Program

*** all times are CET ***

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Day 1: Monday 6 September 2021

One Health and Emerging Viruses

09:00 – Welcome address/course presentation, Giovanni Maga (National Research Council, Pavia, Italy)
10:00 – War of the worlds, Fausto Baldanti (University of Pavia – Policlinico San Matteo, Italy)
11:00 – Break
11:30 – Lecture TBD, Giovanni Rezza (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy)
12:30 – Lunch
14:30 – Virtual Lab: metagenomics – discovery of new viruses, Umberto Palatini (University of Pavia, Italy)

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Day 2: Tuesday 7 September 2021

SARS-CoV-2

09:00 – Virtual Lab: Bioinformatic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes – I, Francesco Lescai (University of Pavia, Italy)
11:00 – Break
11:30 – Virtual Lab: Bioinformatic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes – II, Francesco Lescai (University of Pavia, Italy)
12:30 – Lunch
14:30 – Transmission dynamics and genetics of SARS-CoV-2 infection, Andrea Crisanti (University of Padova, Italy)
15:30 – Understanding SARS-CoV-2 transmission: lessons learnt and challenges ahead, Ilaria Dorigatti (Imperial College London, UK)

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Day 3: Wednesday 8 September 2021

Covid Epidemiology and Vaccines

09:00 – Virtual Lab: Bioinformatic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology, Francesco Lescai (University of Pavia, Italy) and Stefano Gaiarsa (Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy)
11:00 – Break
11:30 – Discovery of potent human monoclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, Claudia Sala (Fondazione Toscana Life Sciences, Siena, Italy)
12:30 – Lunch
14:30 – An alternative vaccine approach, Claudio Bandi (University of Milan, Italy)
15:30 – Development of the Moderna vaccine, Andrea Carfi (Moderna, Cambridge, USA)

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Day 4: Thursday 9 September 2021

Mammalian-Borne Emerging Viruses

09:00 – EBOLA is the archetype of emerging infections. Challenges and response, Maria R. Capobianchi (Istituto Nazionale Malattie Infettive Spallanzani, Roma – Italy)
10:00 – Emerging viral diseases of mammalian origin, Gyanendra Gongal (World Health Organization Regional Office for South East Asia)
11:00 – Break
11:30 – Virology pathogenesis and treatment of hepatitis E virus infection, Jacques Izopet (Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse Purpan Toulouse, France)
12:30 – Lunch
14:30 – Establishing genomics-informed surveillance capacity in low resource areas: using in-situ nanopore sequencing to guide the elimination of dog-mediated rabies, Kirstyn Brunker (University of Glasgow, UK)

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Day 5: Friday 10 September 2021

Vector-Borne Viruses

09:00 – Health risk assessment and monitoring systems for Aedes albopictus, Romeo Bellini (Centro Agricoltura Ambiente, Italy)
10:00 – Unraveling the African exception to Zika virus emergence, Louis Lambrechts (Institute Pasteur, Paris, France)
11:00 – Break
11:30 – What’s behind the epidemiology of tick borne encephalitis, Gioia Capelli (Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Padova, Italy)
12:30 – Lunch

Science Communication

14:30 – SARS-CoV-2: What does a virus want?, David Quammen (author and journalist)
15:30 – Comunicare la pandemia al pubblico, Roberta Villa (giornalista e comunicatrice scientifica) – Intervento in italiano aperto al pubblico