Rocky Mountain Virology Conference
Group Photo 2025
26th Annual Conference
September 25-27, 2026
CSU Mountain Campus,
Pingree Park CO
Organized by the Rocky Mountain Virology Association
2026 Keynote
Charles Rice, Ph.D.
MAURICE R. AND CORINNE P. GREENBERG PROFESSOR IN VIROLOGY
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The Rockefeller University
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​2020 Nobel Laureate
Physiology and Medicine
2025 Invited Speakers
Keynote
Hector Aguilar-Carreno, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics,
UCLA
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Priscilla Yang Ph.D.
David Harris, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
and Immunology
Stanford University
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Edgar Minas Housepian Professor
Chair of Biochemistry
& Cell Biology
Boston University
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Patrick Dolan Ph.D.
Stadtman Investigator
Quantitative Virology and Evolution Unit
NIAID/DIR
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Andrew Bubak Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Neurology
University of Colorado
Anschutz Medica Campus
Kei Sato, Ph.D..
Professor of Virology
Division of Systems Virology,
Institute of Medical Science
University of Tokyo
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Previous Meetings
Past Keynote Speakers
2012: Luis Rodriquez, Ph.D. D.V.M.
Research Leader, Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA
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2013: Barry T. Rouse, BVSc, Ph.D., DSc
Lindsay Young Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Tennessee
2014: Rich Condit, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
College of Medicine, University of Florida
2015: Bert L. Semler, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics,
School of Medicine, Director, Center for Virus Research, University of California, Irvine
2016 : Jonathan Towner, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2017: Richard Kuhn, Ph.D.
Trent and Judith Anderson Distinguished Professor in Science, Department of Biological Sciences and Director, Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease, PhD, Purdue University.
2018: Susan Weiss, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2019: W. Ian Lipkin, Ph.D.
John Snow Professor, Epidemiology, Professor of Neurology and Pathology and Cell Biology
Director, Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
2020: Diane Griffin, Ph.D.
Vice President, National Academy of Sciences, University Distinguished Service Professor, W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
2021: Ralph Baric, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
2022: Ana Fernandez-Sesma, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2023: Linda Saif, DVM, Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor, Center for Food Animal Health (CFAH) CFAES/OARDC/CVM, The Ohio State University
2024: Maria Carla Saleh, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Viruses and RNAi Unit, Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur, Paris