2017 international meeting of the Global Virus Network

Mike Catton; Glenda Gray; Diane Griffin; Hideki Hasegawa; Stephen J Kent; Jason Mackenzie; Edward McSweegan; Natalia Mercer; Linfa Wang

doi:10.1016/j.antiviral.2018.02.001

2017 international meeting of the Global Virus Network

Antiviral Res. 2018 May:153:60-69. doi: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2018.02.001. Epub 2018 Feb 5.

Authors

Mike Catton¹, Glenda Gray², Diane Griffin³, Hideki Hasegawa⁴, Stephen J Kent⁵, Jason Mackenzie⁵, Edward McSweegan⁶, Natalia Mercer⁷, Linfa Wang⁸

Affiliations

¹ Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia.
² South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
⁵ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia.
⁶ Global Virus Network, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: emcsweegan@gvn.org.
⁷ Global Virus Network, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁸ Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.

Abstract

The Global Virus Network (GVN) was established in 2011 to strengthen research and responses to emerging viral causes of human disease and to prepare against new viral pandemics. There are now 40 GVN Centers of Excellence and 6 Affiliate laboratories in 24 countries. The 2017 meeting was held from September 25-27 in Melbourne, Australia, and was hosted by the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and the Institut Pasteur. This report highlights the recent accomplishments of GVN researchers in several important areas of medical virology, including the recent Zika epidemic, infections by human papillomavirus, influenza, HIV, hepatitis C, HTLV-1, and chikungunya viruses, and new and emerging viruses in the Australasia region. Plans for the 2018 meeting also are noted.

Keywords: Emerging viruses; Global virus network; International collaborations; Medical virology.

Publication types

Congress
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Australia
Biomedical Research / trends
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology*
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / prevention & control*
Global Health
Humans
Information Dissemination
Information Services
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Virus Diseases / epidemiology*
Virus Diseases / prevention & control*