14th International dsRNA Virus Symposium, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 10-14 October 2022

Abstract

This triennial International dsRNA Virus Symposium covered original data which have accrued during the most recent five years. In detail, the genomic diversity of these viruses continued to be explored; various structure-function studies were carried out using reverse genetics and biophysical techniques; intestinal organoids proved to be very suitable for special pathogenesis studies; and the potential of next generation rotavirus vaccines including use of rotavirus recombinants as vectored vaccine candidates was explored. 'Non-lytic release of enteric viruses in cloaked vesicles' was the topic of the keynote lecture by Nihal Altan-Bonnet, NIH, Bethesda, USA. The Jean Cohen lecturer of this meeting was Polly Roy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who spoke on aspects of the replication cycle of bluetongue viruses, and how some of the data are similar to details of rotavirus replication.

Keywords: Biomolecular condensates; FAST proteins; Liquid-liquid phase separation; Mycovirus; Next generation rotavirus vaccines; Reovirus; Reverse genetics; Rotavirus; Rotavirus recombinants as vectored vaccine candidates; Spatiotemporal transcriptomics; Toti-like virus; Viruscell receptor interaction; dsRNA viruses.