Eleventh International Foamy Virus Conference 2016 - Meeting Report

Florence Buseyne (1) , Antoine S Gessain (1) , Marcello A. Soares (2) , Marcelo A Santos (2) , Magdalena P Materniak-Kornas (3) , Pascale Lesage (4) , Alessia Zamborlini (5, 4) , Martin P Löchelt (6) , Wentao S Qiao (7) , Dirk M Lindemann (8) , Birgitta M Wöhrl (9) , Jonathan P. Stoye (10) , Ian A Taylor (10) , Africa A. Khan (11)

1 EPVO (UMR_3569 / U-Pasteur_3) - Epidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes
2 UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
3 Department of Biochemistry, National Veterinary Research Institute, 24-100 Pulawy, Poland
4 IUH - Institut Universitaire d'Hématologie
5 CNAM Paris - Centre d'enseignement Cnam Paris
6 Division of Genome Modifications and Carcinogenesis
7 NKU - Nankai University
8 Institute of Virology [Dresden]
9 Biopolymere
10 The Francis Crick Institute [London]
11 FDA - U.S. Food and Drug Administration

The Eleventh International Foamy Virus Conference took place on 9–10 June 2016 at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. The meeting reviewed progress on foamy virus (FV) research, as well as related current topics in retrovirology. FVs are complex retroviruses that are widespread in several animal species. Several research topics on these viruses are relevant to human health: cross-species transmission and viral emergence, vectors for gene therapy, development of antiretroviral drugs, retroviral evolution and its influence on the human genome. In this article, we review the conference presentations on these viruses and highlight the major questions to be answered.

Keywords: FV vectors; virus replication; foamy virus; cross-species virus transmission; zoonosis; restriction factors; immune responses; latent infection

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Immunology; Adaptive immunology; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Human health and pathology; Emerging diseases; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Virology

Florence Buseyne, Antoine S Gessain, Marcello A. Soares, Marcelo A Santos, Magdalena P Materniak-Kornas, et al.. Eleventh International Foamy Virus Conference 2016 - Meeting Report. Viruses, 2016, 8, pp.318 - 318. ⟨10.3390/v8110318⟩. ⟨pasteur-01412657⟩