POSTERS
| Poster # | Room | Name | Co-Author(s) | Abstract Title | Organization | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 35 | Aurora Room | Dan Boghici | Nishi H. Patel, Micol Rava, Matteo Iannacone, Konstantin Koro, Craig N. Jenne, Carla Osiowy, Carla S. Coffin | Evaluating the Th1 response in an in vivo mouse model of hepatitis B and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease | University of Calgary | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 72 | Prairie Room | Gabriel Chamberlain | Pr. Alain Lamarre | Antigen Acquisition by Polyclonal B cells during LCMV Infection | INRS - AFSB | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 29 | Aurora Room | Casey Wong | Qi Feng Lin, Heather Eaton, Maya Shmulevitz | Characterizing Reovirus' Adaptation to Laboratory Cell Culture Environments | University of Alberta | Fundamental Virology |
| 9 | Aurora Room | Amit Gaba | Quinlan Carter, Shreoshri Bhattacharjee, Linda Chelico | HIV-1 Transmitted Founder Virus Vif Proteins Have Variable Abilities To Induce Degradation Of APOBEC3 Retroviral Restriction Factors | University of Saskatchewan | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 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 |
| 126 | Glacier Room | Layla Al-Yasiri | Rachelle P. Davis, Simmone D’souza, Trushar R. Patel, Frank van der Meer, Douglas Whiteside, Thomas Michalak, Craig Jenne, Carla S. Coffin | Characterization of host-virus interactions during acute Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus infection by intravital imaging in the WHV-Woodchuck model of viral hepatitis | University of Calgary | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 15 | Aurora Room | Anneliese von Eicken | Rhiannon A. E. Logan (First Author)1,2, Shannon Quek1, Joseph N. Muthoni1, Anneliese von Eicken3#, Laura E. Brettel1,4, Enyia R. Anderson1, Marcus E.N. Villena3, Shivanand Hegde1, Grace T. Patterson5, Eva Heinz1,3, Grant L. Hughes1, Edward I. Patterson1,3* | Vertical and horizontal transmission of cell fusing agent virus and screening of pupae exuviae in laboratory Aedes aegypti colonies. | Brock University | Virus Evolution and Ecology |
| 141 | Glacier Room | Mariya Goncheva | Richard M. Gibson, Ainslie C. Shouldice, Jimmy D. Dikeakos, David E Heinrichs | Staphylococcus aureus enhances Severe Acquired Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2) replication | The University of Western Ontario | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 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 |
| 175 | Maple Leaf Room | Noga Sharlin | Rory P. Mulloy, Danyel Evseev, Jennifer A. Corcoran | Analysis of the domains of the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein required for processing body disassembly | University of Calgary | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 160 | Maple Leaf Room | Michelle Chen | Rupali Walia, Stephanie Besoiu, Markus Czub, Craig Jenne, Guido van Marle | Exploring SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Candidates to Induce T-Cell Immunity | University of Calgary | Vaccines |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 156 | Maple Leaf Room | Melanie Folkins | Ryley D. McClelland, Quinten Kieser, Leanne M. Bilawchuk, and David J. Marchant | Extracellular Vesicles Package RSV Virions that Protect Infectivity of the Virus in the Environment | University of Alberta | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 157 | Maple Leaf Room | Michael D'Agostino | Sam Afkhami | Development and application of a next-generation mucosal single-dose COVID-19 vaccine | McMaster University | Vaccines |
| 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 |
| 151 | Maple Leaf Room | Marylin Rheault | Selena M. Sagan | Zooming in on the host-virus interaction between hepatitis C virus and miR-122 | McGill University | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 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 |
| 162 | Maple Leaf Room | Michelle Love | Shahina Wähler, Richard Leigh, David Proud | Investigating the transcriptional regulation and function of viperin in rhinovirus infected airway epithelial cells | University of Calgary | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 130 | Glacier Room | Logan Banadyga | Shihua He, Karla Emeterio, Kevin Tierney, Guodong Liu, Wenguang Cao, Logan Banadyga | Atypical Ebola Virus Disease in Ferrets Treated with Monoclonal Antibodies | Public Health Agency of Canada | Emerging Pathogens |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 10 | Aurora Room | Amy Du | Steven Zimmerly, Michael Hynes | The phage resistance mechanism of Abortive Infection K in Lactococcus lactis | University of Calgary | Antivirals |
| 3 | Aurora Room | Alan Cochrane | Subha Dahal, Ran Cheng, Peter K Cheung, Terek Been, Ramy Malty, Melissa Geng, Sarah Manianis, Lulzim Shkreta, Shahrazad Jahanshahi, Johanne Toutant, Rose Chan, Sean Park, Mark A. Brockman , Mohan Babu, Samira Mubareka, Karen Mossman, Arinjay Banerjee, Scott Gray-Owen, Martha Brown, Walid A. Houry, Benoit Chabot, David Grierson | One pill to control them all: Identification of the thiazole-5-carboxamide GPS491 as an inhibitor of HIV-1, adenovirus, and coronavirus replication | University of Toronto | Vaccines |
| 123 | Glacier Room | Lauren Aubrey | Susan Detmer, Yan Zhou | Evaluation of cross-protection of an elastase based bivalent vaccine against emerging clinical isolates from western Canadian in swine | University of Saskatchewan | Vaccines |
| 12 | Aurora Room | Andrea Kroeker | Swarali Kulkarni, Jocelyne Lew, Ravendra Garg, Darryl Falzarano | Heterologous re-challenge with alpha and beta in hamsters induces cross-neutralizing antibodies against additional SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern | VIDO | Emerging Pathogens |
| 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 |
| 65 | Prairie Room | Estelle Samaraweera | Taylor Caddell, Dr. Craig McCormick | Investigating the host UFMylation pathway in influenza virus infection | Dalhousie University | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 177 | Maple Leaf Room | Phuc (John) Pham | Teodora Tockovska, Alexander Leacy, Melanie Iverson, Nicole Ricker, Leonardo Susta | ANALYSIS OF DUCK AND CHICKEN BRAINS TRANSCRIPTOMIC RESPONSE TO AQUATIC BIRD BORNAVIRUS-1 (ABBV-1) INFECTION | University of Guelph | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 169 | Maple Leaf Room | Nathan Markarian | Victor H. Vázquez-Valadez, Nathan M. Markarian, Kevyn Beissat, Mehdi Maury Laouedj, Alejandro Hernández-Serda, Pablo Aguirre-Vidal, Ingrid González-Tapia, Yoshio A. Alarcón-López, Ana María Velázquez-Sánchez, Paola Briseño Lugo, Enrique Angeles , Levon Abrahamyan | Validation of the Inhibitory Effect of an In-House Library of Thiomorpholine Compounds on the ACE2 Receptor and S1 Subunit of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Interaction | Université de Montréal, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), McGill University | Antivirals |
| 125 | Glacier Room | Laurent Chatel-Chaix | Wesley Freppel, Anaïs Anton, Clément Mazeaud, Zaynab Nouhi, Claudia Gilbert, Ian Gaël Rodrigue-Gervais, Andreas Pichlmaier, Pietro Scaturro, Laura Hulea | Flaviviral NS4B alters endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria contacts to regulate respiratory metabolism and virus-induced apoptosis | Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique | 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 |
| 127 | Glacier Room | Li Hao | Xin Zhao, Suresh Tikoo | Interaction of viral protein V of bovine adenovirus type-3 with cellular protein PABPC1 | VIDO-InterVac | Virus - Host Interactions |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |