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Vaslin MFS, da Silva GPD, Leal AA, Bueno LM, Bittar C, de Souza GF, Lourenço K, Guedes MIMC, Proença-Módena JL, Araújo Júnior JP, Ferreira HL, da Fonseca FG. 33rd Brazilian Society for Virology (SBV) 2022 Annual Meeting. Viruses 2023; 15:v15040943. [PMID: 37112924 PMCID: PMC10145839 DOI: 10.3390/v15040943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Each year, the Brazilian Society for Virology promotes a national meeting during the second semester of the year. In October 2022, the 33rd meeting took place at Arraial da Ajuda, Porto Seguro, Bahia, in-person:.this was the first in-person meeting since 2019, as the 2020 and 2021 events occurred online due to the issues imposed by COVID-19. It was a great pleasure for the whole audience to return to an in-person event, which certainly improved the interactions between the attendees in all ways. As usual, the meeting involved massive participation of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoc students, and several noteworthy international researchers were present. During five afternoons and evenings, attendees could discuss and learn about the most recent data presented by distinguished scientists from Brazil and other countries. In addition, young virology researchers from all levels could present their latest results as oral presentations and posters. The meeting covered all virology areas, with conferences and roundtables about human, veterinary, fundamental, environmental, invertebrate, and plant virology. The costs associated with attending the in-person event caused a slight reduction in the number of attendees compared to the two online events. However, even with this issue, the attendance was impressive. The meeting successfully achieved its most important goals: inspiring young and senior scientists and discussing high-quality, up-to-date virology research.
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Affiliation(s)
- Maite Freitas Silva Vaslin
- Departamento de Virologia, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21941-599, Brazil
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- Departamento de Virologia, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21941-599, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Pesquisa em Virologia Animal, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva, Escola de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte 31270-901, Brazil
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- Departamento de Medicina Veterinária, FZEA-USP, Universidade de São Paulo, Pirassununga 13635-900, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São José do Rio Preto 15054-000, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Evolução, Microbiologia e Imunologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas 13083-862, Brazil
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- Instituto de Biotecnologia (IBTEC), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Botucatu 18607-440, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Pesquisa em Virologia Animal, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva, Escola de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte 31270-901, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Evolução, Microbiologia e Imunologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas 13083-862, Brazil
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- Instituto de Biotecnologia (IBTEC), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Botucatu 18607-440, Brazil
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- Departamento de Medicina Veterinária, FZEA-USP, Universidade de São Paulo, Pirassununga 13635-900, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte 31270-901, Brazil
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Vaslin MFS, Leal AA, Bueno LM, Bittar C, de Souza GF, Lourenço K, da Silva GPD, Guedes MIMC, Proença-Módena JL, Araújo Junior JP, Ferreira HL, da Fonseca FG. The 32nd Brazilian Society of Virology (SBV) 2021 Annual Meeting. Viruses 2022; 14:644. [PMID: 35337051 PMCID: PMC8954501 DOI: 10.3390/v14030644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2022] [Accepted: 03/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The Brazilian Society of Virology has been organizing annual meetings for 32 years now. The 32nd annual meeting, which occurred in 2021, was once again an online meeting in consequence of the issues imposed by COVID-19, even with the vaccination advances. As in the 2020 meeting, the number of attendees was high, with considerable participation by undergraduate, graduate, and postdoc students. Distinguished scientists from different countries offered high-quality conferences, and oral presentation sessions were presented by young scientists showing their newest research results. For almost five hours a day during five days, attendees discussed high-quality science related to all areas of virology. Even with the difficulties imposed by another pandemic year, the 32nd SBV annual meeting achieved its most important goal-to inspire young scientists and discuss high-quality virology research.
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Affiliation(s)
- Maite Freitas Silva Vaslin
- Departamento de Virologia, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro 21941-599, RJ, Brazil;
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- Laboratório de Pesquisa em Virologia Animal, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva, Escola de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte 31270-901, MG, Brazil; (A.A.L.); (M.I.M.C.G.)
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- Departamento de Medicina Veterinária, FZEA-USP, Universidade de São Paulo, Pirassununga 13635900, SP, Brazil; (L.M.B.); (H.L.F.)
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- Laboratório de Estudos Genômicos, Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE), Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), São José do Rio Preto 15054-000, SP, Brazil;
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- Instituto de Biotecnologia (IBTEC), Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Botucatu 18607-440, SP, Brazil; (G.F.d.S.); (J.P.A.J.)
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte 31270-901, MG, Brazil;
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- Departamento de Virologia, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro 21941-599, RJ, Brazil;
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- Laboratório de Pesquisa em Virologia Animal, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva, Escola de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte 31270-901, MG, Brazil; (A.A.L.); (M.I.M.C.G.)
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- Departamento de Genética, Evolução, Microbiologia e Imunologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas 13083-682, SP, Brazil;
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- Instituto de Biotecnologia (IBTEC), Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Botucatu 18607-440, SP, Brazil; (G.F.d.S.); (J.P.A.J.)
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- Departamento de Medicina Veterinária, FZEA-USP, Universidade de São Paulo, Pirassununga 13635900, SP, Brazil; (L.M.B.); (H.L.F.)
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte 31270-901, MG, Brazil;
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Arruda LB, Campos FS, Abrahão JS, da Fonseca FG, Araújo Junior JP, Rosado Spilki F. 31st Brazilian Online Society for Virology (SBV) 2020 Annual Meeting. Viruses 2021; 13:414. [PMID: 33807596 DOI: 10.3390/v13030414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The year 2020 was profoundly marked by the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2, causing COVID-19, which represents the greatest pandemic of the 21st century until now, and a major challenge for virologists in the scientific and medical communities. Increased numbers of SARS-CoV-2 infection all over the world imposed social and travel restrictions, including avoidance of face-to-face scientific meetings. Therefore, for the first time in history, the 2020 edition of the Brazilian Society of Virology (SBV) congress was totally online. Despite the challenge of the new format, the Brazilian society board and collaborators were successful in virtually congregating more than 921 attendees, which was the greatest SBV participant number ever reached. Seminal talks from prominent national and international researchers were presented every night, during a week, and included discussions about environmental, basic, animal, human, plant and invertebrate virology. A special roundtable debated exclusively new data and perspectives regarding COVID-19 by some of the greatest Brazilian virologists. Women scientists were very well represented in another special roundtable called “Young Women Inspiring Research”, which was one of the most viewed and commented section during the meeting, given the extraordinary quality of the presented work. Finally, SBV offered the Helio Gelli Pereira award for one graduate and one undergraduate student, which has also been a fruitful collaboration between the society and Viruses journal. The annual SBV meeting has, therefore, reached its goals to inspire young scientists, stimulate high-quality scientific discussion and to encourage global collaboration between virologists.
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