Thank you for attending Europic 2018!
The meeting was a great success and we hope to meet you all again in Finland in 2020!
The Europic 2018 team:
Kimberley Benschop | Sasha Gorbalenya | Frank van Kuppeveld | Katja Wolthers | Karla Haas
Please click the link below to view and download pictures of Europic:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/42z5asgf0jrllh3/AACPAoNVUpl0p94LIoxbv-47a?dl=0
Background information Europic
Originally founded as meeting of the European Study Group on molecular biology of picornaviruses, Europic has been attended by picornavirologists from all continents. These bi-annual international conferences have a broad agenda that evolved over the years beyond the original focus on molecular biology and currently covers all aspects of picornavirus research.
The Europic is a world premier virology conference that focuses on studies of picornaviruses, a family of small RNA viruses of vertebrates. This family includes the iconic poliovirus, and such other pathogens as enteroviruses (e.g. EV-A71, EV-D68, coxsackieviruses), rhinoviruses, hepatitis A virus, and foot-and-mouth disease virus, as well as many other viruses whose number is growing by day with new discoveries.
The Europic 2018 agenda
included presentations and discussions on natural picornavirus diversity and
circulation, virus dissemination in the infected body, host reaction to
picornavirus infection including diseases, virus-cell interactions, the
molecular mechanisms of the viral life cycle, and the development of tools for
detecting and characterizing picornaviruses as well as vaccines and antivirals
to control picornavirus infections.
A special session on “Polio eradication and beyond” s included in the Program to steer
debate and collect opinions of picornavirologists about scientific challenges
of the ongoing global campaign on the polio eradication and the emerging role
of non-polio enteroviruses in the post-eradication era.
The final program book including all abstracts is now available. On site you will also receive a printed version.
To download/view the program/abstract book please go to program -> program & abstract book.