21st International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME)
The 21st International Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME2016) will be hosted by the Korea University College of Medicine, 14-19 August, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Abstract deadline: 15 March 2016

The VEME workshop provides both theoretical and practical training in phylogenetic inference and evolutionary hypothesis testing as applied in virology and molecular epidemiology. It is recognized as one of the best international virus bioinformatics courses. It covers sequence analysis, phylogenetics, phylodynamics methods, and large scale methods for next-generation sequencing (NGS) analytics.
Speakers
Luiz Alcantara University of Fiocruz, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
Andre Altmann Translational Imaging Group, UCL, London
Guy Baele University of Leuven, Belgium
Tulio de Oliveira Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa
Nuno Faria University of Oxford, UK
Olga Golosova UGENE team, Novosibirsk, Russia
German Grekhov UGENE team, Novosibirsk, Russia
Jin Il Kim Korea University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Philippe Lemey University of Leuven, Belgium
Darren Martin University of Cape Town, South Africa
Jae Min Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Sergei Kosakovsky-Pond University of California, San Diego, USA
Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA
Mattia Prosperi University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Andrew Rambaut Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Edinburgh, UK
Soo-Yon Rhee Stanford University, USA
Brittany Rife University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Richard Scheuermann J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), Rockville, USA
Heiko Schmidt University of Vienna, Austria
Marc Suchard University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Anne-Mieke Vandamme University of Leuven, Belgium
Ewout Vanden Eynden University of Leuven, Belgium
Filip Bielejec University of Leuven, Belgium
Yuriy Fofanov University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston), USA
Introduction: Combating viral spread and their associated disease burden is a tremendous challenge requiring significant research efforts and dedicated measures, in public health, veterinary care, and agriculture strategies. Viral sequence data is a major asset in the characterization of pathogens. Understanding the processes that generate genetic diversity assists in the struggle against viral infections and enhances our understanding of past evolutionary and epidemiological events. It can also help in the identification of the origins of new epidemics, in monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic strategies, and eventually in predicting the behavior of viral epidemics. Advances in bioinformatics have led to improved approaches to investigating viral outbreaks that ave been successfully applied to viruses including the Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV), the Ebola virus, the Dengue viruses, the Chikungunya virus and the Influenza virus.
News date: 2016-03-15
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