FINAL PROGRAMME

Sunday, June 9, 2013 (afternoon/evening)
16:30-17:00. Opening ceremony
17:00-20:00. Plenary Session I: The complex relationship between viruses and humans
 - Invited speakers: Adolfo García Sastre, José L. Carrascosa, Luis P. Villarreal
20:30-22:00. Welcome cocktail

Monday, June 10 (morning)
09:30-11:00. Plenary Session II: Virus evolution
 - Invited speaker: Dennis H. Bamford
 - Oral communications
11:00-11:30. Coffee + Posters
11:30-13:30. Plenary Session III: Hepatitis B and C: from basic virology to clinical practice
 - Invited speakers: Pablo Gastaminza, Isabel Nájera, Juan Ignacio Esteban, Javier García Samaniego, Xavier Forns
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Monday, June 10 (afternoon/evening)
13:30-15:00. Lunch
15:00-17:00. Parallel Sessions I-III
 - PS-I. Immune response and vaccines
 - PS-II. Functional RNA sequences and structures
 - PS-III. Epidemiology and control of viral diseases
17:00-17:30. Coffee + Posters
17:30-19:30. Parallel Sessions IV-VI
 - PS-IV. Virus evolution
 - PS-V. Hepatitis viruses
 - PS-VI. Virus entry and exit, and mechanisms of viral cell-to-cell transmission
19:00-21:00. SEV General Meeting / Poster Session

Tuesday, June 11 (morning)
09:00-11:00. Plenary Session IV: Virus-host interactions and genome-wide association studies
 - Invited speaker: Amalio Telenti
 - Oral communications
11:00-11:30. Coffee + Posters
11:30-13:30. Plenary Session V: New trends in virus detection in food, environmental and clinical samples
 - Invited speaker: Sabah Bidawid
 - Oral communications
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Tuesday, June 11 (afternoon/evening)
13:30-17:30. 
- Lunch
 - Excursion to the Archaeological Site of Atapuerca (introductory talk: José María Bermúdez de Castro)
17:30-19:30. Parallel Sessions VII-IX
 - PS-VII. Virus-host interactions and genome-wide association studies
 - PS-VIII. Emerging and veterinary viruses
 - PS-IX. Viral replication
19:45-21:15. Parallel Sessions X-XII
 - PS-X. Biophysics of viruses and nanovirology
 - PS-XI. HIV and other human retroviruses
 - PS-XII. Plant viruses
21:45-23:30. Congress dinner

Wednesday, June 12 (morning)
09:00-12:00. Plenary Session 6 [SEV/SEM joint session]: Microbiology of extreme environments
 - Invited speakers: Ricardo Amils, Pepa Antón, Alexandre M. Anesio, Ken Stedman
12:00-12:30. Coffee
12:30-13:15. Closing conference
 - Invited speaker: Carolina Tafalla
13:15-13:45. Closing ceremony
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Wednesday, June 12 (evening)
16:30-19:00. Visit to the Museum of Human Evolution
19:00-21:30. Public Outreach Session on Virology (in Spanish)