| 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 |
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| Invited speaker | 09:45am – 10:15am | Joanne Emerson, UC Davis Soil viruses: Holy spatiotemporal dynamics, Batman! |
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| Short talk | 10:15am – 10:30am | Clement Coclet, LBNL RNA Virus diversity and activity associated with seasonal changes in a mountainous soil system |
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| Break | Bldg 91 – IGB 3rd Floor |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Working Lunch | Group discussions and user feedback around tools for genome-databased viral taxonomy | Bldg 91 – IGB 3rd Floor |
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| 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? |
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| 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 |
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| 02:30pm – 03:30pm | Nonia Pariente, Conference Closing Discussion – Roundtable Engineering Phages : Promises & Challenges |
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