Journal Article

DKFZ-2025-01804

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Thirteenth International Foamy Virus Conference-Meeting Report.

Khan, A. S. ; Löchelt, M.DKFZ* ; Buseyne, F. ; Herchenröder, O. ; Lindemann, D. ; Switzer, W. M. ; Santos, A. F. A. ; Soares, M. A.

2025
MDPI Basel

Abstract: The 13th International Foamy Virus (FV) Conference was held from 8 to 10 November 2023 at the BioParque/Zoological Garden in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This was the first conference on spumaretroviruses to be held in the Southern Hemisphere and in the unique environment of the rainforest. New developments and current perspectives in FV research were presented. Highlights of the conference included the structural biology of the envelope protein (Env) and insights into its function and evolution, epidemiologic identification of Amazonian indigenous people with a high prevalence of simian FV (SFV) infections, investigations of virus biology and genomics using synthetic FV DNAs, studies of humoral immune response, and development and applications of SFV vectors. The last day of the meeting was a special tour of the Centro de Primatologia do Rio de Janeiro, located northeast of Rio de Janeiro amidst the protected rainforest, where New World primate hosts of spumaretroviruses are rescued and studied. Our report summarizes the meeting highlights and outcomes for future discussions.

Keyword(s): Humans (MeSH) ; Animals (MeSH) ; Spumavirus: genetics (MeSH) ; Spumavirus: physiology (MeSH) ; Spumavirus: immunology (MeSH) ; Retroviridae Infections: virology (MeSH) ; Retroviridae Infections: epidemiology (MeSH) ; Retroviridae Infections: veterinary (MeSH) ; Brazil (MeSH) ; Congresses as Topic (MeSH) ; FV vectors ; New World primates ; cross-species transmission ; foamy virus ; immune responses ; latent infection ; restriction factors ; spumaretrovirus ; structural biology ; virus replication ; virus–host co-evolution ; zoonosis

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Virus-assoziierte Karzinogenese (D430)

Research Program(s):

1. 314 - Immunologie und Krebs (POF4-314) (POF4-314)

Appears in the scientific report 2025

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