July 2018

Session Chairs: Fanxiu Zhu & Richard Longnecker Oral Talk #29 The EBV Glycoprotein BDLF2 is Essential for the Infection of Stratified Epithelium Ian Hayman1, Joshua Walston1, Mindy Gore2, Lindsey Hutt-Fletcher2, Clare E. Sample1 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences […]

4:30 PM Keynote Address II  Blossom Damania   Shannon Hall Blossom Damania is the Boshamer Distinguished Professor and Vice Dean for Research in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill). She is a professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology and is a member of the Lineberger

Session Chairs: Mandy Muller and Ben Gewurz Oral Talk #20 A Genome-Wide Screen of EBV Proteins that Modulate Host SUMOylation Identifies a SUMO E3 Ligase Conserved in Herpesviruses Carlos F. De La Cruz Herrera1, Kathy Shire1, Lori Frappier1 1Dept of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto Modification by the small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) controls the activity

Lytic Cycle I : Linda van Dyk and Mei-Ru Chen Oral Talk #8 Continuous DNA Replication Is Required for Late Gene Transcription and Maintenance of Replication Compartments in Gammaherpesviruses Dajiang Li1, Wenmin Fu1, Sankar Swaminathan1,2 1Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, 2George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical

Session Chairs: Ke Lan and Wolfgang Hammerschmidt [9:00 AM – 10:30 AM]Oral Talk #2Global Changes in the Host B cell During the Pre-latent Phase of EBV InfectionPaulina Mrozek-Gorska1, Alexander Buschle1, Antonio Scialdone2, Thomas Schwarzmayr3, Wolfgang Hammerschmidt11Helmholtz Centre Munich Research Unit Gene Vectors, 2Helmholt Centre Munich Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells, 3Helmholtz Centre Munich Institute