12th International Retroviral Symposium: Assembly, Maturation and Uncoating
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 52
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Interests: RNA viruses assembly and replication; HIV; SARS-CoV-2; VSV;
Interests: nucleic acid chaperone activity; retroviral capsid uncoating; nucleic-acid protein interactions; DNA condensation; single molecule biophysics
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Interests: HIV; retrovirus; virus assembly; virus budding; maturation; envelope glycoproteins; Gag proteins; drug resistance; maturation inhibitors
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Interests: RNA envelopped viruses assembly; super resolution microscopy; HIV-1 assembly; CD4 T cell plasma membrane; viral proteins; host-cell lipids; sub-plasma membrane; pandemic Influenza H1N1; respiratory viruses; fluorescent replicative viruses; antiviral compounds; emerging SARS-CoV2; arboviruses
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Interests: HIV and related retroviruses; retroviral assembly, genomic RNA packaging and host cell-viral interactions; protein-RNA interactions; aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Between the 6th and 9th September 2023, a group of 95 scientists gathered at the Snowbird ski resort in the mountains outside Salt Lake City, Utah, for a conference focused on topics related to retroviral assembly, maturation, and early events in the virus replication cycle that are associated with maturation (e.g., nuclear import and uncoating of retroviral complexes). This conference had its genesis in what was originally named the International Retroviral Nucleocapsid Symposium (IRNCS). This meeting was launched in 1998 at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick Maryland, and was organized by Lou Henderson and Larry Arthur. The second meeting was subsequently held in Lyon, France (1999); the third in Annapolis, Maryland (2001); the fourth in Strasbourg, France (2003); the fifth in Montreal, Canada (2005); the sixth in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2007); the seventh in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2009); and the eighth in Barcelona, Spain (2011). In 2013, its name changed slightly to reflect the broadening scope of the meeting: the ninth Retroviral Nucleocapsid Protein and Assembly Symposium was held in Montreal, Canada; the 10th in Montpelier, France (2016); and the 11th at Northeastern University in Boston, MA (2019). After a hiatus due to COVID-19, the 12th conference was held at Snowbird.This latest conference drew inspiration from the Retrovirus Assembly Meeting (RAM), which was held in Prague in the Czech Republic in 2000, 2004, and 2008, and was organized by, among others, Eric Hunter, Michaela Rumlova, and Tomas Ruml.
This 12th meeting was organized by the Guest Editors of this Special Issue: Saveez Saffarian, who served as the local and primary organizer; Delphine Muriaux, Mark Williams, Eric Freed and Karin Musier-Forsyth. The conference was arranged into a series of sessions: Envelope Incorporation, Structure, and Function; HIV-1 RNA Nuclear Trafficking, Packaging, and Translation; Virus Assembly Part I: Role of RNA and Membranes; Virus Assembly Part II; Therapeutic Strategies; Capsid Trafficking, Uncoating, and Integration; and Capsid Protein Structure and Function; Maturation; and Host Factors.
The Guest Editors of this Special Issue welcome submissions not only from conference attendees, but also from others with aligned research interests.
Dr. Saveez Saffarian
Dr. Mark C. Williams
Dr. Eric O. Freed
Dr. Delphine M. Muriaux
Dr. Karin Musier-Forsyth
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- retrovirus
- HIV
- virus assembly
- virus budding
- virus maturation
- uncoating
- capsid
- nuclear pore
- reverse transcription
- integration
- envelope glycoprotein
- matrix
- nucleocapsid
- retroviral RNA
- RNA trafficking
- RNA packaging
