HBV Virology | Room 714

Saturday, June 16, 2018
10:30 AM to 12:15 PM

Chairs: Fabien Zoulim & John Tavis

Invited Presentations:

10:30am
HBV DNA integration and its impact on the natural history of disease
Patrick Kennedy, Queen Mary University Of London, London

10:55am
Maintenance and activity of HBV cccDNA
Massimo Levrero, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome

11:20am
Defining the steps of HBV entry from patients to cell culture
WenHui Li, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Changping

Oral Abstracts:

11:45am
A novel CRISPR/Cas9-based approach to transient activation of intracellular host restriction factors results in strong suppression of hepatitis B virus and degradation of cccDNA
Dmitrii Kostiushev, CRIE, Burnaby

12:00pm
Identification of ISG20 as the Nuclease involved in Interferon-induced Decline of HBV cccDNA
Daniela Stadler, Technical University Of Munich / Helmholtz Zentrum München, München

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