title: Eleventh International Foamy Virus Conference-Meeting Report.
abstract: The Eleventh International Foamy Virus Conference took place on 9-10 June 2016 at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. The meeting reviewed progress on foamy virus (FV) research, as well as related current topics in retrovirology. FVs are complex retroviruses that are widespread in several animal species. Several research topics on these viruses are relevant to human health: cross-species transmission and viral emergence, vectors for gene therapy, development of antiretroviral drugs, retroviral evolution and its influence on the human genome. In this article, we review the conference presentations on these viruses and highlight the major questions to be answered.
authors.affiliation: Unité d'Épidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France. florence.buseyne@pasteur.fr.|Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR3569, 75015 Paris, France. florence.buseyne@pasteur.fr.
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Buseyne
authors.affiliation: Unité d'Épidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France. antoine.gessain@pasteur.fr.|Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR3569, 75015 Paris, France. antoine.gessain@pasteur.fr.
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gessain
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21949-570 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. masoares@biologia.ufrj.br.|Oncovirology Program, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, 20231-050 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. masoares@biologia.ufrj.br.
authors.forename: Marcelo A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Soares
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21949-570 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. andre.santos@ufrj.br.
authors.forename: André F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, National Veterinary Research Institute, 24-100 Pulawy, Poland. magdalena.materniak@piwet.pulawy.pl.
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Materniak-Kornas
authors.affiliation: Institut Universitaire d'Hématologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, INSERM U944, CNRS UMR 7212, 75010 Paris, France. pascale.lesage@inserm.fr.
authors.forename: Pascale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lesage
authors.affiliation: Institut Universitaire d'Hématologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, INSERM U944, CNRS UMR 7212, 75010 Paris, France. alessia.zamborlini@univ-paris-diderot.fr.|Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Laboratoire de Pathologie et Virologie Moléculaire, 75003 Paris, France. alessia.zamborlini@univ-paris-diderot.fr.
authors.forename: Alessia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zamborlini
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Diagnostics of Oncogenic Infections, Research Program Infection, Inflammation and Cancer, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. m.loechelt@dkfz.de.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Löchelt
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China. wentaoqiao@nankai.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Wentao
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Qiao
authors.affiliation: Institute of Virology, Medical Faculty "Carl Gustav Carus", Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany. dirk.lindemann@tu-dresden.de.
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lindemann
authors.affiliation: University of Bayreuth, Department of Biopolymers, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany. birgitta.woehrl@uni-bayreuth.de.
authors.forename: Birgitta M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Wöhrl
authors.affiliation: Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK. jonathan.stoye@crick.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Jonathan P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Stoye
authors.affiliation: Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK. ian.taylor@crick.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Ian A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Retroviruses, Division of Viral Products, OVRR, CBER, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD 20993, USA. arifa.khan@fda.hhs.gov.
authors.forename: Arifa S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Khan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000998:Antiviral Agents / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D006801:Humans; D010297:Paris; D012192:Retroviridae Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology*; D016092:Spumavirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000472:pathogenicity*
chemical_list: D000998:Antiviral Agents
keywords: FV vectors; cross-species virus transmission; foamy virus; immune responses; latent infection; restriction factors; virus replication; zoonosis