Deadlines:

Preferential rates:
August 23rd, 2007

Registration:
September 24th, 2007

Abstract submission:
June 29th, 2007

Registration and breakfast

Session 1: Virus entry and membrane fusion

Chairs: Tony Pugsley and Yves Gaudin

9.00: Félix Rey, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France - Viral membrane fusion proteins: how many different structural classes ?
9.30: Franz Heinz, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria - Molecular mechanisms of flavivirus membrane fusion
10.00: Theodore Jardetzy, Stanford Univ. School of Medecine, Stanford, USA Structural and Mechanistic Insights into Paramyxovirus HN and F Glycoproteins
10.20: Jean-Luc Battini, IGM, Montpellier, France - The ubiquitous glucose transporter GLUT-1 is a receptor for HTLV

10.40: Coffee Break

11.10: Ali Amara, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France - Flavivirus entry into target cells
11.30: Olivier Schwartz, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France - HIV, virological and immunological synapses
11.50: Claudine Pique, Institut Cochin, Paris, France - Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans and Neuropilin 1 Cooperate for HTLV-1 Entry
12.10: Laurent Meertens, Albert Einstein College of medecine, New York, USA - The Tight Junction Proteins Claudin-6 and-9 are Entry Cofactors for the Hepatitis C Virus
12.30: Marlène Dreux, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France - The Exchangeable Apolipoprotein Apoc-1 Promotes membrane Fusion of Hepatitis C Virus

Session 2 : Signaling and replication

Chairs: Olivier Schwartz and Fernando Arenzana-Seisdedos

2.30: Michael Way, London Research Institute, London, United Kingdom - The role of Rho signalling in the cell cortex during release of vaccinia virus from infected cells
3.00: Ralf Bartenshlager, Department of Molecular Virology,  Heidelberg, Germany - New insights into hepatitis C virus replication and assembly
3.30: Carolyn Coyne,  University of Pittsburg, Philadelphia, USA -  Poliovirus Entry into Human Brain Microvascular Cells Requires the Tyrosine Phosphatase SHP-2

4.00: Coffee Break

4.30: Hélène Verheije, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands - Murine Hepatitis Coronavirus Co-opts the BFA-Sensitive GBF1-Controlled Pathway to Ensure Efficient RNA Replication
4.50: Maija Vihinen-Ranta, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland - Dynamics and Interactions of parvoviral replication protein in the Nucleus
5.10: Arnaud Autret, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France - Poliovirus Induces bax-Dependent Cell Death mediated by C-Jun NH2-terminal Kinase

Poster session

Session 3: Endocytosis and trafficking

Chairs: Andres Alcover and Felix Rey

9.00: Pascale Cossart, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France - Bacterial entry into cells : a role for clathrin-mediated endocytosis
9.30: Ari Helenius, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland - Viral entry strategies

10.00: Coffee Break

10.30: Ali Saïb, Hopital Saint-Louis, Paris, France - Retroviruses intracellular trafficking and uncoating
11.00: Mark Marsh, MRC, London, United Kingdom - Endocytic regulation of HIV receptor expression
11.30: Beate Sodeik, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany - Herpes Simplex Virus receptors For Microtubulr Motors
11.50: Charles RM Bangham, Wright-Fleming Institute, London, United Kingdom - Retroviral transmission trough the Virological Synapse Visualized by Electron Tomography
12.10: Jolanda Smit, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands - Early Events in Dengue Virus Infection

Session 4 : Restriction factors and nuclear import

Chairs: Françoise Bachelerie and Ali Saïb

2.00: Jonathan Stoye, MRC, London, United Kingdom - Studies of restriction factor - retrovirus interactions
2.30: Urs Greber, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland - Kinesin couples cytoplasmic transport and nuclear import of human adenovirus
3.00: Pierre Charneau, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France - Mechanisms of HIV-1 nuclear import
3.30: Marc Ruff, IGBMC, Strasbourg, France - Structure of the Full Length HIV-1 Integrase in Complex with LEDGF/P75 and DNA by Cryo Electron Microscopy at 14A: Mechanism for Concerted Integration of Viral DNA into the Human Genome

3.50: Coffee Break

Session 5 : Functional genomics and virus infection

Chairs: Spencer Shorte and Alexandre Benmerah

4.20: Jurgen Haas, Max-von-Pettenkofer Institut, Munich, Germany - Systems Virology
4.50: Lucas Pelkmans, IMBS, Zurich, Switzerland - Towards systems approaches to study virus entry in human cells
5.20: Pierre-Olivier Vidalain, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France - Mapping Virus-Host Interactomes: A gateway to Novel Antiviral Strategies