WSV2023 - The second meeting of the world society for virology: One health - One world - One virology

Ahmed S Abdel-Moneim; Modra Murovska; Maria Söderlund-Venermo; Vikram N Vakharia; William C Wilson; Douglas P Gladue; Matthew D Moore; Covadonga Alonso; Sayed F Abdelwahab; Marietjie Venter; Yashpal S Malik; Shi Zhengli; Shailendra K Saxena; Anupam Varma; Richard J Kuhn

doi:10.1016/j.virol.2024.110049

WSV2023 - The second meeting of the world society for virology: One health - One world - One virology

Virology. 2024 Jun:594:110049. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2024.110049. Epub 2024 Mar 15.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Taif University, Al-Taif, Saudi Arabia; Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt. Electronic address: asa@tu.edu.sa.
² Institute of Microbiology and Virology, Riga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia.
³ Department of Virology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
⁴ Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁵ Foreign Arthropod Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Manhattan, KS, USA.
⁶ Plum Island Animal Disease Center, ARS, USDA, Greenport, USA.
⁷ Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
⁸ Departmento de Biotecnología, INIA-CSIC, Centro Nacional Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Ctra. de La Coruña, Madrid, Spain.
⁹ Department of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taif University, Al-Taif, Saudi Arabia.
¹⁰ Zoonotic Arbo- and Respiratory Virus Research Program, Centre for Viral Zoonosis, Department of Medical Virology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
¹¹ College of Animal Biotechnology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
¹² State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
¹³ Centre for Advanced Research, Faculty of Medicine, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India.
¹⁴ Advanced Centre for Plant Virology Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India.
¹⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, and Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Immunology, & Infectious Disease, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.

PMID: 38527382
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2024.110049

Abstract

The Second International Conference of the World Society for Virology (WSV), hosted by Riga Stradiņš University, was held in Riga, Latvia, on June 15-17th, 2023. It prominently highlighted the recent advancements in different disciplines of virology. The conference had fourteen keynote speakers covering diverse topics, including emerging virus pseudotypes, Zika virus vaccine development, herpesvirus capsid mobility, parvovirus invasion strategies, influenza in animals and birds, West Nile virus and Marburg virus ecology, as well as the latest update in animal vaccines. Discussions further explored SARS-CoV-2 RNA replicons as vaccine candidates, SARS-CoV-2 in humans and animals, and the significance of plant viruses in the 'One Health' paradigm. The presence of the presidents from three virology societies, namely the American, Indian, and Korean Societies for Virology, highlighted the event's significance. Additionally, past president of the American Society for Virology (ASV), formally declared the partnership between ASV and WSV during the conference.

Keywords: Conference report; Meeting report; One health; Viruses; WSV; World society for virology.

MeSH terms

Animals
Humans
Influenza Vaccines*
One Health*
RNA, Viral
Virology
Viruses*
Zika Virus Infection*
Zika Virus*

Substances

RNA, Viral
Influenza Vaccines