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| Day 1: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 | |||
| 08:00am – 09:00am | Registration and AM Refreshments | ||
| Session 1 | Viromics Measurement | ||
| 08:30am – 09:10am | Welcome; Symposium Overview | ||
| Keynote | 09:10am – 09:50am | Mya Breitbart, University of South Florida 22 years of Viromics: Triumphs and Troubles |
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| Invited speaker | 09:50am – 10:15am | Ishi Keenum, Michigan Technological University Characterization to Quantification: Using wastewater to understand how framework shift as we change monitoring purposes |
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| Break | 10:15am – 10:45am |
Break | |
| Invited Speaker | 10:45am – 11:10am |
Martial Marbouty, Institut Pasteur | |
| 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 | |
| 01:00pm – 01:30pm | Poster Viewing | ||
| Short Talk | 01:30pm – 01:45pm | Selected talk from abstract #1 | |
| Invited talk | 01:45pm – 02:10pm | Libusha Kelly, Albert Einstein College of Medicine | |
| 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 | Selected talk from abstract #2 | |
| Short Talk | 04:45pm – 05:00pm | Selected talk from abstract #3 | |
| 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 | Joe Pogliano, UC San Diego | |
| Invited Speaker | 09:40am – 10:05am | Luke Hillary, UC Davis Enhancing RNA viromics to expand our understanding of the soil virosphere |
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| Short talk | 10:05am – 10:20am | Selected talk from abstract #4 | |
| Break | 10:20am – 11:05am | Break | |
| Short talk | 11:05am – 11:20am |
Selected talk from abstract #5 | |
| Short talk | 11:20am – 11:35am |
Selected talk from abstract #6 | |
| Invited Speaker | 11:35am – 12:00pm |
Ken Stedman, Portland State University Viruses from Hell: Virus genes and genomes from extreme (and less extreme) environments |
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| Working Lunch | 12:00pm – 01:30pm | Working lunch, including sponsor’s talks | |
| Session 3 | Phage-host and phage-phage interactions | ||
| Invited Speaker | 01:30pm – 01:55pm | Adrienne Correa, UC Berkeley | |
| Short talk | 01:55pm – 02:10pm | Selected talk from abstract #7 | |
| Short talk | 02:10pm – 02:25pm | Selected talk from abstract #8 | |
| Break | 02:25pm – 02:55pm | Break | |
| Invited Speaker | 02:55pm – 03:20pm | Samuel Díaz-Muñoz, UC Davis | |
| Keynote | 03:20pm – 04:00pm | Britt Koskella, UC Berkeley Phages as driver of microbiome form and function |
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