UK Hepacivirus and Flavivirus Meeting: 14th-16th May 2026

Held at Rydal Hall, in the Lake District, the UK Hepacivirus and Flavivirus meeting is a fantastic environment for sharing your latest work. We pride ourselves on a supportive and relaxed atmosphere, which makes the meeting a great platform for students and postdocs. The meeting also includes ample time for exploring the local hills and discussing your work with national, and international experts in all things Hepacivirus and Flavivirus. In a slight change to format, the 2026 the meeting will be held from Thursday-Saturday.

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Joe Grove (MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research)

Azim Ansari (University of Oxford)

Laura Martin-Sancho (Imperial College London)

Stephanie Rainey (MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research)

Kevin Maringer (The Pirbright Institute)

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Keynote Speaker 2026:

Ana Fernandez-Sesma

Dr. Fernandez-Sesma is a tenured Professor and the Chair of the Department of Microbiology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). Her research focuses on the modulation of innate immunity by viruses, like dengue, influenza and others. She participates in several multi-investigator OMICS projects to study human immune responses to infection and vaccination. She has co-authored over 100 publications in virology and immunology journals and served on the editorial board of Journal of Virology, mSphere and PLoS Pathogens.

Since 2022 she is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and in 2024 she was awarded the 2024 ACES-Margarita Salas award among other awards. She is the Chair of the 2025 “Viruses and Cells” Gordon Conference and serves in the Scientific council of the Institute Pasteur, Paris and of several other prestigious institutions.

We look forward to welcoming Prof. Fernandez-Sesma to the Lake District in 2026.

 

Our Sponsors

The UK Hepacivirus and Flavivirus meeting is generously supported by The Microbiology Society and ThermoFisher Scientific