Program
Venue in Riga Stradiņš University - Dzirciema 16
The keynote talks will be 30 min, invited talks 20 min and normal talks 15 min, all including 2-3 min discussion.
Day 1, Thursday 15.6
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09.00 - 10.00 Registration and exhibition with coffee [Lobby]
10.00 - 10.15 Welcoming words [Hall -1]
10.15 - 12.30 SESSION I: Zoonotic viruses
Chairs: Marietjie Venter and William Wilson
Keynote 1: EMERGING VIRUS PSEUDOTYPES – A ONE VIROLOGY APPROACH
Janet Daly, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Keynote 2: ONE WORLD, ONE HEALTH… ONE VIROME Alessandra Scagliarini, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy
1. Invited talk: EXPERIMENTAL AND “NATURAL” INFECTION OF SHEEP AND
MOSQUITOES WITH RIFT VALLEY FEVER PHLEBOVIRUS
William Wilson, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Kansas, USA
2. IMPORTANCE OF HOST FACTORS DURING ALPHAVIRUS REPLICATION
Tero Ahola, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
3. ROLE OF PRM AND E INTERACTIONS IN VIRUS RELEASE AND CELLULAR TROPISM OF POWASSAN VIRUS
Joyce Jose, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
4. TICK-BORNE FLAVIVIRUS NS5 ANTAGONIZES INTERFERON SIGNALING BY INHIBITING THE CATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF TYK2
Ségolène Gracias, Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris Cité, Paris, France.
12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH [RSU cafeteria]
13:30-15:30 SESSION II: Flaviviruses
Chairs: Richard Kuhn and Shailendra K. Saxena
Keynote 3: ZIKA VIRUS VACCINE DEVELOPMENT: EXPERIENCE IS NOT PREPAREDNESS
Theodore C Pierson, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), USA
1. Invited talk: STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF FLAVIVIRUS – ANTIBODY INTERACTIONS
Richard Kuhn, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
2. Invited talk: ACQUISITION OF NORTH AMERICAN TICK-BORNE BANDAVIRUS AND FLAVIVIRUS BY INVASIVE HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS DURING TICK CO-FEEDIN
Meghan Hermance, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, USA
3. IMPLICATIONS FOR FLAVIVIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID CORE-ENVELOPE GLYCOPROTEIN INTERACTIONS
Conrrad Nicholls, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
4. THE SLIPPERY SLOPE: HOW METABOLISM CONTROLS VIRUS-HOST INTERACTIONS AND PATHOGENESIS
Rushika Perera, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
5 EMERGENCE OF DENGUE VIRUS IN THE SAVANNA REGION, KANO, NORTHWESTERN NIGERIA
Lawal Dahiru Rogo, College of Health Sciences, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break and exhibition
16.00 - 18.50 SESSION III: Human DNA viruses
Chairs: Maria Söderlund-Venermo and Modra Murovska
Keynote 4: MECHANISMS OF HERPESVIRAL CAPSID MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT THROUGH THE CHROMATIN LABYRINTH
Maija Vihinen-Ranta, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Keynote 5: FROM THE RESPIRATORY TRACT TO THE BONE MARROW AND BEYOND. RECEPTOR SWITCHING AS PARVOVIRUS INVASION STRATEGY
Carlos Ros, University of Bern, Switzerland
1. PERSISTENT PARVOVIRUSES IN HUMAN TISSUES
Maria Söderlund-Venermo, University of Helsinki, Finland
2. SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATION WITH HIGH PREVALENCE AND ACTIVITY OF CUTAVIRUS IN PARAPSORIASIS SKIN
Ushanandini Mohanraj, University of Helsinki, Finland
3. JC POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTION AND REPLICATION IN HUMAN IPS CELL-DERIVED GLIAL CELLS INDEPENDENT OF SV40 T ANTIGEN
Zhiping Chen, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
4. ROLE OF HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS AND VACCINATION: A WEB-BASED SURVEY
Angelika Krūmiņa, Rīga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia
5. PRESENCE OF HUMAN HERPESVIRUSES INFECTION MARKERS IN HOSPITALIZED COVID-19 PATIENTS IN LATVIA
Anda Vilmane, Rīga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia
6. OCCURRENCE OF HUMAN HERPESVIRUS-6A/B AND HUMAN HERPESVIRUS -7 IN MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS/CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
Santa Rasa-Dzelzkaleja, Rīga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia
7. EBV INFECTION PROMOTES MIGRATION OF THE HOST B CELLS VIA UP-REGULATION OF THE INFLAMMATORY CHEMOKINE RECEPTORS CCR1 AND CCR2
Irina Holodnuka Kholodnyuk, Institute of Microbiology and Virology, Rīga Stradiņš University, Latvia
19.00 - 21.00 Welcome Reception