Abstract: The academic meeting named “The Virology Academic Salon of Biological Science” was held in Hefei of China from October 22 to 23, 2021. This conference was sponsored by the periodical office of the Journal of Biology, twelve young experts from different disciplines made wonderful academic reports. The reports focused on several themes, including infection and host immune mechanisms, virus evolution and cross-species transmission, viral epidemiological characteristics, virus diagnosis, prevention and control, centering on the latest research progress about coronavirus, Zika virus, leukoplakia syndrome virus, tomato yellow virus, rice sawtooth dwarf virus, and so on. The academic exchanges and discussion were made among the experts and more than five thousand participants on and under line. The conference was of benefit to the integration and development of virus-related researches among different disciplines. This article briefly summarizes the key exchange content in this academic salon.

Key words: virus infection, antibody response, pathogenic mechanism, cross-species transmission, molecular mechanism, vaccine development