Organized in coordination between the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine and the Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland.
Preliminary program in pdf available here.
Monday, April 7th 2025.
8:00 Registration
10.00 Welcome Note of the Organizers
10. 15 Welcome Note of the Dean, Medical Faculty, University of Geneva
Opening lectures (Keynote)
10.30 The current landscape of emerging viruses: WHO’s perspective
Speaker tbc
11.15 The current landscape of new vaccines and vaccine innovation
Speaker tbc
12.00 Lunch break
Session I: Arboviruses – in Europa and on a global scale
13.00 Clinical primer : Imported West Nile Virus in an immunocompromised host
Pauline Vetter, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
13.10 Mosquito surveillance and vector competence in Switzerland
Eva Veronesi, SUPSI, Bellinzona, Switzerland
13.35 Autochthonous arbovirus outbreaks in France
Xavier de Lamballerie, CNR Arbovirus, Marseille, France
14.00 Vaccines against Arboviruses
Anna Durbin, John-Hopkins-University, USA
14.25 Oropouche virus – the next emerging arbovirus?
Speaker tbc
14.50 Coffee break
Session II: Enteroviruses
15.10 Clinical primer
Speaker tbc
15.20 Enteroviruses - harmless fellow passengers or next disease X?
Heli Harvala, University of Turku, Finland
15.45 Enteroviruses evolution and diversity
Speaker tbc
16.10 Mini-Break
Session III: Hot topic
16.30 To be announced shortly before the meeting
Speaker tbc
16.55 Mini-Break
Session III: Prepardness in Switzerland
17.05 Prepardness in Switzerland
Speaker tbc
Evening Lectures (Keynote)
17.45 Welcome Note of the Medical Director/CEO of the hospital
18.40 There will be no warning for the next pandemic
Justin Lessler, John Hopkins University, USA
Social Program
19.15 Apero
Tuesday , April 8th 2025.
Session I: Influenza viruses
9.00 Clinical primer
Speaker tbc
9.15 How to select the next influenza vaccine
Kanta Subarrao, Laval University, Canada
9.40 What did we learn from COVID vaccine to inform design of better Influenza vaccines?
Robert Van der Most, VaxxCellence
10.05 Pepandemic vaccins
Speaker tbc
10.30 Coffee Break
Session II: Poxviruses
11.00 Clinical primer
Stephano Musumeci, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
11.15 Mpox in DRC
Placide Mbala, National Institute of Biomedical Research, Democratic Republic of Congo
11.40 The UNITY trial
Alexandra Calmy, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
12.05 Mpox vaccine update
Kari Johanson, The Public Health Agency, Sweden
12.30 Mpox is the return of Smallpox
Laurent Kaiser, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
13.00 Lunch Break
Session III: Coronaviruses
14.00 Adaptive immune responses are larger and functionally preserved in a COVID-19 hypervaccinated individual
Kilian Schober, University of Erlangen, Germany
14.15 Viral evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and genomic surveillance
Tulio Oliveira, Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, South Africa
14.40 MERS-vaccine
Marylyn Addo, UKE, Germany
15.05 Towards a pan-sarbecovirus vaccine to protect against SARS-CoV-2 variants and animal sarbecoviruses
Pamela Bjorkman, California Institute of Technology, USA,
15.30 Coffee Break
Session IV: Animal vaccination and the One Health Approach
16.00 Clinical primer
Speaker tbc
16.15 One Health: vaccination approaches in animals
Joris Vandeputte
16.40 One Health influenza
Martin Beer, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Germany
17.05 Work in greenland permafrost
Marion Koopmans, Erasmus Medical Centre
17.35 Prospects and approaches for hunting viral spillovers: Nipah virus in Bangladesh as a case study
Emily Gurley, John Hopkins University
18.30 Mini Break
Evening Lecture (Keynote)
18.45 Emerging viruses & vaccination in times of humanitarian crisis
Jerome Singh, University of Toronto, Canada
Social Program
20.00 Conference dinner
Wednesday, April 9th 2025.
Session I: Marburg Virus Diseases
09.00 Clinical primer
Frédérique Jacquerioz, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
09.15 Marburg outbreak Rwanda
Eric Seruyange
09.40 Treatment of Marburg virus
Amanda Rojek
10.05 Use of genomics during an outbreak
Speaker tbc
10.30 Vaccination against Marburg
Claude Mambo Muvunyi
10.55 Coffee break
Session II: Towards eradication by vaccination
11.20 Measles eradication
Peter Strebel, World Health Organization, Switzerland
11.45 Poxvirus eradication
Rao, Agam K., Center for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
12.30 Closing Remarks & Farewell
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