The 11ᵗʰ Wuhan International Symposium on Modern Virology & Viruses 2025 Conference
The 11ᵗʰ Wuhan International Symposium on Modern Virology & Viruses 2025 Conference
30 August 2025
20 September 2025
31 August 2025
30 October 2025
Viral Pathogenesis, Antiviral Therapeutics, Antiviral Innate Immunity, Viral Replication, Viral Evolution, Virology, Cancer-Causing Virus Infections, Virus-Host Interactions
Please visit the Chinese website by clicking here. We look forward to your participation!
Welcome from the Chairs
Kind regards,
Conference Chairs
Dr. Ke Lan
Wuhan University
Dr. Eric Freed
National Institutes of Health
Dr. Zhi-Ming Zheng
National Institutes of Health
Event Chairs
College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH - Frederick, USA
Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, USA
Event Committee
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Hamilton, USA
Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
Dr. Shan-Lu Liu is a Professor of Virology and Co-Director of the Viruses and Emerging Pathogens Program at The Ohio State University’s Infectious Diseases Institute. He also serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Retrovirus Research at The Ohio State University. Dr. Liu earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle before being recruited to McGill University as a Canada Research Chair. In 2016, he joined The Ohio State University as a tenured full professor. Dr. Liu’s research focuses on virus-host interactions, particularly the host factors that modulate viral membrane fusion, entry, and release. Over the past several years, his lab has provided significant insights into how host restriction factors such as IFITM, LY6E, TIM, and SERINC limit infections by HIV, Ebolavirus, Zika virus, and SARS-CoV-2, as well as how these viruses evolve mechanisms to counteract host restrictions. His COVID-19-related research has centered on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 entry, membrane fusion, cell-to-cell transmission, immune responses, and vaccine development. Dr. Liu has published extensively in high-impact journals, including Cell, Cell Host & Microbe, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Journal of Virology, Cell Reports, PNAS, and Science. Dr. Liu serves as an Editor for the Journal of Virology, Associate Editor for Viruses, and guest editor for mBio, PLoS Pathogens, and PNAS. He has been elected as a Fellow of both the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2024, Dr. Liu is elected President of the American Society for Virology.
Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, USA
NCBID, George Mason University, Manassas, USA
Key Lab of Medical Molecular Virology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, China
Confirmed Speakers (Ongoing Updates)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Hamilton, USA
Cancer Virology Program, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, PA, USA
State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, China
New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, Tsinghua University-Peking University Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, China
CAS Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, USA
Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH - Frederick, USA
CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology & Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Guangzhou National Laboratory, China
Bacterial Epitranscriptomics, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany
Katharina Höfer is a full professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Marburg (UMR), a Fellow of the LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), and an affiliated Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany. She has been awarded a LOEWE Top Professorship and is a faculty member of the Pharmacy Faculty at the University of Marburg. Additionally, she serves as the vice-spokesperson for the DFG-funded Research Training Group 2937 and has been recognized as an EMBO Young Investigator and an ERC Starting Grant awardee. Katharina is a biotechnologist renowned for her pioneering discovery and functional characterization of NAD-capped RNAs in bacteria and bacteriophages.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, USA
Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
Department of Genetics and Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
The goal of Dr. Kirkegaard's laboratory is to use knowledge of the genetics and biochemistry of RNA viruses to identify new antiviral approaches with the goal of suppressing the outgrowth of drug-resistant variants. Collaborators include structural biologists and medicinal chemists in the non-profit, international sector.
College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, USA
Infectious Diseases Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Jeremy Luban is physician-scientist who focuses on virus-host interactions and studies the replication, pathogenesis, immunity, and evolution of lethal human viral pathogens including HIV-1, Ebola virus, and SARS-CoV-2.
Disease Prevention and Intervention Program, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, USA
Cancer Virology Program, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), USA
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Pediatrics, University of Iowa, USA
Tsinghua University, China
Guangzhou Laboratory, Guangzhou International Bio Island, China
Medical Research Institute, Wuhan University, China
Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK
Center for Infectious Disease Research, School of Medicine, Westlake University, China
Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
hepatitis B virus, virus-host interactions, viral replication and pathogenesis.
Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA
NCBID, George Mason University, Manassas, USA
Key Lab of Medical Molecular Virology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, China
State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, China
Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, USA
Basic Information
Conference Dates: 30 October - 2 November 2025
Check-In Time: 12:00 - 22:00, 30 October 2025,Thursday, (Beijing Time, UTC+8)
Conference Period: From 31 October to 2 November, 2025
Conference Location: Wuhan (venue to be determined)
Instructions for Authors
Abstract Submission
Create an account on Sciforum if you do not have one and then click on the "Submit Abstract" at the top of this webpage.
Note: The email address used for registration must match the email address used for submission.
Abstract Instructions
Submit an abstract in English only —the word limits are a maximum of 500 words . 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 journal Viruses.
Contribution Type
You will be asked to select the contribution type (oral contribution, poster contribution, or both) during the submission process. However, it is subject to change according to the decision of the conference chair and the scientific committee.
Deadline
The deadline for online abstract submission is Saturday, 30 August 2025 (11:59 pm./23:59 Eastern time), and the deadline for registration of covering authors is Monday, 29 September 2025 . Your abstract will be withdrawn if your registration is not completed by this date.
Registration
If you will be paying in CNY and require the VAT invoice (called “fapiao” in China), please click the Registration in CNY button above to complete your registration.
*Please ensure that the email address used for registration matches the one associated with your submission.
Important Information
In order to determine the academic agenda of the conference in a timely manner, at least one author (the “covering author”) is required to complete the registration of each accepted abstract to cover the display and publication of the abstract. The deadline for registration of responsible authors is 29 September 2025. If registration is not completed before this date, your abstract will be withdrawn.
This conference adopts an online registration system, please pay the conference fee in advance.
Participants register online and pay fees through the official website of the conference at the Register button above. The platform only supports online payment made to Swiss account. Participation to the conference is considered final only once the registration fees have been paid.
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Early Bird Until 31st August 2025 |
Regular Until 30th October 2025 |
Supported documents | |
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| Academic | 220.00 EUR | 250.00 EUR | |
| Student | 110.00 EUR | 125.00 EUR |
Scanned copy or photograph of your current student ID is required. |
| Non-Academic | 320.00 EUR | 350.00 EUR |
Cancellation policy
Cancellation of paid registration is possible under the terms listed below:
≥ 2 months before the conference: Full refund
< 2 months before the conference : No refund
Payment methods
Wire transfer, Credit card
Currencies accepted by this event
Swiss francs (CHF) , Euros (EUR) , US dollars (USD) , Pounds sterling (GBP) , Japanese yen (JPY) , Canadian dollars (CAD) and Singapore dollars (SGD)
Sponsors and Partners
Organizers
Co-organizers
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