Virus Evolution across scales
A series of Jacques Monod Conferences on the central theme of Virus Evolution started in 2009. The fifth edition, which will take place in Roscoff in 2027 (October 18-22), aims at bringing together scientists working at and across different biological scales to further understanding of the forces shaping viral evolution. While research focused at a single scale of biological organization often yields valuable insights, integration across scales can be extremely revealing: it is now well accepted that processes at one scale condition outcomes across scales.
For example, viral processes occurring within individual cells define the spatial and genetic structures of viral populations within hosts. These features of within-host populations in turn shape virus transmission modes and bottlenecks. Within- and between- host processes are potent determinants of host range and viral emergence, which in turn drive effects at the level of host populations and ecosystems, including the timing and duration of epidemic waves and viral evolutionary change over long time scales.
To explore these concepts the meeting will gather researchers using theoretical, bioinformatic and empirical approaches. It will furthermore draw on experts working with a broad range of viruses, including those of distinct taxa, genomic architecture and host kingdoms, potentially allowing the identification of generalizations and idiosyncrasies. This conference is very timely, as emerging viruses continue to challenge human, animal and plant populations, rendering our understanding of the underlying processes and the scales at which they operate extremely relevant.
We strongly encourage early applications because of limited room capacity.
Chairperson
Yannis Michalakis
CNRS MIVEGEC, 911 avenue Agropolis, 34394 MONTPELLIER, France
Phone : +33448191867
E-mail : yannis.michalakis@ird.fr
Vice-chairperson
Anice Lowen
Emory University Microbiology and Immunology, 1510 Clifton Rd, 30030 Atlanta, United States
Phone : +14047274721
E-mail : anice.lowen@emory.edu
(provisional titles)
Raul Andino (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UC San Francisco; USA)
Harnessing evolutionary principles to engineer safer, more robust live-attenuated vaccines
Christian Althaus (University of Bern, ISPM, Bern, Switzerland)
From viral evolution to pandemic preparedness
Mike Boots (Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, USA)
Population structure and the evolution of pathogens
Ignacio G. Bravo (CRBM, CNRS, Montpellier, France)
Swimming the river of latent viral infections
Anne Chevallereau (Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)
Role of mobile genetic elements in spreading anti-phage systems
Simon Dellicour (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium)
Molecular epidemiological approaches to investigate the dispersal dynamic of viruses and the environmental factors impacting it
Matthias Fischer (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany)
The diverse particle structures of uncultured giant viruses
Emma Hodcroft (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland)
Diversity, recombination, and the evolutionary dynamics of enteroviruses
Katia Koelle (Emory University, Atlanta, USA)
How fate leads and drags viral mutations within and across hosts
Mart Krupovic (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Origin and organization of the virosphere
Ryan Langlois (University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA)
Using a fibroblast zoo to determine host factors driving virus evolution
Anice Lowen (Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA)
Influenza A virus population dynamics within and between hosts
Rosa Lozano-Durán (University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany)
A virus' guide to hijack a plant
Karim Majzoub (Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, Montpellier, France)
Deltavirus infection in human and animal hosts
Yannis Michalakis (MIVEGEC, Montpellier, France)
Genome segmentation and multipartite viruses
Louise Moncla (The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Ecology and evolution of avian influenza viruses
Israel Pagan (Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Madrid, Spain)
Plant virus evolution in the presence of phytopathogenic bacteria
Mathilde Richard (Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Tracking the antigenic evolution of H5 influenza viruses to enable subtype-wide H5 vaccine development
Simon Roux (Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, USA)
Viral ecogenomics: exploring viral diversity and virus-host interactions from metagenomes
Carla Saleh (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Thermal stress shifts Drosophila-virus interactions along the parasitism-mutualism continuum
Manuela Sironi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy)
Structural-functional relationships in the evolution of viral proteins
Silke Stertz (University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
MHC-II entry competence as zoonotic trait of influenza A viruses
Clara Torres-Barceló (Plant Health Institute Montpellier, INRAE, Montpellier, France)
The Red Queen in rice paddies: spatial and evolutionary dynamics of phage–host interactions
Romain Volmer (INRAE- Ecole nationale vétérinaire de Toulouse, Toulouse, France)
Evolutionary pathways leading to the emergence of high pathogenicity avian influenza viruses
Sheree Yau (Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France)
Hypervariable genomic regions in prasinoviruses: drivers of virion architecture and host–virus interactions?
Notification of acceptance or rejection for the submitted paper will be intimated within 15 working days of abstract submission deadline. If your abstract is accepted, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with instructions for joining the meeting.