Save the date for International Conference VIROID 2025

In Bari (Italy) from 22 to 24 September 2025 about most updated knowledge on viroids and viroid-like RNAs. Events.

CNR - Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Unit of Bari, announced the next International Conference VIROID 2025 - Viroids and viroid-like RNAs to be held in Bari (Italy) from 22 to 24 September 2025.
 
The International Conference VIROID 2025 will provide a great opportunity to share and exchange knowledge and experience and discuss the new advances in the expanding field of viroids and viroid-like RNAs. Till only a couple of years ago, these circular and infectious RNA elements were only known in plants (viroids and viroid-like satellite RNAs) and animals (hepatitis delta and hepatitis delta-like viruses). The recent identification of viroid-like RNAs in fungi (including ambiviruses, hybrids between viroids and viruses), bacteria of the human microbiome (the obelisks), and in metatranscriptome libraries from different ecological sources, has extended the host range of these infectious agents to kingdoms other than plants and animals, showing their huge biodiversity and ubiquity and, thus, arousing a general scientific interest.
 
Join Conference VIROID 2025 in Bari to share and discuss the most updated knowledge on viroids and viroid-like RNAs.
 
Follow the Viroid 2025 website to find out more.
 
The event is part of the ViroiDoc project funded by the European Union within the Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Networks.