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2022 VEGA Agenda

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Day 1: Thursday, October 6, 2022
Welcome – Organizers 08:00am – 09:00am Badging & AM Refreshments Bldg 91 – IGB
3rd Floor
Session 1
08:50am – 09:00am Welcome to JGI
JGI Introduction
Bldg 50 Auditorium
Keynote 09:00am – 09:45am Arvind Varsani, Arizona State University
Short stories on DNA viruses from the tropics to polar regions: Ecology and Evolution
Invited speaker 09:45am – 10:15am Joanne Emerson, UC Davis
Soil viruses: Holy spatiotemporal dynamics, Batman!
Short talk 10:15am – 10:30am Clement Coclet, LBNL
RNA Virus diversity and activity associated with seasonal changes in a mountainous soil system
Break Bldg 91 – IGB
3rd Floor
Invited Speaker 11:00am – 11:30am Alexander Probst, University of Duisburg-Essen
Ecophysiology of archaeal virocells: from metagenomics to ultrastructure
Bldg 50 Auditorium
Short talk 11:30am – 11:45am Yunha Hwang, Viruses of syntrophic microbes in microbial mats catalyze gene flow and genetic diversification across phyla and domains
Short talk 11:45am – 12:00pm Gareth Trubl, Uncovering the multi-faceted roles of active viruses in soil ecosystems following a simulated wet-up
Working Lunch Group discussions and user feedback around the future of viral genome databases Bldg 91 – IGB
3rd Floor
01:15pm – 01:30pm Flash talks – Posters Bldg 50 Auditorium
Session 2
Keynote 01:30pm – 02:15pm Kimberley Seed, UC Berkeley
Fighting with phages: How epidemic Vibrio cholerae defends against viral attack
Bldg 50 Auditorium
Invited talk 02:15pm – 02:45pm Vivek Mutalik, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
High-throughput technologies to study bacteria-phage interactions
Short talk 02:45pm – 03:00pm Ivan Liachko, Culture-Free Phage Genome Reconstruction and Host Assignment in Microbial Communities Using Proximity-Ligation (Hi-C) Sequencing
03:00pm – 06:00pm Poster Session Bldg 91 – IGB
3rd Floor
Day 2: Friday, October 7, 2022
Welcome – Organizers 08:00am – 09:00am Badging & AM Refreshments Bldg 91 – IGB
3rd Floor
Session 2 (cont…) 08:50 – 09:00am JGI Introduction Bldg 50 Auditorium
Invited speaker 09:00am – 09:30am Alison Buchan, University of Tennessee
Interactions amongst bacterial mobile genetic elements: plasmid-mediated stabilization of prophages
Short talk 09:30am – 09:45am Dominique Holtappels, Bacterial and phage adaptation shape infection efficiency, bacterial virulence and biocontrol potential of phages
Short talk 09:45am – 10:00am Danica Schmidtke, Identification of Bacteroides vulgatus as a host for the prototypic crAssphage
Break Bldg 91 – IGB
3rd Floor
Session 3
Keynote 10:30am – 11:15am Paul Bollyky, Stanford University
Tri-Kingdom interactions between Bacteriophage, Bacteria, and the Human Immune System in Chronic Infections
Bldg 50 Auditorium
Short talk 11:15am – 11:30am Sukrit Silas, Systematic investigation of phage ORFans for discovering new biology
Invited speaker 11:30am – 12:00pm Adair Borges, Arcadia Science
Searching for “invisible” phages in microbial communities
Working Lunch Group discussions and user feedback around tools for genome-databased viral taxonomy Bldg 91 – IGB
3rd Floor
01:15pm – 01:30pm Antonio Camargo, IMG/VR – viral genome resources at JGI Bldg 50 Auditorium
Short talk 01:30pm – 01:45pm Francisco Zerbini, LBNL
How do we go from 10,434 to millions of virus species?
Short talk 01:45pm – 02:00pm Ruonan Wu, Atomic level structural characterization of a soil viral auxiliary metabolic gene product
Invited speaker 02:00pm – 02:30pm Catherine Mageeney, Sandia National Laboratories
Applications of Precise Prophage Mapping
02:30pm – 03:30pm Nonia Pariente, Conference Closing Discussion – Roundtable
Engineering Phages : Promises & Challenges

 

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