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Last updated April 16, 2025
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
| 4:00 pm | Registration |
| 6:00 pm | Welcome Reception |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner |
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Opening remarks |
| Genomics & Bioinformatics Track chairs: Bethany Dearlove and Manon Ragonnet-Cronin | |
| 9:10am | VIRUS VS VIRUS: EVOLUTION AND FUNCTION OF AN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS-DERIVED RESTRICTION FACTOR John Coffin |
| 9:30 am | MACHINE LEARNING REVEALS KEY GLYCOPROTEIN MUTATIONS AND RAPIDLY ASSIGNS LASSA VIRUS LINEAGES Denise Kühnert |
| 9:50 am | SARITA: A GENERATIVE LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ACCURATELY PREDICTING THE EMERGENCE OF SARS-COV-2 CRITICAL MUTATIONS Simone Rancati |
| 10:10 am | TRANSFORMERS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS: FROM GENOMIC DATA TO EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS Vincent Garot |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| Phylodynamics & Phylogeography Track chairs: Denise Kühnert and Philippe Lemey | |
| 11:00 am | UNVEILING NOVEL HCOV-OC43 GENOTYPES: THE HIDDEN WORLD OF INTRA-HOST EVOLUTION Frida Belinky |
| 11:20 am | OPTIMIZING SAMPLING IN GENOMIC EPIDEMIOLOGY USING MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES David Rasmussen |
| 11:40 am | THE CHANGING SARS-COV-2 FITNESS LANDSCAPE AND SELECTION PRESSURES Charlie Hamilton |
| 12:00 pm | HOW DOES DATE-ROUNDING AFFECT PHYLODYNAMIC INFERENCE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH? Sebastian Duchene |
| Flash Talks | |
| 12:05 pm | ASSESSING THE EFFECT OF MODEL SPECIFICATION AND PRIOR SENSITIVITY ON BAYESIAN TESTS OF TEMPORAL SIGNAL FOR VIRAL MOLECULAR SEQUENCES John Tay |
| 12:10 pm | PHYLODYNAMIC INFERENCE SUGGESTS INTRODUCTIONS AS MAIN DRIVER OF MPOX CLADE II OUTBREAK IN 2022 IN SLOVENIA Bastiaan van der Roest |
| 12:15 pm | BAYESIAN PHYLODYNAMIC INFERENCE OF HETEROGENEOUS EPIDEMIC TRAJECTORIES USING GENOMIC DATA Timothy Vaughan |
| 12:20 pm | VIRAL SIMULATION REVEALS OVERESTIMATION BIAS IN WITHIN-HOST PHYLODYNAMIC MIGRATION RATE ESTIMATES UNDER SELECTION Roland Regoes |
| 12:25 pm | BAYESIAN OUTBREAK RECONSTRUCTION WITH PHYLOGENETIC AND TRANSMISSION TREES IN BEAST2 Caroline Colijn |
| 12:30 pm | Question period |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| Vaccines & Immune Escape Track chairs: Daniel Reeves and Roger Kouyos | |
| 2:30 pm | WASTEWATER-BASED GENOMIC SURVEILLANCE ENABLES MONITORING OF INFLUENZA A VIRUS EVOLUTION Anika John |
| 2:50 pm | A MECHANISTIC MODEL OF INITIAL AND PERSISTING ANTIBODY RESPONSE FOLLOWING EBOLA VACCINATION IN THE PREVAC TRIAL Mélanie Prague |
| 3:10 pm | MAPPING THE FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF BNAB EPITOPES LINKS HIV-1 ENV MUTATIONS TO BNAB SENSITIVITY Eric Lewitus |
| 3:30 pm | ANOMALOUS EVOLUTION OF WILDTYPE POLIOVIRUS FOLLOWING THE WITHDRAWAL OF TYPE 2 ORAL POLIOVIRUS VACCINE Michael Famulare |
| 3:50 pm | EFFECTIVE POPULATION DYNAMICS UTILISED TO INVESTIGATE EVOLUTION IN VIRAL VACCINE ESCAPE Carol Leitch |
| Flash Talks | |
| 4:10 pm | PHYLOGENETIC DISCORDANCE CANNOT IDENTIFY GENOMIC REASSORTMENT EVENTS: A CASE STUDY WITH THE AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS H5NX Hugo Castelán Sánchez |
| 4:15 pm | A SINGLE-COUNTRY COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF HUMAN CORONAVIRUSES Kate Duggan |
| 4:20 pm | SINGLE-CELL DNA SEQUENCING PROVIDES IMPROVED RESOLUTION OF RESERVOIR CONTRIBUTION TO HIV EVOLUTION AND REBOUND Brittany Magalis |
| 4:25 pm | CLUSTERFINDER: A FRAMEWORK TO ASSIST CLUSTER INVESTIGATION WITH PATHOGEN GENOMIC ANALYSIS FOR RESPIRATORY VIRUSES Stéphanie Dan |
| 4:30 pm | Question period |
| 5:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner |
Thursday, May 8, 2025
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| Within Host Dynamics & Adaptation I Track chairs: Alison Hill and Katrina Lythgoe | |
| 9:00 am | IN DEPTH SEQUENCING OF A SERIALLY SAMPLED HOUSEHOLD COHORT REVEALS THE WITHIN-HOST DYNAMICS OF OMICRON SARS-COV-2 AND RARE SELECTION OF NOVEL SPIKE VARIANTS Emily Bendall |
| 9:20 am | ESTABLISHMENT, TURNOVER, AND REACTIVATION POTENTIAL OF THE LATENT RESERVOIR IN SIV/SHIV Mykola Pinkevych |
| 9:40 am | VIRAL POPULATION SIZE IMPACTS EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS IN SHIV-INFECTED RHESUS MACAQUES Michael Hogarty |
| 10:00 am | THE DYNAMICS OF INDELS AT A WITHIN-HOST LEVEL DURING PERSISTENT INFECTION Isobel Guthrie |
| 10:20 am | Break |
| Software, Tools & Methods Track chairs: Anna Zhokova and Art Poon | |
| 10:50 am | GENSPECTRUM: A DASHBOARD FRAMEWORK FOR GENOMIC EPIDEMIOLOGY Chaoran Chen |
| 11:10 am | HIGH MUTATION RATE VARIATION WITHIN AND ACROSS HIV-1 STRAINS Adam Nitido |
| 11:30 am | PATHOPLEXUS: A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN SOLUTION FOR TRANSPARENT AND EQUITABLEVIRAL GENOMIC DATA SHARING Emma Hodcroft |
| 11:50 am | NAVIGATING SAMPLING BIAS IN DISCRETE PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS: ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF AN ADJUSTED BAYES FACTOR Fabiana Gambaro |
| 12:10 pm | QUANTIFYING THE DYNAMICS OF KAPOSI’S SARCOMA-ASSOCIATED HERPESVIRUS PERSISTENCE Madeleine Gastonguay |
| Flash Talks | |
| 12:30 pm | DESIGNING A VIRUS LIBRARY FOR ASCERTAINING INFECTIONS AND IDENTIFYING VIRAL EPITOPES IN A LONGITUDINAL COHORT Manon Ragonnet-Cronin |
| 12:35 pm | MATHEMATICAL MODELLING TO HELP DESIGN VACCINE TRIALS, AND LASSA FEVER CASE STUDY Chris Wymant |
| 12:40 pm | THE INTERPLAY OF WITHIN-HOST AND BETWEEN-HOST DYNAMICS REGULATES HIV-1 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL OUTCOMES Macauley Locke |
| 12:45 pm | TRANSMISSION CLUSTER ANALYSIS OF DRUG RESISTANCE MUTATIONS IN HIV-1 SUBTYPE A6 IN THE FSU REGION Anastasiia Nefedova |
| 12:50 pm | QUANTIFYING UNCERTAINTY IN HIV TRANSMISSION FROM PERSONS WITH LOW-LEVEL VIREMIA Thayer Anderson |
| 12:55 pm | Question period |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| Transmission Dynamics & Clusters Track chairs: Emma Hodcroft and Oliver Ratmann | |
| 2:30 pm | ACCOUNTING FOR PARTNER NOTIFICATION IN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL BIRTH-DEATH MODELS Anna Zhukova |
| 2:50 pm | ESTIMATION OF SERIAL INTERVALS IN PARTIALLY-SAMPLED TRANSMISSION CLUSTERS USING VIRUS SEQUENCES Caroline Colijn |
| 3:10 pm | WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING ANALYSIS OF SARS-COV-2 HOUSEHOLD TRANSMISSION IN CHIANG MAI, THAILAND DURING 2022–2024 Premmarin Inmonthian |
| 3:30 pm | EPISEWER – A NOVEL APPROACH TO QUANTIFY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS BASED ON SEWAGE SAMPLES Tanja Stadler |
| 3:50 pm | Break |
| Flash Talks | |
| 4:20 pm | ANTIVIRAL TREATMENTS TO PREVENT OUTBREAKS OF RESPIRATORY VIRUSES IN NURSING HOMES: A MODELLING ANALYSIS Hind Zaaraoui |
| 4:25 pm | INTEGRATING FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELLS AND SPATIAL DYNAMICS TO IMPROVE HIV MODELING IN LYMPHOID TISSUE Sobia Anam |
| 4:30 pm | COMPARISON OF THE GENOMIC COMPOSITION OF ARCHIVED CLOTTING FACTORS FROM 1974 TO 1992 PRE- AND POST-VIRAL INACTIVATION Kaitlin Reid |
| 4:35 pm | NEWLY IDENTIFIED JINGMENVIRUS SEQUENCES FROM OPEN ACCESS NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING DATACONTRIBUTE TO PROPOSED TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA Agathe Colmant |
| 4:40 pm | EXPLORING GENETIC SIGNATURES OF INFLUENZA A VIRUSES AT THE SWINE-HUMAN INTERFACE WITH PHYLOGENETIC AND ANCESTRAL SEQUENCE RECONSTRUCTION Klara Marie Anker |
| 4:45 pm | RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS OF ENTEROVIRUS D68 WITH GENETIC SEQUENCE DATA David Jorgensen |
| 4:50 pm | Question period |
| 5:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner |
Friday, May 9, 2025
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| Zoonoses & Emerging Infections Track chairs: Jeffrey Joy, Raphaelle Metras and Tetyana Vasylyeva | |
| 9:00 am | GENOMIC SURVEILLANCE REVEALS A DENGUE 2 VIRUS EPIDEMIC LINEAGE WITH A MARKED DECREASE IN SENSIVITY TO MOSNODENVIR Selin Sen |
| 9:20 am | EMERGENCE OF NOVEL MOSAIC G9P[6] ROTAVIRUSES THROUGH MULTIPLE INTRAGENOGROUP REASSORTMENT EVENTS POST VACCINE INTRODUCTION IN BLANTYRE MALAWI Chimwemwe Mhango |
| 9:40 am | SPILLOVER RATE IS NOT A PREDICTOR OF HOST JUMP RISK David Kennedy |
| 10:00 am | DRIVERS AND DYNAMICS OF A SARS-COV-2 SISTER-CLADE SARBECOVIRUS DURING A LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF A RHINOLOPHUS FERRUMEQUINUM COLONY Daphné de Riols de Fonclare |
| 10:20 am | THE EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION OF H5N1 IN DAIRY CATTLE IN THE UNITED STATES Jonathan Pekar |
| 10:40 am | Break |
| Within Host Dynamics & Adaptation II Track chairs: Alison Hill and Katrina Lythgoe | |
| 11:00 am | IMPACT OF HIV-1 VIRAL LOAD BLIPS ON HIV-1 BINDING ANTIBODY LEVEL DYNAMICS Baptiste Elie |
| 11:20 am | VIRAL FITNESS INCREASES SIGNIFICANTLY IN A LONG-TERM HIV-1 EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT Sneha Sundar |
| 11:40 am | VIRAL AND IMMUNE DYNAMICS OF GENITAL HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS IN YOUNG WOMEN WITH HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION Nicolas Tessandier |
| 12:00 pm | IN-DEPTH CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SIV TISSUE RESERVOIR DYNAMICS Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo |
| 12:30 pm | Closing remarks and adjournment |
