Cell News 04/2019
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MEETING REPORT
1
CellNetworks, Center of Infectious Diseases, Virology, Univer-
sity Hospital Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 344, D-69120
Heidelberg.
;
UMR754-IVPC INRA Univ Lyon 1 EPHE, University Claude Ber-
nard, 50 avenue Tony Garnier, 69366 Lyon cedex 07, France
2
Twincore, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection, Insti-
tute for Experimental Virology, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 7, D-30625
Hannover.
Umeå University, Depart-
ment of Clinical Microbiology, Virology; Wallenberg Center for
Molecular Medicine (WCMM), 901 85 Umeå, Sweden
The theme of this year was “Cell biology of zoonotic viral
infections: from reservoirs to humans”. The program included
four keynote lectures, a workshop on scientific editing, 20 oral
presentations, and a poster session. The workshop resonance
was again great with 48 participants, including among others
33 students and post-docs.
The majority of the junior scientists were virologists from
various German academic research institutes, but also many
scientists from Pasteur Institute in Paris came to the former
Cistercian monastery. The four excellent keynote speakers from
England, Scotland, and Germany as well as the enthusiastic
participants significantly contributed to the success of the
workshop. We were extremely satisfied that students actively
participated in the lively discussions with their colleagues
including the keynote speakers.
The workshop opened with the inspiring keynote lecture “Ex-
ploring the diversity of mosquito-borne viruses” given by PD
Cell biology of zoonotic viral infections: from reservoirs to humans
Meeting report of the 18
th
Workshop “Cell Biology of Viral Infections’’ of the German Research
Platform for Zoonoses and German Society of Virology (GfV) in Schöntal, October 23
rd
–25
th
, 2019.
By Pierre-Yves Lozach
1
and Gisa Gerold
2
Group photo with 2019 workshop participants in front of the main building of Kloster Schöntal.
