Seminar 1Thursday, April 8th |
Exploring Viral Diversity – Viruses of Microbial Eukaryotes |
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| 3:00 PM PDT | “Genomic Insights on the Coevolutionary History of Microbial Eukaryotes and their Giant Viruses” | Mohammad ‘Monir’ Moniruzzaman, Virginia Tech |
| 3:30 PM PDT | Flash Talks from Submitted Abstracts | |
| 3:45 PM PDT | Provisional Title:
“Microbial Diversity and Virus Evolution” |
Shannon Bennett, Cal Academy of Sciences San Francisco |
| 4:15 PM PDT | Breakout & Discussions | |
Seminar 2Thursday, April 15th |
Exploring Viral Diversity – Phages & Archaeoviruses |
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| 8:00 AM PDT | “Viral ecogenomics: exploring viral diversity and virus-host interactions from metagenomes” | Simon Roux, DOE Joint Genome Institute |
| 8:30 AM PDT | Flash Talks from Submitted Abstracts | |
| 8:45 AM PDT | “Unique Genomic Features of crAss-like Phages, the Dominant Component of the Human Gut Virome” | Natalya Yutin, NCBI NIH |
| 9:15 AM PDT | Breakout & Discussions | |
Seminar 3Thursday, April 22nd |
SARS-CoV-2 special seminar |
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| 3:00 PM PDT | “The RNA Virosphere: From Ecosystems to Emergence” | Edward Holmes, The University of Sydney |
Seminar 4Thursday, April 29th |
Organizing the Global Virosphere – Why and How |
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| 8:00 AM PDT | “Origin and evolution of the virosphere” | Mart Krupovic, Institut Pasteur |
| 8:30 AM PDT | Flash Talks from Submitted Abstracts | |
| 8:45 AM PDT | “Organizing the Global Virosphere – Why it is necessary and how to go about it?” | Jens Kuhn, NIH/NIAID Integrated Research Facility |
| 9:15 AM PDT | Breakout & Discussions | |
Seminar 5Thursday, May 6th |
Virus-Host Molecular Warfare |
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| 8:00 AM PDT | “Conservation of Anti-viral Immunity in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes “ | Aude Bernheim, INSERM |
| 8:30 AM PDT | Flash Talks from Submitted Abstracts | |
| 8:45 AM PDT | “Predicting Viral Epidemics in Microbial Populations” | Rachel Whitaker, University of Illinois |
| 9:15 AM PDT | Breakout & Discussions | |
Seminar 6Thursday, May 13th |
Leveraging Viral Impacts – What Viruses Can Do For Us |
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| 3:00 PM PDT | “The Role of Bacteriophages in the Human Microbiome” | David Pride, University of California, San Diego |
| 3:30 PM PDT | Flash Talks from Submitted Abstracts | |
| 3:45 PM PDT | “Understanding the complexity of phage-host interactions” | Karen Maxwell, University of Toronto |
| 4:15 PM PDT | Breakout & Discussions | |