Mattia Manicai is a researcher at Fondazione Edmund Mach. His presentation will be centered around one of the most recent publications he has contributed to, titled “Spring temperature shapes West Nile Virus (WNV) transmission in Europe” (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105796). Mattia explains how spatio-temporal conditions will shape WNV transmissions, why WNV circulation tends to be higher in warmer regions, how the impact of change of temperatures due to approaching spring time on WNV transmissions can be predicted, and why new results in conjunction with previous findings can serve as indicators for the reliability of surveillance systems and WNV’s overwintering capacity.