Day 1: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 |
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| Session 1: Global Viral Diversity | ||
| Chairs: Nikos Kyrpides & Tanja Woyke | ||
| 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM | Breakfast | |
| 8:25 AM – 8:30 AM | Welcome – Organizers | |
| 8:30 AM – 9:15 AM | “Expansion of the virosphere in the age of metagenomics” | Eugene Koonin, NCBI
Keynote speaker |
| 9:15 AM – 9:45 AM | “Marine RNA Viruses: From global communities to single infections.” | Lisa Zeigler-Allen, J. Craig Venter Institute
Invited speaker |
| 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM | “Impact of wastewater discharge on the virome profiles along The Chicago Area Waterway system” | Wen-Tso Liu, UIUC |
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Break | |
| Chairs: Simon Roux & Joanne Emerson | ||
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | “Ocean viruses: Patterns, processes and paradigms throughout the global oceans” | Matt Sullivan, Ohio State University
Invited speaker |
| 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM | “Preliminary results of the viral metagenome along an aquifer transect – comparison of three different viral DNA enrichment techniques” | Rene Kallies, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany |
| 11:15 AM – 11:25 AM | “IMG/VR resources” | David Paez-Espino, JGI |
| 11:25 AM – 11:35 AM | “NCBI Virus resources” | Rodney Brister, NCBI |
| 11:35 AM – 12:00 AM | Session discussion | |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Working Lunch | JGI – participants feedback and suggestions |
| Session 2: Virus-Host Interactions | ||
| Chairs: David Paez-Espino & Devaki Bhaya | ||
| 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM | “Census and systematics of the Circular Rep-Encoding Single-Stranded DNA (CRESS DNA) viruses” | Siobain Duffy, Rutgers University
Invited speaker |
| 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM | “Host-linked soil viral ecology along a permafrost thaw gradient” | Joanne Emerson, UC Davis |
| 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM | “High-throughput genome-wide screens to discover host factors important in phage infection and resistance” | Vivek Mutalik, LBNL |
| 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM | “Metaviromics for the detection of pathogenic viruses from source to sink” | Evelien Adriaenssens, University of Liverpool, UK |
| 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM | Break | |
| Chairs: Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh & Matt Sullivan | ||
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | “Bacteria-phage interactions in the plant phyllosphere” | Britt Koskella, UC Berkeley
Invited speaker |
| 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM | “Plant virus ecogenomics; Comparing methods and results” | Marilyn J. Roossinck, Penn State University
Keynote speaker |
| 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM | Discussion | |
| 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Sponsor Showcase Open (JGI User Meeting) | |
| 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Opening Session Keynote (JGI User Meeting) | |
| 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Poster Session (JGI User Meeting) | |
Day 2: Thursday, March 15, 2018 |
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| Session 3: Viral Innovations and Applications | ||
| Chairs: Rex Malmstrom & Lisa Zeigler-Allen | ||
| 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM | Breakfast | |
| 8:30 AM – 9:15 AM | “Genomics and Infectious Disease” | Joe DeRisi, UCSF
Keynote speaker |
| 9:15 AM – 09:30 AM | “The broad diversity, host range, and functional repertoire of the cryptic inoviruses” | Simon Roux, JGI |
| 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM | “Novel insights into the diversity and evolution of virophages, uncovered through global metagenomics data exploration” | David Paez, JGI |
| 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM | “Distribution and Diversity of a Novel Hyperthermophilic Aquificales MetaVirus” | David Mead, Varigen Biosciences |
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Break | |
| Chairs: Natalia Ivanova & Vivek Mutalik | ||
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | “Exploiting CRISPR-Cas to study phage biology” | Sylvain Moineau, Laval University, Québec, Canada
Invited speaker |
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | “Phylogeny-based viral classification and single cell viral tagging” | Philip Hugenholtz, The University of Queensland, Australia |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Session discussion, concluding remarks | |
| 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM | Lunch Break – end of Symposium | |