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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/575332v1

Spotlight on Avian Pathology: Fowlpox virus (doi.org/10.1080/03079457.2018.1554893)  [Disclaimer – we wrote this].

It will be Open Access but the “Accepted Author Version” is already available to those who have paid or institutional access.

It is the 4th paper in Avian Pathology‘s “Spotlight on Avian…” series. This was the 1st: “Spotlight on avian pathology: Marek’s disease“, by Venugopal Nair

See the report (and photos) on the Microbiology Society Website

The 2018 Focused Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of Avian Viruses covered the following key topics:

• Molecular biology and genetics of avian virus replication
• Tropism and host range restriction
• Host antiviral responses and virus immunomodulation
• Emerging and variant viruses
• New and improved approaches to the control of avian viruses
• Pathogenesis of avian viruses

The event took place from Monday 3 to Tuesday 4 September 2018 at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, UK.

Speakers included:

• Professor Karen Beemon (Johns Hopkins University)
• Dr Hui-Wen Chen (Department of Veterinary Medicine, National Taiwan University)
• Professor Janet Daly (University of Nottingham School of Veterinary Medicine and Science)
• Professor Joanne Devlin (Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health)
• Professor Paul Digard (The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh)
• Professor Chan Ding (Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute)
• Professor Jiri Hejnar (Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
• Dr Helene Verheije (Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University)
• Dr Yongxiu Yao (The Pirbright Institute)
• Professor Steve Goodbourn (Organiser), (St George’s, University of London)

Follow us on Twitter @MicrobioSoc

Updates on Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of Avian Viruses can be found using the hashtag: #Avian18

Avian Virus and Avian Immunology meetings will be held, back-to-back, in Oxford in September next year (2018).

Block the dates in your diaries, bookmark these webpages and make sure you’re on the mailing lists!

Microbiology Society Focused Meeting: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS OF AVIAN VIRUSES 2018. (3-4 Sept 2018)

Avian Immunology Research Group (AIRG) 2018. (5-7 Sept 2018)

The meetings will be held consecutively at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, UK.

We have added a new high level tab (below “News” in the side menu bar), entitled “Selected Journal Articles“.

We’ll be posting articles that interest us, our authors or other avian virologists who contact us. They’ll also be added to the most relevant top level tag(s) (e.g. “Birnaviruses” for one just added)

International Travel and Subsistence

Vacation Studentships

Vacation Studentships to enable undergraduate veterinary students in the UK to work on research projects related to avian and particularly poultry diseases during the summer vacation of that year

World Veterinary Poultry Association XXth Congress 2017

Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

4-8 September 2017

 

Chicken responses to type I interferon (IFN) have now been defined both in vitro and in vivo.