Welcome Note
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to invite you to RetroPath 2025! The 34th International Meeting on Retroviral Pathogenesis will be held in the beautiful city of Tübingen, Germany, from October 6th to 9th, 2025.
Did you know that cell nuclei and nucleic acids were first isolated from pus cells of wounded soldiers in a castle in Tübingen? An achievement that paved the way for the identification of DNA and, ultimately, retroviruses. This is not the only reason why Tübingen is the ideal place to present and discuss the latest breakthroughs in retrovirus research!
The conference continues its decades-long tradition as a premier forum for retrovirus research, offering an intimate and collegial setting. The program will feature keynote lectures from world-renowned experts and ample opportunities for personal networking, whether between sessions, at poster presentations, or during social events.
We invite abstracts on all aspects of retrovirus research, including retrovirus discovery, phylogeny and evolution, virus-host interactions, endogenous retroviruses, oncogenesis, immunity and vaccines, animal models, as well as new therapies and technologies.
We look forward to welcoming you in Tübingen!
Michael Schindler and Daniel Sauter
Conference Chairs
Keynotes
We are pleased to announce the following keynote speakers:
Patrick Green (Columbus, USA)
Alex Greenwood (Berlin, Germany)
Kateřina Trejbalova (Prague, Czech Republic)
Michelle Vincendeau (Munich, Germany)
Thumbi Ndung’u (Durban, South Africa): Retrovirology Lecture
Registration
The registration fee includes coffee breaks, the welcome reception dinner, lunch buffets, an abstract book, conference material and the conference dinner on October 9th.
Fees:
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Students and doctoral students |
Students and doctoral students (regular) |
Postdocs, group leaders, etc. |
Postdocs, group leaders, etc. (regular) |
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Early bird: until July 15th 2025 |
200 € |
300 € |
300 € |
450 € |
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Late bird: until all places are filled |
300 € |
400 € |
400 € |
550 € |
Cancellation: No reimbursement for a later change of mind will be possible.
Abstract submission
Submission timeline:
Submission will open: May 15th, 2025
Submission deadline: August 15th, 2025
General information:
Max. 2500 characters including spaces/text formatting.
Field "content": Please enter your text without title or authors - there are separate fields for these entries.
All correspondence regarding this submission will be sent to you. It is your responsibility to communicate these information to any additional authors.
- Please note that you may only submit one abstract per person. You may submit this either for a talk or for a poster presentation. The organizing committee of the meeting will evaluate the abstracts afterwards. You will then be notified in due course whether your abstract has been accepted. Please note that the space for oral presentations is limited. A designated poster viewing will take place during the sessions marked in the program.
- Furthermore the submitter has to be registered (registration ID) and must also be the presenter of the submitted abstract.
Available presentation types: Oral or Poster
Sessions: tba
All accepted abstracts will be published in our abstract volume - unless you object to this at the time of submission (please notify Mr. Christoph Peters in writing: retro25@orgalution.de).
Posters awards
Poster awards will be announced later.
