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 Invited Speakers
Keynote
Maurice R. and Corrine P. Greenberg
Professor in Virology
The Rockerfellar University
2020 Nobel Laureate
Physiology and Medicine
Charlie Rice, Ph.D.
Professor
Deputy Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds
St. Jude’s Children’s hospital
Stacey Shultz Cherry, Ph.D.
Simon Anthony, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pathology, Microbiology, & Immunology School of Veterinary Medicine,University of California, Davis
Andrea Marzi, Ph.D.
Chief, Immunobiology and Molecular Virology Section,
Rocky Mountain Laboratories,
Hamilton, MT
Claudia Rueckert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
University of Nebraska
Kevin Maringer, Ph.D.
Group leader,
Flavivirus Transmission & Pathogenesis
Pirbright Institute,
United Kingdom
Christina Sigurdson,
D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology
Co-Director, Center for Veterinary Sciences and Comparative Medicine
University of California
San Diego and Davis, CA
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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
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2025: Hector Aguilar-Carreno, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, Molecular Genetics, UCLA