SCIENTIFIC SESSION 1: Enteric viruses & Neurovirology

Keynote Lecture: Enteroviruses – so much more than polio in the 21st century,
Thea Fischer, Denmark

Offered talk 1: One year of Europe-wide surveillance pilot for Enteroviral CNS infections, Caroline Klint Johannesen, Denmark
Offered talk 2: Organotypic Intestinal Cultures as Promising Model for Personalized Antiviral Treatment in Immunocompromised Patients, Katja Wolthers, Netherlands
Offered talk 3: Association between natural killer cell genetics and the development of Long COVID associated- and prepandemic small fiber neuropathy, Marianne Graninger, Austria

SCIENTIFIC SESSION 2: Pandemic preparedness and health services research

Keynote Lecture: Pandemic preparedness and health services research,
Richard Pebody, UK

Offered talk 4: Unlocking the full potential of wastewater-based epidemiology for pandemic preparedness: realistic quality assurance measures for the reliable detection of circulating and emerging viruses in wastewater, Marek Widera, Germany
Offered talk 5: AI-Optimized vaccination strategies to mitigate smallpox outbreaks in urban settings: A case study of Frankfurt, Tristan Learoyd, UK
Offered talk 6: Wastewater Surveillance Aids Real-time Tracking of Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza, Debasis Biswas, India

SCIENTIFIC SESSION 3: Respiratory viruses

Keynote Lecture: Emerging viruses – when public health, diagnostics and translational research meets, Isabella Eckerle, Switzerland

Offered talk 7: Characterization of RSV full-length viral genomes after Nirsevimab breakthrough infections in a large national observational real-world study conducted in France, Marie Anne Rameix Welti, France
Offered talk 8: Age- and cell-type-specific metabolic programming shapes respiratory and systemic immune responses against the Influenza A virus, Maike Willers, Germany
Offered talk 9: Characterization of antigenic relations of SARS-CoV-2 variants and population immunity using antigenic cartography, Janine Kimpel, Austria
Offered talk 10: The role of RSV viral load and co-infection on disease severity in a very large cohort of paediatric patients, Rossana Scutari, Italy
Offered talk 11: Coronaviruses impair resolution phase in monocytes via aberrant interferon signalling, Joshua D Kandler, Germany

SCIENTIFIC SESSION 4: 
Viromics and virus discoveryKeynote Lecture: Are there any more human cancer viruses left to be found? Patrick Moore, US

Offered talk 12: Multicenter benchmarking of short and long read wet lab protocols for clinical viral metagenomics, Xavier Lopez-Labrador, Spain
Offered talk 13: Tracing the origin, spread and molecular evolution of Dengue type 1 cases occurred in Northern Italy in 2023, Greta Romano, Italy
Offered talk 14: Metagenomic and transcriptomic investigation of paediatric acute liver failure cases, Jutte J.c. De Vries, Netherlands
Offered talk 15: Evaluating metagenomics and targeted approaches for diagnosis and surveillance of viruses, Oscar Enrique Torres Montaguth, UK
Offered talk 16: Detection of clinically relevant viral pathogens using antibody capture and metagenomic sequencing, Leonard Schuele, Netherlands

SCIENTIFIC SESSION 5: 
Viruses, tumors and immunocompromised hostsGardner Lecture: Viruses, Cancer and Immunocompromised Hosts, Hans Hirsch, Switzerland

Offered talk 17: HCMV-specific T-cell response as a tool for predicting late HCMV reactivation in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients after letermovir prophylaxis, Irene Cassaniti, Italy
Offered talk 18: Characterization of the Blood Virome in Liver Transplant Patients, Alessandra Franze, Spain
Offered talk 19: Intraindividual evolution of noroviral sequences during protracted infections, Dieter Hoffmann, Germany
Offered talk 20: Viral infections in Stem Cell Transplant recipients with posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder: Torque Teno Virus as a marker of immune function, Martyna Sylwia Pociupany, Belgium
Offered talk 21: Investigating nosocomial BK Polyomavirus infections in paediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients: challenges and prospects, Aurélien Aubry, France

12:30 – 13:30

INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM 1

SCIENTIFIC SESSION 6:
Advancements in diagnostics & clinical casesKeynote Lecture: Innovative diagnostic approaches towards persistent viruses and associated diseases, Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl, Austria

Offered talk 22: Transient biopsy-proven progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in an elderly woman without known immunodeficiency, Christine Hanssen Rinaldo, Norway
Offered talk 23: National-scale environmental and clinical surveillance of Poliovirus strains using novel quantitative PCR assays, Oran Erster, Israel
Offered talk 24: Genomic studies of adeno-associated virus hepatitis, Sarah Buddle, UK
Offered talk 25: Impact of inherited human herpesvirus 6 in transplantation, Leo Hannolainen, Finland
Offered talk 26: A Novel Next Generation Sequencing Approach for Detecting Antiviral Resistance Mutations in Cytomegalovirus, Maria Arnedo Muñoz, Spain

SCIENTIFIC SESSION 7:
Diagnostic Stewardship / Diagnostic test accuracyKeynote Lecture: Diagnostic Stewardship in Clinical Virology as Strategy! Hubert G.M. Niesters, Netherlands

Offered talk 27: Performance of a novel dual marker RT-qPCR- based whole-blood assay for the detection of SARS-CoV-2-reactive T cells, Franziska M. Kanis, Germany
Offered talk 28: Are we using syndromic meningitis testing rationally? Five-year experience of a university hospital laboratory, Zeynep Ceren Karahan, Turkey
Offered talk 29: Prospective comparison of cytomegalovirus quantification in whole blood and plasma samples among hematopoietic stem cell transplant and kidney transplant recipients, Linda Feghoul, France
Offered talk 30: Dengue virus shedding kinetics in body fluids of infected patients, Rome, Italy, 2018-2023, Giulia Matusali, Italy
Offered talk 31: Diagnosing acute Epstein-Barr Virus infections: do all roads lead to Rome? Jos Van Acker, Belgium

SCIENTIFIC SESSION 11:

Emerging and re-emerging viral infections & One health

Keynote Lecture: A virologist’s lookback on COVID-19, Christian Drosten, Germany

Offered talk 47: High West Nile virus infection rates in mosquitoes from Berlin, 2023, Corinna Patzina Mehling, Germany
Offered talk 48: A 10 year long-lived cellular and humoral MERS-CoV immunity cross-recognizing the Wild-type and Variants of SARS-CoV-2: a potential one-way MERS-CoV cross-protection towards a pan-coronavirus vaccine, Bandar Alosaimi, Saudi Arabia
Offered talk 49: Seroprevalence and vaccination coverage of tick-borne encephalitis in Sweden, Bo Albinsson, Sweden
Offered talk 50: Identifying gaps in population immunity in light of large measles outbreaks in Austria in 2023 and 2024, David Niklas Springer, Austria
Offered talk 51: Comparison of neutralizing and binding antibodies levels against different orthopoxviruses in mpox patients and healthy vaccinated individuals, Concetta Castilletti, Italy

SCIENTIFIC SESSION 12:
Hepatitis, HIV and other blood borne viruses

Keynote Lecture: Hepatitis D Virus infection; present status,
Mario Rizzetto, Italy

Offered talk 52: HDV infection in the UK, Will Irving, UK
Offered talk 53: HIV-2 infections in Southern France and genotypic assessment though genome next generation sequencing, Philippe Colson, France
Offered talk 54: Heterogeneity in the diagnostic performances of HDV RNA quantification assays used in clinical practice in Italy: data from the first national quality control multicenter study, Romina Salpini, Italy
Offered talk 55: Large Hepatitis E virus Genotype 3 outbreak in New Caledonia Island, Florence Abravanel, France
Offered talk 56: Evaluation of a Sanger sequencing-based kit for genotyping drug resistance mutations in various HIV-1 subtypes using clinical and analytical samples, Ontlametse T Bareng, Austria

SCIENTIFIC SESSION 13:
Prizes session

Biomérieux Award Lecture: The good and the bad; update on polyoma- and anelloviruses, Mariet Feltkamp, Netherlands

European Diagnostic Virology Award Lecture: Metagenomics for the diagnosis of infection, Juliane Brown, UK

Heine -Medin Award Lecture: From Endemic to Pandemic: The promise and realization of real-time phylogenetics, Emma Hodcroft, Switzerland

Offered talk 57: Genomic diversity of cytomegalovirus in congenital infections in France, Jacques Fourgeaud, France