This schedule is preliminary and subject to change.
Thursday, March 5th
| 09.30 am | Welcome | Volker Thiel, Philippe Lemercier, Manja Marz |
| Morning Session: Viral metagenomics and ecology | |
| 09.45 am | Viral ecogenomics: exploring viral diversity and virus-host interactions from metagenomes | Simon Roux |
| 10.15 am | |
| 10.45 am | Coffee break |
| 11.30 am | |
| 11.50 am | |
| 12.10 pm | |
| 12.30 pm | Lunch break |
| Afternoon Session: Viral infections and immunology | |
| 02.00 pm | Toward the clinical virome: High-throughput analysis of viral metagenomic data from Illumina and Nanopore reads | Tulio de Oliveira |
| 02.30 pm | In depth transcriptomic analysis of the innate immune response against viral infections | Daniel Blanco Melo |
| 03.00 pm | Coffee break |
| 03.45 pm | |
| 04.05 pm | |
| 04.25 pm | |
| 04.45 pm | EVBC meeting and board election |
| Evening Session | |
| 05.30 pm | Poster Session |
Friday, March 6th
| Morning Session: Virus evolution and classification | |
| 09.30 am | Computational methods to monitor and inform experimental evolutionary studies in virology | Marco Vignuzzi |
| 10.00 am | |
| 10.30 am | Coffee break |
| 11.15 am | |
| 11.35 am | |
| 11.55 pm | |
| 12.15 pm | Lunch break |
| Afternoon Session: Proteome and RNAome of RNA viruses | |
| 01.45 pm | Recent Advancements in Comparative Genomics of RNA viruses | Sasha Gorbalenya |
| 02.15 pm | Computational methods for identifying functional RNA structure features | Irmtraud Meyer |
| 02.45 pm | Coffee break |
| 03.30 pm | |
| 03.50 pm | |
| 04.10 pm | |
| 04.30 pm | Discussion & Best Poster / Talk Awards |
| 05.00 pm | Close |