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VIII Jornada de Virologia SCB
Speakers
Christof Biebricher Albert Bosch Carlos Briones Esteban Domingo Manfred Eigen Cecilio López-Galíndez Susanna Manrubia Miguel Angel Martínez Andreas Meyerhans Isabel NovellaJean-Michel Pawlotsky Juan Carlos Saiz
Francisco Sobrino Ricard Solé
Roger Paredes
Juan Carlos de la Torre Marco Vignuzzi
Simon Wain-Hobson Charles Weissmann
November 17-18, 2008
Institut d´Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain
Scientific Committee
Jordi Gómez, Cecilio López-Galindez,
Miguel Angel Martínez and Antonio Mas Contacts and Registration
Societat Catalana de Biologia, Institut d'Estudis Catalans C/ Carme, 47, 08001 Barcelona Tel. 933 248 584 Fax. 932 701 180 email: [email protected]
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30
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VIII Jornada de Virologia SCB
Speakers
Christof Biebricher Albert Bosch Carlos Briones Esteban Domingo Manfred Eigen Cecilio López-Galíndez Susanna Manrubia Miguel Angel Martínez Andreas Meyerhans Isabel NovellaJean-Michel Pawlotsky Juan Carlos Saiz
Francisco Sobrino Ricard Solé
Roger Paredes
Juan Carlos de la Torre Marco Vignuzzi
Simon Wain-Hobson Charles Weissmann
November 17-18, 2008
Institut d´Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain
Scientific Committee
Jordi Gómez, Cecilio López-Galindez,
Miguel Angel Martínez and Antonio Mas Contacts and Registration
Societat Catalana de Biologia, Institut d'Estudis Catalans C/ Carme, 47, 08001 Barcelona Tel. 933 248 584 Fax. 932 701 180 email: [email protected]
http://scb.iec.cat
Scope
The first experimental evidence that an RNA virus population
consisted of distributions of mutant genomes, termed quasispecies, was first published 30 years ago by Charles Weissmann, Esteban Domingo and colleagues (Domingo et al. Cell 1978; 13: 735-744). This publication gave experimental support to the first theoretical treatment of a system that replicated with limited fidelity that was developed by Manfred Eigen (Eigen Naturwissenschaften 1971; 58: 465-523) to understand self-organization and adaptability of early life forms in earth. High mutation rates and quasispecies dynamics of RNA viruses are intimately related to viral disease, adaptive potential of viruses and therapeutic antiviral strategies. Moreover, the
quasispecies concept is being applied to other biological systems as tumors, in which a cellular mutant spectrum can be also detected. The meeting will start with a brief historical review of the most relevant findings but it will quickly move to present day questions regarding viral and theoretical quasispecies concepts and its more practical aspects concerning resistances to viral treatments for HIV and HCV and with the discussion of new strategies to treat these and other worldwide viral diseases.
Scientific Committee
Jordi Gómez, Insitituto de Investigación en Parasitología y Biomedicina Lopez Neyra, Granada, Spain, [email protected]
Cecilio López-Galindez, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain,
Miguel Angel Martínez, Fundació irsiCiaxa, Badalona, Spain,
Antonio Mas, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Albacete, Spain,
Format of the meeting
The meeting will bring together 17 speakers and a maximum of 120 participants (including speakers). The scientific program will start early in the morning of Monday, November 17, and will end around midday on Thursday, November 18. Ample time for informal
discussion will be reserved. Participants will be invited to present a poster.
Organized jointly by the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha and the Societat Catalana de Biologia
Speakers
Christof Biebricher, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göetingen, Germany
Albert Bosch, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Carlos Briones, Centro de Astrobiología, CSIC-INTA, Madrid, Spain
Esteban Domingo , Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain
Cecilio López-Galíndez, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Susanna Manrubia, Centro de Astrobiología, CSIC-INTA, Madrid, Spain
Miguel Angel Martínez, Fundació irsiCaixa, Badalona, Spain
Andreas Meyerhans, University of Saarsland, Germany
Isabel Novella, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA
Jean-Michel Pawlotsky, University of Paris XII, France.
Juan Carlos Saiz, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias, Madrid, Spain
Francisco Sobrino, Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain
Ricard Solé, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain and Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA
Roger Paredes, Fundació irsiCaixa, Badalona, Spain
Juan Carlos de la Torre, The Scripps Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
Marco Vignuzzi, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Simon Wain-Hobson, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Charles Weissmann, The Scripps Institute, Florida, USA
Venue
The meeting will be held in Barcelona, at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, a XVII century building with conference rooms for 156 participants and a cloister where coffee breaks, lunch and poster
sessions will take place. Carrer del Carme 47, 08001, Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona
Come on and find out what’s going on in Barcelona by checking out
http://www.bcn.cat/english/ihome.htm
Barcelona city map: http://www.bcn.es/guia/welcomea.htm
Barcelona virtual flight: http://www.bcn.es/volvirtual/en_bcn4d.html How to get to the Institut d´Estudis Catalans
Call for abstracts
Accepted abstracts will be displayed as posters during the entire conference from November 17th until November 18th, 2008. The acceptance decision will be notified by the end of October by
email. A few posters will be selected for a short oral talk.
The abstracts will appear in the booklet distributed among the participants as they have been sent. Please check your abstract
before posting it. They should be submitted using the abstract submission form below (Fields Last name, First name, Address,
E-mail, Title and Abstract are required). The deadline for submission is
October 17th, 2008.
The official language of the meeting will be English
Abstract should be send to: [email protected]
The posters size should not exceed 2 meters high by 1 meter wide (portrait). If the size is not respected, it will be not possible to
present your poster. Please bring tape to hold it on the metal
poster board (not provided on site).
Guidelines for Abstracts
- Abstracts should be written in English, 200 words maximum. - Use margins of 2,5 cm on left side and 2 cm on right side of the A4 page (21 cm x 29,7 cm).
- Format: word doc.
- Title: Times New Roman Font, size 14; it should be written in
lowercase bold letters at the top of the page.
- Authors: Times New Roman Font, size 12; skip one line after title; Underline name of the presenting author.
- Affiliation: Times New Roman Font, size 12; skip one line after authors' names; Department, Institution, city and country.
- Text: Times New Roman font, size 12; skip one line from affiliation, text should be adjusted to the left.
For any further information concerning your abstract or poster, please contact any member of the Scientific Committee.
Online Registration
Registration fee (TVA included) covers cost for admission to the scientific sessions, abstracts book, coffee breaks and lunch (November 17).
Fees:
Academics: 80€ Students: 50€
Members of the Societat Catalana de Biologia: free
Gala dinner (optional) (Evening November 17, Cloister of the Institut d´Estudis Catalans): 50€
To register go to:
http://scb.iec.cat/quasispecies/inscripcio.asp
Payment: by bank transfer to “la Caixa” 2100-0963-61-0200010607,
