Introducing Our Featured Invited Speakers
Cedric Lood
University of Oxford, UK ๐ฌ๐ง
“Perspectives on the ICTV Computational Taxonomy Challenge”
Session 1: RNA Virus Categorization (Classification, Taxonomy & Naming)
Luke Hillary
University of California, Davis, USA ๐บ๐ธ
“Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MiUViG v2) and best practices in viral genome annotation.”
Session 2: Best Practices, Standards, and Annotations
Anja Pecman
National Institute of Biology – Ljubljana, Slovenia ๐ธ๐ฎ
“Nanopore sequencing for viral detection and surveillance”
Session 3: Sequencing & Extraction Methodologies for RNA Virus Discovery
Dimitris Karapliafis
Wageningen University & Research, Netherland ๐ณ๐ฑ
“RdRpCATCH: A unified framework for RNA virus discovery based on RdRp profile databases”
Community Project
Rayan Chikhi
Pasteur Institute, France ๐ซ๐ท
“Planetary-scale assembly of DNA/RNA sequencing data.”
Session 5: Data Mining and Metadata Analysis in RNA Virus Discovery
Xin Hou
Pasteur Institute, France ๐ซ๐ท
“Using artificial intelligence to document the hidden RNA virosphere.”
Session 6: Viral Dark Matter: Detecting Highly Divergent Viruses
Rachel Seongeun Kim
Seoul National University, Korea ๐ฐ๐ท
“BFVD-Foldseek: An integrative structure-based approach to highlight viral dark matter“
Session 6: Viral Dark Matter: Detecting Highly Divergent Viruses
Noriko Cassman
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany ๐ฉ๐ช
“VirJenDB: FAIR resources for virus researchers”
Deadlines for registration
Late registration: 27 April 2025
Remote registration: 9 May 2025