Symposium: Virus (meta)genomics at the cross-road to clinical use
Dear colleagues,
It is a pleasure to invite you to the symposium - Virus (meta)genomics at the cross-road to clinical use - which is organized in the frame of the CRPP Viral infectious diseases
http://www.viralinfectiousdiseases.uzh.ch/index.html.
| Program: | |
| Admission: | There is no admission fee. |
| Registration: | Registration is required. Please e-mail your registration by Thursday, January 29th, 2015 to: katharina.enggist@usz.ch. |
| Lodging and travel: | We kindly ask participants to organize travel and accommodation individually. |
| Credits: | This symposium is recognized with 3 CME credits by the FAMH, Microbiology and the Swiss Society of Infectious Diseases. |
Sincerely,
Alexandra Trkola
On behalf of the program committee
| Program committee | |
| Michael Huber | Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zuricha |
| Nicolas Müller | Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Zurich |
| Huldrych Günthard | Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Zurich & Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich |
| Alexandra Trkola | Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zuricha |
Program
Thursday, February 5th, 2015, 14:00 – 18:00
Great Lecture Hall WEST, UniversityHospital Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, Zurich
| 14:00 | Welcome and introduction Alexandra Trkola, PhD. Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich |
Part I: Genomics – Chair: Huldrych Günthard, MD. Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology
UniversityHospital Zurich
| 14:05 | How to best measure the latent HIV-reservoiri Joseph Wong, MD. San Francisco VA Medical Center, University of California San Francisco |
| 14:45 | Full length and haplotype reconstruction for minority variants of HIV-1 sequences: what is possible today? Niko Beerenwinkel, PhD. Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (BSSE), ETH Zurich |
| 15:25 | Coffee break |
Part II: Metagenomics – Chair: Nicolas Müller, MD. Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, UniversityHospital Zurich Transplant Center
| 16:00 | Viral metagenomics – (Re-)Emerging viral infections Saskia Smits, PhD. Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, and Viroclinics Biosciences, Rotterdam |
| 16:40 | From banana virus to TTV: the difficult life of clinical virologists Laurent Kaiser, MD. Division of Infectious Diseases and Laboratory of Virology. University Hospital of Geneva and Faculty of Medicine |
| 17:20 | Closing remarks Alexandra Trkola |
| 17:30 | Apéro |