13:30 - 14:00

Opening Ceremony

14:00 - 14:45

Conference 1
Chairperson: Elisabeth Puchhamer-Stöckl

Eric de Clerq

Antiviral activity of acyclic - cyclic nucleoside phosphonates

14:45 - 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00 - 15:45

Conference 2
Chairperson: William Carman

Bruno Lina

Insights into the influenza A(H1N1) virus

15:45 - 16:15

Keynote Lecture I
Chairperson: Salih Türkoğlu

Ahmed Kamruddin

Clinical virology of rotavirus

16:15 - 18:00

Oral Presentations I
Chairpersons: Ahmed Kamruddin - Bruno Lina

OP1-1 Evaluation of  Sensitivity of  Commercial Kits for the Diagnosis of A (H1N1)V Infection in Comparison with  RT-PCRS Developed by National Influenza Centers.- M. Bouscambert-Duchamp
OP1-2 Detection of Pandemic 2009 A/H1N1 Virus by Real-Time PCR- M.Panning
OP1-3 Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus Infections in Turkey- N. Albayrak
OP1-4 DIAL: An Interactive Web Based Platform For Real-Time Interpretation and Analysis of Laboratory  Test Results to Support Analysis and Reporting During The H1N1 Swine Origin Influenza Virus (S-OIV) Outbreak- J. K. Preiksaitis
OP1-5  Application of  Two Internally-Controlled  Multiplex Real-Time PCR Assays Detecting Adenovirus, Astrovirus,Rotavirus Goup A and Norovirus Genogroups I and II in a Dutch University Medical Center – E. Wessels
OP1-6 Evaluation of an Enteric Viral Panel Using Real-Time PCR for Detection of Five Enteric Viruses in  Stool Specimens From Patients With Gastroenteritis- X. Pang
OP1-7 Molecular Epidemiology  of Rotavirus in Chidren Aged Between 0-5 Years Old in Turkey-B. Dinc

18:00 - 20:00

Welcome reception and poster viewing

08:00 - 08:45

Meet the Expert

William Carman, Christine Ginocchio

Submitting an article to J Clinical Virology
Chairperson: Ayşın Zeytinoğlu

H.G.M. Niesters

Quality Control in molecular virology laboratory
Chairperson: Arzu Sayıner

Ahmed Kamruddin

Laboratory diagnosis of viral gastroenteritis
Chairperson: Gülendam Bozdayı

09:00 - 09: 45

Conference 3
Chairperson: Dilek Çolak

Louis Kroes

Diagnosis and monitoring of adenovirus infections in immunocompromised patients

09:45 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:30

Gardner lecture
Chairperson: Bruno Lina

Richard Tedder

10:30 - 11:00

Keynote Lecture II
Chairperson: Louis Kroes

Elisabeth P. Stöckl

Role of viruses in transplant recipients

11:00 - 12:00

Oral Presentations II
Chairpersons : Louis Kroes - Elisabeth P. Stöckl

OP2-1 Combined Viro-Immunological  Monitoring of CMV and BKV in Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients-I Abbate.
OP2-2 Detection and Quantification of CMV by Two Real Time PCR Tests and PP65 Antigenemia in Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients-S.Gökahmetoğlu.
OP2-3 HCMV Strain Diversity in Clinical Samples of Transplant Recipients Using Ultradeep Pyrosequencing- I. Görzer
OP2-4 Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders and Epstein Barr Virus DNAemia in a cohort of Lung Transplant Recipients- F. Baldanti
OP2-5 Specimen types and Reporting Units for Monitoring Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) Viral Load in Transplant Recipients- J. K Preiksaitis

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch and poster viewing /
Abbott satellite meeting:
Viral Diagnostics – From Discovery to Improved Patient Management
Chairman: Rolf Kaiser
HCV antigen detection – what does this modality offer?
Richard Tedder
HBV Genotype: Resistance – Escape – Detection
Rolf Kaiser  
Global Surveillance of H1N1 Influenza Virus Genotypes by Mass Spectrometry
Dr. Rick Pyles
The Role of xTAG RVP Fast in Meeting the Diagnostic Challenges of Pandemic Influenza: Lessons Learned from the Epicenter of the NY City Novel Influenza A H1N1 Outbreak
Christine Ginocchio

ESCV council meeting

14:15 - 18:30

City Tour

19:00 - 22:00

Football match/ barbecue: köfte - sucuk - ayran party
(With the conttibution of Journal of Clinical Virology)

08:00 - 08:45

Meet the Expert

Mithat Bozdayı

Anti-viral resistance testing in hepatitis B virus infection
Chairperson: Hubert GM Niesters

Holger F. Rabenau and Kessler

Test validation and accreditation in clinical virology laboratory
Chairperson: Hermann Schätzl

09:00 - 09: 45

Conference 4
Chairperson: Harald H Kessler

Wolfram H. Gerlich

The role of hepatitis B virus surface proteins in immune protection and escape

09:45 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:30

Keynote Lecture III
Chairperson: Wolfram H. Gerlich

Cihan Yurdaydın

Epidemiology of delta hepatitis and use of laboratory tools in the management of patients

10:30 - 12:30

Oral Presentations III
Chairpersons: Peter Coyle - Selda Erensoy

OP3-1 Evaluation of  CLART® PNEUMOVIR DNA Arrays for the Detection of  Respiratory Viruses Among Children Hospitalised in Intensive Care Unit -E. Frobert
OP3-2 Spread and Evolution of Avian Influenza Virus in Poultry and Wild Birds in Africa.-Claude P. Muller
OP3-3 Effect of RTGF-? on Nitric Oxide Synthase (INOS) and DSRNA Dependent Protein Kinase (PKR) During Experimental Influenza Infection in Mice- V. Srivastava
OP3-4  Alternative Method for Airborne Virus Detection in Only Few Hours/ Innovative Microbial Air Sampler- Q. Desjonqueres
OP3-5 Possible Independent Replication of HBV in the CNS of HIV-1 Infected Patients- S. Ruta
OP3-6 Unusual Hepatitis B Virus Subgenotype A and Absence of Typical West African Genotypes in African Descendants, HAITI- C. P. Muller
OP3-7 Detection of HBsAg in Isolated Anti-HBc Positive Patients with Immuno-Real Time PCR and Investigation of  “A” Determinant Mutations- M.A.Kuskucu
OP3-8 Evolutionary Analysis of Hepatitis B virus Full-length Genomes Reveals Evidence for a Large Nosocomial Outbreak in Belgium- MR. Pourkarim
OP3-9 Adenovirus DNA Positivity in Nasopharyngeal Aspirate Preceding Stem Cell Transplantation a Very Strong Predictor for Adenovirus DNA-EMIA in Pediatric Patients- A. P.J. de Pagter

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch / posterviewing / JCV Editorial Board meeting (12:00-13:00)

13:30 - 14:00

Keynote Lecture IV
Chairperson: Hubert GM Niesters

William Carman

Molecular viral diagnostics

14:00 - 16:00

Oral Presentations IV
Chairpersons: William Carman - Selim Badur

OP4-1 Surveillance and Oseltamivir Resistance of Human Influenza  Virus in Turkey During the 2007-2008 Season- M.A. Ciblak
OP4-2 Timely Diagnosis of Respiratory Tract Infections: Evaluation of The Performance of The Respifinder Assay  Compared to The RVP Assay.- M. Raymaekers
OP4-3 Molecular Detection of Respiratory Viruses: Routine Application on 522 Samples Taken in Less Than 2 Year Old Children- F. Morfin
OP4-4 Prevelance, Quantification and Cut-off Level of Parvovirus B19 DNA in Endomyocardial Biopsies of Cardiac Patients and Non-cardiac Control Subjects- V.J. Goossens
OP4-5 Genetic Variants of  Human Parvovirus B19 in South Africa: Co-circulation of Three Genotypes and Identification of a Novel Subtype of Genotype 1.- C. Corcoran
OP4-6 The Polyomavirus BK Agnoprotein co-localizes with Lipid  Droplets- G. Unterstab
OP4-7 Polyomavirus JC (JCV) with Rearranged Noncoding Control Region are Found in Cerbrospinal Fluid, but not in Urine and Increase Viral Early Gene Expression- R. Gosert
OP4-8 Virus Discovery 454 Sequencing- M. de Vries
OP4-9 Decibel-Study: Congenital Cytomegalovirus  Infection in Young Children with Bilateral Permanent Hearing- J.J.C. de Vries

16:00 - 16:15

Coffee Break

16:15 - 18:15

Oral Presentations V
Chairpersons : Eithne MacMahon - Hakan Abacıoğlu

OP5-1 Early Emergegence of Raltegravir Resistance Mutations in Patients Receiving HAART Salvage Regimens- F. Baldanti
OP5-2 Performance Evaluation of the New ROCHE COBAS AMPLIPREP COBAS TAQMAN HIV-1 Test Version 2.0 for the Quantification of HIV-1 RNA- S.D. Pas
OP5-3 The Importance of HIV RNA Viral Load Testing in the Confirmation of Early HIV Infection.- Cs Sarvari
OP5-4 Mother-to-Child Papillomavirus (HPV) Transmisson
Evaluation Using a Quantitative HPV DNA REAL-TIME PCR- C. Payan
OP5-5 Evaluation of a  New Strategy for Cervix Cancer Screening in Women who do not  Access to  PAP Smear Screening in West Brittany, Using  a Urine Test for Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Detection on a  Large Scale Plateform Combining EASYMAG EXTRACTOR AND REAL-TIME PCR LIGHTCYCLER SYSTEM (THE PAPU29 PHASE 1 STUDY).- C. Payan
OP5-6 Evaluation of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) by Quantification and Typing in Paired Urine and Cervical Samples of Women with Abnormal Cytology.- C. Payan
OP5-7 Diversification of HIV-1 Subtypes in  Turkey-A Country with a  Low  HIV Endemicity-K.Midilli
OP5-8 Hexadecyloxypropyl-Cidofovir (CMX001) Inhibits BK VIRUS (BKV) Replication in Primary Renal Tubular Epithelial Cells C. H Rinaldo

18:15 - 19:00

ESCV General assembly

19:30 - 23:00

Congress Dinner – Bosphorus by Boat

08:00 - 08:45

Meet the Expert

Harald H Kessler

Laboratory tools in the management of viral hepatitis C
Chairperson: Mithat Bozdayı

Louis Kroes

Fetal infections; human parvovirus B19 and cytomegalovirus
Chairperson: Dilek Çolak

09:00 - 09: 45

Conference 5
Chairperson: Kenan Midilli

Önder Ergönül

Emerging viral infections (Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever)

09:45 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:30

Abbott award
Chairperson:Eithne Macmahon

Rory Gunson

10:30 - 12:30

Oral Presentations VI
Chairpersons: Annika Linde - Salih Türkoğlu

OP6-1 Multicenter Evaluation of the Enterovirus R-GENE™ REAL TIME RT-PCR ASSAY for the Detection of Enteroviruses in Clinical Specimens- S. Pillet.
OP6-2 Bacteriophages as Tools in Drug Discovery Programs- D.I. Kurtböke
OP6-3 Systematic Analysis of Entire Human Tonsils for the Presence of Epstein-Barr Virus: Evidence of Infection of Epithelial  Cells and the Implications on the Mechanism of Viral Persistence- G. Khan
OP6-4 Demonstrating  the Need for Standardisation of PCR Based Assays for Viral Pathogens.- R. Anderson
OP6-5 Persistent  Betapapillomavirus Infections are Associated with Precursor Lesions of Squamous-cell Carcinoma of the Skin- M. Feltkamp
OP6-6 High Frequency of SEN Virus Infection in Thalassemic Patients and Healthy Blood Donors in Iran- A. Karimi-Rastehkenari,
OP6-7 Case Series of Intra-Family CMV Transmission: Molecular Analysis of the Transmission Cascade and Longitudinal CMV Specific Phospho-and Glycoprotein Antibody Patterns  During Primary Infections- K .Hamprecht
OP6-8 Characterization of a New Sandfly Fever Virus Isolated During The 2008 Sandfly Fever Epidemic in Turkey - D.Y.Çağlayık

12:30 - 13:30

Closing Ceremony