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EPICVIR online meeting

On the 17th of October, the full EPICVIR team met online to share the project's current state and have a scientific discussion about achieved milestones and future tasks. Here is the programme of the meeting.

EPICVIR – All-team meeting

Thursday 17th October, 11:00-14:00 European time (10:00-13:00 UK time)

Microsoft TEAMs

11:00 – 11:15 Welcome & Introductions

11:15 – 11:40 Juanjuan Guo (Ghent University, Belgium) 

                          Transmission studies with porcine respiratory coronavirus and other viruses.

11:40 – 12:05 Ehsan Sedaghat-Rostami (The Pirbright Institute, UK)

                      Pathogenesis and Immune Responses to H1N1pdm09 and Porcine Respiratory Coronavirus in pigs: insights into host defences

12:05 – 12:30 Ashutosh Vats (The Pirbright Institute, UK)

                      Pathogenicity and immune control of avH1N1 and FluD virus infections in pigs

12:30 – 12:55 Laura Mendoza Garcia (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas, Madrid)

                          Transcriptomic analysis from innate immune cells selected from Flu/PRCV infected pigs.

12:55 – 13:10 Break

13:10 – 13:35 Paula Avello-Fernandez (University of Leeds, UK)
                    Modelling transmission dynamics of influenza and coronavirus in pigs by type of contact

13:35 – 14:00 Mengying Liu (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

EPICVIR meeting

On the 14th-15th of January 2025 the full EPICVIR team met at the Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE. Here is the programme of the meeting.

Tuesday 14th January

12:30 Arrival/ Lunch

13:05 Welcome and General Introduction Kristien van Reeth

13:15 Kristien van Reeth “Ghent University project overview”

13:20 Juanjuan Guo “Transmission studies in pigs: porcine respiratory coronavirus versus swine influenza”

13:50 Questions and discussion

14:05 Elma Tchilian “Pirbright project overview”

14:10 Ehsan Sedaghat-Rostami “Pathogenesis and Immune Responses to H1N1pdm09 and Porcine Respiratory Coronavirus in pigs: insights into host defences”

14:30 Ashutosh Vats “Pathogenicity and immune control of avH1N1 and FluD virus infections in pigs”

14:50 Basu Paudyal “Blood Biomarkers for infection and nasal microbiome following PRCV and pH1N1 infection in pigs”

15:00 Emily Briggs ”Antibody responses and B cell repertoire following PRCV and pH1N1 infection”

15:00 Questions and discussion

15:30 Coffee/tea break

15:55 Maria Montoya “Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas project overview”

16:00 Laura Mendoza 

16:30 Questions/General discussion

17:00 End of meeting

Wednesday 15th January

8:45 Arrival

9:00 Xander “Utrecht university project overview”

9:10 Mengying “HA-NA balance of swine influenza viruses”

9:40 Questions and discussion

9:50 Martin Lopez-Garcia, Paula Avello Fernandez, Mario Castro “Project overview University of Leeds and Universidad Pontificia Comillas” “Mathematical modelling of animal transmission experiments

10:50 Questions and discussion

11:30 Coffee/tea break

11:50 General discussion - presentations at meetings/ publications/ website/reporting/exchange of samples/ collaborations/future online meetings

12:50 Close of meeting Kristien van Reeth

13:00 Lunch

13:30 End of meeting