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  Noble Foundation - Virus Evolution Schedule 1999 Plant Biology Division

Virus Evolution Workshop
Ardmore, OK
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"
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"
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"
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"
11:30-11:45 Gael Kurath, "Genetic diversity patterns and evolution of an aquatic rhabdovirus"
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"
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?"
8:30-8:45 Sid Baccam, "Rapid and dynamic evolution of quasispecies clouds during equine infectious anemia virus infection"
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"
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

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To contact the organizers:
e-mail: mroossinck@noble.org

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

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Updated October 11th, 1999

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