Jun 19 – 22, 2024
Squamish, BC, Canada
Canada/Pacific timezone
This conference is now SOLD OUT for in-person registration. Virtual registration is still available.

Agenda

*All times are in (GMT-7, Pacific Standard Time)

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

4:00 pmRegistration
5:00 pmWelcome Reception
6:00 pmDinner

Thursday, June 20, 2024

7:00 amBreakfast
8:10 amOpening remarks
 Genomics & Bioinformatics I 
Track chairs: Matthew Hall and Manon Ragonnet
8:20amRSV LINEAGE DYNAMICS REVEALED BY NOVEL ARTIC SEQUENCING APPROACH   
Daniel Maloney
8:40 amPROSPECTS FOR A MOLECULAR TAXONOMY OF INFLUENZA A VIRUS SUBTYPES   
Art Poon
9:00 amEXPANDING THE KNOWN DIVERSITY OF HUMAN ANELLOVIRUSES   
Spyros Lytras
9:20 amTHE ORIGINS OF RECURRENT MINOR VARIANTS AND POTENTIAL ARTIFACTS ACROSS SARS-CoV-2 SAMPLES GLOBALLY   
Tung Nguyen
  
9:40 amBreak
 Genomics & Bioinformatics II 
Track chairs: Matthew Hall and Manon Ragonnet
10:10 amUSING GENOMICS DATA FROM THE ONS COVID-19 INFECTION SURVEY TO RESOLVE WITHIN-HOUSEHOLD TRANSMISSION OF SARS-COV-2   
Steven Kemp
10:30 amGRAPH THEORY APPROACH FOR IDENTIFYING RAPIDLY EXPANDING SARS-COV-2 LINEAGES USING EARLY GENOMIC DATA   
Ruian Ke
10:50 amSIMULTANEOUS VIRUS-VECTOR GENOMICS FOR MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES WITH COSMOS   
Tanya Golubchik
11:10 amGENOMIC SURVEILLANCE OF OVER 100,000 SARS-COV-2 GENOMES REVEALS TRANSMISSION INSIGHTS WITH MATCHED EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA   
Gage Moreno
  
11:30 amFlash Talks (Virtual Posters)
12:10 pmLunch
 Zoonoses & Emerging Infections
Track chairs: Florence Débarre and Joel Wertheim
1:40 pmHIDDEN EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINTS DICTATE THE RETENTION OF CORONAVIRUS ACCESSORY GENES   
Stephen Goldstein
2:00 pmPHYLOGENETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF PARAMYXOVIRUSES IN BATS   
Laura Muñoz-Baena
2:20 pmSMALL VIRAL RNA EVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN OF SARS-COV-2: INSIGHTS FROM FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS   
Amber R. Paulson
2:40 pmDEEP MUTATIONAL SCANNING OF THE NIPAH RECEPTOR BINDING PROTEIN   
Brendan Larsen
  
3:00 pmPoster Session I
5:00 pmTransportation to Dinner at Sea to Sky Gondola

 

Friday, June 21, 2024 

7:00 amBreakfast
  
 Phylodynamics & Phylogeography
Track chairs: Katia Koelle and Tetyana Vasylyeva
8:30 amPHYLOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF MPOX VIRUS INTRODUCTIONS INTO NEW YORK CITY REVEALS SCALE-FREE TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS REMINISCENT OF HIV TRANSMISSION CLUSTERS   
Jonathan Pekar
8:50 amCAUSES AND IMPACTS OF THE WIDESPREAD LACK OF TOPOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE IN BAYESIAN PHYLODYNAMIC INFERENCE ON LARGE VIRAL DATASETS   
Jiansi Gao
9:10 amUSING PHYLOGENETIC TREE SUMMARY STATISTICS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INFERENCE AND CALIBRATION   
Gregory Hart
9:30 amREAL-TIME TRACKING OF VARIANT EVOLUTION AND DYNAMICS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH DECISION-MAKING: PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES   
Carmen Lia Murall
  
9:50 amBreak
 

Within Host Dynamics & Adaptation I

Track chairs: Paul Edlefsen and Alison Hill

10:10 amHIGH VARIATION IN HIV ‘BURST SIZE’ FROM INDIVIDUAL INFECTED CELLS DRIVES DOMINANCE OF INDIVIDUAL VIRAL FOUNDER LINEAGES   
Steffen S. Docken
10:30 amDYNAMICAL MODELING IMPLICATES DOSAGE OF POCAPAVIR ANTIVIRAL AND HOST CELL SPATIAL STRUCTURE AS KEY FACTORS DRIVING ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE EVOLUTION IN POLIOVIRUS   
Alexander Robertson
10:50 amLONG-READ SEQUENCING AND LINKAGE ANALYSIS REVEAL EXTENSIVE HIV RESISTANCE EVOLUTION TO 10-1074 BROADLY NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES   
Elena Romero
11:10 amNONSYNONYMOUS SUBSTITUTIONS EXPLAIN THE WIDE VARIATION IN WITHIN-HOST EVOLUTIONARY RATES AMONG SARS-COV-2 PERSISTENTLY INFECTED INDIVIDUALS   
Mahan Ghafari
11:30 amEXPLORING RECOMBINATION DYNAMICS IN WITHIN-HOST EVOLUTION OF HIV: IMPLICATIONS FOR EVOLUTIONARY RATE MEASUREMENTS   
Harriet Longley
  
11:50 amLunch
 Vaccines & Immune Escape
Track chairs: Oliver Laeyendecker and Morgane Rolland
1:10 pmSARS-COV-2 VARIANT REPLACEMENT CONSTRAINS VACCINE-SPECIFIC VIRAL DIVERSIFICATION   
Bethany L Dearlove
1:30 pmIMPRINTING OF BROADLY NEUTRALISING ANTI-HCV ANTIBODIES   
Rowena Bull
1:50 pmMODELLING OF THE DYNAMIC IMMUNE LANDSCAPE THAT DETERMINES SARS-COV-2 EVOLUTION   
Max von Kleist
  
2:10 pmShort break
 

Transmission Dynamics & Clusters

Track chairs: Emma Hodcroft and Jeff Joy

2:20 pmUSING SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS TO ESTIMATE CONCORDANCE OF TRANSMISSION PAIRS FROM HOUSEHOLDS VS. NON-HOUSEHOLD CONTACTS IN AN ON-GOING PANDEMIC OUTBREAK   
Olivia Boyd
2:40 pmEARLY UNDERDETECTED DISSEMINATION ACROSS COUNTRIES FOLLOWED BY EXTENSIVE LOCAL TRANSMISSION PROPELLED THE 2022 MPOX EPIDEMIC   
Miguel Paredes
3:10 pmENDEMIC DOES NOT MEAN CONSTANT AS COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE   
Sarah (Sally) Otto
3:30 pmALTERATIONS IN RSV EPIDEMIOLOGY AND VIRAL POPULATION STRUCTURE FOLLOWING THE SARS-COV-2 PANDEMIC   
Estefany Rios-Guzman
3:50 pmINFERRING VIRAL TRANSMISSION TIME FROM PHYLOGENIES FOR KNOWN TRANSMISSION PAIRS   
Emma Goldberg
4:10 pmWITHIN-HOST PARAMETERS REGULATE HIV-1 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL OUTCOMES   
Narmada Sambaturu
  
4:30 pmPoster Session II
6:30 pmDinner

Saturday, June 22, 2024

7:00 amBreakfast
  
 Software, Tools & Methods   
Track chairs: Sergei Pond and Art Poon
8:30 amVILOCA: LOCAL HAPLOTYPE RECONSTRUCTION AND MUTATION CALLING FOR SHORT- AND LONG-READ VIRAL SEQUENCING DATA   
Lara Fuhrmann
8:50 amRECOMBINATION PATTERNS REVEAL EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS   
Nicola Mueller
9:10 amAUTOMATED DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF POLIOVIRUSES USING PIRANHA   
Aine O'Toole
9:30 amSWEDEN SURPASSES THE UNAIDS 95-95-95 TARGET: ESTIMATING HIV-1 INCIDENCE BETWEEN 2003-2022   
Macauley Locke
9:50 amEXPLORING THE IMPACT OF IMMUNOCOMPROMISED INDIVIDUALS ON SARS-COV-2 VARIANTS EMERGENCE WITH SIMPLICITY   
Pietro Gerletti
  
10:10 amBreak
 

Within Host Dynamics & Adaptation II

Track chairs: Paul Edlefsen and Alison Hill

10:40 amSELECTIVE FORCES IN HIV RESERVOIRS ESTIMATED BY SIMULTANEOUS MODELING OF HIV- AND CD4 TCR- LEVELS AND CLONALITY   
Daniel Reeves
11:00 pmCHARACTERIZATION OF HIV-1 WITHIN-HOST DIVERSITY DURING ACUTE INFECTION USING DEEP SEQUENCING   
Yifan Li
11:20 pmCAN WE RECONSTRUCT THE TRANSMITTED/FOUNDER VIRUS SEQUENCE FROM WITHIN HOST HIV PROVIRAL SEQUENCES?   
Bradley Jones
11:40 pmDOSE-DEPENDENT ANTIGENIC EVOLUTION OF THE SARS-COV-2 VIRUS   
Vincent Montoya
  
12:00 pmClosing remarks and adjournment