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Abdel-Moneim AS, Murovska M, Söderlund-Venermo M, Vakharia VN, Wilson WC, Gladue DP, Moore MD, Alonso C, Abdelwahab SF, Venter M, Malik YS, Zhengli S, Saxena SK, Varma A, Kuhn RJ. WSV2023 - The second meeting of the world society for virology: One health - One world - One virology. Virology 2024; 594:110049. [PMID: 38527382 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2024.110049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2024] [Accepted: 03/06/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024]
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The Second International Conference of the World Society for Virology (WSV), hosted by Riga Stradiņš University, was held in Riga, Latvia, on June 15-17th, 2023. It prominently highlighted the recent advancements in different disciplines of virology. The conference had fourteen keynote speakers covering diverse topics, including emerging virus pseudotypes, Zika virus vaccine development, herpesvirus capsid mobility, parvovirus invasion strategies, influenza in animals and birds, West Nile virus and Marburg virus ecology, as well as the latest update in animal vaccines. Discussions further explored SARS-CoV-2 RNA replicons as vaccine candidates, SARS-CoV-2 in humans and animals, and the significance of plant viruses in the 'One Health' paradigm. The presence of the presidents from three virology societies, namely the American, Indian, and Korean Societies for Virology, highlighted the event's significance. Additionally, past president of the American Society for Virology (ASV), formally declared the partnership between ASV and WSV during the conference.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ahmed S Abdel-Moneim
- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Taif University, Al-Taif, Saudi Arabia; Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt.
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- Institute of Microbiology and Virology, Riga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia
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- Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Foreign Arthropod Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Manhattan, KS, USA
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- Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
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- Departmento de Biotecnología, INIA-CSIC, Centro Nacional Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Ctra. de La Coruña, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taif University, Al-Taif, Saudi Arabia
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- Zoonotic Arbo- and Respiratory Virus Research Program, Centre for Viral Zoonosis, Department of Medical Virology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- College of Animal Biotechnology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Centre for Advanced Research, Faculty of Medicine, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India
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- Advanced Centre for Plant Virology Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, and Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Immunology, & Infectious Disease, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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Söderlund-Venermo M, Varma A, Guo D, Gladue DP, Poole E, Pujol FH, Pappu H, Romalde JL, Kramer L, Baz M, Venter M, Moore MD, Nevels MM, Ezzikouri S, Vakharia VN, Wilson WC, Malik YS, Shi Z, Abdel-Moneim AS. World Society for Virology first international conference: Tackling global virus epidemics. Virology 2022; 566:114-121. [PMID: 34902730 PMCID: PMC8646940 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2021.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2021] [Revised: 11/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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This communication summarizes the presentations given at the 1st international conference of the World Society for Virology (WSV) held virtually during 16-18 June 2021, under the theme of tackling global viral epidemics. The purpose of this biennial meeting is to foster international collaborations and address important viral epidemics in different hosts. The first day included two sessions exclusively on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. The other two days included one plenary and three parallel sessions each. Last not least, 16 sessions covered 140 on-demand submitted talks. In total, 270 scientists from 49 countries attended the meeting, including 40 invited keynote speakers.
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- Advanced Centre for Plant Virology Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Center for Infection and Immunity Study, School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Level 5, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, Centro de Microbiología y Biología Celular Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, CRETUS & CIBUS-Faculty of Biology, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Arbovirus Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA
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- WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Peter Doherty Institute, Australia and Research Center in Infectious Diseases of the CHU of Québec and Université Laval, Melbourne, Victoria, Québec City, Quebec, Canada
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- Zoonotic Arbo- and Respiratory Virus Research Program, Centre for Viral Zoonosis, Department of Medical Virology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
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- Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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- Virology Unit, Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Casablanca, Morocco
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- Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Foreign Arthropod Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Manhattan, KS, USA
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- College of Animal Biotechnology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Microbiology Department, Virology Division, College of Medicine, Taif University, Al-Taif, Saudi Arabia, Virology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt,Corresponding author
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WSV 2019: The First Committee Meeting of the World Society for Virology. Virol Sin 2019; 35:248-252. [PMID: 31858457 PMCID: PMC7091360 DOI: 10.1007/s12250-019-00189-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Accepted: 11/28/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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The World Society for Virology (WSV) was founded and incorporated as a nonprofit organization in the United States in 2017. WSV seeks to strengthen and support both virological research and virologists who conduct research of viruses that affect humans, other animals, plants, and other organisms. One of the objectives of WSV is to connect virologists worldwide and support collaboration. Fulfilling this objective, virologists from fourteen countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East met on 25-27th August 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden at the Karolinska University Hospital for the first Committee Meeting of WSV. This meeting included compelling keynote and honorary speeches and a series of 18 scientific talks were given encompassing a diverse array of subjects within virology. Followed by the scientific session, a business session was held where multiple aspects and next steps of the society were discussed and charted out.
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