Program Rundown - 27 June 2026

Saturday, 27 June 2026

TIME
PROGRAM DETAIL
09:30 - 11:05
Scientific Session 4.1 Topic: Antivirals
Chairs: Bruno Canard, CNRS - Aix Marseille University (FR)
Stefan Pöhlmann, German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DE)
09:30 - 09:55
Invited speaker talk
Discovery and Development of Coronaviral Inhibitors targeting Viral Methyltransferases

Deyin Guo, Guangzhou National Laboratory (CN)
09:55-10:10
Allosteric Control of SARS-CoV-2 Exoribonuclease and Resistance to Nucleotide Analog-Based Antivirals
Chang Liu, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (US)
10:10-10:25
An ultrapotent bispecific nanobody delivered intranasally blocks contact transmission of SARS-CoV-1/2 and therapeutically clears MERS-CoV
Xiaoyu Zhao, Fudan University (CN)
10:25-10:40
A SARS-CoV-2 entry inhibitor trimerizes to lock the spike protein in a closed conformation
Huihui Mou, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School (US)
10:41-10:48
A Novel Host-Targeted Antiviral Inhibiting Glycerophospholipid Metabolism in Feline Infectious Peritonitis Virus Infection
Guoqian GU, City University of Hong Kong (CN)
10:49-10:56
Intranasal administration of a broadly neutralising macrocyclic peptide inhibitor protects against SARS-CoV-2 infection
Daniel Hurdiss, Utrecht University (NL)
10:56-11:05
Pan-coronavirus antiviral drug discovery driven by proteomic and gene expression analysis in alveolar type II cells
Jessica Neil, The University of Melbourne (AU)
11:05 - 11:25
Break
11:25 - 13:10
Scientific Session 4.2 Topic: Zoonotic transmission
Chair: Linda Saif, The Ohio State University (US)
Leo Poon, University of Hong Kong (CN)
Ying Fang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US)
11:25-11:50
Invited speaker talk
Viral recombination as a multiscale pathway of conditional constraints

Simon John Anthony, University of California Davis (US)
11:50-12:05
Species-specific expression of ACE2 in multiciliated airway cells determines SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility
Tim Breugem, Erasmus MC (NL)
12:05-12:20
Animal Organoids to Study Zoonotic Coronaviruses
Alexandre Bouffier, Erasmus Medical Center (NL)
12:20-12:35
Clade C MERS-CoV camel strains vary in protease usage during viral entry and interferon antagonism
Helena Winstone, University of Pennsylvania (US)
12:35-12:50
Experimental SARS-CoV-2 infection using horseshoe bats
Kaoru Usui, The University of Tokyo (JP)
12:50-13:05
Incidence, Genomic, and Phenotypic Characterization of Recent MERS-CoV Strains in East Africa
Marcel Müller, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
13:05-13:10
Flash Talk and Discussions
Evolution of receptor usage plasticity in merbecoviruses through a computational approach

Jarel Elgin Tolentino, The University of Tokyo (JP)
13:10-13:15
Closing Remarks by Co-Chairpersons
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