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2021 VEGA Agenda

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Seminar 1

Thursday, April 8th

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Exploring Viral Diversity – Viruses of Microbial Eukaryotes

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 2

Thursday, April 15th

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Exploring Viral Diversity – Phages & Archaeoviruses

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 3

Thursday, April 22nd

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SARS-CoV-2 special seminar

 3:00 PM PDT “The RNA Virosphere: From Ecosystems to Emergence” Edward Holmes, The University of Sydney

Seminar 4

Thursday, April 29th

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Organizing the Global Virosphere – Why and How

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 5

Thursday, May 6th

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Virus-Host Molecular Warfare

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 6

Thursday, May 13th

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Leveraging Viral Impacts – What Viruses Can Do For Us

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
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