Dublin Organising Committee

Nigel Stevenson Co-Chair Assistant Professor in Immunology and Director of the M.Sc. in Immunology, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin. Interests: Anti-viral and inflammatory responses during viral infection. Immune evasion mechanisms of HCV, HIV, HBV, SARS and MERS.

Mark Harris Co-Chair Professor of Virology, University of Leeds and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of General Virology. Research Interests: host-virus interactions, virus genome replication and assembly. Antiviral drug development. As well as hepatitis C virus, my laboratory works on alphaviruses and Ebolavirus.

Cliona O’Farrelly Professor of Comparative Immunology, Trinity College Dublin. She has a long-standing interest in liver immunology, HCV infection and resistance to viral infection. She also has a major commitment to the public understanding of research and its potential to benefit society.

Colm Bergin Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases, St. James’s Hospital/Trinity College Dublin and Director, Wellcome- HRB Clinical Research Facility, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin. Interests: Inflammageing; HIV infection; vaccine intervention; host immune response to HIV, HCV;

John McLauchlan Associate Director and Group Leader in the Viral Hepatitis Programme at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. Co-chair of HCV Research UK and Co-convener of the HCV2007 Symposium in Glasgow. Interests: Diversity and treatment of HCV infection; the determinants of the host response to virus infection.

 

Local Organising Committee:

• Ellie Barnes, University of Oxford
• Suzie Coughlan, National Virus Reference Laboratory, University College Dublin
• Walter Cullen, University College Dublin
• Cillian De Gascun, National Virus Reference Laboratory, University College Dublin
• Lynn Dustin, University of Oxford
• Liam Fanning, Molecular Virology Diagnostic & Research Laboratory, University College Cork
• Eoin Feeney, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin
• Clair Gardiner, Trinity College Dublin
• Stephen Griffin,  University of Leeds
• Joe Grove, University College London
• Diarmaid Houlihan, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin
• Will Irving, University of Nottingham
• Samuel McConkey, Beaumont Hospital Dublin & Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
• Chris McCormick, University of Southampton
• Cliona Ni Cheallaigh, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
• Suzanne Norris, St James’s Hospital & Trinity College Dublin
• Mairead O’Connor, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
• Brian O’Mahony, Irish Haemophilia Society
• Mark Robinson, Trinity College Dublin
• Alex Tarr, University of Nottingham
• Emma Thomson, University of Glasgow

 

International Organising Committee

• Barbara Rehermann, USA, Chair
• Thomas F Baumert, France
• Michael Beard, Australia
• Mark Harris, UK
• Georg Lauer, USA
• Brett Lindenbach, USA
• John McLauchlan, UK
• Stephen J Polyak, USA
• Naglaa Shoukry, Canada
• Robert Thimme, Germany
• Takaji Wakita, Japan

International Advisory Committee(IAC)

• Sergio Abrignani
• Ralf Bartenschlager
• Raymond Chung
• Michael Houghton
• Daniel Lamarre
• Stanley Lemon
• Jake Liang
• Yoshii Matsuura
• Tatsuo Miyamura
• Jean-Michel Pawlotsky
• Charles Rice
• Lorne Tyrrell
• Chris Walker