Speakers and chairmen's profiles & abstracts

• Harvey Alter Chronic viral hepatitis and liver cancer
• Claudio Basilico Chair
• Massimiano Bucchi THE VISIBLE VIRUS: MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF VIRUS AND PANDEMICS
• Ilaria Capua The "One Health" vision to combat emerging infectious diseases
• Ilaria Capua From animal to pandemic influenza: challenges and opportunities
• Felice Casson Science, policy and law
• Luigi Chieco-Bianchi Chair
• John Coffin Endogenous viral sequences and their evolution
• Maria Ines Colnaghi Chair
• Dorothy Crawford Viruses: the invisible enemy revealed
• Wafaa El Khoury Viruses, Insect and Hunger
• Heinz Feldmann Emerging Zoonotic Viruses: Response and Preparedness
• Genoveffa Franchini Oncogenic retrovirus, chronic infection and cancer: Viral strategies that favor viral persistence in humans
• Robert Gallo Basic Science and HIV/AIDS: Perspectives from the Past and Prospects for the Future
• Adolfo Garcia-Sastre Pandemic influenza
• Wilhelm Gruissem The battle against plant viruses
• Giuseppe Ippolito Global burden of infectious diseases: not just numbers
• Manuela Kron Overcoming a virus nightmare: why and how companies protect their people at all cost
• John Mackenzie Societal drivers of disease emergence - the consequences of human actions and activities
• Alberto Mantovani Viruses and immunity: molecular pirates and the challenge of a global alliance
• Luc Montagnier Living with viruses
• Luigi Naldini Viruses as Allies of Man
• Marc Ostfield Transatlantic Partnerships to Counter Biological Threats
• Shivaji Pandey Viruses, Insects and Hunger
• Rino Rappuoli Vaccines to address the needs of 21st century society
• Charles Rice Hepatitis C: towards control and eradication
• Gianpiero Sironi Chair
• Inder Verma Viruses as Allies of Man
• Robin Weiss Viruses and Cancer
• Nathan Wolfe Viral Forecasting