VIROIDS 2025: Last chance to register

International conference in Bari, Italy, from 22 to 24 September 2025 about most updated knowledge on viroids and viroid-like RNAs. Events.

The international conference Viroids 2025 will provide a great opportunity to share and exchange knowledge and experience and discuss the advances in the expanding field of viroids and viroid-like RNAs.

Join Conference Viroids 2025 in Bari to share and discuss the most updated knowledge on viroids and viroid-like RNAs. Registration is open until 27 June 2025. The deadline for abstracts is also 27 June 2025.
For more information, visit Viroids 2025 website.

ViroiDoc partners will attend the conference. The partners will also come together in Bari for a "ViroiDoc Days" project activity (24-25 September 2025).

Confernce starting points

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), 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. The International Conference Viroid 2025 - Viroids and viroid-like RNAs will be a great opportunity to promote scientific advances in this field.