INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS JERUSALEM

[J.W.Almond]

A call to virologists:

The Xth International Congress of Virology will be held from August 11th - 16th, 
1996 in the historial city of Jerusalem.  The International Congress is the  most 
prestigious event in the virological calendar and the organisers intend to make the 
Jerusalem meeting at least as successful as previous meetings.  As before, the 
format will be based around morning plenary sessions with workshops plus poster 
sessions in the afternoons and round table discussions in the evenings.

There will be an attractive social programme and plenty of options for pre and post 
congress tours to the many historical sites in Israel.  

Full information on the Congress in the form of a Second Announcement booklet with 
registration and abstracts forms is available from Kenes, P.O. Box 50006, Tel-Aviv 
61500, Israel, Tel: 972 3 514 0000, Fax: 972 3 517 5674 or 972 3 514 0077, E.mail: 
VIROLOGY @ Kenes.ccmail.compuserve.com. (please DO NOT contact the author of this 
E-mail message for information regarding attendance). 

The Scientific programme is as follows:

 PLENARY SESSIONS 
1.  The origin of viruses and their evolution in the 20th Century environment.

J J Holland  The origin and evolution of viruses
BWJ Mahy	Emergence and Re-emergence of Virus Infections.
O. Tomori	Virus diseases in the developing world.
C.M. Fauquet	 Emergence, Evolution and Quantative Taxonomy of  Geminiviridae and 
Potyviridae.
Duncan McGeoch  The deep evolutionary history of the herpesvirus family
Michael Studdert  Emerging viruses of veterinary importance: impact on the human 
condition.

2. Virus-cell interplay

Elliott Kieff  Seizing control of B lymphocyte growth: how Epstein-Barr Virus does 
it.
Bob Lamb  The Biology of the Influenza Virus Ion Channel Activity.
James Carrington  Virus-Cell Interplay Interactions during Plant Potyvirus 
Infection.
Eileen White  Control of apoptosis by adenoviral oncogenes.
Peter Howley 	The function of the HPV oncoproteins in inactivating cellular 
regulatory proteins.

3.  Virus genome replication and expression

Charles Rice  Replication of alphaviruses and flaviviruses
B Matija Peterlin  The Regulation of HIV Gene Expression
Paul Ahlquist Virus and Host Functions in Bromovirus RNA Replication and Gene 
Expression.
Jerard Hurwitz  The controls in DNA replication.
Inder Verma  Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy.

4. Virus host range and cell tropism

Akio Nomoto Cellular Receptors for Picornaviruses
Kathryn Holmes  Host factors in coronavirus binding and penetration.
Jack Johnson Membrane translocation of RNA in small, non-enveloped viruses: 
implications from atomic resolution crystallography
J.G. Atabekov  Virus movement in plants
Hans-Dieter Klenk Cellular proteases involved in virus replication

5. Virus Pathogenesis and control

Geoff Smith  (The Edward Jenner Memorial Lecture) Jenner's smallpox vaccine 
1796-1996: new insights from an olde vaccinae.
David Ho  Kinetics of HIV and CD4 lymphocytes in vivo.
Ann Hill Diverse strategies used by herpesviruses to avoid T cell recognition.
Bill Wold  Adenovirus Proteins that Block Host Antiviral Defenses.
Yechiel Becker Dendritic cells responses to virus infections or vaccines determine 
the disease manifestation in humans and animals.

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS:
1.  How to vaccinate against AIDS.  Jim Stott & David Ho
2.  How to prepare for the next Influenza pandemic.  Ian Gust, Nancy Cox
3. Intervention in Hepatitis B and C virus infections.  Kimitada Shimotohno Peter 
Simmonds. R. Tur-Kaspa

WORKSHOPS/POSTERS
Unlike previous congresses, the vast majority of the 64 workshops/poster sessions 
are 
based on cross-cutting topics rather than taxonomic groupings.  The organisers hope 
that most delegates will be able to find an appropriate session for their submitted 
abstracts.  
Oral presentations will be selected by the chairmen from abstracts submitted to 
their 
particular workshop/poster session.

CONTROL OF VIRUS INFECTIONS      
Anti-HIV drug design and approaches to therapy   Jon Karn and Esther Priel   

Eradication of Virus Diseases   Heinz Zeichhardt and Walter Dowdle   

New approaches to antiviral agents   Peter Colman and Yung-Chi Cheng   

Mechanisms of viral drug resistance    B. Larder and Ehud Katz   

Virus diseases in developing countries: Clinical aspects and control.   N.K 
Blackburn and. Prasert Thongcharoen.   

Hepatitis virus epidemiology and control   Edna Ben-Porath and Miriam Alter   

Diagnosis and treatment of respiratory virus infections   Monica Grandien and Ramy 
Morag   

Hepatitis C virus and its control   K. Shimotohno and Peter Simmonds   

Virus vaccine production in developing countries.   Avigdor Shafferman and Isao 
Arita   

Molecular techniques in rapid viral diagnosis   S K Lam and C R Madeley         


GENERAL VIROLOGY      
Algal viruses   Said Ghabrial and James Van Etten   

Viral bioinformatics   M Horzinek and Ed Rybicki   

Phylogenetic Virus taxonomy   Fred Murphy and Vivian Mautner   

Biology of vector borne viruses   J Mackenzie and Shlomo Lustig   

Virus diseases in developing countries: Epidemiology and diagnosis   Lechaim Naggan 
and Olen Kew   

Viruses of fungi and protozoa   Donald Nuss and Jean Patterson   

Insect viruses: biology and pest control   Nor Chejanovsky and Ouriel Faktor      

MOLECULAR  VIROLOGY      
Positive strand RNA virus replication and transcription   E. Wimmer and P. Ahlquist 
  

Virus DNA replication   E Fanning and K Nagata   

Apoptosis in virus infected cells   Eileen White and Sara Lavi   

Plant and Animal Virus populations and evolution   E. Domingo and Eugene Koonin   

Virus receptors, uptake and disassembly   Ari Helenius and Ernst Kuechler   

Three dimensional structure of plant and animal viruses   Lars Liljas and David 
Stuart   

Structure and function of viral membrane proteins   Franz Heinz and Eric Hunter    

Post translational processing of viral proteins   J Strauss and J Rose   

Negative strand RNA virus replication and transcription   Gail Wertz and Laurent 
Roux   

Virus-host protein interactions   Dick Compans and Joe Esposito   

Gene expression in DNA viruses   Niza Fraenkel and Ron Hay   

Viral proteases   Rob Goldbach and Moshe Kotler    

Encapsidation of virus genomes   Leonard Mindich and Sondra Schlesinger   

Virus vectors   Peter Palese and Kenneth Berns   

Virus assembly   Ariella Oppenheim and Jack Johnson   

The molecular biology of insect viruses   Max Bergoin and Jacov Tal   

Control of viral mRNA translation   Richard Jackson and Nahum Sonenberg   

Replication of plant DNA viruses   Simon Covey and B. Gronenborn   

Molecular epidemiology and diversity of HIV   Jaap Goudsmit and Ami Vonsover        
 

VIRAL PATHOGENESIS   
Viral gastroenteritis   Osamu Nakagomi and Ron Dagan   

Veterinary virus diseases   M Studdert and Yehuda Stram   

Virus infections of the CNS   D. Gilden and Dan Engelhard   

Animal Models and AIDS   E. Jim Stott and  Marc Girard    

Cytokines and interferons in virus infections   Michel Revel and Samuel Salzberg   

Persistent virus infections.   Michel Brahic and Ernest Winocour   

Prion diseases   Ruth Gabizon and Bruce Cheseboro   

HIV pathogenesis   John Mills and Zvi Bentwich   

Virus interactions with the cell cycle   Yosef Shaul and Peter Howley   

Virus infections in the immunocompromised host   Morag Timbury and Bracha 
Rager-Zisman    

Latency and its control   C Preston and Israel Steiner   

Immunomodulation by virus infections   Rachel Ehrlich and G Smith   

Virus induced cancer   Amos Panet and G Klein   

Control of species specificity and tissue tropism   Kathryn Holmes and F. Wild   

Immunity to virus infections   J P Levy and Ann Hill         


BACTERIOPHAGES   
Industrial and environmental aspects of bacteriophages   Robert Armon and H Neve    

Strategies of bacteriophage genome expression and replication   Jack Manniloff and 
Tapani Alatossava   

Bacteriophage-host interactions   Ruud Konings and Wolfram Zillig   

Bacteriophage structure and assembly   Dennis Bamford and Roger Hendrix   


PLANT VIRUSES   
Virus genome - host plant interactions   T. Mike Wilson and W O Dawson   

Viroids   H.L. Sanger and R.H. Symons   

Alpha and picorna-like plant viruses   J. Shaw and J F Bol.   

Resistance mechanisms to plant virus   D.C. Baulcombe and D. Gonsalves   

Satellite viruses of animal and plant viruses   John M Taylor and P. Palukaitis    

Molecular aspects of plant virus transmission   B. Raccah and Peter G. Markham   

Tenui-,  ambisense and  reversi viruses   T Hohn and Roger Hull   

Closteroviruses   Moshe Bar-Joseph and V.V. Dolja   

Defective interfering particles in plant viruses   T.J. Morris and M. Russo      


Once again:  CONTACT KENES (address at the start of his message) and NOT JEFF 
ALMOND for further information regarding attendance of this congress.