Program
10.20 – 10.30 Welcome, Alex Evilevitch, (symposium host)
10.30 – 11.20 Matthew Weitzman, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA “Adenovirus genome fates within the infected cell nucleus”
11.20 – 11.45 Marianne Jansson, Lund University, Sweden “HIV-2 extreme elite controllers: Lessons for treatment and cure?”
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch (not provided)
13.00 – 13.50 Francesca Di Nunzio, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France “Journey to the Nucleus: Revisiting HIV's Post-Nuclear Entry Pathways”
13.50 – 14.15 Joakim Esbjörnsson, Lund University, Sweden “Virus evolution and virus-host interactions in hyperacute HIV-1 infection”
14.15 – 15.05 Minna Poranen, University of Helsinki, Finland “Intra-capsid dsRNA replication and transcription by cystovirus phi6”
15.05 – 15.25 Coffee + cake (provided)
15.25 – 15.50 Gemma Atkinson, Lund University, Sweden “Applications of high-throughput AlphaFold in understanding viral attack and defence”
15.50 – 16.15 Vasili Hauryliuk, Lund University, Sweden “Mechanism of phage sensing and abortion by toxin-antitoxin-chaperone systems”
16.15 – 17.05 Alexander Borodavka, University of Cambridge, UK “How Do Protein-RNA Condensates Contribute to the Assembly of Segmented Viral RNA Genomes?”
17.05 – 17.30 Luis Sarmiento-Pérez, Lund university, Sweden “Viral Etiology of Type 1 Diabetes: How Close Are We?”
17.30 – 17.55 Alex Evilevitch, Lund University, Sweden “Temperature-induced DNA density transition in phage l capsid revealed with contrast-matching SANS”
17.55 – 18.00 Closing remarks
Warm welcome!
Alex Evilevitch
Professor of Cell Biology
Department of Experimental Medical Science