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27

May

Virology Symposium – Lund University Virus Centre (LUVC)

27 May 2025 08:30 to 12:30 | Seminar

Programme 

08:30 Welcome (Joakim Esbjörnsson, Systems Virology, Marianne Jansson, HIV Host interaction, LUVC; Patrik Medstrand, Clinical Virology)

Session I: Phylogenetics, virus spread and outbreak preparedness (08.35-09.30)

Speakers: Keynote: Philippe Lemey, KU Leuven

Dawid Assefa, Lund University; Sviatslau Sasinovich, Lund University; Jacob Löndahl, Lund University. 

Session II: Retroviruses: Epidemiology, pathogenesis and host responses (09.30-10.10)

Speakers: Jacob Lopatko Lindman, Lund University; Joakim Esbjörnsson, Lund University; Olof Elvstam, Lund University; Marianne Jansson, Lund University

Session III: Emerging diseases, virus interventions and prediction (10.30-11.25)

Speakers: Keynote: Ali Mirazimi, Karolinska Institute / Swedish Society for Virology 

Mats Ohlin, Lund University; Milena Samojlovic, Lund University; Gemma Atkinsson, Lund University. 

Session VI: Viruses causing tumors and autoimmunity (11.30-12.00)

Speakers: Stefan Schwarz, Uppsala University; Ola Forslund, Lund University/Region Skåne, Luiz Saramiento, Lund University. 

Session V: Networks (12.00-12.20)

Speakers: Pontus Nordenfeldt, Lund University; Wolfgang Knecht and Anette Agardh, Lund University 

About the event

Location:

MAU I ASU306, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, Jan Waldenströms gata 25, 205 06, Malmö

Contact:

luvc [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se