International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2023 » Poster Sessions

Poster Session A

A01Data mining-based discovery and genomic characterization of novel tobamoviruses
Katarina Bačnik | National institute of biology, Ljubljana , Slovenia
A02RNA virus discovery in multiple mosquito species in Cambodia
Artem Baidaliuk | Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
A03Avitombusviridae: a new viral subfamily in birds
Yannick Blanchard | Anses, Ploufragan, France
A04A Tale of Caution: Endogenous viral elements might bias virus discovery in transcriptomic datasets
Nadja Brait | University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
A05Virus Discovery using CZ ID — A free, Open Source, Cloud-based Metagenomics Platform for Researchers
Elizabeth Fahsbender | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Redwood City, USA
A06Optimization of Virome Enrichment Method of Human Respiratory Samples
Lisa Faye | KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
A07Studying the gut virome in shotgun metagenomic data from the Lifelines NEXT cohort
Asier Fernández-Pato | University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
A08Comparison of MERS-CoV infection in human and camelid primary airway epithelial cells with single-cell resolution
Vera Flück | University of Berne, Bern, Schweiz
A09Characterization of phages integrated into the genomes of cultured Faecalibacterium strains reveals diversity-generating retroelements targeting multiple genes
Anastasia Gulyaeva | University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
A10Utilising publicly available transcriptomic data to reveal the viromes of endangered species
Erin Harvey | The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
A11Preliminary results of taxonomic classification of virus sequences in biting midges from Western Aegean Region of Turkiye.
B. Taylan Koc | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
A12Finding a needle in a haystack: separating specific antiviral responses from general stress responses from transcriptomic data of Arabidopsis thaliana
Wilberth Lasso Giraldo | Universitat de València, València, Spain
A13International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV): Virus Classification and Nomenclature
Elliot Lefkowitz | University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, USA
A14Viral acetyltransferases: a novel, yet widespread host-hijacking strategy in Pseudomonas phages
Hannelore Longin | KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
A15Longitudinal Metagenomic Analysis of Aedes Mosquito Virome in Cameroon
Karelle Celes Mbigha Donfack | KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
A16First description of a Polyomavirus genome in the Thornback ray (Raja clavata)
Fabiana Neves | CIBIO-InBio, Vairão – Vila do Conde, Portugal
A17Expansion of a novel RNA virus family: lessons from five years of Polycipiviridae
Ingrida Olendraite | University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
A18Crosstalk between virus accumulation and host responses in the C. elegans-Orsay virus pathosystem
María José Olmo Uceda | Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, I2SysBio (CSIC-UV), Paterna, Spain
A19Exploring the gut microbiota dynamics in healthy Bangladeshi infants: An insight into the gut virome development in early life.
Maria Ioanna Papadaki | KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
A20Viromics from Cryosphere lake sediments: adaptation to anoxic environments and identification of ancient viruses.
Sergio Sánchez Carrillo | Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain
A21Computational processing of public sequencing files to identify clusters in high-dimensional human virome data
Josefin Säurich | University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany
A22Dissecting viral diversity in the North Sea
Hisham Mohammed Shaikh | Flanders Marine Institute; Ghent University, Oostende, Belgium
A23Generic Ensembles in RdRp Modules on the Anvil of Evolution – Conformational Heterogeneity and Liquid Condensed States Modulate The Sequence-Ensembles Nature of RdRp Tethered Folded Domains
Rachid TAHZIMA | University of Liège, Gembloux, Belgium
A24The fecal virome in patients with alcoholic liver disease
Lore Van Espen | KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
A25Benchmarking Bioinformatic Virus Identification Tools Using Real Metagenomic Data across Biomes
Lingyi Wu | Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

Wednesday, May 24, 14:30 – 15:30

Poster Session B

Thursday, May 25, 15:00 – 16:00

B01SLiM pickings: short linear motifs in viral genomes in viral genomes predict reservoir host as a function of viral phylogeny
Matt Arnold | University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
B02Genetic characterization of watermelon mosaic virus
Karima Ben Mansour | Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic 
B03Viral community genomic variation in coral symbioses across Pacific Ocean island systems
Kalia Bistolas | Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA 
B04Nanopore sequencing for bacterial mobilome characterization
Tibor Botka | Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 
B05Evolution of anelloviruses from a circovirus-like ancestor through gradual augmentation of the jelly-roll capsid protein
Anamarija Butkovic | Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
B06Evolution of the interactions between rotavirus VP8* and histo-blood group antigens: Insights from computational studies
Roberto Cárcamo | Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain 
B07Phylogenetic Conservation Scores to Select Primers for RHDV Identification
Filipa Carneiro | University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
B08Gsub: submitting a large number of viral sequences to GenBank in a easy and fast way
Florian Charriat | CIRAD, Montpellier, France
B09VILOCA: Sequencing quality-aware haplotype reconstruction and mutation calling for short- and long-read data
Lara Fuhrmann | ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
B10Structural and evolutionary constraints on viral movement proteins encoded by overlapping genes in viral genomes
Esmeralda García Legarda | I2SysBio (CSIC), Valencia, Spain
B11Using network analysis for clustering OTUs in eukaryotic viromes
Serafin Gutierrez | CIRAD, Montpellier, France
B12Accumulation Dynamics of DVGs During Experimental Evolution of Betacoronaviruses
Julia Hillung | I2SysBio-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
B13Assessing methods for virus discovery in natural plant ecosystems
Dimitris Karapliafis | Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
B14Ancient gene transfer links the early evolution of eukaryotes and giant viruses.
Sangita Karki | Virginia polytechnic institute and state university, Blacksburg, USA
B15An evolutionary perspective on RNA-protein interactions: Co-Alignments of an Ebolavirus RPI
Sarah Krautwurst | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
B16Co-transfer of functionally interdependent genes contributes to genome mosaicism in lambdoid phages
Anne Kupczok | Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
B17RNAswarm: A Modular Pipeline for Differential RRI Analysis in Influenza A Virus
Gabriel Lencioni Lovate | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Deutschland
B18In silico proteome-wide analysis of viral sequences reveals a potential for a novel chaperone-mediated xenophagy pathway
Marcin Lubocki | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
B19NGS-aided sequencing for plant viruses
Rebeka Ludviga | Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Riga, Latvia 
B20Gene transfer between mycoviruses and their hosts: the coat protein as a case study
Ayoub Maachi | Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Valencia, Spain
B21Pan-family genomic survey of Potyviridae uncovers AlkB and N6-methyladenosine roles in plant infection
Fabio Pasin | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), VALENCIA, Spain
B22Structure Conservation in Viral Polymerases
Olve Peersen | Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
B23Non-retroviral RNA viruses integrated into the human genome
Muriel Ritsch | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
B24VirJenDB: a comprehensive virus genome database
Shahram Saghaei | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
B25Molecular evolution of coxsackievirus A9 with a hint of receptor tropism – from VP1 to genome-sequencing.
Petri Susi | University of Turku, Turku, Finland
B26Genomic GC% Content Relationships Between Bacteriophages And Their Hosts
Nikita Zrelovs | Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Riga, Latvia

Poster Session C

Friday, May 26, 11:40 – 12:40

C01Combinatorial analysis of deletion repair in SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern
Miguel Álvarez-Herrera | Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (UVEG-CSIC), Paterna, Valencia, Spain
C02Towards assessing the spillover potential of 3K novel negative-stranded RNA viruses.
Liubov Chuprikova | German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
C03Exploration of the Culex mosquito virome and its effect on West Nile and Usutu virus transmission
Lander De Coninck | KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
C04Virus-host interactions in Arctic tundra soils
Tatiana Demina | University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
C05Metatranscriptomic approach for the analysis of viral diversity in Amazonian Mosquitoes
Eddie Fuques | Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States 
C06Migration history of SARS-CoV-2 variants in Galicia, NW Spain
Pilar Gallego-García | Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
C07Viral Metagenomics from different regions of the Cryosphere
Rafael Gonzalez-Serrano | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
C08Leveraging Distributed Databases To Monitor Viral Detection Assays
Norman Hassell | Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
C09A deep sequencing strategy for investigation of virus variants within ASFV infected pigs
Camille Melissa Johnston | Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
C10CZ ID – A Free, Open Source, Cloud-based Tool for Metagenomic Pathogen Detection and Monitoring
Katrina Kalantar | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Redwood City, USA
C11Mechanistic Insights into SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Inhibition Reveals Hotspot Residues
Konda Reddy Karnati | Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland, United States of America
C12Modeling influenza HA protein structures circulating during the 2022-2023 northern hemisphere season
Nicholas Kovacs | US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
C13Characterising the mutational landscape of SARS-CoV-2 using large language models
Kieran Lamb | University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
C14Prediction of virus-host association using protein language models and multiple instance learning
Dan Liu | University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
C15Patterns of Influenza Diversity in a Pilot Study of US Traveler Based Genomic Surveillance.
Sandra Mathew | CDC, Atlanta, United States
C16Genomic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 can be accelerated by mutations in the nsp14 gene
So Nakagawa | Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
C17Detection of co-infection events and the emergence of novel recombinants in the Epidemiological Surveillance of Andalusia (Spain)
Javier Perez-Florido | Computational Medicine Platform, Fundación Progreso y Salud, Seville, Spain
C18Within-patient SARS-CoV-2 adaptive mutations.
Sara Puchades-Sangabino | I2SYSBIO (UV-CSIC), Paterna (Valencia), Spain
C19Virome approach to the pathogen surveillance of wastewaters
Ana Abecasis | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
C20Tracking intra host evolution of SARS-CoV-2
Jordi Sevilla | Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (UVEG-CSIC), Valencia, Spain
C21Temporal rank dynamics of transcripts in SARS-CoV-2-infected cells
João Silva | Instituto de Biología Integrativa de Sistemas, Paterna (Valencia), Spain
C22Integrative Analysis of Amplicon Coverage to Monitor the Performance of the Swift Amplicon SARS-CoV-2 Panel during the Evolution of Omicron
Xiao-yu “Sherry” Zheng | Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta GA, USA
C23Rapid whole genome amplification and sequencing protocol for Mpox Virus
Matthias Licheri | University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland