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2018 VEGA Agenda

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Day 1: Wednesday, March 14, 2018

 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

 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

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