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Virus Evolution Workgroup: 1999 Workshop Schedule

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Ardmore, Okla.
October 21 - 24th, 1999

Thursday, October 21, 1999

Afternoon

Arrivals and check in

6:00 PM

Dinner

7:30-7:45

Welcome: Marilyn Roossinck

Session ONE: Emerging viruses
Session Chair: Yiming Bao

7:45-8:15 PM

Colin Parrish, "Emergence, evolution and host range of canine parvovirus"

8:15-8:30

Cécile Desbiez, "Evolution of zucchini yellow mosaic potyvirus variability on Martinique Island since its first detection" [abstract]

8:30-8:45

Sharon Messenger, "Phylogenetic analysis links U.S. human rabies deaths to a single rabies viral variant"

8:45-9:00

G.L. Stoner, "JC Virus in the South Pacific: New variants with an unusual regulatory region rearrangement in the Papau New Guinea highlands"

9:00-9:15

Marcelo Soares, "Cross-species transmission of simian immunodeficiency virus from African green monkeys: Virus evolution in a new host"

9:15-9:30

David Suarez, "Comparison of influenza virus from different species to determine amino acid changes important for the virus to cross species"

9:30-late

Beer and wine in tent

Friday, October 22, 1999

7:30-8:30 AM

Breakfast

Session TWO: Phylogenetics and methods of analysis
Session Chair: Ping Xu

9:00-9:30 AM

John Huelsenbeck, "Methods of phylogenetic analysis"

9:30-9:45

Roald Forsberg, "Evidence for varying selection pressures supports hypothesis of emergence through species shifts of the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV)"

9:45-10:00

Tamas Berke, "Recent development with calicivirus phylogeny" [abstract]

10:00-10:15

Ralf Dietzgen, "Peanut stripe potyvirus variability and natural recombinants"

10:15-10:30

Maria Albiach-Marti, "Genomes of citrus tristeza virus isolates from distal locations, environments, hosts, origins and time are essentially identical" [abstract]

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

Session THREE: Viral Populations
Session Chair: Rodolfo Acosta-Leal

11:00-11:30 AM

Fernando García-Arenal, "Genetic variability of plant virus populations" [abstract]

11:30-11:45

Gael Kurath, "Genetic diversity patterns and evolution of an aquatic rhabdovirus" [abstract]

11:45-12:00

James Cohen Stuart, "Increased fitness of drug resistant HIV-1 as a result of acquisition of compensatory mutations during suboptimal therapy"

12:00-12:15

Over Cabrera, "Genetic diversity of panicum mosaic virus satellite RNAs assessed by ribonuclease protection analyses"

12:15-12:30

Michael Travisano, "Epistatic interactions can lower the cost of resistance" [abstract]

12:30 PM

Lunch

Afternoon free for discussions, poster session, and recreational activities

6:00 PM

Dinner

Session FOUR: Viral Quasispecies
Session Chair: Joachim de Miranda

7:30-8:00 PM

Simon Wain-Hobson, "Misunderstanding RNA viral evolution"

8:00-8:15

Holly Wichman, "Experimental evolution recapitulates natural evolution"

8:15-8:30

Ernst Peterhans, "Evolution of BVD virus: Where is heterogeneity generated?" [abstract]

8:30-8:45

Sid Baccam, "Rapid and dynamic evolution of quasispecies clouds during equine infectious anemia virus infection" [abstract]

8:45-9:00

Bill Schneider, "A comparison of quasispecies cloud size for Sindbis-like plant viruses"

9:00-9:15

Isabel Novella, "On the meaning of neutrality"

9:15-9:30

Martin Yassi, "Field diversity of satellite tobacco mosaic virus"

9:30-late

Beer and wine in tent

 

Saturday, October 23, 1999

7:30-8:30 AM

Breakfast

Session FIVE: Mechanisms of Virus Evolution
Session Chair: Bill Schneider

9:00-9:30 AM

Lin Chao, "Evolution by small jerks"

9:30-9:45

Jozef Bujarski, "Homologous crossovers among molecules of the RNA3 segment during infection with brome mosaic virus"

9:45-10:00

Ulrich Melcher, "Accelerated evolution and fitness in whole organisms studied with engineered tobamoviral genomes"

10:00-10:15

Ben Berkhout, "Evolution as a tool to study HIV-1 replication"

10:15-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-11:15

John Drake, "Viral mutation rates"

11:15-11:30

Louis Mansky, "The in vivo mutation rate of HIV-1 is influenced by the interaction of viral protein R with uracil DNA glycosylase"

11:30-11:45

Marcella McClure, "Evolution and horizontal transfer of dUTPase genes in viruses and their hosts"

11:45-12:00

Claude Fauquet, "Inter-species recombination is a major engine for geminivirus evolution"

12:00 PM

Lunch

Session SIX: Constraints on Evolution
Session Chair: Over Cabrera

1:30-2:00 PM

Peter Simmonds, "Structural constraints on RNA virus evolution"

2:00-2:15

Joachim de Miranda, "Structural constraints on satellite RNA evolution"

2:15-2:30

Henry Huang, "Conserved cis-acting sequences of RNA viruses"

2:30-2:45

Lynn Cooper, "Reduced biological transmission of RNA virus populations following genetic bottlenecks" [abstract]

2:45-3:00

King Jordan, "Molecular evolution of the paramyxoviridae and rhabdoviridae multiple protein encoding P gene"

3:00-3:30

Coffee Break

Session SEVEN: The real world
Session Chair: Martin Yassi

3:30-4:00 PM

Mark Pallansch, "Identification and classification of human picornaviruses using capsid sequence data"

4:00-4:15

Paul Rota, "Contribution of virological surveillance to measles control and elimination programs"

4:15-4:30

Simon Frost, "Evolution and compartmentalisation of HIV-1 envelope under potent and suboptinal antiviral therapy"

4:30-4:45

Marilyn Roossinck, "What's really out there? A biodiversity inventory of viruses"

4:45-5:15

Jim Bull, "What we know and where we're going"

7:00 PM

Dinner & Dancing

 

Sunday, October 24, 1999

8:00-9:00 AM

Breakfast

Informal final discussions, departures

Virus Evolution Workshop - Main Page
Poster Presentations

 

To contact the organizers:
e-mail: mroossinck@noble.org
(please cc e-mail to adwilkins@noble.org)

Dr. Marilyn Roossinck
Plant Biology Division
The Noble Foundation
P.O. Box 2180
Ardmore, OK 73402

phone: 580 221-7342
FAX: 580 221-7380

 

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