Poster session 1: Viral Diversity

P1: D. O Amadu, M.B Abdulkadir, S.A Saka, A Fadeyi, A.S Aderibigbe, D.B Tijani, C. E .

Nwabuisi, A.A Akanbi Ii, J.M. Nwenda, A. Isiaka., Armah George: Prevalence and circulating genotypes of rotavirus induced diarrhoea amongst under fives at

the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin, Nigeria

P2: Joseph Bonifacio, Mary Ann Igoy, Amado III Tandoc, Socorro Lupisan: Emergence of rare G2P[8] rotavirus genotype among children <5 years of age in the

Philippines

P3: Michael D. Bowen, Mathew D. Esona, Charity Perkins, Slavica Mijatovic-

Rustempasic, Geoffrey A. Weinberg, Amy Kinzler, John Williams, Gail A. Bloom,

Mary Allen Staat, Monica M. McNeal, Mary E. Wikswo, Margaret M. Cortese, Daniel

C. Payne, Umesh D. Parashar: Emergence of G8P[8] rotavirus strains of apparent Asian origin in four US cities, 2016-17

P4: Matias Castells, Dario Caffarena, Laura Casaux, Carlos Schild, Federico Giannitti,

Daniel Castells, Franklin Riet-Correa, Viviana Parreño, Rodney Colina: Genetic diversity of bovine rotavirus in Uruguay: detection of common and uncommon

genotypes

P5: Luis Eduardo Cottet, Christiaan Potgieter, Antonio Castillo: Molecular characterization of a new botybirnavirus that infects the phytopathogenic fungus

Botrytis cinerea CCg427

P6: Susan Afua Damanka, Francis Ekow Dennis, Belinda Larteley Lartey, Chantal Ama

Agbemabiese, Frederick Asamoah, George Enyimah Armah: VP4 Gene Polymorphism of human rotavirus and its impact on P-genotyping by RT-PCR

P7: Francis Ekow Dennis, Yen Hai Doan, Chantal Ama Agbemabiese, Belinda Larteley

Lartey, Susan Afua Damanka, Frederick Karikari Asamoah, George Enyimah

Armah, Kazuhiko Katayama: Detection and full genome characterization of human Group C rotavirus in Ghana

P8: Mathew D Esona, M. Leanne Ward, Mary E Wikswo, Rashi Gautam, Naga S

Betrapally, Slavica Mijatovic-Rustempasic, Charity Perkins, Eric Katz, Jose Jaimes,

Rangaraj Selvarangan, Christopher J Harrison, Julie A Boom, Janet Englund, Eileen

J Klein, Mary Allen Staat, Monica M McNeal, Natasha Halasa, James Chappell,

Geoffrey A Weinberg, Daniel C Payne, Parashar Umesh, Michael D Bowen: Comparative genomic analysis of genogroup 1 (Wa-like) and genogroup 2 (DS-1-like)

rotaviruses circulating in seven US cities, 2013-2016.

P9: Shipra Gupta, Vasundhara Razdan Tiku, Satender Aneja, Praveen Kumar,

Mohammad Islamuddin, Pratima Ray: Epidemiology and Genetic Diversity of Group A Rotavirus in Acute Diarrhea Patients (<5

Years) in Pre-vaccination Era in Delhi.

P10: Belinda Naa Larteley Lartey, Susan Afua Damanka, Francis Ekow Dennis, Chantal

Ama Agbemabiese, Frederick Asamoah, George Enyimah Armah: Changes in Amino Acid Profiles in Antigenic Epitopes of the VP7 Protein of circulating

Rotavirus Strains in Ghana

P11: Antonio Charlys da Costa, Elcio Leal, Flavio Augusto de Padua Milagres, Shirley

Vasconcelos Komninakis, Rafael Brustulin, Maria da Aparecida Rodrigues Teles,

Márcia Cristina Alves Brito Sayão Lobato, Rogério Togisaki das Chagas, Maria de

Fátima Neves dos Santos Abrao, Cassia Vitória de Deus Alves Soares, Xutao Deng,

Eric Delwart, Ester Cerdeira Sabino, Adriana Luchs: Complete genome sequence of two cucumis melo endornavirus strains discovery during

deep sequencing investigation in human stool samples in Brazil

P12: Monica Malone McNeal, Amy Singh, Victoria Fabry, Nicole Meyer, Rebecca Grais,

Celine Langendorf, Shelia Isanaka, Ousmane Guindo: Epidemiology of Rotavirus Strains Circulating in Niger, Africa from 2014 to 2016

P13: Tina Mikuletič, Danijela Rihtarič, Peter Hostnik, Nataša Toplak, Simon Koren, Urška

Kuhar, Urška Jamnikar-Ciglenečki, Denis Kutnjak, Andrej Steyer: Identification of novel reassortant mammalian orthoreovirus serotypes 1, 2, 3 from bats in

Slovenia

P14: Milton Tshidiso Mogotsi, Peter Nthiga Mwangi, Hester Trudi O'Neill, Martin Munene

Nyaga: Genomic investigation of the faecal RNA virome in children from Oukasie clinic, North West

province, South Africa

P15: Eva Dora João, Amy Strydom, Benilde Munlela, Martin Nyaga, Assucênio

Chissaque, Jerónimo Langa, Ezequias Sitoe Sitoe, Jorfélia Chilaúle, Elda

Anapakala, Júlia Sambo, Esperança Guimarães, Diocreciano Bero Bero, Marta

Cassocera, Lena Manhique, José Paulo Langa, Idalécia Cossa-Moiane, Isabel

Maurício, Hester G. O’Neill, Nilsa de Deus: Whole genome characterization of rotavirus strains from National Rotavirus Surveillance of

acute diarrhea in Mozambique

P16: Martin Nyaga, Mapaseka Seheri, Duncan Steele, Jason Mwenda, Jeffery Mphahlele: Whole-genome sequencing and analyses identifies high genetic heterogeneity and diversity

of rotavirus genotype P[6] strains circulating in Africa

P17: Shipra Gupta, Sanjeev Chaudhary, Pratima Ray: G and P Types of Circulating Rotavirus Strains in Himachal Pradesh, India During 2013-

2016: Three Years of Prevaccine Data

P18: Chenyan Shi, Raul Yhossef Tito Tadeo, Leen Beller, Ward Deboutte, Claire

Belkhou, Jeroen Raes, Jelle Matthijnssens: Characterization of human gut virome among populations in four regions of Peru with

different urbanization level

P19: Julia Rezende Silva, Elaine Hellen Nunes Chagas, Renato da Silva Bandeira, Bruno

de Cássio Veloso Barros, Ceyla Maria Oeiras Castro, Delana Andreza Melo

Bezerra, Joana D’Arc Pereira Mascarenhas: Picobirnavirus in humans and livestock animals from areas of environmental change in Brazil

P20: Ana Carolina Silva Serra, Delana Andreza Melo Bezerra, Jonas França Cruz,

Patrícia Santos Lobo, Sylvia de Fátima dos Santos Guerra, Joana d’Arc Pereira

Mascarenhas, Luana da Silva Soares: Molecular analysis of G3P[6] rotavirus collected from children with acute gastroenteritis in

the Brazilian Amazon region

P21: Amy Strydom, Eva D Joao, Martin M Nyaga, Christiaan A Potgieter, Assa Cuamba,

Inacia Mandomando, Marta Cassocera, Nilsa de Deus, Hester G O'Neill: Whole genome characterisation of Rotavirus A circulating in southern Mozambique during

2012-2013 reveals diverse strains and several reassortment events

P22: Gopalkrishna Varanasi: Rotavirus: Genotype distribution and changing trends in children with acute gastroenteritis: A

study from western India

P23: Kinda Alshaikhahmed, Po-Yu Sung, Polly Roy: RNA-RNA interactions hold the key to assortment in the multipartite dsRNA virus

P24: Juan Ignacio Degiuseppe, Juan Andrés Stupka: Genetic diversity of Group A Rotavirus in Latin America before and after universal vaccination, 2001-2017

P25: Frances Katen Shepherd, Fangzhou Chen, Michael Murtaugh, Douglas Marthaler: In silico analysis of the VP7 for porcine rotavirus B and C illustrates genotype-specific antigenic epitopes

P26: Josh Singer, Rob Gifford, Kyriaki Nomikou, Alexander MacLeod, Peter Mertens, Massimo Palmarini: BTV-glue: a web-based bioinformatics resource for Bluetongue Virus sequence data

P27: Samuel Miño, Matías Adúriz, Viviana Parreño: Rotavirus species tropism: new insights on P-type classification

P28: Leen Beller, Ward Deboutte, Chenyan Shi, Daan Jansen, Claude Kwe Yinda, Mark Zeller, Marc Van Ranst, Jelle Matthijnssens: Exploring the diversity and dynamics of the gut virome of infants during the first year of life

P29: Øystein Wessel, Turhan Markussen, Torstein Tengs, Dhamotharan K, Salman Malik, Maria Dahle, Espen Rimstad: Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV); in vivo propagation in erythrocytes enables virus purification, causality to important disease in farmed Atlantic salmon and protection by inactivated vaccine

Poster session 2: Evolution and Epidemiology

P30: Irfan Ahmad, Anjum Afshan, Aasifa Jan, Taniya Kirmani:

Molecular epidemiology of rotavirus gastroenteritis in Kashmir Himalaya. Tourism and

climatic disturbance - A potent platform for transmission.

P31: Ernest Wandera Apondi, Satoshi Komoto, Shah Mohammad, Martin Bundi, James

Nyangao, Cyrus Kathiiko, Amina Galata, Sora Guyo, Gabriel Miring’u, Tomihiko Ide,

Koki Taniguchi, Yoshio Ichinose: Increased Detection of G3P[6] Human Rotaviruses after Introduction of Rotavirus

Vaccination in Kenya

P32: Mouna Ben Hadj Fredj, Haifa Bennour, Asma Bouazizi, Amira Jerbi, Meriam Ben

Hamida-Rebai, Besma Abdi, Samia Lakhal, Saoussen Kacem, Zouhour Fekih,

Imene Fodha, Jelle Matthijnssens, Abdelhalim Trabelsi: Distribution of NSP4 genotypes of group a rotavirus strains circulating in Tunisian children

over a 10 years period (2006 to 2016)

P33: Haifa Bennour, Imene Fodha, Asma Bouazizi, Amira Jerbi, Samia Lakhal, Mouna

Ben Hadj Fredj, Meriam Ben Hamida-Rebai, Ouafa Kallala, Saoussen Kacem,

Zouhour Fekih, Akila Mili, Noureddine Boujaafar, Abdelhalim Trabelsi: Characterization of group A rotavirus strains identified in Tunisian adults and children more

than 5 years old (2015 to 2017)

P34: Angeline Yvette Boula, Rose Ngoh, Mina Njiki Kinkela, Grace Kemajou, Roger

Ngoya, Eric Nkolo, Franky Baonga Ba Pouth, Marcellin Nimpa, Jason Mwenda, Paul

Koki Ndombo: Rotavirus genotype distribution after Rotavirus vaccine introduction in Cameroon

P35: Elaine Hellen Nunes Chagas, Júlia Rezende Silva, Bruno de Cássio Veloso Barros,

José Wandilson Barboza Duarte Junior, Delana Andreza Melo Bezerra, Edivaldo

Costa Sousa Júnior, Renato da Silva Bandeira, Sylvia de Fátima dos Santos

Guerra, Ceyla Maria Oeiras de Castro, Joana D’Árc Pereira Mascarenhas: Picobirnavirus and Reovirus in faecal samples of animals, mammals and birds, from areas of

environmental change of Brazil

P36: Juan Ignacio Degiuseppe, Vanina Sol Eibar, Sandra Fabiana Grucci, Juan Andrés

Stupka: Unexpected emergence of novel Group A Rotavirus G9P[4] in Mendoza, Argentina

P37: Shuvra Kanti Dey, Sadia Farzana Sifat, Md. Almamun, Nadim Sharif, Nasir Uddin

Nobel, Sadia Nowshin Sany, Md. Baki Billah: High prevalence and changing genotyping pattern of rotavirus infection among Bangladeshi

pediatric patients

P38: Imene Fodha Bouzgarrou, Anissa Chouikha, Mouna Ben Hadj Fredj, Amal Moussa,

Haifa Bennour, Meriam Ben Hamida, Asma Bouazizi, Abdelhalim Trabelsi, Andrew

Duncan Steele: Tunisian Rotavirus Surveillance (1995-2017): A Brief Overview.

P39: Fabián Gómez-Santiago, Atenea Estela Andrés, Sergio Issac de la Cruz, Heidi

Terán, Héctor Méndez, Herlinda García: Molecular characterization of a group A rotaviruses in Mexico during 2018, emergence of

G3P[8] strain variants.

P40: Madhuri Shantanu Joshi, Shalu Akash Arya, Atul Madhukar Walimbe, Varanasi

Gopalkrishna: Rotavirus C: Genetic evolutionary dynamics based on VP3 and VP7 Genes, and Detection in

Fecal Specimens of Pigs from Western India

P41: C. Eures Iyar Garcia Lazaro, Joseph Bonifacio, Mary Ann Igoy, Amado Tandoc III: Etiology of non-rotavirus-associated gastroenteritis among hospitalized children under five

years of age in the Philippines, 2015-2016

P42: Adriana Luchs, Antonio Charlys da Costa, Audrey Cilli, Shirley Cavalcante

Vasconcelos Komninakis, Lais Boen, Rita de Cassia Compagnoli Carmona, Simone

Guadagnucci Morillo, Ester Cerdeira Sabino, Maria do Carmo Sampaio Tavares

Timenetsky: Spread of the emerging equine-like G3P[8] ds-1-like genetic backbone

rotavirus strain in Brazil

P43: Marcelo Gastón Mandile, Estefanía Peri Ibañez, Marcelo Argüelles, Facundo

Temprana, Dalila Silvestre, Alicia Mistchenko, Graciela Glikmann, Alejandro

Castello: Surveillance of Group A Rotavirus in Buenos Aires, Argentina after the introduction of the

monovalent vaccine and the study of a rare strain in an unusual immune environment.

P44: Iara Magaly Martinez, Maria Eugenia Galeano, Graciela Russomando, Gabriel

Ignacio Parra: Differences in VP6 Predict Restriction on the Reassortment of Co-circulating AU-1-like and

Wa-like Rotaviruses Strains

P45: Fabiolla da Silva dos Santos, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Junior, Sylvia de Fátima dos

Santos Guerra, Patrícia dos Santos Lobo, Edvaldo Tavares Penha Junior, Ana

Beatriz Figueiredo Lima, Caio Breno Gomes Vinente, Maria Cleonice Aguiar Justino,

Alexandre da Costa Linhares, Luana da Silva Soares, Joana D'Arc Pereira

Mascarenhas: G1P[8] Rotavirus in childrens with acute diarrhea after vaccine introduction in Brazil:

evidence of reassortments and structural modifications in VP7 and VP4 genes

P46: Sarita Yadav, Kyriaki Nomikou, Sushila Maan, Narender Maan, Massimo Palmarini,

Peter Paul Clement Mertens: Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Bluetongue Virus Isolates from Southern India

P47: Sushila Maan, Narender Singh Maan, Sunil Kumar Mor, Nitish Bansal, Deepika

Chaudhary, Panduranga P. Rao, Peter Paul Clement Mertens: Whole genome sequence-based characterisation of bluetongue virus serotype 5 from India

P48: Amani Rebecca N'Guessan-Kouame, Marie-Helene Ake-Assi-Konan, Catherine

Boni, Flore Zaba, Hamidou Kone, Nicaise Aka, Laurence Adonis-Koffy: Epidemiological and clinical aspects of gastroenteritis in the pediatrics departement of

teaching hospital of Yopougon one year after introduction rotateq vaccine (abidjan rci)

P49: Gaston Eric Nkolo Mviena, Angeline Boula, Rose Ngoh, E. Mugyia Akongnwi, Mina

Njiki Kinkela, Grace Kemajou, Roger Ngoya Ebiguide, Ba Pouth Baonga, Marcellin

Nimpa, Jason Mwenda, Paul Koki Ndombo: Norovirus Co-infection with Rotavirus in Yaoundé,Cameroon

P50: Kyriaki Nomikou, Ana Da Silva Filipe, Roman Biek, Joseph Hughes, Sreenu

Vattipally, Stephan Zientara, Emmanuel Breard, Damien Vitour, Bernd Hoffmann,

Giovani Savini, Piet van Rijn, Peter Mertens, Massimo Palmarini: BTV-8 in Europe: direct sequencing of the full viral genome from clinical samples

P51: Oluwole Oyetunde Oni, Ademola Amubieya Owoade, Christopher Adeyinka

Adeyefa: Association of rotavirus gastroenteritis with bacterial infection in poultry birds.

P52: Verónica Emilse Prez, Laura Cecilia Martínez, Gisela Masachessi, Miguel Oscar

Giordano, Patricia Angélica Barril, Silvia Viviana Nates: Rotavirus and enterovirus: through irrigation waters to green vegetables.

P53: Ngoya Roger, Boula Angeline, Kemajou Grace, Nkolo Eric, Ngoh Rose, Koki Paul: Epidemiological, clinical and virological aspects of Rotavirus diarrhea in Yaounde-Cameroon

(2014-2016)

P54: Kuldeep Sharma, Nitish S Parihar, Arti Shrivas, Vaibhav K Tamrakar, Jyothi Bhat: Development of a novel, visual Polymerase Spiral Reaction for detection of Rotavirus C

P55: Vaishali Tatte, Deepthy Maran, Gopalkrishna Varanasi: Genetic characterization of structural and non-structural genes of unusual rotavirus strains

associated with acute gastroenteritis

P56: Celina Guadalupe Vega, Marina Bok, Juan Ignacio Degiuseppe, Alejandra Antonella

Rivolta, Ana Paula Piantanida, Matías Adúriz Guerrero, Gustavo Asenzo, Andrés

Wigdorovitz, Juan Stupka, Lorena Laura Garaicoechea, Viviana Parreño: Rotadial: the first RVA diagnostic kit based on patented VHH antibodies

P57: Zoe Yandle, Suzie Coughlan, Cillian De Gascun: Detection of rotavirus and distribution of genotypes before and after the introduction of

Rotarix in Ireland

P58: Sebastiaan Theuns, Quinten Bernaert, Philip Vyt, Hans J Nauwynck: Intriguing successive (sub)clinical shedding patterns of different rotavirus genotypes in

suckling and weaned pigs

P59: Mohamed Lemine Cb.Ahmed, Abdellahi Weddih, Mohemed Abdellahi Boullah,

Meriam Sidatt, Abdelkarim Filali-Maltouf, Mohammed Benhafid: Rotavirus among children aged 0-5 years in Nouakchott Mauritania

P60: Tohru Suzuki: Genetic characteristics of porcine rotaviruses H detected recently in Japan

P61: Frances Katen Shepherd, Michael Murtaugh, Douglas Marthaler: Genetic variability and implications for identifying neutralizing epitopes in swine rotavirus A

strains

P62: Samuel Miño, María Barrandeguy, Viviana Parreño: Worldwide evolution of equine RVA, four voices, one story

P63: Ward Deboutte, Leen Beller, Claude Kwe Yinda, Nádia da Conceição Neto, Piet

Maes, Dirk C de Graaf, Jelle Matthijnssens: A viral metagenomics view on the honeybee virome reveals a plethora of undescribed

dsRNA viruses

P64: Hiroaki Shirafuji, Natsumi Kobayashi, Katsunori Murota, Shogo Tanaka, Tohru

Yanase: Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus identified in affected cattle in Japan during 2015−2017

P65: Chantal Ama Agbemabiese, Toyoko Nakagomi, Susan Afua Damanka, Francis

Ekow Dennis, Belinda Larteley Lartey, Frederick Karikari Asamoah, Michael Fokuo

Ofori, George Enyimah Armah, Osamu Nakagomi: A proposal for the lineage framework for sub-genotype phylogeny of the backbone genes of

DS-1-like Rotavirus A strains.

P66: Isidore Juste O. Bonkoungou, Ylva Rönnelid, Nafissatou Ouedraogo, Nicolas Barro,

Lennart Svensson, Johan Nordgren: Predominance of norovirus in children hospitalized with gastroenteritis after rotavirus vaccine

introduction in Burkina Faso

P67: Syun-suke Kadoya, Syun-ichi Urayama, Takuro Nunoura, Masaaki Kitajima, Satoshi

Okabe, Toyoko Nakagomi, Osamu Nakagomi, Daisuke Sano: Neutral Evolutionary Rate of Rhesus Rotavirus

P68: Daniel E Velasquez Portocarrero, Baoming Jiang: Comparative analysis of trivalent P2-VP8 subunit rotavirus vaccine strains and P[8], P[4],

and P[6] human rotaviruses reported globally during 1974 and 2017

Poster session 3: Molecular and Cellular Virology

P69: Carolina Allende-Ballestero, Carlos P. Mata, José R. Castón: Analysis of ribonucleoprotein complexes of IBDV

P70: Alice Gray, Andrew James Broadbent: Determining the dynamics of birnavirus replication organelle movement in vitro using a split-

GFP tagged infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV).

P71: Oscar R. Burrone, Catherine Eichwald, Giuditta De Lorenzo, Elisabeth Schraner,

Guido Papa, Michela Bollati, Paolo Swec, Matteo de Rosa, Mario Milani, Eloise

Mastrangelo, Mathias Ackermann, Francesca Arnoldi: A novel rotavirus inhibitor impairs the structural integrity of rotavirus particles and viroplasms

P72: Durga Rao Chilakalapudi, Varsha Tandra, Poonam Dhillon:

Cytoplasmic re-localization and colocalization with viroplasms of host nuclear and

cytoplasmic proteins, and their role in rotavirus infection

P73: Sue Ellen Crawford, Sarah E. Blutt, Sasirekha Ramani, Daniel R. Laucirica, Winnie

Zou, Xi-Lei Zeng, Umesh Karandikar, James Broughman, Mary K. Estes: A New Form of Human Rotavirus Produced from Human Intestinal Enteroids

P74: Sue Ellen Crawford, Zheng Liu, Jeanette Criglar, Mary K. Estes: The Role of DGAT1 in Rotavirus Viroplasm/Lipid Droplet Formation

P75: Selene Glück, Antonino Buttafuoco, Anita F Meier, Francesca Arnoldi, Vogt Bernd,

Elisabeth M Schraner, Mathias Ackermann, Catherine C Eichwald: Rotavirus replication is correlated with S/G2 interphase arrest of the host cell cycle.

P76: Catherine C Eichwald, Mathias Ackermann, Max L Nibert: The dynamics of both filamentous and globular mammalian reovirus viral factories rely on the

microtubule network.

P77: Michael Burwinkel, Alexander Falkenhagen, Eva Trojnar, Reimar Johne: Adaptive mutations occurring during serial passages of an avian/mammalian rotavirus

reassortant in cell culture

P78: Linda Ferreira-Venter, Eudri Venter, Vida van Staden: Unravelling the complexity of AHSV NS3: a targeted investigation of its functional domains.

P79: Thomas Labadie, Sophie Jegouic, Polly Roy: Polybasic motif within non-structural protein 3 of Bluetongue virus is important for cell

release

P80: Delphine Lanoie, Emmanuelle Degeorges, Stéphanie Côté, Véronique Sandekian,

Guy Lemay: Combining classical and reverse genetics to study the multiple proteins of mammalian

orthoreoviruses affecting induction of and sensitivity to the interferon response

P81: Simon Boudreault, Martin Bisaillon, Guy Lemay: Modifications to the cellular transcriptome and alternative RNA splicing after mammalian

orthoreovirus infection

P82: Gabriela Llauger, Demián Esteban Monti, Carlos María Figueroa, Alberto Álvaro

Iglesias, Mariana del Vas: Mal de Río Cuarto virus minor viroplasm component P6 interacts with an atypical wheat

thioredoxin

P83: Outi L Lyytinen, Daria A Starkova, Minna M Poranen: Pseudomonas Phage Phi6 Envelope Formation and Phi6-Specific Vesicle Production in

Escherichia coli

P84: Eiko Matsuo, Marina Hamaji, Hiroko Omori, Hideyuki Tsuji, Akari Saito, Polly Roy,

Keiichi Saeki, Takeshi Kobayashi, Junichi Kawano: Further analysis of Ibaraki virus VP6 to produce fluorescence-labeled orbiviruses

P85: Fortunate Mokoena, Mapaseka Seheri, Martin Nyaga, Nonkululeko Magagula,

Arnold Mukaratirwa, Augustine Mulindwa, Almaz Abebe, Angelina Boula,

Tsolenyanu Enyonam, Kebareng Rakau, Ina Peenze, Jason Mwenda, Jefferey

Mphahlele: Whole genome analysis of African G12P[6] and G12P[8] rotavirus strains with evidence of

porcine-human reassortment at NSP3 and NSP4 genes

P86: Guido Papa, Francesca Arnoldi, Giuditta De Lorenzo, Gianluca Petris, Marco

Bestagno, Oscar R. Burrone: Development of a novel reverse genetics system for Rotavirus

P87: Jin Dai, Asha Ann Philip, Chantal A Agbemabiese, Guido Papa, John Patton: Impaired growth phenotype of recombinant rotaviruses expressing VP3 with a defective 2',5'-

phosphodiesterase (PDE)

P88: Asha A Philip, Jin Dai, Chantal A Agbemabiese, Guido Papa, Promisree Choudhury,

Sarah Katen, John Patton: Modifications of the Rotavirus Plasmid-Based Reverse Genetics System

P89: Mariela Duarte, Patrice Vende, Annie Charpilienne, Cécile Laroche, Didier Poncet:

Rotavirus infection induces alternative splicing of the stress-regulated transcription

factor XBP1.

P90: Kebareng Rakau, Maemu Gededzha, Mapaseka Seheri: Molecular characterization of rotavirus infections in children attending Dr George Mukhari

Academic Hospital and Oukasie Primary Healthcare and their association with histo-blood

group antigen profiles

P91: Sujata Ranshing, Ashish Bavdekar, Umesh Vaidya, Manas Behera, Gopalkrishna

Varanasi: Molecular Characterization of Unusual Rotaviruses G12P[11] Strain Identified in Neonates

Admitted at Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) : A study from Pune, Western India

P92: Carlos Sandoval-Jaime, Carlos Arias, Susana López: Detection of Rotavirus NSP3 interactions during infection

P93: Litia Yssel, Eudri Venter, Vida van Staden: Investigating the interaction of the viral inclusion bodies formed during African horse

sickness virus infection with the host protein synthesis apparatus

P94: Shani May Bekker, Christiaan Potgieter, Vida van Staden, Jacques Theron: The use of a soluble African horse sickness virus VP7 protein to study virus replication and

vaccine development

P95: Durga Rao Chilakalapudi, Poonam Dhillon: Viroplasms and remodelled stress granules and P-bodies: Union of the triad to promote

progeny rotavirus production

P96: Po-yu Sung, Cheng Kao, Polly Roy: Mapping the RNA binding and packaging motifs of Bluetongue virus capsid protein VP6 by

biophysical and molecular analysis

P97: Eric N. Salgado, Brian Garcia Rodriguez, Nagarjun Narayanaswamy, Yamuna

Krishnan, Stephen C. Harrison:

Visualization of Ca2+ loss from rotavirus during cell entry

P98: Marc Guimera Busquets, Gillian Pullinger, Massimo Palmarini, Karin E. Darpel,

Rennos Fragkoudis, Peter P. C. Mertens: Molecular determinants of bluetongue virus that drive replication in the insect vector cell

P99: Marno GJ Huyzers, Abraham Christiaan Potgieter, Louis Jeremia Cornelius Theart,

Alberdina Aike van Dijk: Local implementation and optimisation of entirely plasmid-based SA11 rotavirus reverse

genetics

P100: Joerg Bormann, Cornelia Heinze, Christine Blum, Michael Mentges, Anke

Brockmann, Arne Alder, Svenja Kim Landt, Brian Josephson, Daniela Indenbirken,

Michael Spohn, Birte Plitzko, Sandra Loesgen, Michael Freitag, Wilhelm Schäfer: Expression of a structural protein of the mycovirus FgV-ch9 negatively affects the transcript level of a novel symptom alleviation factor and causes virus-infection like symptoms in Fusarium graminearum

P101: Anirban Kundu, Amit Kumar Das, Ananta Kumar Ghosh: Molecular mechanism of polymerase activity and RNA-binding properties of E. coli expressed different domains of Antheraea mylitta cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase

Poster session 4: Immunity and Pathogenesis

P102: Davide Agnello, Damien Denimal, Amandine Lavaux, Cecile Pitoiset, Pierre Pothier,

Alexis de Rougemont: Asymmetric recirculation of rotavirus-specific memory B cells induced by intra-rectal immunization with 2/6-virus-like particles (2/6-VLPs) throughout the gut-associated lymphoid tissues.

P103: Sarah Caddy, Leo James: Intracellular neutralisation of rotavirus by antibodies

P104: Tanner Gill, Geoffrey Holm: Identification of Interferon Stimulated Genes That Restrict Reovirus Infection

P105: Gennaro Iaconis, Miren Iturriza-Gomara, Mark Boyce, Steve Goodbourn, Neil Blake, Ben Jackson, Julian Seago: Characterization of molecular targets for differential regulation of the type I and III interferon induction and signalling pathways by rotavirus NSP1

P106: Fidan Karatas, Wilma Fick: Investigating the role of akirin, a conserved transcription factor of arthropods, in the pathogenesis of C. sonorensis derived KC cells caused by African Horse Sickness Virus infection

P107: Tina Mikuletič, Tanja Švara, Mitja Gombač, Marko Kolenc, Andrej Steyer: Bat MRV isolate SI-MRV01 dissemination after oral inoculation of neonatal BALB/c mice

P108: Médard Ngoy Kiluba: Choice of vaccine and study of the careful use of pharmacy during the introduction of rotavirus vaccine in DRC

P109: Larise Oberholster, Jasmin Aschenbrenner, Christiaan Potgieter, Hester Gertruida O'Neill: Evaluation of recombinant Newcastle Disease Viruses (NDV) as candidate vaccine delivery vectors for rotavirus VP7 and NSP4 in mice

P110: Alejandro Marin-Lopez, Eva Calvo-Pinilla, Diego Barriales, Gema Lorenzo, Sergio Utrilla-Trigo, Ruyman Alonso-Ravelo, Alejandro Brun, Juan Anguita, Javier Ortego: CD8 T cell responses to an immunodominant epitope within the non-structural protein NS1 provides wide immunoprotection against bluetongue virus in ifnar(-/-) mice

P111: Eva Calvo-Pinilla, Alejandro Marín-López, Natalia Barreiro-Piñeiro, Diego Barriales, Sergio Utrilla-Trigo, Ruyman Alonso-Ravelo, Javier Benavente, Alejandro Brun, José Manuel Martínez-Costas, Javier Ortego: Cross-protective immune responses against ashv after vaccination with avian reovirus muns microspheres and modified vaccinia virus ankara

P112: Rui Qiao, Yu Wang: A complement factor NcTEP3 transcriptional regulated by Toll pathway inhibits the RDV infection of leafhopper by inducing antimicrobial peptides

P113: Sasirekha Ramani, Christopher Stewart, Daniel Laucirica, Nadim Ajami, Liya Hu, B. V. Venkataram Prasad, Lars Bode, Gagandeep Kang, Mary Estes: Modulation of Neonatal Rotavirus Infection by Interplay between Human Milk Oligosaccharides, Milk Microbiome and Infant Gut Microbiome

P114: Jesús Rodríguez-Díaz, Antonio Rubio-del-Campo, Javier Buesa, Roberto Gozalbo-Rovira, Susana Vila-Vicent, Cristina Santiso-Bellón, Delgado Susana, Natalia Molinero, Abelardo Margolles, Vicente Monedero, Maria Carmen Collado: Determination of rotavirus binding bacteria by fluorescence-activated cell sorting and next generation sequencing.

P115: Linda J. Saif, Ayako Miyazaki, Sukumar Kandasaamy, Husheem Michael, Stephanie Langel, Francine Paim, Juliet Chepngeno, Moyasar Alhamo, David Fischer, Huang-Chi Huang, Vishal Srivastava, Dipak Kathayat, Loic DeBlais, Gireesh Rajashekara, Anastasia Vlasova: Protein deficiency reduces the efficacy of an oral attenuated human rotavirus vaccine in a human infant fecal microbiota transplanted gnotobiotic pig model

P116: Wico Sander, Trudi G O'Neill, Carlien H Pohl: The effect of supplementation of fatty acids, with varying degrees of saturation, on rotavirus yield and replication in MA104 cells

P117: Adrish Sen, Harry Greenberg: Rotavirus regulates the STAT1 antiviral response in infected and uninfected bystander cells by two discrete mechanisms.

P118: Piet A. van Rijn, Femke Feenstra, Rene G.P. van Gennip: A novel vaccine approach for insect borne diseases; Disabled Infectious Single Animal (DISA) vaccine for Bluetongue

P119: Celina Guadalupe Vega, Marina Bok, Maren Ebinger, Lucia Rocha, Verónica Pinto, Christian Knapp, Alejandra Antonella Rivolta, Viviana Parreño, Andrés Wigdorovitz Bioinnovo IgY DNT: towards the end of newborn calf diarrhea

P120: Daniel E Velasquez Portocarrero, Paulina Rebolledo, Umesh Parashar, Baoming Jiang, Juan Leon: Pre-vaccination rotavirus serum IgA and IgG, and stunting are associated with low rates of seroconversion to Rotarix® at 1 year of age among Bolivian infants

P121: Lijuan Yuan: Using gnotobiotic (Gn) pig model for pre-clinical evaluation of candidate rotavirus vaccines

P122: Piet A. van Rijn, Sandra G.P. van de Water, Christiaan A. Potgieter, Rene G.P. van Gennip: Disabled Infectious Single Animal (DISA) vaccine for African Horse Sickness

P123: Siyuan Ding, Peter K. Jackson, John T. Patton, Jia Liu, Harry B.Greenberg: Interferon-stimulated gene SAMD9 restricts rotavirus replication and is counteracted by non-structural protein 1

P124: Megan Stanifer, Stephanie Muenchau, Dorothee Albrecht, Sina Bartfeld, Franck van Kuppeveld, Takashi Kanaya, Steeve Boulant: Polarised interferon-mediated immune response against mammalian reovirus reveal novel mechanisms of immune tolerance in the human gut

P125: Lyndsay Cooke, Katy Moffat, Laura Tugwell, Nicolas Locker, Geraldine Taylor, Karin Darpel: Bacterial products within Culicoides midge saliva enhance Bluetongue virus infection in bovine monocytes

P126: Yuta Kanai, Takahiro Kawagishi, Misa Onishi, Pannacha Pimfhun, Ryotaro Nouda, Jeffery Nurdin, Keiichiro Nomura, Hiroshi Ushijima, Takeshi Kobayashi: Antigenicity of simian and human reassortant rotaviruses generated by reverse genetics

P127: Yi Jin, Maxime Ratinier, Siddharth Bakshi, Marco Caporale, Aislynn Taggart, Meredith Stewart, Massimo Palmarini: The African horse sickness virus NS4 counteracts the antiviral response and is a determinant of viral virulence

P128: Katherine Dulwich, Efstathios S. Giotis, Michael A. Skinner, Andrew J. Broadbent: The VP4 protein from a very virulent IBDV strain antagonises type I IFN responses, in contrast to the VP4 from a classical strain

P129: Miguel Avia, Lisa Miorin, José Manual Rojas, Elena Pascual, Verónica Martín, Adolfo García-Sastre, Noemí Sevilla: Bluetongue virus uses the lysosome-autophagy pathway to degrade STAT2 and block IFN signaling

P130: Takahiro Kawagishi, Yuta Kanai, Yusuke Sakai, Ryotaro Nouda, Hideki Tani, Masayuki Shimojima, Masayuki Saijo, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Takeshi Kobayashi: Nelson Bay Orthoreovirus cell attachment protein σC determines strain-specific differences in viral replication and pathogenesis

Poster session 5: Structure

P131: Deepti Thete, Anthony Snyder, Pranav Danthi:

Mu1 protein dependent aggregation of reovirus particles promotes reassortment

P132: Alvaro Ortega-Esteban, Carlos P. P. Mata, M. Jesús R. Espinosa, Pedro J. de Pablo, José R. Castón: Structural and biophysical analysis of human picobirnavirus capsid

P133: Liya Hu, Wilhelm Salmen, Banumathi Sankaran, Sasirekha Ramani, Mary Estes, B. V. Venkataram Prasad: Structural basis of glycan specificity in human rotaviruses

P134: Dilip Kumar, Xinzhe Yu, Sue E Crawford, Rodolfo Moreno, Anish Ramakrishnan, Liya Hu, Mary K Estes, Zhao Wang, B.V.Venkataram Prasad: Near-atomic resolution cryo-EM structure of Rotavirus capping enzyme VP3

P135: Adeline Kerviel, Mason Lai, Jonathan Jih, Peng Ge, Hong Zhou, Polly Roy: Atomic structure of translation regulatory protein NS1 of bluetongue virus in tubule form

P136: José R. Castón, Carlos P. Mata, Daniel Luque, Nobuhiro Suzuki, Said A. Ghabrial: Structure of replicative cores of dsRNA fungal viruses

P137: Serban Ilca, Xiaoyu Sun, Kamel El Omari, Jonathan Grimes, David Stuart, Minna Poranen, Juha Huiskonen: Multiple Liquid Crystalline Geometries of Highly Compacted Nucleic Acid in a dsRNA Virus

Poster session 6: Using and Abusing Host Pathways

P138: Fauziah Mohd Jaafar, Pierre Olivier Vidalain, Damien Vitour, Stephan Zientara, Peter

P.C. Mertens, Houssam Attoui: NS4 and NS5 of orbiviruses: modulation of pathways in insect and mammalian cells

P139: Shareen Boughan, Christiaan Potgieter, Vida van Staden: Nuclear localisation of African horse sickness virus non-structural protein NS4 differs across strains

P140: Cindy Kundlacz, Aurore Fablet, Rayane Amaral Da Silva Moraes, Marie Pourcelot, Cyril Viarouge, Corinne Sailleau, Axel Gorlier, Emmanuel Breard, Stephan Zientara, Damien Vitour, Grégory Caignard: Novel Function of Bluetongue Virus NS3 Protein in Regulation of the MAPK/ERK Signaling Pathway

P141: Andrew McNamara, Pranav Danthi: Reovirus inhibits NF-kappaB signaling in infected cells by at least two different mechanisms

P142: Luis Alejandro de Haro, Sofía Maité Arellano, Ondrej Novák, Regina Feil, Analía Delina Dumón, María Fernanda Mattio, Danuše Tarkowská, Gabriela Llauger, Miroslav Strnad, John Lunn, Stephen Pearce, Carlos María Figueroa, Mariana del Vas: Integrative hormone, metabolomic and transcriptomic profiling reveal hormonal imbalance and strong sugar partitioning alteration in Mal de Rio Cuarto virus-infected wheat

P143: Angela K Berger, Alison W Ashbrook, Maximilian H Carter, Karla D Passalacqua, Kristen M Ogden, Charles M Rice, Christiane E Wobus, Bernardo A Mainou: Loperamide, a mu-opioid receptor agonist, inhibits reovirus infection

P144: Urbi Mukhopadhyay, Shampa Chanda, Mamta Chawla-Sarkar: Rotavirus hinders antiviral RNA interference by degradation of Argonaute-2

P145: Upayan Patra, Urbi Mukhopadhyay, Mamta Chawla-Sarkar: Rotavirus infection down-regulates redox-sensitive transcription factor Nrf2 and Nrf2-driven transcription units

P146: Ané Pieters, Vida van Staden: Investigating cytosolic conveyance of newly synthesised mature African horse sickness virus particles

P147: Gayle Wall, Christiaan Potgieter, Fourie Joubert, Vida van Staden: African horse sickness virus non-structural protein NS4 suppresses host innate immunity

P148: Jonathan Knowlton, Isabel Fernández De Castro, Daniel Gestaut, Paula Zamora, Judith Frydman, Cristina Risco, Terence Dermody: The TRiC chaperonin is required for reovirus assembly

P149: Sarah Katen, John Patton: Comparative Activities of the Phosphodegrons for beta-TrCP in Rotavirus NSP1 and IkappaB

Poster session 7: Applied dsRNA Virology

P150: Akhtar Ali, Samira Mokhtari:

Isolation and identification of dsRNA viruses from Fusarium species

P151: Meng-Jung Chen: Non- vaccine prevention of dsRNA virus infection

P152: Carolina Cornejo, Helena Braganca, Daniel Rigling: Identification and initial characterization of dsRNA mycoviruses infecting the chestnut pathogen Cryphonectria naterciae

P153: Shuvra Dey, Sadia Farzan Sifat, Md Almamun, Nadim Sharif, Nasir Uddin Nobel, Shilpi Sarkar, Anowar Khasru Parvez, Ali Azam Talukder: Comparative evaluation of sensitivity and specificity of Immunochromatography kit (IC Kit) for the rapid detection of rotavirus in Bangladesh

P154: Chia-Jung Hsieh: Epidemiology and burden of dsRNA virus in Taiwan

P155: Soizick F. Le Guyader, My Phan, Sofia Strubbia, Julien Schaeffer, Marion Koopmans, Matthew Cotton: Metagenomic approach to detect dsRNA viruses and other human enteric viruses in wastewater samples.

P156: Gisela Masachessi, Verónica Emilse Prez, Laura Cecilia Martínez, Miguel Oscar Giordano, Patricia Angélica Barril, Jorge Vitorio Pavan, Silvia Viviana Nates: Assessing the use of picobirnavirus and infective enterovirus as indicators for faecal contamination tracking in freshwater and its potential to report the presence of rotavirus.

P157: Patricia Angélica Barril, Hugo Ramiro Poma, Georgina Gisela Giordano, Verónica Emilse Prez, Silvia Viviana Nates, Verónica Beatriz Rajal: Diffuse contamination of surface waters from the north region of Argentina: human rotavirus detection and characterization.

P158: Jeevan Bahadur Sherchand, Sony Shrestha, Ocean Thakali, Laxman Shrestha, Ajit Raymajhi: Rotavirus-gastroenteritis and molecular characterization of hospitalized children under 5 years of age with acute diarrhea in Nepal

P159: Francisca Cristi-Munoz, Yip Wan Kong, Hitt Mary, Maya Shmulevitz: Combination of Mutations to Produce Reovirus Variants with Improved Oncolytic Potency

P160: Meredith Stewart, Alejandro Marin-Lopez, Vanessa Herder, Javier Ortego, Massimo Palmarini: A synthetic biology approach for African horse sickness vaccine platforms

P161: Sebastiaan Theuns, Bert Vanmechelen, Quinten Bernaert, Nádia Conceição Neto, Ward Deboutte, Marilou Vandenhole, Leen Beller, Piet Maes, Jelle Matthijnssens, Hans J Nauwynck: Nanopore sequencing as a revolutionary diagnostic tool for porcine viral enteric disease complexes identifies porcine kobuvirus and picobirnavirus as important enteric viruses

P162: Matias Aduriz Guerrero, Cecile Vincke, Ema Romao, Marina Bok, Celina Vega, Andres Wigdorovitz, Serge Muyldermans, Viviana Parreño: First immune nanobody library against Rotavirus derived from a guanaco

P163: Houping Wang, Jackelyn Murray, Les Jones, Ralph Tripp, Baoming Jiang: Assessment of improved rotavirus vaccine production in gene-edited Vero cells

P164: Yuhuan Wang, Theresa Resch, Mathew D Esona, Sung-Sil Moon, Baoming Jiang: A DS-1 like human rotavirus G9P[6] vaccine strain for improving efficacy in target populations