Preliminary program

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8:30  
9:00 Session A: PARTICLES AND ENTRY - 1.
Chair: David Rowlands.
Keynote lecture. James M. Hogle: A hybrid structural approach for characterizing picornavirus entry.


A1. Tobias Tuthill: Recombinant VP4 of human rhinovirus 16 induces myristate-dependent membrane permeability in intact liposomes.
A2. Chris Bull: Characterisation of the enterovirus type 70 receptor and entry pathways.
A3. Terry Jackson: Foot-and-mouth disease virus forms a highly stable, EDTA-resistant complex with its principle receptor, integrin alpha-v/beta6.
A4. Outi Lipiäinen: Interactions of coxsackievirus A9 with soluble and cell-bound alpha-v-beta3 and alpha-v-beta6 integrins.
9:15
9:30
9:45
10:00
10:15
10:30 Coffee break
10:45  
11:00 Session B: PARTICLES AND ENTRY - 2.
Chair: Dieter Blaas.
Keynote lecture. Gerardo Kaplan: The Hepatitis A virus receptor family and the mouse TIM orthologs; a complex story of multiple ligands and functions.

B1. Merja Roivainen: The vitronectin receptor works as a receptor for several non-RGD containing enteroviruses.
B2. Seii Ohka: Poliovirus receptor (hPVR/CD155)-dependent and -independent axonal retrograde transport of poliovirus in motor neurons.
11:15
11:30
11:45
12:00 Session C: CLASSIFICATION AND TYPING.
Chair: Peter Simmonds.

C1. Nick Knowles: Taxonomy of Picornaviridae: current situation and future proposals.
C2. Jennifer Rathe: Resolution of all known HRV-A and HRV-B complete genome sequences, and their relationship to a potential new species, HRV-C.
C3. Petri Susi: Microwell oligonucleotide array for human enterovirus typing.

12:15
12:30
12:45 Lunch
13:00
13:15
13:30
13:45  
14:00 Session D: EPIDEMIOLOGY SURVEILLANCE AND EVOLUTION.
Chair: Michael Lindberg.
Keynote lecture. Tapani Hovi: Emerging rhinoviruses.

D1. Peter Simmonds: Global tracking of individual echovirus 30 recombinants; identifying the dynamics and transmission networks of human enteroviruses.
D2. Sabine van der Sanden: Prevalence of human parechovirus in The Netherlands, 2000-2007.
D3. Jaume Jorba: Application of the multiple poliovirus molecular clocks in various epidemiologic and evolutionary settings.
D4. Juan Cristina: Bayesian coalescent inference of hepatitis A virus populations: evolutionary rates and patterns.
D5. Cristina Escarmis: Repeated bottleneck transfers lead to non-cytocidal forms of a cytopathic virus.
14:15
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
15:30 Coffee break
15:45
16:00 Hot topic session E. Eckard Wimmer: Picornaviruses as a threat for emerging viral infections.

E1. Eckard Wimmer: Introductory remarks.
E2. Francis Delpeyroux: Features and evolution of the poliovirus / human enterovirus species C ecosystem in Madagascar.
E3. Heléne Norder: Complete genomes of two new African enterovirus (EV) types 93 and EV95.
E4. Steve Oberste: Identification of enteroviruses in naturally infected captive primates.
E5. Thomas Briese: Novel rhinovirus genotypes – are there more species than human rhinovirus A and human rhinovirus B?
Open discussion.
16:15
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17:00
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18:00  
18:15
18:30 Dinner
18:45
19:00
19:15
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19:45
20:00
20:15
20:30 Poster viewing
20:45
21:00
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22:30