties of lung mesenchymal stem/stomal cells (abstract 200238)
- 11:00 – 12:30
- Coffee Break and POSTER SESSION
- 12:30 – 14:00
- Lunch at restaurant
- 14:00 – 16:00
- SESSION IV: CLINICAL VIROLOGY
- Chairs : Karin Metzner and Jérôme Gouttenoire
- 14:00 – 14:30
- Valeria Cagno - University of Geneva Medical School
- Broad-spectrum virucidal strategies
- 14:30 – 15:00
- Stefan Wieland - University of Basel
- Blindness of Host and HBV
- 15:00 – 15:15
- Thomas Démoulins - University of Bern
- Experimental induction of respiratory syncytial virus immunopathogenesis in neonatal lambs (abstract 200251)
- 15:15 – 15:30
- Audrey Kelley - University of Zürich
- Time trends of replication capacities of transmitted founder viruses in Zurich (abstract 200211)
- 15:30 – 15:45
- Liridona Maliqi - University of Zürich
- Comparative antigenicity evaluation reveals differential properties of HIV-1 envelope based immunogens in presenting neutralization relevant domains (abstract 200223)
- 15:45 – 16:00
- Tafadzwa Mlambo - University of Geneva
- A novel combinatorial approach combining CAR T cell therapy, PD1 knockdown and CCR5 disruption as a once-off treatment for HIV (abstract 200232)
- 16:00 – 16:15
- 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
Preliminary Program of the 8th Swiss Virology Meeting, February 4/5 2020, Thun
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
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 November 30, 2019.