Monte Verita Conference: ‘Early Events in Virus Infections’ (Convenors Ari Helenius & Urs Greber), August 25-28, 2014 MONDAY: ARRIVAL, SESSION 1 & KEYNOTE TUESDAY: SESSIONS 2 & 3 WEDNESDAY: SESSION 4 & SOCIALS Session 2: Chair Robert Doms Session 4: Chair Walther Mothes 09:00-09:25 Ludger Johannes (Curie Institute Paris, France): interd. Sergio Grinstein (U-Toronto, Canada): interd. 09:25-09:50 Ivo Sbalzarini (MPI Dresden, Germany) 09:50-10:15 Tomas Kirchhausen (Harvard U, Boston, USA) 11-13:45: Arrival & Registration THURSDAY: SESSIONS 5 & 6 Session 5: Chair Tomas Kirchhausen Renate Fuchs (U-Vienna, Austria) Thijn Brummelkamp (Netherlands Cancer Institute, Mark Marsh (U-College London, UK) Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Albert Osterhaus (Erasmus MC - Department of Damien Morger (U-Zurich, Switzerland) Viroscience, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) 10:15-10:30 Judith White (U-Virginia, USA) Coffee break 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-11:25 Jason Mercer (U-College London, UK) Coffee break 11-12:15 Workshop: Screening, Translation to Damien Garcia (CNRS Strasbourg, France) Clinics: Chair Ari Helenius Discussion leaders: Alex Matter (Experimental Giuseppe Balustreri (U-Helsiniki, Finland) Therapeutics Center, Singapore), Douglas Buckley (3V Biosciences, USA) 11:25-11:50 Margaret Kielian (Albert Einstein, New York, USA) Ben Berkhout (U-Amsterdam, Netherlands) 12:00-13:30: Light Lunch & Get Together 11:50-12:15 Maarit Suomalainen (U-Zurich, Switzerland) 12:15-12:30 13:45: Welcome Address from the CSF Site Director & History about Mte Verita 12:15 / 30 13:45 Session 1: Chair Urs Greber Ali Amara (INSERM Paris, France) Session 3: Chair Renate Fuchs 14:00-14:25 Luke Gilbert (UCSF, USA) Session 6: Chair Alex Matter Stefan Kunz (U-Lausanne, Switzerland) Pierre-Yves Lozach (U-Heidelberg, Germany) 14:25-14:50 Sara Cherry (U-Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) Roberto Cattaneo (Mayo, Rochester, USA) Thilo Stehle (U-Tubingen, Germany) 14:50-15:15 Caroline Coyne (U-Pittsburgh, USA) 14:00 Departure for Trip to Brissago Island Benhur Lee (Mount Sinai, New York, USA) Yves Gaudin (CNRS, Gif s Yvette, France) 15:15-15:30 Marcello Ehrlich (U-Tel Aviv, Israel) (walk to Ascona, boat to Brissago, guided tour) CSF_Junior_Award & Three ESV_Awards Coffee break Jane McKeating (U-Birmingham, UK) Walther Mothes (Yale U, New Haven, USA) 15:30-16:00 Coffee break 16:00-16:25 Mario Schelhaas (U-Munster, Germany) 16:25-16:50 Yohei Yamauchi (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Lunch Gary Whittaker (Cornell, Ithaca, USA) Robert Lamb (U-Northwestern, Chicago, USA) Lunch 15:30 Wrap up & Departure Robert Doms (U-Pensylvania, Philadelphia, USA) 16:50-17:15 Beate Sodeik (U-Hannover Medical School, Germany) Franz Heinz (U-Vienna, Austria) 17:15-17:30 Gary Cohen (U-Pensylvania, Philadelphia, USA) Brissago Island: 17:00-18:15 Terence Dermody (U-Vanderbilt, USA) 17:30-17:45 Gain of Function in Virology S. Wain-Hobson, G. Palu (org. by Europ. Soc. Virol) 18:30-20:00 Dinner 19:00-20:30 Dinner 20:15 THE EMBO Lecture (Intro A. Helenius) 18:30-21:00 Conference Dinner (Brissago) Steve Harrison (Harvard U, Boston, USA) 21:15-24:00: Poster Session 1 & Bar 20:30-24:00: Poster Session 2 & Bar Lunch 21:15 Return to Ascona / Monte Verita