UK Hepacivirus and Flavivirus Meeting: 17th-19th May 2024

Held at Rydal Hall, in the Lake District, the UK Hepacivirus and Flavivirus meeting is a fantastic environment for sharing your latest work. We pride ourselves on a supportive and relaxed atmosphere, which makes the meeting a great platform for students and postdocs. The meeting also includes ample time for exploring the local hills and discussing your work with national, and international experts in all things Hepacivirus and Flavivirus.

Joe Grove (MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research)

Azim Ansari (University of Oxford)

Kevin Maringer (The Pirbright Institute)

Laura Martin-Sancho (Imperial College London)

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

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Plenary Speaker 2024

ThomAs Krey

We are very pleased to confirm that our plenary speaker for 2024 is Prof. Thomas Krey.

Prof. Krey is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Lübeck, where he leads a research group performing biochemical and structural studies on proteins derived from viruses and their host cells to understand molecular mechanisms that are essential for various steps of the viral replication cycle.

He has a particular interest in cellular and viral glycoproteins, their mode-of-action during virus entry and their interactions with the immune system together with the identification of the determinants of an efficient neutralizing antibody response to facilitate informed vaccine design. He is also interested in understanding the mechanism-of-action leading to the assembly and disassembly of large viral capsids. The group uses state-of-the-art biochemical and structural biology approaches like X-ray crystallography and cryo electron microscopy to obtain structural knowledge that can be used for structure-based design of preventive or curative antiviral agents, and thus has a direct potential for translation.