Cell News 04/2018
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MEETING REPORT
1
CellNetworks, Center of Infectious Diseases, Virology,
University Hospital Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 344,
D-69120 Heidelberg.
2
Twincore, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection,
Institute for Experimental Virology, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 7,
D-30625 Hannover.
; Umeå Univer-
sity, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Virology; Wallen-
berg Center for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), 901 85 Umeå,
Sweden
Once again the GfV workshop “Cell Biology of Viral Infection”
aimed at bringing together virologists and cell biologists with
the intention to promote and encourage collaborations on cell
biological aspects of virus infections. New cell biological tools
and approaches are clearly needed to understand fundamental
principles of virus infection and enable preclinical research.
The research of the four keynote speakers of the 2018 meeting
perfectly illustrates this concept.
As in 2017, Dr. Pierre-Yves Lozach (Heidelberg) and Prof. Dr.
Gisa Gerold (Hannover) organized the annual workshop. The
conference was held at Kloster Schöntal, Germany, for the
fifth consecutive time; this year from October 15th to 17th
2018. All participants stayed directly at the conference site,
which stimulated active discussions during lunch and dinner
gatherings as well as during the social events such as the wine
tasting in the cellar.
The theme of this year was “High resolution approaches in
virology: from cell ultrastructure to OMICS”. The program in-
cluded four keynote lectures, a workshop on scientific editing,
22 oral presentations, and a poster session. The workshop res-
onance was again great with 45 participants, including among
others 23 students, nine post-docs, and five young group lead-
ers. The majority of the junior scientists were virologists from
various German academic research institutes, but also French,
Swiss, Swedish, Hungarian, Chilean, and Czech scientists came
High resolution approaches in virology:
from cell ultrastructure to OMICS
Meeting report of the 17th Workshop “Cell Biology of Viral Infections’’ of the German Society
of Virology (GfV) in Schöntal, October 15th–17th 2018.
By Pierre-Yves Lozach
1
and Gisa Gerold
2
Group photo with 2018 workshop participants in front of the main building of Kloster Schöntal.
