Viruses 2026 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference. Moreover, participants will have the opportunity to contribute a full manuscript to a Special Issue related to the conference in the open-access journal Viruses.

Please note that abstract submission and conference registration are two separate processes. Please use your institutional email address for both processes.

To present your research at the event

• Create an account on Sciforum if you do not have one and then click on ‘New Submission’ in the upper-right corner of the window; or, click on ‘Submit Abstract’ at the top of this webpage.
• Choose a session that is best suited for your research.
• Submit an abstract in English—the word limits are a minimum of 150 words and a maximum of 300 words.
• The extended deadline to submit your abstract is 9 November 2025. You should be notified about its acceptance by 10 December 2025.
• Upon submission, you can select if you wish to be considered for oral or poster presentation (or both). Following assessment by the Chairs and Scientific Committee, you will be notified by 10 December 2025 whether your contribution has been accepted for oral or poster presentation.
• Please note that, in order to finalize the scientific program in due time, at least one registration by any of the authors, denoted as the Covering Author, is required to cover the presentation and publication of any accepted abstract. The Covering Author registration deadline is 21 January 2026. Your abstract will be withdrawn if your registration is not complete by this date.

Oral Presentations

Short talks will be 15 min long, including questions (12+3 Q&A). The typical presentation should be up to a 10–12-minute talk.

Flash Poster Presentations

Flash poster presentations, selected from poster submissions by the chairs, will take place in a special session in the main conference room, lasting 3 minutes each. Presenters can prepare two to three slides featuring the main figures of their poster or display their entire poster on the screen. There will not be a Q&A segment following the flash poster presentations.

Additionally, a vertical poster board for the poster session will be provided. Further details about poster presentations can be found below.

Poster Presentations

Each presenter will be provided with a vertical poster board. Maximum poster size is limited to A0: 84 x 120 cm / 33 x 47 in (width x height) in the vertical orientation (portrait). Please print your poster prior to the conference. A plan for the poster session will be circulated later.

For suggestions on poster design, click the button below.

Publication Opportunities

• All accepted abstracts will be available online in Open Access form on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
• Participants of this conference are cordially invited to contribute with a full manuscript to the Special Issue "Viruses 2026—New Horizons in Virology" in the journal Viruses, with a 20% discount on the publication fees. Please note that no other discounts will be applicable.
• Viruses is indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), PubMed, and other databases, and has an Impact Factor of 5.818 (2021) and a 5-Year Impact Factor of 5.811 (2021).