Name: 33rd International Dynamics & Evolution of Human Viruses - Kelowna
Start: 2026-05-19T14:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-05-22T14:00:00-07:00
Location: No location set

33rd International Dynamics & Evolution of Human Viruses - Kelowna

from Tuesday, May 19, 2026 (2:30 PM) to Friday, May 22, 2026 (2:00 PM)

Monday, May 18, 2026
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

4:00 PM Registration
Registration
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

5:00 PM Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

7:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

8:30 AM Opening remarks
Opening remarks
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM
8:40 AM Genomics & Surveillance
8:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

8:40 AM A comparative analysis of different UK-wide SARS-CoV-2 surveillance strategies to detect early lineage growth - Charu Sharma (Department of Biology, University of Oxford, UK)

9:00 AM Genomic insights into G1P[8] rotavirus strains reveals lineage-specific differences in disease severity among Malawian children - Chimwemwe Mhango (Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome programme)

9:20 AM RECOMBINATION IN VACCINE-DERIVED POLIOVIRUSES: INSIGHTS FROM PUBLIC SEQUENCING DATA - Keno Strotjohann (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute)

9:40 AM INCREASED GENOMIC DIVERSIFICATION FREQUENCY OF HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS (HRSV) TYPE A IN A PEDIATRIC COHORT IN THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE ONSET OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC - Marco Salemi (University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute)
10:00 AM Break
Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Software, Tools & Methods
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

10:30 AM VIRUSES EVOLVE; NAMES SHOULD TOO: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR ENTEROVIRUS CLADES - Nadia Neuner-Jehle (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

10:50 AM OPOSSUM: RECONTRUCTING VIRAL QUASISPECIES FROM NOISY LONG-READ SEQUENCING - Natalie Stegman (Northwestern University)

11:10 AM INTEGRATING SYNTHETIC PHYLODYNAMIC LIBRARIES INTO SHORT-TERM INFECTIOUS DISEASE FORECASTING - Zena Lapp

11:30 AM DAMPA - accelerated and simplified design of probe panels for targeted metagenomics using pangenome graphs. - Michael Payne (Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia)

11:50 AM ECHO: A LIGHTWEIGHT TOOL FOR INFERRING MISSING CASE COUNTS FROM OUTBREAK TREES - Renny Doig (Simon Fraser University)

12:10 PM vir2vec: a pan-viral genomic language model and benchmark for viral genome understanding - Marco Salemi (Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida) Simone Marini (Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Evolutionary Dynamics of HIV: part 1
part 1
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM TOGGLING OF BOTH SYNONYMOUS AND NONSYNONYMOUS MUTATIONS CAN EXPLAIN WHY MEASURED RATES OF HIV EVOLUTION ARE FASTER WITHIN- THAN BETWEEN-HOST - Lucy Back (University of Oxford)

2:20 PM Phylodynamic Evaluation of Progress Towards the “Ending the HIV Epidemic” Goals in the New York City - Joel Wertheim (UC San Diego)
2:40 PM Zoonoses & Emerging Infections
2:40 PM - 3:20 PM
Contributions

2:40 PM Ecological Correlates of Flavivirus Circulation: Uncovering the Evolution and Transmission of Edge Hill Virus (EHV) in Australia - Adil Khan (Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases)

3:00 PM FROM PINNEO TO PANEL: A CURATED LINEAGE SPECIFIC REFERENCE PANEL FOR LASSA VIRUS (LASV) CLASSIFICATION AND EVOLUTIONARY INFERENCE - Rowan Patterson (Simon Fraser University)
3:20 PM Flash talks

3:20 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Posters: Poster Session 1
Poster Session 1
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

6:10 PM Dinner
Dinner
6:10 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, May 21, 2026

8:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Phylodynamics & Phylogeography
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Phylogeographic insights into 2023-2024 mpox virus resurgence in New York City and beyond. - Jade Wang (University of California, San Diego)

9:20 AM ESTIMATING THE RATE OF GEOGRAPHICAL SPREAD OF PATHOGENS USING PAIRWISE GENETIC DISTANCE DISTRIBUTIONS - Noémie Lefrancq (ETH Zürich)

9:40 AM THE EVOLUTION AND SPREAD OF WEST NILE VIRUS ACROSS EUROPE - Verity Hill (KU Leuven)

10:00 AM Comparative patterns of recombination and selection in seasonal human coronaviruses - Kate Duggan (University of Edinburgh)
10:20 AM Break
Break
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Transmission Dynamics & Clusters
10:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Contributions

10:50 AM Multi-type point processes to characterise infectious disease transmission across many covariates - Oliver Ratmann (Imperial College London)

11:10 AM ALL THE SINGLE GENOMES: DEMOGRAPHIC INFERENCE USING THE DISTRIBUTION OF CLUSTERS AND SINGLETONS OBSERVED IN GENOMIC EPIDEMIOLOGY STUDIES - Matthew Hall (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

11:30 AM Phylogenetic clustering analysis shows diverse transmission contexts for transgender people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada - Giuli Sucar (Joy Lab, BC-CfE, University of British Columbia)

11:50 AM Modelling Mpox clade II and ongoing dynamics in MSM from Berlin. - Max von Kleist (Robert-Koch Institute; Freie Universität Berlin)
12:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:10 PM - 1:40 PM
1:40 PM Vaccines & Immune Escape
1:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:40 PM A SINGLE DOSE OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY DELAYS HIV-1 INFECTION IN OWL MONKEYS - Sara Sawyer (University of Colorado Boulder)

2:00 PM Deep haplotype-resolved sequencing reveals the prevalence of genetic background specific escape mutations in broadly neutralizing antibody trials - Elena Romero (Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington)

2:20 PM THE EVOLUTIONARY AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF WANING IMMUNITY TO RESPIRATORY VIRUSES - Rustom Antia (Emory University)

2:40 PM Unmasking Pathogen-Host Local Structural Mimicry in the AI era - Tung Nguyen (University of Cambridge)
3:00 PM Break
Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM Plenary: Professor Kanta Subbarao "The Public Health Challenge of Diverse and Evolving Respiratory Viruses"
Plenary: Professor Kanta Subbarao "The Public Health Challenge of Diverse and Evolving Respiratory Viruses"
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM Posters: Poster Session 2
Poster Session 2
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM Dynamics & Evolution General Meeting - all welcome!
Dynamics & Evolution General Meeting - all welcome!
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Friday, May 22, 2026

8:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Within-Host Dynamics & Adaptation
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Conflicting evolutionary pressures shape a within-host deletion hotspot in SARS-CoV-2 NSP1 linked to innate immune escape - Isobel Guthrie (University of Oxford)

9:20 AM A Specialized Virus Microenvironment Sustains Durable HIV/SIV Reservoirs During Therapy - Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo

9:40 AM Evolutionary indicators of viral social behavior are significant predictors of progression to SAIDS - Brittany Magalis (University of Florida)

10:00 AM THE ROLE OF PROLONGED INFECTIONS IN THE EMERGENCE OF NOROVIRUS GII.4 VARIANTS - Lambodhar Damodaran (Emory University)
10:20 AM Break
Break
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Evolutionary Dynamics of HIV: Part 2
Part 2
10:50 AM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

10:50 AM NETWORK-BASED DETECTION OF HIV-1 RECOMBINATION REVEALS UNDERLYING SUBTYPE ARCHITECTURE - Abayomi Olabode (Western University)

11:10 AM MUTATIONAL SUPPLY SHAPES HIV EVOLUTION - Adam Nitido (The Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham, MIT, and Harvard)

11:30 AM THREE NEW BAYESIAN AND FIDUCIAL ANALYSIS METHODOLOGIES FOR HIV INTEGRATION SITE ANALYSIS - Paul. T Edlefsen

11:50 AM DYNAMICS OF VIRAL REPLICATION AND SPREAD IN TISSUES DURING EARLY SIV INFECTION - Taina Immonen (Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research)

12:10 PM Substantial Deceleration of Adaptation of HIV-1 Within 1,500 Generations in an Experimental Evolution: A Genomic Perspective - Ali Movasati (Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Life Science Zurich Graduate School, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

12:30 PM Suppression and fragmentation of HIV transmission following scale-up of TasP and PrEP in British Columbia, Canada: a population level phylogenetic study - Jeffrey Joy (University of British Columbia)
12:50 PM Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
12:50 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Lunch / Final Adjournment
Lunch / Final Adjournment
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM