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Monday, 27. May 2024
| 19:00 | Welcome Get Together MALZ, Brusselsestraat 51, 3000 Leuven, Belgium |
Tuesday, 28. May 2024
| 08:30 | Registration desk opens |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome and opening remarks Manja Marz (EVBC Director) Jelle Matthijnssens, Philippe Lemey, Simon Dellicour (Local Organizers) |
| 09:30 – 10:00 |
Opening talk invited by VIROINF 1984 Alexander Gorbalenya | Leiden University, Netherlands Chair: Manja Marz |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee break |
| Session 1 | Viral Evolutionary History Chair: Dmitrij Frishman |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Keynote talk Disentangling the evolutionary history of varidnaviruses Mart Krupovic | Institut Pasteur, France Chair: Manja Marz |
| 11:00 – 11:20 |
Phylogenetic Evidence for Viral Eukaryogenesis Sangita Karki | Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States |
| 11:20 – 11:40 |
Proir consideratoins for tests of temporal signal in ancient pathogen genomics Sebastian Duchene | Institut Pasteur, Paris, France |
| 11:40 – 12:00 |
Exploration of the Updated Diversity of Helicase Superfamilies 1 and 2 Reveals New Families and Presence of Multiple Transfer Events Between Viruses and Cells Anamarija Butkovic | Institut Pasteur, Paris, France |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Poster Pitches A |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Poster Session A |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
| Session 2 | Evolution of Human Viruses Chair: Lara Fuhrmann, Philippe Lemey |
| 16:00–16:30 |
Keynote talk Anellovirus in humans, do we live happily ever after? Lia van der Hoek | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Chair: Philippe Lemey |
| 16:30 – 16:50 |
The prevalence of back-and-forth substitutions in the evolutionary landscape of human viruses Florian Poulain | University of Liege, Liège, Belgium |
| 16:50 – 17:10 |
Characterization of HIV-1 Genome in A Long-Term Experimental Evolution Study Ali Movasati | University of Zurich / University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
Wednesday, 29. May 2024
| 09:30 – 10:00 |
Keynote talk Unleashing molecular lego inspired by bacteriophage evolution Yves Briers | Ghent University, Belgium Chair: Jelle Matthijnssens |
| Session 3 | Viral Protein Structure Chair: Philippe Le Mercier |
| 10:00 – 10:20 |
Phold: Using Protein Structural Homology & Protein Language Models to Enhance Phage Genome Annotation George Bouras | The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia |
| 10:20 – 10:40 |
Mapping glycoprotein structure reveals defining events in the evolution of the Flaviviridae Jonathon Mifsud | University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| 10:40 – 11:00 |
Characterisation and monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 and future emergent viruses using protein language models Kieran Lamb | MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, Scotland |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
| Session 4 | Machine Learning for Viral Proteomics Chair: Anne Kupczok |
| 11:30 – 11:50 |
Adapting broad protein language models to viruses Spyros Lytras | University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 11:50 – 12:10 |
Explaining Influenza A Neuraminidase Classification Results from a Biological Perspective using Interpretable Machine Learning Models Lynn V. Reuss | University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Mittweida, Germany |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | Improved prediction of protein-protein interactions using a next sentence cross-encoder Dan Liu | University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Poster Pitches B |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Poster Session B |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Session 5 | Virus-host-interaction Chair: Janina Rahlff |
| 16:30–17:00 |
Keynote talk A system view on phage-host interactions using transcriptomics and acetyl-proteomics Vera Van Noort | KU Leuven, Netherlands Chair: Jelle Matthijnssens |
| 17:00 – 17:20 |
Decoding the blueprint of filovirus entry through large-scale binding assays and machine learning Gorka Lasso | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States |
| 17:20 – 17:40 |
The Intriguing World of Unknowns: exploration of Polycipiviridae genomes, Phylogenetics and Host Specificity Ingrida Olendraite | University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner Restaurant Mykene, Muntstraat 44, 3000 Leuven, Belgium |
Thursday, 30. May 2024
| Session 6 | Surveillance / Epidemiology I Chair: Sebastian Lequime |
| 09:30 – 10:00 |
Keynote talk Towards a global virus genomic surveillance system Nathan Grubaugh | Yale School of Public Health, United States Chair: Philippe Lemey |
| 10:00 – 10:20 |
Shotgun metagenomics on air: Longitudinal surveillance of viruses in a daycare center Mustafa Karatas | KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium |
| 10:20 – 10:40 |
Molecular characteristics of a localized influenza A(H1N1) pdm09 outbreak in South Africa, 2020 Dikeledi Kekana | National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Coffee break |
| Session 7 | Viral sequence analysis Chair: Daniel Todt |
| 11:10 – 11:30 |
Representative full-genome alignments of viral clades – a semi-automated approach incorporating amino acids, nucleotides & RNA secondary structures Sandra Triebel | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany |
| 11:30 – 11:50 |
detectEVE: Illuminating the hidden viral footprint in genomic data Nadja Brait | University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands |
| 11:50 – 12:10 |
varVAMP: automated pan-specific primer design for tiled full genome sequencing of highly diverse viral pathogens Jonas Fuchs | Institut für Virologie, Universtitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg, Deutschland |
| 12:10 – 13:50 | Lunch break |
| Session 8 | Surveillance / Epidemiology II Chair: Joana Abrantes |
| 13:50 – 14:20 |
Keynote talk CLIMADE: Pandemic Preparedness for Arboviruses in a time of Climate Change Houriiyah Tegally | Stellenbosch University, South Africa Chair: Simon Dellicour |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Hendra virus in Australian bats show a diffuse spatio-temporal structure Claude Yinda Kwe | NIAID/NIH, Hamilton, USA |
| 14:40 – 15:00 |
Sequencing error inspires novel phylogenetic approaches to sequence data Chris Illingworth | MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow,UK |
| 15:00 – 15:45 | Annual Meeting of the EVBC |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Closing ceremony / awards |