Session F: GENOME REPLICATION AND GENE EXPRESSION - 1.
Chair: Craig Cameron.
Keynote lecture. Nuria Verdaguer: What we can learn from the structure of picornaviral replication complexes.

F1. David Barton: VPg and VPgpUpUOH priming during poliovirus RNA replication.
F2. Samuel Cordey: Study of a putative human rhinovirus 14 2C CRE sequence functionality.
F3. Jamie Arnold: Identification of the oriI-binding site of PV 3C protein by using NMR spectroscopy.
F4. James Flanegan: Functional role of the 5’ terminal cloverleaf structure in coxsackievirus RNA.

Session G: GENOME REPLICATION AND GENE EXPRESSION - 2.
Chair: Stanley M. Lemon.
Keynote lecture. Verena Gauss-Müller: Hepatitis A virus – unique properties of an exceptional picornavirus.

G1. Lluís Aragonès: Codon usage strategy of hepatitis A virus.
G2. Kerry Fitzgerald: Functions of non-canonical initiation factors in poliovirus cap-independent translation.
G3. Encarna Martinez Salas: Identification of novel FMDV IRES transacting factors.
G4. Natalya Teterina: Development of polioviruses encoding GFP-tagged proteins and their application for studying protein 2A function.
G5. Craig Cameron: Pre- and post- replication functions for the picornavirus 3CD protein.

Session H: ALTERATION OF CELL FUNCTIONS.
Chair: Akio Nomoto.
Keynote lecture. Bert L. Semler: Modification of host cell functions during picornavirus replication.

H1. Kurt Gustin: Proteolysis of nuclear pore complex proteins by the picornavirus 2A protease.
H2. Richard Lloyd: Poliovirus regulation of host stress granule and processing body formation.
H3. Sisko Tauriainen: Intracellular events after coxsackievirus B3 RNA delivery into green monkey kidney cells.
H4. Frédéric Sorgeloos: Antagonism of the OAS/RNase L pathway by Theiler’s virus L* protein.