All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04:00)
Printable version of this schedule available here (pdf).
Monday, 9 September
8:00 am
Arrive to the CEID – Light breakfast, coffee, tea, and juice will be available
Review of the agenda and welcoming remarks given by John Drake, CEID
This event will be streamed live for virtual attendees.
8:30 AM
Michael Letko: “Looking for pre emergent threats with functional viromics”
9:00 AM
Christine Kreuder Johnson: “On the Frontlines: Surveillance for Emerging Viruses” (REMOTE)
9:30 AM
Break – Light snacks, coffee, tea, and juice will be available
10:00 AM
Angel Desai: “Spillovers 2.0: Assessing the Risk and Preparing for Disease X” (REMOTE)
10:30 AM
Iris Holmes: “Will Pathogen X follow the path of other spillovers?”
11:00 AM
Panel discussion: The Big Picture
11:30 AM
Working lunch served in the CEID
1:30 PM
Sophie Lockwood: “Leveraging within-host models to understand patterns in viral virulence and shedding”
2:00 PM
Poster session and break – Light snacks, coffee, tea, and juice will be available
3:00 PM
Alison Kell: “Understanding hantavirus virulence through host-specific innate immune activation”
3:30 PM
Raina Plowright: “Determinants of spillover from virus and host perspectives” (REMOTE)
4:00 PM
Panel Discussion: The Host Perspective
4:30 PM
Conclusion and review of details for symposium dinner
6:00 -9:00 PM
Networking dinner held at the Rialto Club inside Hotel Indigo
Tuesday, 10 September
All daytime events take place at CEID (map)
All talks and panel discussions will be streamed live.
In-person and virtual attendees will be able to participate in question/answer periods.
9:00 am (in-person attendees)
Arrive to the CEID – Light breakfast, coffee, tea, and juice will be available
9:15 am
Review of the agenda and welcoming remarks
9:30 AM
Colin Carlson: “Looking for biochemistry in all the wrong places: the dimensionality-interpretability tradeoff and embedding-based shortcuts” (REMOTE)
10:00 AM
Asher Leeks: “Social conflict within viral populations: from evolutionary causes to epidemiological consequences” (REMOTE)
10:30 AM
Tyler Starr: “Molecular evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and related bat coronaviruses”
11:00 AM
Jayna Raghwani: “How do viruses persist in changeable environments?”
11:30 AM
Panel Discussion: The Virus’ Point of View
12:00 PM
Working lunch served in the CEID, discussion topic TBD
1:00 PM
Stephanie Siefert: “Predicting host-virus compatibility from -omics data: promise and pitfalls”
1:30 PM
Louise Moncla: “Phylodynamic approaches for reconstructing highly pathogenic avian influenza evolution and transmission”
2:00 PM
Heather Wells: “Genetic and Ecological Drivers of Coronavirus Recombination”
2:30 PM
Katia Koelle: “Viral traits and pandemic emergence: can we bridge the disconnect with multiscale models”
3:00 PM
Panel Discussion: Ecology, Evolution, and Genetics
3:30 PM
Break – Light snacks, coffee, tea, and juice will be available
3:45 – 5:00 PM
Synthesis Session and closing remarks