Virology ICGEB Podcasts

Martina Bergant Marušič, Laboratory for Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Nova Gorica, SLOVENIA speaks on "Human papillomaviruses interfere with host cell processes during infection".

Nicolas Locker, Professor of Virology, School of Biosciences and Medicine Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK speaks on "Friends or Foes? The Many Routes Caliciviruses Use to Manipulate RNA Granules.

Marta Giovanetti, Reference Laboratory of Flavivirus, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL speaks on "Tracking the spread of emerging and re-emerging viral pathogens".

Piergiorgio Percipalle, Professor, Biology Program, New York University Abu Dhabi campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates speaks on “Locking the genome: the role of cytoskeletal proteins in nuclear organisation and cell fate”.

Guido Papa, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK speaks on "Role of SARS-CoV-2 Spike cleavage in virus entry and cell-cell fusion". This seminar has been recorded at ICGEB Trieste.

Marta Giovanetti, FIOCRUZ - Fundação Oswaldo CruzRio de Janeiro, BRAZIL, speaks on "Portable DNA Sequencing: Impacting the Response to emerging and re-emerging viral pathogens on the ground". This movie has been recorded at ICGEB Trieste.
The recent re-emergencies of Chikungunya (CHIKV), Zika (ZIKV), Yellow Fever (YFV) and dengue (DENV) viruses, as well as the currently emergence of the SARS-CoV-2, have afflicted populations and overwhelmed health systems in many countries. The distribution of those viral pathogens is determined by complex demographic, environmental and social factors, causing diseases to emerge in countries where they were previously unknown. Coupling genomic diagnostics and epidemiology to innovative digital disease detection platforms raises the possibility of an open, global, digital pathogen surveillance system. Real-time sequencing, bioinformatics tools and the combination of genomic and epidemiological data from viral infections can give essential information for understanding the past and the future of an epidemic, making possible to establish an effective surveillance framework on tracking the spread of infections to other geographic regions.