Thursday, 5th December 12th Australasian Virology Society Meeting 2024

• Macro-scale evolution of mammalian viruses - Erin Harvey
• Extending the evolutionary history of disease-causing RNA viruses - Mary E Petrone
• Within-host genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 lineages in unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals - Ahmed Abdul Quadeer
• Antigenic evolution of the influenza B virus HA over 80 years of circulation in humans - Marios Koutsakos
• Diversity of insect-specific viruses in Culex mosquitoes collected in Papua New Guinea - Nayomi S Danthanarayana

Indigenous Virology Panel Session: What can we do as a society to better promote Indigenous representation and excellence in Virology?
Natalie Netzlar
Allison Imrie (online)
Trevor Lithgow
Lloyd Dolan (online)

• Ethical bioprospecting for phages across Australian landscapes. - Trevor Lithgow
• THE HTLV-1C GENOMIC LANDSCAPE REVEALS HOST-VIRUS INTERACTIONS IN A HUMANISED MOUSE MODEL OF INFECTION - Natasha Jansz

• Novel neuroimmune approaches to prevent transmission of mucosal viruses   - Yonatan Ganor
• The Molecular Clamp Platform: A broadly applicable solution to the manufacture of multivalent subunit vaccines for respiratory viruses - Andrew Young
• A novel long-range sequencing assay for HIV and HCV for use in a diagnostic setting - Bethany A Horsburgh
• Rethinking the way we treat viral-induced diseases: beyond the use of antivirals - Lara Herrero
• Characterization of Hepatitis B infected cells which retain covalently closed circular DNA during liver turnover - Henrik Zhang

• COVID: what else is to be discovered?   - Stephanie Gras
• New Insights Into Immune Dysregulation Following Infection of Domestic Pigs With Virulent African Swine Fever Virus - Samantha K Davis
• A protective bispecific antibody targets both Nipah virus surface glycoproteins and limits viral escape - Ariel Isaacs
• Affinity of Transmitted/Founder virus associates with early emergence of Hepatitis C Virus specific neutralising antibodies - Arunasingam Abayasingam
• Antigenic drift within the receptor binding site differentially modulates sialic acid binding by H1N1 viruses - Jenna Guthmiller

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