The programme is preliminary. There might be further changes.
All times are Central European Summer Time (CEST).
Thursday, October 8th
| 10.00 am | Welcome | Volker Thiel, Philippe Lemercier, Manja Marz |
| 10.30 am | COVID19 News | Volker Thiel |
| Morning Session: Proteome and RNAome of RNA viruses Session Chair: Philippe Lemercier |
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| 11.00 am | Recent Advancements in Comparative Genomics of RNA viruses | Sasha Gorbalenya | REMOTELY |
| 11.30 am | Computational methods for identifying functional RNA structure features | Irmtraud Meyer | REMOTELY |
| 12.00 pm | Coffee break |
| 12.45 pm | Expanding Diversity and Molecular Biology of RNA Viruses | Ingrida Olendraite | REMOTELY |
| 01.05 pm | Using ribosome profiling (RiboSeq) as a tool to analyse virus gene expression | Georgia Cook | REMOTELY |
| 01.25 pm | Lunch break |
| Afternoon Session: Viral metagenomics and ecology Session Chair: Alban Ramette |
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| 03.00 pm | Metagenomics analyses of West Nile Virus Outbreak samples from Germany | Pauline Dianne Santos | REMOTELY |
| 03.20 pm | viromeBrowser: A Shiny app for browsing virome sequencing analysis results | David Nieuwenhuijse | REMOTELY |
| 03.40 pm | VirION2: enabling low-input, long-read viromics | Olivier Zablocki | REMOTELY |
| 04.00 pm | Coffee break |
| 04.30 pm | Unsupervised clustering of nanopore reads produces thousands of complete phage genomes from marine samples | John Beaulaurier | REMOTELY |
| 05.00 pm | Viral ecogenomics: exploring viral diversity and virus-host interactions from metagenomes | Simon Roux | REMOTELY |
| Evening Session Session Chair: Ronald Dijkman |
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| 05.30 pm | Poster Session |
Friday, October 9th
| Morning Session: Virus evolution and classification Session Chair: Manja Marz |
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| 09.30 am | Leveraging high-throughput sequencing data to investigate viral diversity | Niko Beerenwinkel | REMOTELY |
| 10.00 am | Coffee break |
| 10.30 am | Parallel and scalable workflow for the identification and analysis of Phages in sequencing data | Mike Marquet | REMOTELY |
| 10.50 am | Re-assessing the diversity of negative strand RNA viruses in insects | Sofia Paraskevopoulou | REMOTELY |
| 11.10 am | Reducing haystacks to needles: Comparative genomics based on viral clusters | Kevin Lamkiewicz | REMOTELY |
| 11.30 am | Coffee break |
| 11.45 am | EVBC Annual Meeting: News and Updates |
| 12.30 pm | Lunch break |
| Afternoon Session: Viral infections and immunology Session Chair: Volker Thiel |
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| 02.00 pm | Imbalanced Host Response to SARS-CoV-2 Drives Development of COVID-19 | Daniel Blanco Melo | REMOTELY |
| 02.30 pm | Coffee break |
| 03.15 pm | Machine learning approach to predicting host taxonomic information from viral genomes: combining feature representations | Francesca Young | REMOTELY |
| 03.35 pm | Recombination networks and endogenous viral anchors for high-throughput host identification | Cormac Kinsella | REMOTELY |
| 03.55 pm | Single cell molecular dynamics in mice infected with West Nile virus | Neta Zuckerman | REMOTELY |
| 04.15 pm | Discussion / Best Poster and Talk |
| 05.00 pm | Close |