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| Day 1: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 | |||
| 08:00am – 09:00am | Registration and AM Refreshments | ||
| Session 1 | Viromics Measurement | ||
| 08:45am – 09:00am | Welcome; Symposium Overview | ||
| Keynote | 09:00am – 09:40am | Katrine Whiteson, UC Irvine 22 Years in the Virome World: From Phage Exploration to COVID Variant Monitoring |
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| Invited speaker | 09:40am – 10:05am | Ishi Keenum, Michigan Technological University Characterization to Quantification: Using wastewater to understand how framework shift as we change monitoring purposes |
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| 10:05am – 10:15am | Liliana Brown, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (NIAID/NIH/DHHS) NIH Human Virome Program (HVP) |
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| Break | 10:15am – 10:45am |
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| Invited Speaker | 10:45am – 11:10am |
Martial Marbouty, Institut Pasteur Exploring microbial communities mobilome through 3D genomes signatures |
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| 11:10am – 12:00pm | Panel “Strengths and limitations of current approaches for virome measurement” |
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| Working Lunch | 12:00pm – 01:00pm | Discussions of charge questions established in the previous panel Group Photo |
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| 01:00pm – 01:30pm | Poster Viewing | ||
| Short Talk | 01:30pm – 01:45pm | Angela Hickey, Stanford University Leveraging Long Reads to Study Prophage Dynamics in the Human Gut |
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| Invited talk | 01:45pm – 02:10pm | Libusha Kelly, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Improving viral protein annotations with language models |
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| Break | 02:10pm – 02:30pm | Break – groups head to their breakout groups | |
| 02:30pm – 04:00pm | Breakout groups: “What is needed to improve viromics measurements” Specific group topics guided by panel charge questions and previous discussions |
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| 04:00pm – 04:15pm | Report out from each breakout group | ||
| 04:15pm – 04:30pm | Discussion following breakout group reports | ||
| Short Talk | 04:30pm – 04:45pm | Ivan Zheludev, Stanford University Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes |
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| Short Talk | 04:45pm – 05:00pm | Delphine Tripp, MIT Low phage pressure stalls co-evolutionary arms race in a dominant skin commensal |
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| 05:00pm – 07:00pm | Poster Session Reception | ||
| Day 2: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | |||
| Welcome – Organizers | 08:00am – 09:00am | Badging & AM Refreshments | |
| Session 2 | Pressing topics in viral ecogenomics Ecology & Evolution of atypical viruses |
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| Keynote | 09:00am – 09:40am | Chase Morgan, UC San Diego The Phage Nucleus: Mechanism and evolution of protein import selectivity |
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| Invited Speaker | 09:40am – 10:05am | Ken Stedman, Portland State University Viruses from Hell: Virus genes and genomes from extreme (and less extreme) environments |
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| Short talk | 10:05am – 10:20am | Ignacio de la Higuera, Portland State University Crucivirus Emergence – Evolutionary Interactions between DNA Viruses, RNA Viruses and Plasmids |
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| Break | 10:20am – 11:05am | Break | |
| Short talk | 11:05am – 11:20am |
Deepto Mozumdar, UC San Francisco On the discovery and characterization of an early jumbophage infection vesicle |
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| Short talk | 11:20am – 11:35am |
Antoni Luque, University of Miami Predictive Biophysical Models for the Ecology and Evolution of Viral Capsids |
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| Invited Speaker | 11:35am – 12:00pm |
Adrienne Correa, UC Berkeley Towards Understanding the Roles of Viruses in Coral Reef Health & Disease |
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| Working Lunch | 12:00pm – 01:30pm | Working lunch, including sponsor’s talks Poster Prize Awards |
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| Session 3 | Phage-host and phage-phage interactions | ||
| Invited Speaker | 01:30pm – 01:55pm | Luke Hillary, UC Davis Enhancing RNA viromics to expand our understanding of the soil virosphere |
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| Short talk | 01:55pm – 02:10pm | Morgan Lindback, University of Michigan Viral infection alters carbon and nitrogen uptake and dissolved organic matter transformation by bacterial hosts |
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| Short talk | 02:10pm – 02:25pm | Danica Schmidtke, Stanford University Analysis and culturing of the prototypic crAssphage reveals a phage-plasmid lifestyle |
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| Break | 02:25pm – 02:55pm | Break | |
| Invited Speaker | 02:55pm – 03:20pm | Sam Díaz-Muñoz, UC Davis Strain-dependent viral genetic exchange in flu and phage |
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| Keynote | 03:20pm – 04:00pm | Britt Koskella, UC Berkeley Phages as driver of microbiome form and function |
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