Third European Congress of Virology

1 - 5 September 2007, CCN CongressCenter Nürnberg · Germany

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Sunday 2 September 2007 -

09.00 – 10.30 h / Room Tokio
Opening Session Fifty Years of Interferons
Bernhard Fleckenstein Welcome Address
Otto Haller Fifty Years of Interferons
Richard E. Randall The interplay between viruses and the Interferon system
Michael P. Manns The treatment of Hepatitis C – the past, present and future role of Interferon
Jean Lindenmann European Virology Award (EVA) Lecture:
Skeletons in the closets of interference research

10.30 - 11.00 h

COFFEE BREAK
 
11.00 – 13.00 h / Room Tokio
Workshop 1 Structure and Assembly
Chair: Franz X. Heinz, Rob Ruigrok
Keynote Lecture: Félix A. Rey:
11.00 - 11.30 h Evolutionary and mechanistics insights from structural studies of viral fusion proteins
11.30 - 13.00 h Oral presentations:
The MCMV NEC interacts with the LBR complex at the inner nuclear membrane
* Mark Lötzerich (1), Zsolt Ruzsics (1), Frederic Lemnitzer (1), Ulrich H. Koszinowski (1)
(1) Max von Pettenkofer Institute,  LMU, Munich, Germany
Assembly and budding of a hepatitis B virus is mediated by a novel type of intracellular vesicles
* Mouna Mhamdi (1), Anneke Funk (1), Heinz Hohenberg (1), Hans Will (1), Hüseyin Sirma (1)
(1) Heinrich Pette Institut, Hamburg, Germany
Characterization of a reactive groove in HIV-1 capsid protein  defined by an in vitro assembly inhibitor
* Vanda Bartonova (1), Jana Sticht (1), Peter Sehr (2), Joe Lewis (2), Sebastien Igonet (3), Felix Rey (3), Hans-Georg Kraeusslich (1)
(1) University Heidelberg, Virology, Heidelberg, Germany; (2) EMBL, Chemical Biology Core Facility, Heidelberg, Germany; (3) Institute Pasteur, Structural Virology, Paris, France
EBOV VP40 homooligomerization is essential for the formation of virus-like particles
* T. Hoenen (1), F. Zielecki (2), U. Ströher (1), H. Feldmann (1), S. Becker (2)
(1) Public Health Agency of Canada, NML, Winnipeg, Canada; (2) RKI, Berlin, Germany
From structural proteomics of coronaviruses to antiviral drug discovery
* Rolf Hilgenfeld
University of Lübeck, Institute of Biochemistry, Lübeck, Germany
Structure-function relationships in viral proteinases
* Tim Skern (1), Carla Sousa (1), Christina Mayer (1), Eva Schmid (1), Luiza Deszcz (1), Ernst Kuechler (1), Regina Cencic (1), Nikolas Stefan (1)
(1) Max F. Perutz Labs, Vienna, Austria
 
11.00 – 13.00 h / Room Istanbul
Workshop 2 Plant Viruses
Chair: Rob W. Goldbach, Thomas Hohn
Keynote Lecture: Rob W. Goldbach:
11.00 - 11.30 h Novel insights in virus-plant interactions
11.30 - 13.00 h Oral presentations:
The Silencing Suppressor P25 of Potato Virus X Interacts with Argonaute 1 Resulting in Degradation through Proteasome Pathway
* Ching-Hsiu Tsai (1), David Baulcombe (2), Meng-Shuen Chiou (1)
(1) National Chung Hsing University, Graduate Institute of Biotechnology, Taichung, TAIWAN; (2) John Innes Centre, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, United Kingdom
Abutilon mosaic virus as a VIGS and protein expression vector
* Björn Krenz (1), Christina Wege (1), Holger Jeske (1)
(1) Universität Stuttgart, Biolog. Institut, Abt. Pflanzenvirologie, Stuttgart, Germany
Characterisation of PKR: a Plant-Encoded, Double-Stranded RNA-Activated Protein Kinase
*Elaine Chan (1), Michael Pearson (1), John Taylor (1), Dave Greenwood (2), Donald Roth (3), * Robin MacDiarmid (2)
(1) University of Auckland, School of Biological Sciences, Auckland, New Zealand; (2) HortResearch, Plant-Pathogen Interactions, Auckland, New Zealand; (3) University of Wyoming, Molecular Biology, Laramie, USA
Cross-protection with a CMV mutant lacking the 2b silencing suppressor gene
* Heiko Ziebell (1), Tina Payne (2), James O. Berry (3), John Walsh (2), John Carr (1)
(1) Cambridge University, Plant Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom; (2) Warwick HRI, Warwick, United Kingdom; (3) SUNY, Biological Sciences, Buffalo, United States
Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV): a self-assembling nanotechnology template
* A. Mueller (1), A. Kadri (1), G. Barralia (2), A.M. Bittner (2), H. Jeske (1), C. Wege (1)
(1) Univ. Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; (2) MPI, FKF, Stuttgart, Germany
Promotorelements of Acanthocystis turfacea chlorella virus 1 (ATCV-1), a new Phycodnavirus, are active in prokaryotic cells
Moritz Degen (1), * Artur J. P. Pfitzner (1)
(1) Universität Hohenheim, Allgemeine Virologie, Stuttgart, Germany
 
11.00 – 13.00 h / Room Shanghai
Workshop 3 Retroviruses I
Chair: Olivier Schwartz, Luc Willems
Keynote Lecture: Hans-Georg Kräusslich:
11.00 - 11.30 h Assembly and entry of HIV
11.30 - 13.00 h Oral presentations:
High variety of STLV-1 strains in herbivore red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus badius)
* Sandra Junglen (1), Claudia Hedemann (1), Heinz Ellerbrok (1), Georg Pauli (1), Christophe Boesch (2), Fabian Leendertz (2)
(1) Robert Koch-Institut, ZBS1, Berlin, Germany; (2) Max Planck Institut, Primatology, Leipzig, Germany
HERV-K expression in melanomas
* Silvia Hahn (1), Selma Ugurel (2), Kay-Martin Hanschmann (3), Heike Strobel (1), Christiane Tondera (1), Dirk Schadendorf (2), Johannes Löwer (1), Roswitha Löwer (1)
(1) Paul-Ehrlich Institut, PR2/Retroelemente, Langen, Germany; (2) German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg and Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Mannheim, Skin Cancer Unit, Mannheim, Germany; (3) Paul-Ehrlich Institut, Biostatistics, Langen, Germany
Impact of Human and Porcine APOBEC3 Proteins on Replication of Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus
* Eva Dörrschuck (1), Klaus Cichutek (1), Carsten Münk (1), Ralf Tönjes (1)
(1) Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Medical Biotechnology, Langen, Germany
Towards a multi-transgenic rat model of HIV infection
Christine Goffinet (1), Nico Michel (1), Ina Allespach (1), Daniel Rupp (1), Kerstin Ganter (1), Hanna-Mari Tervo (1), * Oliver Keppler (1)
(1) University of Heidelberg, Virology, Heidelberg, Germany
A TRIM Gene from Rabbit with broad Anti-Retroviral Activity
* Torsten Schaller (1), Greg J. Towers (1)
(1) University College London, Infection, London, United Kingdom
Vpu-mediated downmodulation of CD4 is dispensable for efficient HIV-1 replication and CD4+ T cell depletion in ex vivo human lymphoid tissue
* Michael Schindler (1), Devi Rajan (1), Anke Specht (1), Frank Kirchhoff (1)
(1) University of Ulm, Institute of Virology, Ulm, Germany

13.00 - 14.00 h

BREAK
 
14.00 – 16.00 h / Room Tokio
Workshop 4 Receptors and Entry
Chair: Urs Greber, Göran Wadell
Keynote Lecture: Lukas Pelkmans:
14.00 - 14.30 h Towards a taxonomy of viruses based on host requirement complexity
14.30 - 16.00 h Oral presentations:
Crystal structure of a SV40 VP1 pentamer in complex with its ganglioside receptor
* Ursula Neu (1), Thilo Stehle (1)
(1) University of Tübingen, Interfacultary Insitute for Biochemistry, Tübingen, Germany
Transferrin receptor 1 is a cellular receptor for New World haemorrhagic fever arenaviruses
* Sheli R. Radoshitzky (1), Jonathan Abraham (2), Christina F. Spiropoulou (3), Jens H. Kuhn (1), Dan Nguyen (2), Jane Nagel (1), Paul J. Schmidt (2), Jack H. Nunberg (4), Nancy C. Andrews (2), Michael Farzan (1), Hyeryun Choe (2)
(1) New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, MA, USA; (2) Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; (3) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA; (4) The University of Montana, Montana Biotechnology Center, Missoula, MT, USA
Adenovirus type 11 binding alters the conformation of its receptor CD46
* David Persson (1), Dirk Reiter (1), Marko Marttila (2), Ya-Fang Mei (2), Jose Casasnovas (3), Niklas  Arnberg (2), Thilo Stehle (1)
(1) Institute for Biochemistry, Tübingen, Germany; (2) Department of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Virology, Umeå, Sweden; (3) Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Measles Virus (MV) attenuation: role of recognition of the ubiquitous membrane cofactor protein (MCP; CD46)
* Claudia S. Antunes Ferreira (1), Marie Frenzke (1), G. Grant Welstead (2), Christopher D. Richardson (2), Roberto Cattaneo (1)
(1) Mayo Clinic, Molecular Medicine Program, Rochester MN, USA; (2) University of Toronto, Department of Medical Biophysics and Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Canada
High-throughput siRNA screens to determine host factors involved in human adenovirus infections
* Nina Wolfrum (1), Raphael Sacher (2), Berend Snijder (2), Lucas Pelkmans (2), Urs F. Greber (1)
(1) University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; (2) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Dual-color Herpes Simplex Viruses for the analysis of assembly, egress and cell entry
* CH Nagel (1), M Fathollahy (1), T Strive (1), K Döhner (1), E Borst (1), M Messerle (1), B Sodeik (1)
(1) Hannover Medical School, Institute of Virology, Hannover, Germany
 
14.00 – 16.15 h / Room Istanbul
Workshop 5 Respiratory Viruses
Chair: Laurent Kaiser, Olli Ruuskanen
Keynote Lecture: Annika Linde:
14.00 - 14.30 h Spread of viral respiratory tract infections in child-care - consequences and preventive strategies
14.30 - 16.15 h Oral presentations:
Patterns of Virus Infection in the Respiratory Tract Suggest a Causal Link to Serious Illness in Hospitalized Patients
* Peter Coyle
Belfast Hospital Trust, Regional Virus Lab, Belfast, UK
Vaccination against human metapneumovirus
* Bernadette van den Hoogen (1), Sander Herfst (1), Miranda de Graaf (1), Nancy Ulbrandt (2), Albert Osterhaus (1), Rik de Swart (1), Ron Fouchier (1)
(1) ErasmusMC, Virology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; (2) MedImmune, Gaithersburg, USA
Characterisation of a patient-derived mutant of SARS-CoV by a novel T7 promoter-driven infectious cDNA clone
* Susanne Pfefferle (1), Klaus Grywna (1), Christian Drosten (1)
(1) Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Clinical Virology, Hamburg, Germany
Interaction of SARS-CoV attenuated mutants with the host
Marta L. DeDiego (1), E. Alvarez (1), K. Subbarao (2), E. W. Lamirande (2), S. Perlman (3), * Luis Enjuanes (1)
(1) CNB, CSIC, Madrid, Spain; (2) NIH, MD, USA; (3) University of  Iowa, Iowa, USA
A reverse-genetic analysis of reassortant H1N2 human influenza A viruses
* Aline Anton (1), Alla Heider (1), Larisa Mochalova (2), Nikolai Bovin (2), Brunhilde Schweiger (1), Thorsten Wolff (1)
(1) Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany; (2) Shemyakin Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
NS1 of the 1918 pandemic virus and many avian strains of influenza A bind to the SH3 domains of the Crk/CrkL adapter proteins to regulate host cell signalling
Leena Heikkinen (1), Arunas Kazlauskas (1), Ralf Wagner (2), Krister Melén (3), Thedi Ziegler (3), Ilkka Julkunen (3), * Kalle Saksela (1)
(1) Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland; (2) Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Regensburg, Germany; (3) National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Recombinant modified vaccina virus Ankara (MVA)-based vaccine induces protective immunity in mice against infection with influenza virus H5N1
J.H. Kreijtz (1), * Y. Süzer (2), G. van Amerongen (1), G. de Mutsert (1), B. Schnierle (2), J.M. Wood (3), T. Kuiken (1), R.A. Fouchier (1), J. Löwer (2), A.D. Osterhaus (1), G. Sutter (2), G.F. Rimmelzwaan (1)
(1) Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; (2) PEI, Langen, Germany; (3) NIBSC, Potters Bar, United Kingdom
 
14.00 – 16.00 h / Room Shanghai
Workshop 6 Hepatitis Viruses I (HBV)
Chair: Wolfram H. Gerlich, Michael Kann
Keynote Lecture: Fabien Zoulim:
14.00 - 14.30 h Mechanisms of hepatitis B virus persistence and resistance to antivirals
14.30 - 16.00 h Oral presentations:
A structural model for duck hepatitis B virus core protein derived by extensive mutagenesis and antibody epitope mapping
Jolanta Vorreiter (1), Immanuel Leifer (1), Christine Roesler (1), * Michael Nassal (1)
(1) University Hospital Freiburg, Internal Med. 2 / Molecular Biology, Freiburg, Germany
Hepatitis B viruses require cholesterol for endosomal escape during virus entry
* Anneke Funk (1), Mouna Mhamdi (1), Carsten Lambert (2), Reinhild Prange (2), Heinz Hohenberg (1), Hüseyin Sirma (1)
(1) Heinrich Pette Institut, Hamburg, Germany; (2) Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
Host factors involved in hepatitis B virus maturation
* M. Rost (1), C. Lambert (1), T. Döring (1), R. Prange (1)
(1) University of Mainz, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Mainz, Germany
A triple function for the N-terminal domain of large hepatitis B virus surface protein: viral binding, antigenicity and influence on folding of the S-domain
Corinna M. Leistner (1), Irina Sominskaya (2), Dace Skrastina (2), Paul Pumpens (2), Aiste Bulavaite (3), Kestas Sasnauskas (3), Wolfram H. Gerlich (1), * Dieter Glebe (1)
(1) University of Giessen, Medical Virology, Giessen, Germany; (2) Biomed. Research and Study Centre, Riga, Latvia; (3) Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius, Lithuania
Suppression of HBV replication by Toll-like receptor activated non-parenchymal liver cells
Jun Wu (1), Mengji Lu (2), Michael Roggendorf (2), * Jörg F. Schlaak (1)
(1) University Hospital of Essen, Dept. of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Essen, Germany; (2) University Hospital of Essen, Institute of Virology, Essen, Germany
HBV specific adoptive immune transfer by living liver donation
* A Schumann (1), M Lindemann (2), C Valentin-Gamazo (3), D Knop (4), U Dahmen (3), CE Broelsch (3), H Grosse-Wilde (2), M Roggendorf (1), M Fiedler (1)
(1) University, Virology, Essen, Germany; (2) University, Immunology, Essen, Germany; (3) University, Surgery and Transplantation, Essen, Germany; (4) University, Transfusion medicine, Essen, Germany

16.00 - 16.30 h

COFFEE BREAK
 
16.30 – 18.30 h
Poster Session I
(with wine and cheese)

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