ICTV Executive Committee 2017 - 2020

The ICTV announces the following changes to the Executive Committee following retirement of several long-standing members and the election of new members during the 49th EC meeting and Plenary session at the IUMS Conference in Singapore, July 2017:

We would like to thank our retiring members for their many years of service on the Executive Committee and wish them all the best in their future endeavors:

• Mike Adams: 12 years of EC service
• Sasha Gorbalenya: 12 years
• Hélène Sanfaçon: 9 years

We welcome our three new Executive Committee members who will be serving as Elected Members:

• Bas Dutilh, Netherlands
• Sandra Junglen, Germany
• Luisa Rubino, Italy

We finally recognize current EC members who will be serving in new roles:

• Stuart Siddell: Vice President
• Arcady Mushegian: Business Secretary
• Jens Kuhn: Chair - Animal dsRNA and ssRNA- Viruses Subcommittee
• Peter Simmonds: Chair - Fungal and Protist Viruses Subcommittee
• Max Niebert: Elected Member

New ICTV Newsletter

The 2017 ICTV Newsletter #14, July 2017 has been released. The Newsletter can be downloaded here.

ICTV 10th and 9th Report Now Available Online

The ICTV 9^th Report on Virus Taxonomy is also available online in a freely accessible format from this web site at http://ictv.global/9th-report/. This online version contains a complete copy of all chapters published in 2011 in the printed Report. The 9^th Report was based on the ICTV taxonomy of viruses released in 2009.

Journal of General Virology (JGV): ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles

Summaries of the Online Report chapters are published in the Journal of General Virology, ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles section. These summaries are linked to the full Online Report chapters on the ICTV website and are indexed in PubMed.

50 years of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses: progress and prospects

To mark the 50th anniversary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), we have published a paper in Archives of Virology that discusses the history of the ICTV, past and current developments in virus taxonomy, and future prospects. The paper can be downloaded from the AoV link above, or from the ICTV web site.

Consensus statement: Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics

In June of 2016, the Wellcome Trust sponsored a meeting organized by ICTV Executive Committee members on metagenomic sequencing and its impact on virus classification. Meeting participants have published a consensus statement in Nature Reviews Microbiology that considers the rationale for why metagenomic sequence data should, and how it can, be incorporated into the ICTV taxonomy. This publication includes proposals endorsed by the Executive Committee of the ICTV for moving forward with metagenomic sequence classification. More information is available from this link.

A comment on this article has been published by the Editors of Nature Reviews Microbiology in: "A sea change for virology", Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 129 (2017).

Past News

For previous news announcements, please see https://talk.ictvonline.org/information/w/news