The EVBC has been founded during the 1st EVBC Meeting.

Date: March 06–08, 2017.
Venue: Rosensäle, Fürstengraben 27, 07743 Jena, Germany.
Impressions
Programme
You can download the programme here.
Monday, March 06, 2017
| 12:00 pm — 01:30 pm | Registration |
| 01:30 pm — 02:00 pm | Welcome by Manja Marz |
| Welcome by Walter Rosenthal, President of the FSU |
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| Welcome by Wolfgang Tiefensee, Thuringian Minister of Economy, Science and the Digital Society |
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| 02:00 pm — 02:30 pm | Virology State-of-the Art and Challenges Massimo Palmarini |
| 02:30 pm — 03:00 pm | Virus Bioinformatics State-of-the Art and Challenges Philippe Lemercier |
| 03:00 pm — 03:30 pm | Coffee break |
| 03:30 pm — 05:00 pm | Infectious diseases and big data: EU policy and funding opportunities |
| Saila Rinne Unit “Data Policy and Innovation” DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology European Commission Download slides |
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| Evelyn Depoortere Unit “Fighting infectious diseases and advancing public health” DG Research & Innovation European Commission Download slides |
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| 05:00 pm — 05:30 pm | Coffee break |
| 05:30 pm — 06:30 pm | Marion Koopmans Introduction to COMAPRE |
| Lia van der Hoek Introduction to HONOURs |
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| 08:00 pm | Joint dinner in the restaurant “Zur Noll” |
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
| 08:45 am — 09:00 am | Explanation of the discussion schedule |
| 09:00 am — 09:30 am | Keynote 1: Virus detection & diagnostics Dimitrij Frishman and Li Deng |
| 09:30 am — 10:00 am | Free discussion with coffee and snacks |
| 10:00 am — 10:30 am | Group discussion |
| 10:30 am — 12:00 pm | Keynote 2: Phylogeny & taxonomy Alexander Gorbalenya and Christian Drosten |
| with free and group discussion | |
| 12:00 pm — 01:30 pm | Lunch break |
| 01:30 pm — 03:00 pm | Keynote 3: Virus-host-interaction (protein-protein-interaction and RNA interaction) Ronald van Rij and Andrew Firth |
| with free and group discussion | |
| 03:00 pm — 04:30 pm | Keynote 4: Virus replication (DNA integration, ribosomal profiling, packaging) Martin Schwemmle and Andreas Gogol-Döring |
| with free and group discussion | |
| 04:30 pm — 06:00 pm | Keynote 5: Serology & vaccines Nico Pfeifer and Max von Kleist |
| with free and group discussion | |
| 06:00 pm — 08:00 pm | Dinner break |
| 08:00 pm | Wine and Cheese and Posters |
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
| 09:00 am — 10:30 am | Virus database (structure and security) |
| 10:30 am — 11:00 am | Coffee break |
| 11:00 am — 02:30 pm | Founding the European Virus Bioinformatics Centre |
Sponsors
The 1st EVBC Meeting was supported by the following organizations:



































