Organizers: Shan-Lu Liu and Jacob Yount
Speakers:
Terence Dermody (KEYNOTE)
Physician in Chief and Scientific Director, UPMC Children’s Hospital
Vira I. Heinz Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgha
“The Amazing Assembly Mechanism of a Viral Nanomachine”
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Michigan
“The role of HIV-1 Vpr in macrophage infection”
Professor of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Director, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis
University of Pittsburgh
“Antiviral signaling at the maternal-fetal interface”.
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Associate Dean for Biomedical Education
University of Kentucky
“Mechanisms of Pneumovirus Infection”
Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccines and Immunity
Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University
“New insights into hepatitis E virus biology and pathogenesis”
Professor of Microbial and Molecular Genetics
Director, UPMC Cancer Virology Program
University of Pittsburgh
“Metabolic reprogramming and metabolic sensors in KSHV-induced oncogenesis"
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Indiana University
“HBV cccDNA minichromosome formation and epigenetics”
Vice President of Research – Policy and Compliance
Professor Associate Chair of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Michigan
“The Transition from Persistent BKPyV Infection to Lytic Replication”
Director, Case Center for AIDS Research
Professor and Chair of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Case Western Reserve University
"The shocking case for an HIV cure"
Professor of Veterinary Biosciences
Ohio State University
“N6-methyladenosine is a molecular marker for discrimination of self and nonself RNAs by innate immunity”
Professor of Biology
Director of Graduate Studies, Biology
Indiana University
“Making and Breaking Alphavirus Particles: My Version of Legos”
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ohio Eminent Scholar
The Ohio State University
“Unexpected Roles of tRNAs and Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases in Retroviral Replication”
Professor of Plant Pathology
University of Kentucky
“Exploitation of host factors and cellular pathways by tombusviruses for the biogenesis of the viral replication compartment”
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Michigan State University
“Entry mechanisms of Giant Viruses”
Professor of Biology
Blatt Chair of Virology
Indiana University
"Boundless Flexibility of the Rotavirus Genome"
Mal and Lea Blank Chair and Professor of Cancer Biology
Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic
“THE ANTIVIRAL OAS-RNASE L PATHWAY IS TRIGGERED BY SELF DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA”
Director and Albert B. Sabin Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
University of Cincinnati
“Mechanism of HIV Particle Capture and Transmission by Macrophages and Microglia”
Corydon Ford Collegiate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Michigan
“How non-enveloped viruses hijack host membrane transport and disassembly machineries to cause infection”
Assistant Professor of Veterinary Preventive Medicine
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
The Ohio State University
“Avian Deltacoronavirus in US migratory birds: implications for swine health”
Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology and Genetics
The Ohio State University
"Investigating retroviral intasome search dynamics using single molecule technology: Can integration be targeted?"