POSTERS
Booth # | Room | Name | Co-Author(s) | Abstract Title | Organization | Category |
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61 | Prairie Room | Emmanuelle Kasinyabo | Vanessa Meier-Stephenson | Targeting Hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication at its root with G-quadruplex (GQ) binders | University of Alberta | Antivirals |
62 | Prairie Room | Emmanuelle LeBlanc | Youjin Kim, Chantelle J. Capicciotti and Che C. Colpitts | Characterizing the roles of SARS-CoV-2 spike glycosylation in viral entry and pathogenesis | Queen's University | Virus - Host Interactions |
63 | Prairie Room | Eric Pringle | Brett Duguay, Maxwell P. Bui-Marinos, Rory P. Mulloy, Shelby L. Landreth, Krishna Swaroop Desireddy, Stacia M. Dolliver, Shan Ying, Tayor Caddell, Patrick D. Slaine, Stephen L. Bearne, Darryl Falzarano, Jennifer A. Corcoran, Denys A. Khapserskyy, Craig McCormick | Thiopurines inhibit coronavirus Spike protein processing and incorporation into progeny virions | Dalhousie University | Antivirals |
64 | Prairie Room | Erin Brintnell | Art Poon | Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 infection rates using phylogenetic summary statistics. | University of Western Ontario | Virus Evolution and Ecology |
65 | Prairie Room | Estelle Samaraweera | Taylor Caddell, Dr. Craig McCormick | Investigating the host UFMylation pathway in influenza virus infection | Dalhousie University | Virus - Host Interactions |
66 | Prairie Room | Ethan Jansen | Magen E, Francis, Brittany Thivierge, Alyson A. Kelvin | Characterization of human seasonal and severe coronavirus infection in Syrian hamsters | Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) and University of Saskatchewan | Virus - Host Interactions |
67 | Prairie Room | Ethan Thomas | Bruce W. Banfield | A Role for the HSV Tegument Protein pUL21 in Retention of Viral Genomes Within Capsids | Queen’s University | Fundamental Virology |
68 | Prairie Room | Eva Nagy | Yanlong Pei, Emine Ozsahin, Hedi Zhu, Rob Kozak, Leonardo Susta, Sarah Wootton, Peter Krell | Construction and characterization of intra-species and inter-species hexon chimeric fowl adenovirus 9 | Univesity of Guelph | Putting Viruses to Work |
69 | Prairie Room | Francisca Cristi Muñoz | Mary Hitt, Maya Shmulevitz | Understanding the mechanism of Super Virus 5, an improved oncolytic reovirus mutant | University of Alberta | Putting Viruses to Work |
70 | Prairie Room | Francis Mwimanzi | Fatima Yaseen, Hope Lapointe, Peter K. Cheung, Yurou Sang, Gisele Umviligihozo, Rebecca Kalikawe, Sneha Datwani, F. Harrison Omondi, Laura Burns, Landon Young, Victor Leung4, Olga Agafitei, Siobhan Ennis, Simran Basra, Li Yi Lim, Kurtis Ng, Ralph Pantophlet, Chanson J. Brumme, Julio S.G. Montaner, Natalie Prystajecky, Christopher Lowe, Mari L. DeMarco, Daniel T. Holmes, Janet Simons, Masahiro Niikura, Marc G. Romney, Zabrina L. Brumme, Mark A. Brockman | Evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine-elicited antibody responses against variants of concern | Simon Fraser University | Vaccines |
71 | Prairie Room | Fredrick Harrison Omondi | Natalie N. Kinloch, Winnie Dong, Pragya Khadka, Yanqin Ren, Andrew Wilson, Erika Benko, Mario Ostrowski, Rebecca M. Lynch, Chanson J. Brumme, Colin Kovacs, R. Brad Jones, Guinevere Q. Lee, Zabrina L. Brumme | Genetics and dynamics of persisting and rebounding viruses in a unique case of HIV superinfection | Simon Fraser University | Virus - Host Interactions |
72 | Prairie Room | Gabriel Chamberlain | Pr. Alain Lamarre | Antigen Acquisition by Polyclonal B cells during LCMV Infection | INRS - AFSB | Virus - Host Interactions |
73 | Prairie Room | Gaëlle Grivart de Kerstart | Claudia Gilbert, Claudia Champagne, Ian Gaël Rodrigue-Gervais | A genome-wide screen uncovers a regulatory role for mitochondrial mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase in RNA virus induced pyroptosis | Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Armand Frappier | Virus - Host Interactions |
74 | Prairie Room | Gaurav Malik | Dr. Yan Zhou | DUSP11 favors influenza A virus replication through negative regulation of nuclear RIG-I pathway | University of Saskatchewan | Antivirals |
75 | Prairie Room | Gerardo Balderas Figueroa | Simmone D’Souza, Maulik D Badmalia, Sara Balderas Figueroa, Zachary E Robinson, Carla S Coffin, Trushar R Patel | Advances in the development of a therapeutic candidate against a novel G-quadruplex region in HBV cccDNA | University of Lethbridge | Antivirals |
76 | Prairie Room | Gisele Umviligihozo | Jaclyn K. Mann, Steven W. Jin, Francis M. Mwimanzi, Hanwei Sudderuddin, Hua-Shiuan A. Hsieh, Zabrina L. Brumme, Mark A. Brockman | Evidence of attenuated HIV-1 Nef but not Vpu function in a cohort of Rwandan long-term survivors | Simon Fraser University | Virus - Host Interactions |
78 | Prairie Room | Hai Nguyen | Darryl Falzarano, Volker Gerdts, Qiang Liu | Construction of a non-infectious SARS-CoV-2 replicon with luciferase reporter | Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan | Emerging Pathogens |
77 | Prairie Room | Hai Nguyen | Darryl Falzarano, Volker Gerdts, Qiang Liu | SARS-CoV-2 virus-like particle produced in BacMam system and its immunogenicity in mice | Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan | Vaccines |
79 | Prairie Room | Hannah L. Wallace | Cassandra L. Gardner, Rodney S. Russell | The Inflammasome Next Door: Understanding the Role of Bystander Pyroptosis during Hepatitis C Virus Infection | Memorial University | Virus - Host Interactions |
80 | Prairie Room | Heather Amsden | Dr. Che C. Colpitts, Dr. Katrina Gee | IL-27 inhibition of pandemic influenza A virus infection is regulated in part by type I IFNs. | Queen's University | Virus - Host Interactions |
82 | Prairie Room | Helen Stillwell | Ryan Noyce, Landon Westfall, Siobhan Fogerty, Karen Gilbert, Onesmo Mpanju, Jose Esparza, Fustaka Koide, David Evans, and Seth Lederman | Synthetic Chimeric Horsepox Virus (scHPXV) Vaccination Protects Macaques from Monkeypox | Tonix Pharmaceuticals | Vaccines |
81 | Prairie Room | Helen Stillwell | Ryan Noyce, Landon Westfall, Siobhan Fogerty, Karen Gilbert, Onesmo Mpanju, Jose Esparza, Fustaka Koide, David Evans, and Seth Lederman | Synthetic Chimeric Horsepox Virus (scHPXV) Vaccination Protects Macaques from Monkeypox | Tonix Pharmaceuticals | Vaccines |
83 | Prairie Room | Hery Lee | Laura J. Stevens, Andrea J. Pruijssers, Hery W. Lee,* Calvin J. Gordon, Egor P. Tchesnokov, Jennifer Gribble, Amelia S. George, Tia M. Hughes, Xiaotao Lu, Jiani Li, Jason K. Perry, Danielle P. Porter, Tomas Cihlar, Timothy P. Sheahan, Ralph S. Baric, Matthias Götte, and Mark R. Denison | Mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 RNA dependent RNA polymerase confer resistance to remdesivir by distinct mechanisms. | University of Alberta | Antivirals |
84 | Prairie Room | Hiatem Abofayed | Hussain Syed, Mandana Rahbari, Dr. Andrew Mason | Construction of an interferon-gamma release assay to measure cellular immune responses to human betaretrovirus infection in primary biliary cholangitis, breast cancer and other Idiopathic diseases | University of Alberta | Virus - Host Interactions |
85 | Prairie Room | Hua-Shiuan Amy Hsieh | Kai Qin, Anju Bansal,Gisele Umviligihozo, Francis M. Mwimanzi, Paul A. Goepfert, Mark A. Brockman | Functional assessment of unconventional HLA-E restricted T cell receptors against HIV-1 | Simon Fraser University | Virus - Host Interactions |
86 | Prairie Room | Hussain Syed | Emma Zwaigenbaum, Dimple Patel, Mary Erickson, Richard Pencek, Andrew L. Mason. | Identification of TCR-VB skewing in Primary Biliary Cholangitis: Is there evidence for Human Betaretrovirus encoded Viral Superantigen activity? | University of Alberta | Virus - Host Interactions |
87 | Prairie Room | Ian Rodrigue-Gervais | Paulin Vanié, Claudia Champagne, Gaëlle Grivart, Ian Gaël Rodrigue-Gervais | HTRA2 mitochondria-based regulation of macrophage cell fate during Influenza A virus infection | Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Université du Québec | Virus - Host Interactions |
88 | Prairie Room | Ilena Benoit | Renee Douville, Alberto Civetta | Transgenic Drosophila as a model of Endogenous Retrovirus K-driven motor neuron disease | The University of Winnipeg / Albrechtsen Research Center | Antivirals |
89 | Prairie Room | Isaac Ellmen | (not set) | Using shared mutations for estimating SARS-CoV-2 variant abundances in wastewater sequencing data | University of Waterloo | Virus Evolution and Ecology |
90 | Prairie Room | Isabella Pellizzari-Delano | Nicole Coman, Che C. Colpitts | Characterizing the role of IFNgamma-inducible guanylate binding proteins in restricting coronavirus replication. | Queen's University | Antivirals |
91 | Prairie Room | James Nieman | Alexandr Belovodskiy, Bing Bai, Appan Srinivas Kandadai, Mostofa Hena, Elena Arutyunova, Muhammad Bashir Khan, Jimmy Lu, Michael A. Joyce, Holly A. Saffran, Justin A. Shields, D. Lorne Tyrrell, M. Joanne Lemieux | Improving the metabolic stability of SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease inhibitors to identify a next generation COVID-19 drug | Li Ka Shing Applied Virology Institute, University of Alberta | Antivirals |
101 | Glacier Room | Jelili Mustapha | Dr. Vanessa Meier-Stephenson | Biophysical study of Specificity protein 1 (Sp1) with Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) pre-core promoter G4-quadruplex: a key transcriptional complex | University of Alberta | Antivirals |
102 | Glacier Room | Jianing Dong | Patrick Paszkowski, Michele M. Barry, and Robert J. Ingham | Complete deletion of Ectromelia virus p28 impairs virus genome replication in a mouse strain, cell type, multiplicity of infection-dependent manner | University of Alberta | Virus - Host Interactions |
103 | Glacier Room | Jibin Sadasivan | Jibin Sadasivan, Marli Vlok, Xinying Wang, Arabinda Nayak, Raul Andino and Eric Jan | When proteins go viral: A viral protein impairs stress granule formation by modulating RanBP2/Nup358 | University of British Columbia | Virus - Host Interactions |
104 | Glacier Room | Jimena Perez-Vargas | Tirosh Shapira, Connor Thompson, Ivan Villanueva, Siobhan Ennis, Olga Agafitei, Masahiro Niikura, Paul Levett, Mel Krajden, Samira Mubareka, Pei-Yong Shi, Andrea Olmstead, Raymond Andersen, François Jean | High-throughput Natural Product Screen Identifies Novel Broad Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Infection in Human Lung Epithelial Cells | University of British Columbia, Life Sciences Institute | Antivirals |
105 | Glacier Room | Jimmy Lu | Sizhu Amelia Chen, Muhammad Bashir Khan, Raelynn Brassard, Elena Arutyunova, Tess Lamer, Wayne Vuong, Conrad Fischer, Howard S. Young, John C. Vederas, M. Joanne Lemieux | Crystallization of feline coronavirus Mpro with GC376 reveals mechanism of inhibition | University of Alberta | Antivirals |
106 | Glacier Room | Joanne Lemieux | Jimmy Lu1,2, M Bashir Khan1, Elena Arutyunova1,2, Sizhu Chen1,2, Jegan Iyyathurai1,2, Alexandr Belovodskiy2,4, Bing Bai,2,4 Appan Srinivas Kandadai2,4, Mostofa Hena2,4 Wayne Vuong5, Tess Lamer5, Holly A Saffran2,3, Justin A Shields2,3, Michael Joyce2,3, John Vederas5, Howard, Young1, Lorne Tyrrell2,3,4, James Nieman2,4, M. Joanne Lemieux1,2 | Structural studies facilitate antiviral drug development targeting the SARS-CoV-2 main protease | University of Alberta | Antivirals |
107 | Glacier Room | Joaquin Lopez-Orozco | Nawell Fayad, Tania Strilets, Alberto Felix-Lopez, Mohamed Elaish, Ray Ishida, Jamie Cole, Jack Moore, Shu Luo, Olivier Julien, Anil Kumar & Tom C. Hobman. | SARS-CoV-2 interactome in the context of infection reveals novel virus-host peroxisomal protein networks. | University of Alberta | Virus - Host Interactions |
108 | Glacier Room | Jocelyne Lew | (not set) | Transfer of maternal SARS-CoV-2 immunity in hamsters – a case report | VIDO, University of Saskatchewan | Emerging Pathogens |
109 | Glacier Room | John Law | (not set) | HCV vaccine is effective against viruses escaping broadly neutralising monoclonal antibodies | Ualberta | Vaccines |
110 | Glacier Room | John Mamatis | Taylor B. Walsh, Che C. Colpitts | Cyclophilin inhibitors enhance cell-autonomous antiviral immunity to inhibit coronavirus infection | Queen's University | Virus - Host Interactions |
111 | Glacier Room | Jonathan Burnie | Arvin T. Persaud, Shubeen Ahmed, Timothy Lee, Vera A. Tang, Christina Guzzo | Enhancing the utility of flow virometry techniques to phenotype the surface of HIV-1 virions | University of Toronto Scarborough | Fundamental Virology |
112 | Glacier Room | Joseph Kobina Sampson Duncan | Joseph K. Sampson Duncan, Danyang Xu, Maria Licursi, Jin Gohda, Yasushi Kawaguchi and Kensuke Hirasawa] | Antiviral roles of interferon regulatory factor (IRF)-1, 3 and 7 against human coronavirus infection | Memorial University of Newfoundland | Antivirals |
113 | Glacier Room | Joshua De Guzman | Rory Long, Jason Gravett, Tirosh Shapira, Connor AH Thompson, Natalie C. J. Strynadka, Artem Cherkasov, François Jean | Discovery of 3-chymotrypsin-like viral protease inhibitors as potential anti-SARS-CoV-2 agents | Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia | Antivirals |
114 | Glacier Room | Judy Yuanyuan Qiu | Bonita E. Lee, Xiaoli Pang | Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in stool samples from the patients associated with acute gastroenteritis | University of Alberta | Emerging Pathogens |
115 | Glacier Room | Jun Li (Suzy) Wang | Ryan Noyce, Shae Komant, Nicole Favis, Troy Baldwin, David Evans | Engineering oncolytic Vaccinia virus to deliver MHC I-vectored tumour antigens | University of Alberta | Putting Viruses to Work |
116 | Glacier Room | Justine Kniert | Theodore dos Santos, Greg Plummer, Woo Jung Cho, and Maya Shmulevitz | Reovirus assembly is spatially and temporally segregated | University of Alberta | Fundamental Virology |
117 | Glacier Room | Juveriya Qamar Khan | Karthic Rajamanickam, Yue Zhang, Frederick S Vizeacoumar, Kalpana Bhanumathy, Megha Rohamare, Jocelyne Lew, Darryl Falzarano, Franco J Vizeacoumar, Joyce Wilson | Understanding essential SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interactions using a novel lung cell NCI-H23ACE2 to highlight potential drug targets for COVID-19 | University of Saskatchewan | Virus - Host Interactions |
118 | Glacier Room | Karyn Berry-Wynne | Michael Joyce, Holly Bandi, Lorne Tyrrell | RNA VIRUSES HIJACK NUCLEAR PORE COMPONENTS DURING INFECTION | Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta | Virus - Host Interactions |
119 | Glacier Room | Kaushal Baid | Joseph Darbellay, Shreoshri Bhattacharjee, Jessica Luc, Daniel Richard, Jennifer Aguiar, Damilola-Oluwa Adeniyi, Victoria Gonzalez, Karen Mossman, Terence Capellini, Andrew Doxey, Linda Chelico, Volker Gerdts, Arinjay Banerjee | TRIM5α-like molecule in Eptesicus fuscus bats potently restricts HIV-1 replication | Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan | Virus - Host Interactions |