30th International Dynamics & Evolution of Human Viruses

Scientific Program

Genome sequencing & bioinformatics

• New sequencing technologies and methods, and their application to the analysis of virus genomes.
• Innovations and improvements to bioinformatic pipelines for processing virus sequence data. (Note, new computational methods for post-processing analysis of sequence data may be more suitable for the Software track.)

Zoonoses & emerging infections

• Using phylogenetic analysis to reconstruct host-switch events associated with the origin of novel human viruses.
• Estimating the time of origin for a virus species using molecular clock methods.
• Reconstructing the evolving spatial distribution of virus populations over time (phylogeography)
• Reconstructing the rates of spread over time using phylodynamic methods.

Transmission dynamics & clusters

• Phylodynamic and model-based estimation of transmission rates (basic/effective reproduction numbers) and related parameters.
• Characterizing transmission risk factors: transmission cluster analysis, transmission pair studies.
• Genomic epidemiology, outbreak detection by tracking genetic clusters.
• Molecular source attribution.

Software, tools & methods

• Development and validation of new software for studying human viruses.
• Method comparison and benchmarking.
• Database / web application announcements.
• Advances in statistical and mathematical modeling methods.

Vaccines & immunology

• Vaccine-driven virus evolution.
• Dynamics of adaptive immunity.
• Kinetics of the B and T cell repertoires.

Within host dynamics

• Viral dynamics in primary infection.
• Within-host genetic diversity and evolution.
• Models of within-host viral and immune dynamics.
• Drug resistance and effects of therapy on virus populations.

Antigenic evolution and immune escape

• Identification of epitope sites.
• Prediction of population-level spread of mutations.