2026 Schedule
All events will take place in the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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6/7/2026 (Sunday) |
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| Registration | Tripp Pocket Lounge | 2-7pm | |
| Welcome: Inaugural Session and Keynotes | Tripp Commons | 5-6pm | |
| Keynote | José M. Almendral del Rio | Tripp Commons | 5-5:30pm |
| Keynote | Aravind Asokan | Tripp Commons | 5:30-6pm |
| Reception | Tripp Commons | 6-8pm | |
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6/8/2026 (Monday) |
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| Session 1: Evolution and Structure | Tripp Commons | 9-10:30am | |
| Developing the AAV Gene Therapy Platform Through Capsid Structural Insights | Robert McKenna | Tripp Commons | 9-9:30am |
| Cryo-EM Insights into AAV Genome Packaging: AAV2 Rep–Capsid Complex | Vadim Barnakov | Tripp Commons | 9:30-9:50am |
| Capsid Choreography: Modeling VP/AAP Interactions in AAV Capsid Assembly | Anna Maurer | Tripp Commons | 9:50-10:10am |
| Parvovirus NS2 protein alters Rae1-dependent mRNA nuclear export: Impact on host protein synthesis and viral fitness | Jorge Martinez-Ortega | Tripp Commons | 10:10-10:30am |
| Coffee Break | Tripp Commons / Profile Room | 10:30-11am | |
| Session 2: Receptors | Tripp Commons | 11-12:10pm | |
| Additional AAV-Receptor Interactions | Michael Chapman | Tripp Commons | 11-11:30am |
| Switching receptor usage from AAVR to Globoside improves cellular transduction in an AAV serotype-dependent manner | Xinlong Wan | Tripp Commons | 11:30-11:50am |
| Newly evolved AAV variants display diverse and species-specific receptor usage for transduction of immune cell subtypes | Vivian Yudistyra | Tripp Commons | 11:50-12:10pm |
| Lunch | Tripp Commons / Profile Room | 12:10-2pm | |
| Session 3: Replication | Tripp Commons | 2-3:40pm | |
| Single-Molecule Analysis of AAV2 Rep Protein Binding Dynamics on viral DNA | Anouk Lkharrazi | Tripp Commons | 2-2:20pm |
| ATR-mediated signals regulate the localization of wtAAV2 genome to cellular sites of DNA damage and restrict viral gene expression. | Monnette Summers | Tripp Commons | 2:20-2:40pm |
| Mixing Behavior of AAV2 Genome Replication Compartments | Michelle Sarah Gull | Tripp Commons | 2:40-3pm |
| Parvoviral mRNA processing: modulating the ends for productive viral replication and efficient gene therapy | Olufemi Fasina | Tripp Commons | 3-3:20pm |
| Assembly-Activating Protein Phase Separation Properties Are Required for Adeno-Associated Virus Type 2 Assembly | Jann Stäbler | Tripp Commons | 3:20-3:40pm |
| Poster Session (even numbers) | Main Lounge | 4-6pm | |
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6/9/2026 (Tuesday) |
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| Session 4: Trafficking | Tripp Commons | 9-10:10am | |
| AAV Capsids directly bind to Actin Filaments: Implications for AAV trafficking? | Mario Mietzsch | Tripp Commons | 9-9:30am |
| Transferrin receptor 1 binds human parvovirus B19 VP1u to facilitate entry | Hyunwook Lee | Tripp Commons | 9:30-9:50am |
| Carboxypeptidase D is an AAVR-associated factor that indirectly modulates intracellular trafficking of AAV | Xiujuan Zhang | Tripp Commons | 9:50-10:10am |
| Coffee | Tripp Commons / Profile Room | 10:10-11am | |
| Session 5: Virus-Host interactions | Tripp Commons | 11-12:30pm | |
| Nucleolar reorganization and nucleolar capsids in canine parvovirus infection | Maija Vihinen-Ranta
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Tripp Commons | 11-11:30am |
| The interaction between virus-bound KLF4 and host-bound PARP1 directs the localization of wtAAV2 genome to cellular sites of DNA damage | Rhiannon Abrahams | Tripp Commons | 11:30-11:50am |
| A Longitudinal 3D Live-Cell Imaging Platform to Uncover AAV Vector–Host Dynamics at Single-Cell Resolution | Els Henckaerts | Tripp Commons | 11:50-12:10pm |
| The redistribution of host ki-67 during parvoviral infection is accompanied by the nuclear egress of progeny capsids | Salla Mattola | Tripp Commons | 12:10-12:30pm |
| Lunch | Tripp Commons / Profile Room | 12:30-2:30pm | |
| Session 6: AAV and Viral Vectors | Tripp Commons | 2:30-4:20pm | |
| Gene Therapy for Hemophilia A with AAV Vectors: Wrong Serotype? Wrong Target Cell? Wrong Promoter? | Arun Srivastava | Tripp Commons | 2:30-3pm |
| CTCF regulates AAV and recombinant AAV lifecycle through changes in the viral chromatin landscape | Clairine Larsen | Tripp Commons | 3-3:20pm |
| MADCAP: Unearthing Metagenomic AAV Caches with Deep Petascale Mining | Sourav Choudhury | Tripp Commons | 3:20-3:40pm |
| An engineered hybrid AAV scaffold with reduced liver transduction and high productivity | Elad Firnberg | Tripp Commons | 3:40-4pm |
| A minimally modified AAV9 variant for enhanced CNS gene delivery by lumbar intrathecal administration. | Irvin Garza | Tripp Commons | 4-4:20pm |
| Poster Session (odd numbers) | Main Lounge | 4:30-6:30pm | |
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6/10/2026 (Wednesday) |
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| Session 7: Clinical and veterinary Parvovirology | Tripp Commons | 9-10:10am | |
| Mechanism of antiviral activity against extant parvoviruses of endogenous parvoviral derived proteins. | Gloria Arriagada | Tripp Commons | 9-9:30am |
| Identification of Human Transferrin Receptor 1 as a Critical Host Factor for Parvovirus B19 Infection of Human Erythroid Progenitor Cells | Shane Mcfarlin | Tripp Commons | 9:30-9:50am |
| Human Parvovirus B19 : Discriminate an Active Infection from Residual DNA in Immunocompromised Patients | Debora Sylverius | Tripp Commons | 9:50-10:10am |
| Coffee break | Tripp Commons / Profile Room | 10:10-11am | |
| Session 8: Oncolytic Viruses | Tripp Commons | 11-11:40pm | |
| Directed evolution of the parvovirus MVMi yields a sialic acid binding-domain mutant with enhanced tropism for human glioblastoma | Pedro Arroyo Gil | Tripp Commons | 11-11:20am |
| Bispecific DART-AAVs: combining T cell activation and receptor-targeted transduction in a single capsid | Fabian John | Tripp Commons | 11:20-11:40am |
| Lunch | Tripp Commons / Profile Room | 11:40-2:30pm | |
| Session 9: Gene therapy | Tripp Commons | 2:30-4:10pm | |
| Mechanistic Evaluation of Vector-Host Interactions Underlying Enhanced Muscle Transduction by Skeletal Muscle Specific Engineered AAV Capsids | Jeanette Zanker | Tripp Commons | 2:30-2:50pm |
| Strategies to Increase the Packaging Capacity of, and Transgene Expression from, Self-Complementary AAV vectors | Keyun Qing | Tripp Commons | 2:50-3:10pm |
| OneAAV capsid: A conjugation-enabled universal AAV capsid for receptor-driven tissue targeting | Adrien Savvy | Tripp Commons | 3:10-3:30pm |
| Investigating the Impact of AAVR Overexpression on Retinal Transduction by Intravitreally Delivered AAV | Valerie Hinsch | Tripp Commons | 3:30-3:50pm |
| TBC1D23-AAVR Interaction Drives Endosome-to-TGN Trafficking Required for rAAV Transduction | Xiujuan Zhang | Tripp Commons | 3:50-4:10pm |
| Banquet | Tripp Commons | 6-8pm | |
| Dance | Tripp Commons | 8-10pm | |
