9–10 Sept 2025
Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin
Europe/Berlin timezone

Invited Speakers

Nanoscale Dynamics of Viral Entry Revealed by Interferometric Scattering Microscopy
David Albrecht
Nano-Optics Division, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany

 

Studying the dynamics of virus interactions in the glycocalyx and at the cell surface
Marta Bally
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden

From in-silico to in-cellulo: Illuminating viral morphogenesis
Jens Bosse
Hannover Medical School and Leibniz Institute of Virology (LIV) at the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), Hamburg, Germany

 

In situ cryo-electron tomography of influenza A virus entry and egress
Petr Chlanda
Centre for Integrative Infectious Disease Research, Heidelberg University, Germany

 

Cell Entry & Egress of Nonenveloped Viruses
Urs Greber
Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland

 

Conformational flexibility and molecular plasticity in herpesvirus entry and egress
Kay Grünewald
Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), University of Hamburg (UHH), and Leibniz Institute of Virology (LIV), Germany

 

Host glycogene SLC35A2 differentially affects viral entry of CXCR4- and CCR5-tropic HIV-1
Hannah Itell
Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Nashville, TN, USA 

 

Capturing native Env architecture on HIV-1 using in-virus single-particle imaging
Sergi Padilla-Parra
Professor in Virus Imaging and Biophotonics, King's College London, United Kingdom

 

Speak friend and enter – deconstructing the virus-cell infection synapse
Christian Sieben
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany

 

"Locking on" to single viruses with 3D active-feedback microscopy
Kevin Welsher
Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, USA

 

Mechanisms of Influenza Virus Entry and Uncoating
Yohei Yamauchi
Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, D-CHAB, ETH Zurich, Switzerland