Speakers
Speakers listed by session
| Name | Company / Affiliation | Job Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rafael Blasco | INIA CSIC | PhD | Role of Beta-2-Microglobulin in Vaccinia virus Internalization |
| Simon Corroyer-Dulmont | Centre for Structural Systems Biology, Leibniz Institute of Virology | PhD student | THE PALISADE LAYER OF THE POXVIRUS CORE IS COMPOSED OF FLEXIBLE A10-TRIMERS |
| Chi-Kei Kao | Academia Sinica | Postdoctoral fellow | Structural and functional studies of H2 protein in the poxviral entry fusion complex |
| Der-Lii Tzou | Institute of Chemistry/Academia Sinica | Research fellow | Structural determination of vaccinia virus fusion protein A28 and its interaction with H2 |
| Chuan Ku | Academia Sinica | Associate Research Fellow | Widespread distribution and evolution of poxviral entry-fusion complex proteins in giant viruses |
| Name | Company / Affiliation | Job Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wim Burmeister | Institut de Biologie Structurale | Professor | Structure and flexibility of the DNA polymerase holoenzyme of vaccinia virus |
| Ilaria Dalla Rosa | The Crick Institute | Senior scientist | Topoisomerase 2 alpha, but not 2 beta promotes Vaccinia DNA replication |
| Rob Ingham | University of Alberta | Associate Professor | Elucidating poxvirus interactions with the host cell ubiquitin-proteasome system |
| Tim Newsome Newsome | University of Sydney | Associate Professor | Large-scale single cell analysis of vaccinia virus infection and replication |
| Zhilong Yang | Texas A & M University | Principal Investigator | Vaccinia virus decapping enzyme D10 and mitochondria: A surprise marriage! |
| Name | Company / Affiliation | Job Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Alejo-Herberg | CISA | Dr | African swine fever virus transmembrane protein pEP84R guides core assembly |
| Miguel Hernandez Gonzalez | The Francis Crick Institute | Postdoctoral fellow | A succession of two viral lattices drives vaccinia virus assembly |
| Yakin Jaleta | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | MD/PhD Student | Unveiling the Molecular Mechanisms of Orthopoxvirus Enveloped Virion Morphogenesis and Dissemination by Generating Deep Mutagenesis of vaccinia virus proteins A33 and A34 |
| Michael Way | The Crick Institute | Principal Investigator | Kinesin-1 drives motility of intracellular mature virions during Vaccinia infection and in vitro |
| Name | Company / Affiliation | Job Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isabel García-Dorival | INIA-CSIC | Fellow | Elucidation of the Cellular Interactome of African Swine Fever Virus Fusion Proteins and Identification of Potential Therapeutic Targets |
| Paul Gershon | UC Irvine | Professor | Vaccinia major structural protein P4a: Pathway of processing, conformational rearrangement and and higher order assembly inferred by chemical crosslinking-guided protein structure prediction |
| Crystal Gigante Gigante | CDC | Microbiologist | Multiple lineages of monkeypox virus detected in the United States, 2021- 2022 |
| Natalia Khalatyan Khalatyan | Northwestern University | Graduate Student | Specialized ribosomes during poxvirus infection |
| Preetam Parija | University of Surrey | Ph.D. student | A role for the E3 ligase FBXO22 in antiviral immunity and its antagonism by orthopoxviruses |
| Martin Potts | University of Cambridge | PhD Student | Comprehensive quantitative temporal proteomic, transcriptomic and interactome analysis of mpox |
| Name | Company / Affiliation | Job Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dustin Hancks | UT Southwestern Medical Center | Assistant Professor | Potent restriction of vaccinia virus by conserved ISG subprograms invoked by macronutrients |
| Megan McCaughan | Arizona State University | Graduate Student | Unveiling the Role of Z-RNA in Induction of Necroptosis: Macro-molecular Interactions During Virus and Oxidative Stress |
| Nathan Meade | Northwestern University | Post-doctoral Researcher | The F17 protein counteracts host responses to late stages of poxvirus replication |
| Anak Agung Dewi Megawati Megawati | University of California, Davis | Postdoc | Tanapox virus and Yaba monkey tumor virus K3 orthologs show distinctive inhibition patterns of protein kinase R (PKR) from various primates |
| Daniel Pérez-Núñez | Centro Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBSO-CSIC) | Dr | Identification of new African swine fever virus genes involved in IFN-I control as potential new virulence factors. |
| Yan Xiang | University of Texas Health San Antonio | Professor | Human SAMD9 is a Poxvirus-Activatable Anticodon Nuclease Inhibiting Codon-Specific Protein Synthesis |
| Name | Company / Affiliation | Job Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Don Gammon | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Principal Investigator | Poxvirus A51R Proteins Antagonize Microtubule Dynamics, Intracellular Transport, and Cell-Intrinsic Restrictions in Macrophages Using a Tau-Like Motif |
| Alexandria Krueger | University of Nebraska - Lincoln | Postdoctoral Scholar | The poxviral B12 pseudokinase targets the cellular VRK1 kinase and dysregulates interferon-induced gene expression through subversion of host BAF and cGAS responses to DNA |
| Jia Liu Liu | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology | Myxoma virus M062R-null mutant induced a unique pro-inflammatory state in human monocyte/macrophages |
| Sha Tao | HHU | Dr. | Autophagy in myeloid cells is essential to generate protective CD8+ T cell memory in viral infection |
| Zhilong Yang | Texas A& M Univesity | PI | Vaccinia virus growth factor-mediated signaling pathway stimulates ATP citrate lyase phosphorylation and enhances neutral lipid biosynthesis |
| Junda Zhu | China Agricultural University | Postdoctoral Fellow | Human FAM111A inhibits vaccinia virus replication by degrading viral protein I3 and is antagonized by poxvirus host range factor SPI-1 |
| Name | Company / Affiliation | Job Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ralf Amann | University Hospital Tuebingen | Principal Investigator | An Orf Virus-based Vaccine Platform Overcomes Anti-Vector Immunity, Facilitating Effective Booster Vaccinations and Enhancing Cellular and Humoral Immunity |
| Giuseppe Andreacchio | Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf | PhD student | A novel MVA-based vaccine against Chlamydia trachomatis elicits potent T cell response in HLA transgenic mice. |
| Alec Freyn | Moderna | Senior Scientist | Development of a quadrivalent mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccine to elicit cross-reactive immune responses against diverse Orthopoxviruses |
| Juan Garcia Arriaza García-Arriaza | Centro Nacional de Biotecnología | Research scientist. PhD. | MVA-based vaccine candidates against COVID-19 expressing SARS-CoV-2 S protein trigger robust immunogenicity and complete efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 infection in various animal models |
| Ingo Jordan | ProBioGen AG | VP Vaccine Strategies | Insertion of an innate immunity factor into the inverted terminal repeats for rapid selection of double-copy recombinant MVA-CR19 |
| Prof. Dr. Asisa Volz | Institute of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover | Prof. Dr. | Stabilized recombinant SARS-CoV-2 spike antigen enhances vaccine immunogenicity and protective capacity |
| Name | Company / Affiliation | Job Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alasdair Hood | University of Surrey | PhD Student | Self-adjuvanting MVA encoding a functional copy of cGAS enhances activation of innate immunity |
| Bertram Jacobs | Arizona State University | Principal Investigator | Replication-competent NYVAC-KC vector expressing modified spike protein and administered by intranasal route or by scarification protects against mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 in mice |
| Amy MacNeill | Colorado State University | Principal Investigator | Blocking interferon-α promotes myxoma virus replication in canine cells, but JAK1 inhibition does not improve outcome in myxoma virus treated dogs with sarcoma |
| Luis Sigal Sigal | Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Microbiology and Immunology | Professor and Vice-Chair for Research | CD8 T-cell mRNA-LNP vaccines do not require CD4 T-cell help to protect from poxvirus disease |
| Nathalie Silvestre | Transgene | Head of Vectorology laboratory | TG4050, a personalized neoantigen MVA vaccine in head and neck and ovarian cancer |
| Name | Company / Affiliation | Job Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Carro | University of Pennsylvania | Graduate Student | Ectromelia C15: a potent orthopox virulence factor that targets both innate and adaptive immunity |
| Don Gammon | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Assistant Professor | Poxvirus A51R Proteins Counter a Novel FACT-ETS-1 Antiviral Response (FEAR) Pathway |
| Guna Karupiah Karupiah | University of Tasmania | Associate Professor | Replication-competent, but not replication-poor, orthopoxvirus infection induces robust neutralising antibody responses due to high rates of somatic hypermutations and antibody affinity maturation |
| Jia Liu | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology | Host SAMD9 protein promotes PKR dependent eIF2alpha phosphorylation that is inhibited by myxoma virus infection. |
| Daniel Pérez-Núñez | Centro Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBSO-CSIC) | Dr | Molecular determinants of African swine fever virus hemadsorption and virulence |
| Luis Sigal | Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Microbiology and Immunology | Professor and Vice-Chair for Research | The NF-κB binding site in the Ifnb1 gene promoter is indispensable for resistance to ectromelia virus infection |
| Name | Company / Affiliation | Job Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isabel Alonso Sánchez | Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBMSO) - CSIC | PhD Student | TNF inhibitory activity of the TNF receptor CrmB from mpox virus isolates |
| Carlos Maluquer de Motes | University of Surrey | Dr | STING Agonism Abrogates Monkeypox Virus Replication |
| Jacqueline Williams | Arizona State University | Post-doc | Monkeypox/Mpox Virus: The Battle Between Necroptosis Inhibition and the Antiviral Innate Response. |
| Nhien Wynn | Centers for Disease Control | Microbiologist | Phenotypic testing for tecovirimat resistance during the 2022 mpox outbreak |
| P.S. Satheshkumar | CDC | Microbiologist | Inhibition of vaccinia virus L1 N-myristoylation by the host N-myristoyltransferase inhibitor IMP-1088 generates non-infectious virions defective in cell entry |
| Audrey Matheny | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Microbiologist | In vitro and in vivo evaluation of monoclonal antibodies against orthopoxviruses |
| Francisco Javier Álvarez-de Miranda | Centro Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBMSO) - CSIC | PhD Student | Development of poxvirus-inspired soluble IFN-I decoy receptors |
| Name | Company / Affiliation | Job Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laura Ashton | Colorado State University | Research Associate | Localization of Walleye Dermal Sarcoma Virus OrfC in tumor cells lines infected with myxoma virus expressing OrfC |
| Shanza Baseer Tariq | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Research Technician | Elucidating the role of type I IFN in recombinant oncolytic vaccinia-induced antitumor immunity |
| Liang Deng | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Associate Member/Associate Attending | IL-12-expressing highly immunogenic recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara reprograms tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells to overcome immune resistance |
| Ryan Noyce | University of Alberta | Assistant Professor | Exploring novel virus-host interactions to emerging poxviruses and the development of next-generation virus-vectored vaccines |
| Name | Company / Affiliation | Job Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pip Beard | Keele University | Professor | Defining the role of insect vectors Aedes aegypti, Stomoxys calcitrans, and Culicoides nubeculosus in the transmission of lumpy skin disease |
| Laure Bosquillon de Jarcy | Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin | Postdoctoral Fellow | MPOX Virus Infects Human PBMCs in a Type I Interferon-Sensitive Manner |
| Cécile HERATE | CEA IDMIT | Researcher | Investigation of Monkeypox virus infection and sexual transmission in Cynomolgus macaque |
| Stefan Rothenburg | UC Davis | Associate Professor | Diverse inhibition profiles of protein kinase R antagonists from various cowpox viruses |
| Lisa-Marie Schünemann | University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation | Dr. | Development of a preclinical model for human mpox disease using skin scarification in CAST/Eij |
| Name | Company / Affiliation | Job Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Doty | CDC | Biologst | Zoonotic sources of Alaskapox virus |
| Christina Hutson | CDC | Chief Poxvirus and Rabies Branch/ PhD | An Overview of Smallpox Tools Utilized For Mpox and CDC Laboratory Efforts During the Outbreak |
| Jason Kindrachuk | University of Manitoba | Associate Professor; Canada Research Chair | A prospective and retrospective multi-center, cohort study for surveillance, clinical characterization and determination of relative vaccine effectiveness for mpox virus by IMReC |
| Todd Smith Smith | CDC | Microbiologist | Validation of a novel, lethal, small-animal model of smallpox |
| Chathura Suraweera | Australian National University | Post doctoral Fellow | Monkeypox virus C7L is a Bcl-2-fold protein that binds human pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins |