| PROGRAMME |
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME |
| TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 |
| 15.00-15.30 |
Opening Ceremony |
| 15.30-16.00 |
Keynote lecture
Update on hepatitis C virus
Jean-Michel Pawlotsky (Créteil, France)
Chairperson: Esteban Domingo
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| 16.00-16.30 |
Keynote lecture
HIV and drug resistance testing
Anna-Maria Geretti (Liverpool, UK)
Chairperson: Miguel Thomson
|
| 16.30-17.00 |
Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 17.00-18.30 |
Session CMV, inflammation, ageing and cancer
Chairpersons: Elisabeth Puchhammer Stöckl / David Navarro
Emerging role of cytomegalovirus in malignant glioma
Charles S. Cobbs (San Francisco, USA)
A possible role of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in cancer, potential new treatment options for HCMV positive tumors?
Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér (Stockholm, Sweden)
The potential role of cytomegalovirus infection in the development of immune senescence
Paul A. H. Moss (Birmingham, UK)
|
| 18.30-19.30 |
Oral presentations 1: Herpesviruses (O-001 to O-005)
Chairpersons: Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl / David Navarro
|
| 19.30-20.45 |
Welcome reception |
| WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 |
| 08.30-09.00 |
Keynote lecture
Tenofovir: Status presens anno 2012
Erik De Clercq (Leuven, Belgium)
Chairperson: Paulo Paixao
|
| 09.00-09.30 |
Keynote lecture
Viral quasispecies, pathogenesis and antiviral therapy
Esteban Domingo (Madrid, Spain)
Chairperson: Marion Koopmans |
| 09.30-10.30 |
Oral presentations 2: Viral hepatitis (O-006 to O-010)
Chairpersons: Hubert G.M. Niesters / Xavier López-Labrador |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 11.00-12.30 |
Session
Respiratory viral infections
Chairperson: Raúl Ortíz de Lejarazu / Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl
Human metapneumovirus: Epidemiology and Pathogenesis
Bruno Lina (Lyon, France)
Neutralizing antibodies against the preactive form of respiratory syncytial virus fusion protein: a new paradigm for intervention against the virus
José Antonio Melero (Madrid, Spain)
Rhinovirus infections
Carita Savolainen-Kopra (Helsinki, Finland) |
| 12.30-13.30 |
Satellite meeting 1. Sponsored by LIFE TECHNOLOGIES
Tools and expertise from Life Technologies: From viral pathogen identification to clinical detection and regulation
Quidel® Molecular Viral Assays and the QuantStudio™Dx CE-IVD qPCR platform
Dr. Tammi Ranalli
EZQC™: A new web based software for assay validation & verification
Dr. Ralf Schoenbrunner
Rapid Viral Pathogen Identification on the Ion PGM Sequencer
Dr. Astrid Ferlinz
|
| 13.30-14.30 |
Lunch and poster viewing |
|
ESCV Council meeting |
14.30-15.00
|
Keynote lecture
Current status of measles and rubella infections in Europe
Claude P. Muller (Luxembourg)
Chairperson: Mick Mulders
|
| 15.00-16.00 |
Satellite meeting 2: Sponsored by QIAGEN
From clinical demand to innovative diagnostic workflow solutions
Chair: Dr. Martin Obermeier (Berlin, Germany)
Viral load monitoring of hepatitis C virus in current clinical treatment decisions
Josep Mallolas (Barcelona, Spain)
Current challenges and impact in HIV diagnostics: the Australian and Asia Pacific experience
Adele Lee-Wriede (Melbourne, Australia) |
| 16.00-16.30 |
Keynote lecture
Rotavirus in the vaccination era
Miren Iturriza-Gómara (Liverpool, UK)
Chairperson: Javier Buesa
|
| 16.30-17.00 |
Coffee break and poster viewing |
17.00-18.00
18.00-19.00
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Oral presentations 3: HIV & oncogenic viruses (O-011 to O-015)
Chairpersons: Goura Kudesia / Miguel Thomson
Oral presentations 4: Viral diagnosis and new diagnostic technologies (O-016 to O-020)
Chairpersons: Peter Coyle / Fernando de Ory
|
| 19.00-22.00 |
Visit to the Thyssen-Bornemizsa Museum
and Cocktail at the Westin Palace Hotel
|
| THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 |
| 08.30-09.00 |
Keynote lecture
New approaches to viral vaccines
Christian Mandl (Vienna, Austria)
Chairperson: Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl
|
| 09.00-10.30 |
Session
New viral diagnostic technologies, metagenomics and molecular identification of novel viruses
Chairpersons: Peter Coyle / Fernando de Ory
Viral diagnostics: from cell culture to theranostics
Nuria Rabella (Barcelona, Spain)
Impact of next-generation sequencing tools on the detection and characterization of novel emerging agents
Gustavo Palacios (Maryland, USA)
Next generation sequencing technologies in diagnostic virology
Luisa Barzon (Padova, Italy) |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 11.00-12.30 |
Oral presentations 5: Enteric viruses (O-021 to O-025)
Chairpersons: Marion Koopmans / Javier Buesa
Oral presentations 6: Respiratory viruses (O-026 to O-030)
Chairpersons: Inmaculada Casas / Paulo Paixao
|
| 12.30-13.30 |
Satellite meeting 3: Sponsored by ABBOTT MOLECULAR
"Hepatitis C. New treatment options and diagnostic challenges"
Chair: Rolf Kaiser (Cologne, Germany)
HCV protease inhibitors in clinical practice
Christoph Sarrazin (Frankfurt, Germany)
Comparative analysis of HCV RNA assays in low level viremia
Patrick Braun (Aachen, Germany)
|
| 13.30-14.30 |
Lunch and poster viewing |
| 14.30-15.00 |
Keynote lecture
New insights into human papillomavirus and polyomavirus pathogenesis
Mariet Feltkamp (Leiden, The Netherlands)
Chairperson: Eithne MacMahon
|
| 15.00-15.30 |
Abbott Award lecture
Human Parechivirus Type 3- The most prevalent picornavirus underlying central nervous system related disease in young children
Heli Harvala (Edinburgh, UK)
|
| 15.30-16.00 |
Keynote lecture
Molecular epidemiology of viruses
Fernando González-Candelas (Valencia, Spain)
Chairperson: David Navarro
|
| 16.00-16.30 |
Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 16.30-17.30 |
Oral presentations 7: Pathogenesis & immunity (O-031 to O-035)
Chairpersons: Bruno Lina / Luis Enjuanes
Oral presentations 8: Molecular epidemiology of viral infections (O-036 to O-040)
Chairpersons: Fernando González-Candelas / Jan Vinjé
|
| 17.30-18.30 |
Oral presentations 9: Viral Infections in the immunocompromised host (O-041 to O-045)
Chairpersons: Eithne MacMahon / Tomás Pumarola
Oral presentations 10: Viral zoonoses (O-046 to O-050)
Chairpersons: Juan E. Echevarría / Esperanza Gómez-Lucía
|
| 18.30-19.00 |
ESCV General Assembly |
|
| FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 |
| “One world, one health, one virology” |
| 08.30-09.00 |
Welcome & Opening Ceremony of the ESCV/ ESVV Joint Meeting |
| 09.00-09.30 |
Keynote lecture: “Where do human RNA viruses come from?”
Mark Woolhouse (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Chairperson: Peter Coyle
|
| 09.30-10.30 |
Session
Influenza viruses in animals and humans
Chairpersons: Juan Ortín / Thierry van der Berg
Why do we need more research on animal influenza viruses?
Ilaria Capua (Venice, Italy)
Antigenic properties of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus
Adolfo García-Sastre (New York, USA) |
| 10.30-11.30 |
Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 11.30-12.30 |
Gardner Lecture ESCV
Bats versus viruses: Enemies or friends
Lin-Fa Wang (Geelong, Victoria, Australia) |
| 12.30-13.30 |
Session
West Nile virus infections
Chairpersons: Antonio Tenorio / Stéphan Zientara
Emergence and spread of West Nile virus infections in Central Europe
Norbert Nowotny (Vienna, Austria)
West Nile virus infections in humans
Anna Papa (Thessaloniki, Greece)
|
| 13.30-14.30 |
Lunch and poster viewing |
| 14.30-15.30 |
Session
Emerging arboviruses: Rift valley fever and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever viruses
Chairpersons: Sándor Belak / Peter Coyle
Emerging arboviruses: Rift valley fever and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever viruses
Robert Swanepoel (Pretoria, South Africa)
The ecology of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus: basic findings to evaluate incidence rates
Agustín Estrada-Peña (Zaragoza, Spain)
|
| 15.30-16.00 |
Keynote lecture
Promoting translational researches in clinical and veterinary virology
Yi-Wei Tang (New York, USA)
Chairperson: Javier Buesa
|
| 16.00-16.30 |
Keynote lecture
How viruses cross the inter-species barrier
Peter Daszak (New York, USA)
Chairperson: José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno
|
| 16.30-17.00 |
Closing ceremony |
Note that this programme is still provisional and can be modified |
