Everybody wins! Poland hosts thrilling competitions of viruses, RNAi and football teams

Dirk Grimm; Tamas Dalmay; Ronald P van Rij

doi:10.1038/embor.2012.136

Everybody wins! Poland hosts thrilling competitions of viruses, RNAi and football teams

EMBO Rep. 2012 Oct;13(10):874-6. doi: 10.1038/embor.2012.136. Epub 2012 Sep 18.

Authors

Dirk Grimm¹, Tamas Dalmay, Ronald P van Rij

Affiliation

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology, Cluster of Excellence Cell Networks, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany. dirk.grimm@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

Abstract

The ESF-EMBO conference on 'Antiviral RNAi: From Molecular Biology towards Applications' took place in June 2012 in Pultusk, Poland. It brought together scientists working at the interface of RNAi and virus infections in different organisms, covering the complete range from basic mechanisms of RNA silencing to RNAi-based antiviral therapy.

Publication types

Congress

MeSH terms

Animals
Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use
Gene Silencing
Humans
MicroRNAs / genetics
MicroRNAs / metabolism*
Plants
RNA Interference*
RNA Viruses / genetics
RNA Viruses / metabolism
RNA Viruses / pathogenicity*
RNA, Viral / genetics
RNA, Viral / metabolism
Virus Diseases / drug therapy

Substances

Antiviral Agents
MicroRNAs
RNA, Viral