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Scientific Programme
Tuesday (23.09.2025)
13:00 – 13:05 p.m. Welcome address (John Ziebuhr)
13:05 – 14:30 p.m. Session A (Chair: Sandra Ciesek)
13:05 – 13:50 p.m. Volker Thiel (Bern):
Combating coronavirus infections by spotlighting translation
13:50 – 14:10 p.m. Marek Widera (Frankfurt):
The RNA enviroment in coronavirus-infected cells
14:10 – 14:30 p.m. Lucie Sauerhering (Marburg):
Antiviral activity and differential activation of interferon-stimulated genes in respiratory infections with low-versus highly pathogenic coronaviruses
14:30 – 14:50 p.m. coffee break
14:50 – 15:55 p.m. Session B (Chair: Susanne Herold)
14:50 – 15:35 p.m. Julian Hiscox (Liverpool):
How antiviral treatments can reshape coronavirus genomes and be used to predict future evolution
15:35 – 15:55 p.m. Michael Kracht (Gießen):
Lipid and protein kinase networks in the regulation of coronavirus replication
15:55 – 16:15 p.m. coffee break
16:15 – 17:20 Session C (Chair: John Ziebuhr)
16:15 – 17:00 p.m. Marjolein Kikkert (Leiden):
Coronavirus proteases – their lives and loves
17:00 – 17:20 p.m. Aparna Renigunta (Marburg):
Alphacoronavirus viroporins: functions and host cell interactions
18:30 - 21:30 p.m. Speakers Dinner - invite only
Wednesday (24.09.2025)
09:00 – 10:25 a.m. Session D (Chair: Denisa Bojkova)
09:00 – 09:45 a.m. Kai Dallmeier (Leuven)
Immunopathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 studied in hamsters - innate immunity as driver of severe respiratory disease and of gestational complications during COVID-19
09:45 – 10:05 a.m. Nadine Biedenkopf (Marburg):
To be or not to be (phosphorylated): Role of Coronavirus N phosphorylation in infection.
10:05 – 10:25 a.m. Eva Friebertshäuser (Marburg):
Host cell proteases in coronavirus entry
10:25 – 10:55 a.m. coffee break
10:55 – 12:00 a.m. Session E (Chair: Friedemann Weber)
10:55 – 11:40 a.m. Manja Marz (Jena):
Full RNA viral genome alignments with conserved RNA secondary structure annotations
11:40 – 12:00 a.m. Arnold Grünweller (Marburg):
Development of novel pan-antiviral inhibitors against the RNA-helicase eIF4A
12:00 – 12:45 p.m. Session F (Chair: Ramakanth Madhugiri)
- Christian Sauer (JLU): P1 pitch
- Stefanie Heß (GUF): P1 pitch
- Ida Kuhl (UMR): P2 pitch
- Irina Kuznetsova (JLU): P2 pitch
- Sebastian Pfeiffer (UMR): P4 pitch
- Samer Shaban (JLU): P4 pitch
- Usman Ghani (JLU): P5 pitch
- Chinmayi Venkatesh Bhat (UMR): P5 pitch
- Srinivas Pallerla (GUF): P6 pitch
- Maren Wieja (UMR): P6 pitch
- Emma Torbica (GUF): P7 pitch
- Stefan Merkl (UMR): P8 pitch
- Mohamed Darwish (JLU): P8 pitch
- Arne Auste (GUF): Z1 pitch
12:45 – 13:45 p.m. lunch break (soup + finger food) and poster walk
13:45 – 15:35 p.m. Session G (Chair: Stephan Becker)
13:45 – 14:30 p.m. Isabella Eckerle (Geneva) via ZOOM:
Emerging viruses - where public health, diagnostics and translational research meets
14:30 – 14:50 p.m. Christian Münch (Frankfurt):
Quantitative proteomics to study viral (co)infection
14:50 – 15:35 p.m. Christian Drosten (Charité Berlin):
Ongoing evolution of MERS-CoV, an emerging coronavirus with pandemic potential
15:35 – 16:15 p.m. closing coffee break and farewell
