POSTERS
| Booth # | Room | Name | Co-Author(s) | Abstract Title | Organization | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 179 | Maple Leaf Room | Quiana Ang | Ralph Pantophlet | An in vitro virus assay platform to screen and categorize cross-reactive anti-CMV/glycoprotein B neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) | Simon Fraser University | Vaccines |
| 180 | Maple Leaf Room | Quiana Ang | Manjot Sidhu, Ralph Pantophlet | A pseudovirus assay platform to evaluate HCMV neutralizing antibodies | Simon Fraser University | Vaccines |
| 181 | Maple Leaf Room | Quinn Abram | Selena M. Sagan | More Than an Intermediate: Unravelling the Structure of the Flavivirus Positive-Strand Promoter | McGill University | Fundamental Virology |
| 182 | Maple Leaf Room | Quinn Storozynsky | Kate C. Agopsowicz, Natalie Snyder, Ryan S. Noyce, Nicole A. Favis, Amirali Bukhari, Roseline Godbout, David H. Evans, and Mary M. Hitt | Combining an Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus with Image-Guided Radiotherapy for Improving the Treatment of Glioblastoma | University of Alberta | Putting Viruses to Work |
| 183 | Maple Leaf Room | Rachel Hayes | Carolina Camargo, Pablo Cervera, Ahmed K. Oraby, David J. Marchant, and Selena M. Sagan | Understanding RSV entry requirements by mapping RSV-F and IGF1R interactions | McGill University | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 184 | Maple Leaf Room | Raelynn Brassard | Elena Arutyunova, Joanne Lemieux | High yield expression of SARS-CoV-2 Spike RBD and human ACE2 receptor for antiviral development | University of Alberta | Antivirals |
| 185 | Maple Leaf Room | Rajesh Jacob | Ali Zhang, Michael R D'Agostino, Kuganya Nirmalarajah, Altynay Shigayeva, Wael Demian, David Bulir, Marek Smieja, Andrew G. McArthur, Allison J. McGeer, Samira Mubareka, Arinjay Banerjee, Matthew S. Miller, and Karen Mossman | SARS-CoV-2 R.1 lineage variants are sensitive to neutralizing antibodies but resistant to type I interferons | McMaster University | Emerging Pathogens |
| 186 | Maple Leaf Room | Reid Warsaba | Kyung-Mee Moon, Stephane Filbotte, Nikolay Stoynov, Leonard Foster, Eric Jan | VPg redundancy to compensate viral translation in +ssRNA virus infection | University of British Columbia | Virus Evolution and Ecology |
| 187 | Maple Leaf Room | Renee Finnen | Jamil H. Muradov, Valerie Le Sage, Bruce W. Banfield | Fine-tuning of HSV-2 Nuclear Egress by pUL21 | Queen's University | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 188 | Maple Leaf Room | Robyn Ralph | (not set) | Structural modeling of MERS-CoV spike protein and its receptor DPP4 predict an alternate animal reservoir in the order Eulipotyphla | University of Saskatchewan | Emerging Pathogens |
| 189 | Maple Leaf Room | Roger Lippé | Bita Khadivjam, Éric Bonneil, Pierre Thibault and Roger Lippé | Cellular RNA Helicase DDX3X Modulates Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Nuclear Egress | Université de Montréal | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 190 | Maple Leaf Room | Rory Mulloy | Jennifer A Corcoran | Identification and characterization of truncated nucleocapsid protein isoforms produced during SARS-CoV-2 infection. | University of Calgary | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 191 | Maple Leaf Room | Ryan Ho | Joshua Pankrac, Minh Ha Ngo, Eric Joseph Arts | A polyvalent HIV-1 virus-like particle can effectively and specifically reverse latency of CD4 T cells from chronic subtype B and D HIV-1 patients. | Western University | Vaccines |
| 192 | Maple Leaf Room | Ryan Noyce | Les P. Nagata, Nicole Favis, Megan Desaulniers, Brittany Umer, Julia May, James Lin, Mira Shenouda, Siddhartha Biwas, Chad R. Irwin, Anil Kumar, Joaquin-Lopez Orozoo, Tom Hobman, and David H. Evans | Development of a universal vaccinia virus-based vaccine platform to protect against emerging viral infections | University of Alberta, Defence R&D Canada | Vaccines |
| 194 | Maple Leaf Room | Ryley McClelland | Quinten Kieser, Tyce N. Culp, Leanne M. Bilawchuk, Lionel D. Jensen, Cameron D. Griffiths, Deanna M. Santer, Taylor Marohl, Farah Elawar, Michael Houghton, David Proud, Nathalie Grandvaux, Kevin Janes, and David J. Marchant | Sex-Dependent Enhancement of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection by Toll-Like Receptor 7 | University of Alberta | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 195 | Maple Leaf Room | Safara Holder | Maike Bossert and Bruce W. Banfield | The Identification of Cellular Molecules in Proximity to the Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Tegument Protein pUL21 | Queen's University | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 196 | Maple Leaf Room | Scott Bachus | Scott Bachus, Nikolas Akkerman, Lauren Fulham, Drayson Graves, Caelan Stephanson, Harram Memon, Matthew S Miller, Peter Pelka | Adenovirus 5 Vectors Expressing SARS-CoV-2 Proteins | University of Manitoba | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 197 | Maple Leaf Room | Sergey Yegorov | Daniel B. Celeste, Kimberly Braz Gomes, Jann C. Ang, Colin Vandenhof, Joanne Wang, Ksenia Rybkina, Vanessa Tsui, Hannah D. Stacey, Irina Kadyrova, Baurzhan Negmetzhanov, Yevgeniya Kolesnikova, Svetlana Kolesnichenko, Ilya Korshukov, Yeldar Baiken, Bakhyt Matkarimov, Gonzalo H. Hortelano, Dmitriy Babenko, Mark Loeb and Matthew S. Miller. | Exploring Associations of Vaccine-Elicited Immunity in Mucosa Versus Blood: Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccines. | McMaster University | Vaccines |
| 198 | Maple Leaf Room | Shahnas M. Najimudeen | Ishara M. Isham, Reham M. Abd-Elsalam, Mohamed S. H. Hassan, Muhammad Farooq, Hiruni Ranaweera and Mohamed Faizal Abdul-Careem | Avian corona virus, infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) replicates in primary and secondary lymphoid organs | University of Calgary | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 199 | Maple Leaf Room | Shan Ying | Denys Khaperskyy | Identification of host factors interacting with coronavirus Nsp1 using proximity proteomics | Dalhousie University | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 200 | Maple Leaf Room | Sheridan Baker | Kara K. Tsang, Shehryar Ahmad, Alanoud Aljabou, Mohammed Al Salem, Emily M. Panousis, Hooman Derakhshani, Laura Rossi, Jalees A. Nasir, Michael G. Surette, Robyn S. Lee, Dominik Mertz, Fiona Smaill, Andrew G. McArthur and Sarah Khan | SARS-CoV-2 outbreak investigation using contact tracing and whole genome sequencing in a Canadian hospital | McMaster University | Emerging Pathogens |
| 201 | Maple Leaf Room | Shreoshri Bhattacharjee | AMIT GABA, LINDA CHELICO | Examining the functional relevance of APOBEC3D and APOBEC3F hetero-oligomerization to HIV-1 restriction. | UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 202 | Maple Leaf Room | Shu Luo | Eman Moussa, Ray Ishida, Joaquin Lopez-Orozco, Alberto Felix-Lopez, Erik Gomez-Cardona, Nawell Fayad, Anil Kumar, Tom C. Hobman, Olivier Julien | Identifying SARS-CoV-2 Mpro human substrates using N-terminomics | University of Alberta | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 203 | Maple Leaf Room | Sidra Moqaddes | Jenny Hyun, Tahreem Asrar, Kim Stanford, Brenda Ralston, Tim McAllister, Dongyan Niu | Bacteriophage derived endolysins: A promising solution towards bovine respiratory diseases | University of Calgary | Putting Viruses to Work |
| 204 | Maple Leaf Room | Simmone D'souza | Maulik D. Badmalia, Gerardo Balderas Figueroa, Carla S. Coffin, Trushar R. Patel | Investigating the role of an RNA guanine-quadruplex in hepatitis C virus replication | University of Calgary | Fundamental Virology |
| 205 | Maple Leaf Room | Sizhu Amelia Chen | Elena Arutyunova, Jegan Iyyathurai, Jimmy Lu, Eman Moussa, Oliver Julien, M. Joanne Lemieux | Polymorphism in SARS-CoV-2 Nsp5 main protease reveals differences in cleavage of viral and host substrates | University of Alberta | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 206 | Maple Leaf Room | Stacia Dolliver | Stacia Dolliver, Mariel Kleer, Maxwell Bui-Marinos, Shan Ying, Jennifer A. Corcoran, and Denys A. Khaperskyy | Coronaviruses HCoV-OC43 and SARS-CoV2 limit stress granule formation to promote virus replication | Dalhousie University | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 207 | Maple Leaf Room | Stephen Lee | (not set) | Intracellular Competition Between Coinfecting Poxviruses | University of Alberta | Fundamental Virology |
| 208 | Maple Leaf Room | Steven Short | Ichiro Inamoto, Christine N. Palermo, Daphne A. Arguelles | Complex dynamics observed during viral infections of a freshwater alga | University of Toronto Mississauga | Virus Evolution and Ecology |
| 209 | Maple Leaf Room | Subha Dahal | Kiera Clayton; Tyler Cabral; Ran Cheng, David Shen; Ramy Malty; Shahrzad Jahanshahi; Walid A. Houry; Alan Cochrane | Two preys one bullet: Harmine inhibits both HIV-1 and coronavirus replication | University of Toronto | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 210 | Maple Leaf Room | Sudha Bhavanam | Bonita Lee and Xiaoli Pang1 | Detection of gastroenteritis viruses in wastewater in community during COVID-19 pandemic | University od Alberta | Fundamental Virology |
| 211 | Maple Leaf Room | Tamer Salem | Mohamed Wahba, Dina Mofed, Jihad Omran, Basem Ahmed | A safe platform for generating antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 virus and emerging viruses | University of Science and Technology at Zewail City | Vaccines |
| 212 | Maple Leaf Room | Tekeleselassie Woldemariam | Kai Slaughter2, Ursula Nosi3, Eric Donders2,4, Daniela Isaacs-Bernal4, Chang Xue2, Timothy Cheung5, Jocelyne Lew1, Amy Wong6, Brian Cox2, Molly Shoichet2,4,6, Darryl Falzarano1,7. 1Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), University of Saskatchewan 2Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto 3Department of Physiology, University of Toronto 4Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto 5Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto 6SickKids Research Institute 7Department of Veterinary Microbiology, University of Saskatchewan | In vitro efficacy of small interfering RNA in blocking SARS-CoV-2 replication | University of Saskatchewan, VIDO | Antivirals |
| 213 | Maple Leaf Room | Thalia Katsademas | Mariel Kleer, Jennifer A Corcoran | The KSHV kaposin transcript antagonizes antiviral signaling | University of Calgary | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 214 | Maple Leaf Room | Trinity Franklin | Alexa Wilson, Craig McCormick | Investigating the effects of KSHV host shutoff on the unfolded protein response | Dalhousie University | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 215 | Maple Leaf Room | Trinity Tooley | Brett A. Duguay, Orlando Sosa Diaz, Craig McCormick. | Development of a new HCoV-OC43 reverse genetics system in yeast | Dalhousie University | Fundamental Virology |
| 216 | Maple Leaf Room | Tyce Culp | (not set) | Nucleolin is an immune-scavenging viral receptor. | University of Alberta | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 217 | Maple Leaf Room | Vahid Zadeh | Kroeker AL, McCarthy M, Benlarbi M, Singh R, Ralph R, Tralnberg J, Lew J, Dillon JR, White A, Côté M, Falzarano D. | Adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 in ferrets alters tissue tropism leading to virus replication in the lungs | Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization | Emerging Pathogens |
| 218 | Maple Leaf Room | Victoria Gonzalez | Vaidehee Lanke, Kaushal Baid, Akarin Asavajaru, Linfa Wang, Arinjay Banerjee | Differential antiviral kinetics may explain the coronavirus reservoir status of bat species | Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, Univeristy of Saskatchewan | Antivirals |
| 219 | Maple Leaf Room | Vithushan Surendran | Jonathan Mapletoft, Peter Zheng, Andrew Chen, Matthew Miller | Senataxin is Involved in Generating Antibody Diversity through Class Switch Recombination in B-cells | McMaster University | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 220 | Maple Leaf Room | W. Austin Guild | Radeesha Jayewickreme, Tianyang Mao, William Philbrick, Yong Kong, Rebecca Treger, Peiwen Lu, Tasfia Rakib, Huiping Dong, May Dang-Lawson, Tatiana J. Lau, W. Austin Guild, Akiko Iwasaki, and Maria Tokuyama. | Endogenous Retroviruses Provide Protection Against Vaginal HSV-2 Disease | University of British Columbia | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 221 | Maple Leaf Room | Xiaoli Pang | Xiaoli Pang*, Tiejun Gao, Erik Ellehoj, Qiaozhi Li, Yuanyuan Qiu, Rasha Maal-Bared, Christopher Sikora, Graham Tipples; Mathew Diggle, Deena Hinshaw, Nicholas J. Ashbolt, James Talbot, Steve E. Hrudey, Bonita E. Lee | Wastewater-based surveillance is a reliable tool for trending COVID-19 prevalence in communities – A study of 10 major communities for 17 months in Alberta | Alberta Precision Laboratory -APL | Emerging Pathogens |
| 222 | Maple Leaf Room | Xu Zhang | Xu Zhang, Christine Zhang, David L. Dai, Jun Luo, Reese Ladak, Qian Li, Shane Wiebe, Alex C.H. Liu, Xiaozhuo Ran, Jiaqi Yang, Parisa Naeli, Aitor Garzia, Lele Zhou, Niaz Mahmood, Qiyun Deng, Mohamed Elaish, Rongtuan Lin, Tom Hobman, Jerry Pelletier, Tommy Alain, Silvia Vidal, Thomas Duchaine, Mohammad T. Mazhab-Jafari, Xiaojuan Mao, Seyed Mehdi Jafarnejad and Nahum Sonenberg | SARS-CoV-2 impairs interferon production via NSP2-induced repression of mRNA translation | McGILL UNIVERSITY | Antivirals |
| 223 | Maple Leaf Room | Yaima Burgher-Pulgaron | Chantale Provost, Carl A. Gagnon | Comparison of gene expression profiles of NPTr-CD163 cells single-infected and co-infected with PCV2b and PRRSV | Université de Montreal | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 224 | Maple Leaf Room | Yannick Galipeau | Yannick Galipeau, Vinayakumar Siragam,Genevieve Laroche , Erika Marion , Matthew Greig , Michaeline McGuinty , Ronald A Booth , Yves Durocher , Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf, Steffany A.L. Bennetta , Angela M. Crawley, Patrick M. Giguere, Curtis Cooper , Marc-Andre Langlois | Relative Ratios of Human Seasonal Coronavirus Antibodies Predict the Efficiency of Cross-Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Binding to ACE2 | University of Ottawa | Emerging Pathogens |
| 225 | Maple Leaf Room | Y-C James Lin | David H. Evans | Generating marker-free recombinant vaccinia virus with resistance to ST-246 | University of Alberta | Antivirals |
| 226 | Maple Leaf Room | Yihang Chen | Jodi Chien, Jing Wen, Eric Jan | A surprising atypical viral internal ribosome entry site and a programmed frameshifting element in a novel RNA virus | University of British Columbia | Fundamental Virology |
| 227 | Maple Leaf Room | Yiying Zhang | (not set) | Understanding the Viral and Host Transmission Fitness Factors Associated with Different Modes of HIV-1 Subtype B Transmission | Western University | Fundamental Virology |
| 228 | Maple Leaf Room | Yorjagis Mendez Cortina | (not set) | Characterization of B cells subsets and neutralizing antibodies in COVID-19 patients up to 1 month | Univerdad de Antioquia | Emerging Pathogens |
| 229 | Maple Leaf Room | Yunyun Di | Yunyun Di, Jocelyne M. Lew, Una Goncin, Anna Radomska, Saurav S. Rout, Bridget E.T. Gray, Steven Machtaler, Darryl Falzarano, Kerry J. Lavender | SARS-CoV-2 variant specific infectivity and immune profiles are detectable in a humanized lung mouse model | University of Saskatchewan | Emerging Pathogens |